Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-03
CONGRESSIONAL CLUB
MAY GET AMATEUR
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

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dent of the Congressional Country Club
and is one of its board members, prob
ably will be asked to request the United
States Golf Association to send the
championship to Washington in 1882.
Due in East in 1892.
Through official channels close to the
| United States Golf Association, the club
was informed of the position Of the
national golf body with respect to
awarding the mems amateur champion
ship to a club about the Capital in 1882
Briefly IT is this:
The championship next year will go
to the Beverly Country Club of Chicago,
which takes it into the West. Under
the sectional rotation system employed
by the United States Golf Association
it will be due to go to an Eastern club
in 1882.
A high official of the United States
Golf Association said the national golf
body is not committed to award Of the
championship to any club in 1882. This
man was asked about Washington, and
he replied that if the proper pressure is
brought to bear the title tourney can be
secured for Washington in the bicen-
the club at which to hold 1t, in the
event it is awarded to Washington. He
said the Congressional Country Club
already has before the U. S. G. A.
strong bid for the Women's champion
ship. but that the association feels
Washington should be awarded one of
the larger championships in 1882, If
any of the title clashes goes to the Capt.
tai in that year.
Securing Of the championship for a
Washington club, he said, is a matter of
the proper kind of golf course, the
facilities the club will have at its dis
posal for holding the championship and
the bringing of the right kind Of pres
sure ON the governing golf body. Con-
gressional, he said, is the only club in
the Washington area which is actively
in the field for any national champion
ship at present. He added that Con-
gressional, with its massive club house.
its large membership and its practically
unlimited facilities for committee rooms
and other necessities Of a national
championship, will have first cali when
Washington is considered as a national
championship venue in 1882. He agreed
that the Congressional Club can have
the amateur championship virtually for
the asking in 1882. provided the proper
kind Of pressure is brought to bear on
the national golf authorities.
Rooms Starts Ball Rolling.
President Koons of the Congressional
Country Club was acquainted with
these statements and Immediately start
ed the ball rolling toward securing the
championship for 1882. He left town
yesterday for a stay of a week but will
be back next Monday and will imme-
diately call the board of the club to-
gether to make formal presentation
Of the clubs claims for the amateur
championship in 1892, along the lines
with which he has been acquainted.
Not since 1921. when the national
open championship was held at Co
lumbia, has Washington entertained the
leading golfers of the Nation in a group
Within the past year there has been a
movement sponsored by the Washing
ton Bicentennial Commission to Sc
cure one of the national championships
for 1882. The commission was impair
tial as to the club at which the cham
pionship might be played, but no other
club about the Capital Is in the field
for the championship except Congress
sional. The position Of the Columbia
Country Club is that it will take a
championship if the United States Golf
Association offers 1t, but Columbia is
not actively in the field in the position
of a bidder for the event. Chevy Chase
and Burning Tree have made no at
tempt to secure championship, so
Congressional is the lone club in the
position of a bidder. That the club in
tends to move every effort to secure the
championship in 1882 is certain. And
it is equally certain that the club may
have the title chase in 1882 If it works
along the proper lines.
Some time next year a committee OF
the United States Golf Association will
come to Congressional to look over the
course and ascertain If, in its Judgment,
it is at for a national championship.
The award of the course then will be
made at the national championship OF
1881, which will be held at Chicago.
II the award is made to Congressional
it will bring to Washington all the lead
ing amateur golfers of the world, in
Guiding the great Bobby Jones, who won
the championship for the fifth time
last week at Philadelphia, thus setting
a new American record for victories In
the title chase, and accomplishing some
thing no man ever has done oe-
fore by winning the four major cham-
pionships of two great golfing nations
In one year. Jones previously had won
the American open anc tne 6rltlSn
amateur and open titles.
Amateur Never Played Here.
The amateur championship never has
been played at a washington club, al
though the Capital twice before has
been the venue of national golf event,
The national women's championship
was held at Chevy Chase in 1908 and
the national open was played at CO.
llmbia in 1921.
The Congressional Country Club was
organized in 1921, with President Hoo
ver-then Secretary of Commerce.
its first president. Located about IL
miles from the White House, with fine
roads radiating to 1t in all directions,
the club is located on a S20-acre piece
of land high above the Potomac River,
about five miles northwest OF Bethesda
and about the same distance from Cabin
John Bridge.
The club house is the most commo-
dious golf structure about Washington
and is admirably fitted 70 entertain
national golf field. Not in many years
of watching championship golf have
seen a club house so well arranged and
so commodious to take care Of a field
of the magnitude and importance OF
nofiopaI Golf affair The only club