Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-13
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE
M LAY In the round robin tourna-
- ment of the Womens Tennis
| League of the District will be-
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-HE first exhibition match of the
Spring season Is to be played
this afternoon over the flne
course of the Belle Haven
Country Club, near Alexandria
The match was arranged by c. C. Car
lin, president of the club, and the
PLAYERS will be J. Monro Hunter and
George Diffenbaugh, indicated indian
Spring professionals, against Miller 3.
STEVENSON, holder Of the District amateur
championship and w. r. McCallum.
amateur Of the washington Coli and
Country Club.
A large gallery is expected to follow
the match. The same four played
year and a half ago at Belle Haven,
and the professionals were victorious
The amateurs hope to reverse the Ver-
dict today.
Hunter and Diffenbaugh have been
asked to play an exhibition match at
Charlottesville, Va some time during
the Spring and probably will oppose
another professional pair from wash
ington.
They also have been challenged by
Charles P. BetSchler and Ralph Beach.
Baltimore professionals to play match
over two Baltimore courses, but the
disposition of the Washington pros is
to make this match home and nome
affair. with half the match to be played
over Indian Spring and the other haII
over a Baltimore course.
Congressional's board of governors
will vote tomorrow on the desirab1lity
of holding an invitation tournament
this year. The club has reserved dates
late in June for its event, but poll
of the dub members revealed that most
of them do not wish an invitation event
The matter will be settled tomorrow.
After a lapse of two years the Middle
Atlantic open championship is to be
PLAYED this year, provided sufncient
money can be raised by the professionals
to stage 1t. The tourney is to be held In
September, according to q decision
reached by the Middle Atlantic PROBES
sional Golfers Association, and is
scheduled to go to a Baltimore club.
The last time the event was held 1t
was played at Indian Spring, which
makes It the turn of Baltimore to stage
It, Leo Diegel has won all three OF the
tournaments staged by the mid-Atlantic
pros.
Invitations for two of the first big
golf tournaments to be held TINS year
washington Golf and Country Club
and the Woodmont Country Club last
week. The washington club tourney
will be held April 20. 30, May and 2,
and the Woodmont event will be held
Nav g, 7. 8 and 8. Both tournaments
begin on Tuesday and end on the Fri
6ay of the week in which they are to
be played, and In both two days Will
be given over to the qualifying play.
Also in both events the customary four
rounds of match play are to be held.
which opens the Spring season here:
will close with the golf committee OF
the club at pm. April 26. Entries
for the Woodmont tourney close with
the tournament committee at the CLUB
at pm, May 4. The main prize in
Me Washington tourney is the G. G.
Carlin Trophy, although there will be
Ave flights to qualify. Four flights Will
qualify In the Woodmont event. wash
ington usually has an entry list OF be-
tween 200 and $50 players, while WOOD
mont customarily has an entry OF about
$50.
Those golfng gents who are prone to
hook with their iron clubs Will md
good cheer in the move made last week
hy Course Supt. Whaley at the WASH
inston Golf and Country Clubs seven
tenth hole. This hole has been quite
o problem with the greens committee,
which has sought for many years to
and a way to keep balls struck down
the middle OF the fairway from bounc-
ing merrily into the ditch, which makes
the tee shot a terror to most players
Whaley has had built UP along the
south edge of the ditch low embank-
ment about Q feet high, which will
be permitted to grow UP into rough
grass. and will, he believes, be effective
! In stopping many balls from going into
the ditch. The embankment will not
stop q hard hit ball from going into
the hazard, but win stop q bali which
Is rolling slowly from bringing grief to
| the striker. The bank at the turn of
the ditch, which has been wearing