Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-20
Links Stars Fill $4,000 Tourney NeU Golf Ball Upsets Plans
GOLF GOSSIP


| sional golfer, has set up in the club
| house at Rock Creek a practice driving
net where he now is equipped to give
indoor golf lessons when the weather is
not favorable outdoors. AL got a net
from George Diffenbaugh of Indian
| Spring. who used two of them last
Winter. Diffenbaugh now is teaching
a class of young women at the
Y. W. G. A., and A. L. Houghton OF
Harper is with a local sporting goods
house, where he will give lessons
through the Winter.
Bridge has become the modern access
sorry to golf for those less hardy golfers
who prefer to remain indoors while the
others bundle themselves up in myraid
sweaters windbreakers, etc, and Strug-
gle against chill winds and a wet golf
course. Almost any afternoon, when
the. winds of Winter blow a shrill
| requiem through the pillars on club
house porches, small groups of one-time
golfers may be found in the grill room
ct Washington, or the sun room at
Columbia, attempting to figure out the
virtues of presumptive bidding. or the
value of the forced take-out. The gents
who returned from Florida last Spring
said contract was to be the game of
the year and that auction would be
passe, but there is no indication that
auction has been completely supplanted
by contract bridge in the golf clubs
to be sure. but its adherents are much
fewer than those who stay with the
old-fashioned auction game.
The makeup of the Walker Cup
team. on which two native-born Wash
- 49,
discussed at golf clubs since the United
States Golf Association announced the
personnel of the team a week ago.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
appointment of George Voigt to the
team has not met with universal COM
mendation, many of those who have
watched the progress of the former
Capital public links star in national
golf over the past three years, agree
that his golf entities him to place on
the team. Others hold. however, that
Roland Mackenzie should have a
higher rating than alternate.
We agree entirely with this view,
believing that MacKenzie's Walker Cup
match record and his showing in anna
teur championships and other tourna-
ments of high class over the past half
dozen years should rate him a berth
on the team. and not as an alternate,
but as regular member.
There is no question in the minds
of MANY golfers in Washington that
both Mackenzie and Voigt should be
placed on the team, and that Dotn
should be regulars. Jones, Johnston,
Won Elm and Ouimet rate places On
the team without question. they say,
hut there IS considerable doubt as 10
whether the slipping Swcetser and Don
Moe should rank ahead OF Roland
Mackenzie.
For business reasons Mackenzie has
not had the opportunity to play golf
in the past year that the others have
had. but even so his game is as strong
as it was in 1925 and 1928. when ne
was a member of two winning walker
Cup teams.
Won Elm. some golfers claim, hardly
merits a place on the team because ne
has failed for three successive years 10
go past the first day In the amateur
championship. He has been beaten
either in the first or second round OF
match play in the blue ribbon event Oh
amateur golf for three successive years.
There YOU are, and II you have any
ideas about how the Walker Cup team
should be composed, you may talk
about them all you want. But your
conversation will not carry much weight
with the u. S. G. A. The team Is
named, and that is that.
A special dispensation has been made
in the case of Harry Cooper by the
committee in charge of the Aqua
Caliente open, which starts tomorrow,
TO enable the little Britisher to get
married on schedule and still play m
the tournament. PoStponement OF the
Los Angeles open because OF bad
weather forced postponement OF the
Aqua Caliente affair, which inter1ereo
with Cooper's wedding plans.s
Warren Brown, Chicago newspaper
man, who is chairman of the tourna-
ment committee, was appealed to. and
decided that Cooper could play II noies
tomorrow and fly to Los Angeles to be
married, then come back to aqua
Caliente to play 81 holes more on the
third day of the tourney to eaten up
with the field. The tourney Is four
day affair, with Is holes to be played
each day. Fred Mcleod OF Columbia
is an entrant. So is Leo Diegei. VINO
used to be the Friendship pro and now
has gone on to a place as the Leading
match player in the professional ranks.
Here's a laugh for the friends OF
v. Calvert Dickey, well known wash
ington club golfer. Dickey reached the
fifteenth tee dormie to DR.. A. L. bou.
Dickey keeps up running nre OF con-
versation as he addresses his ball; AS
he took his stance on the fifteenth tee
he said: well, boys. this straight ball
of mine hasn't seemed to get me any
where. I guess I'll have to try slicing
for a while" Those who know Dickey
will realize the humor Of his remark,
for Dickey is known as the man WIN.
out a hook" 1.-The man with the trained
slice" or 1.-The gent who never KNOCKS
them straight"