Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-03
NJ. A. TOURNAMENT
TO Be POSTPONED
Officials Act to Assure Sue
cess of McWatt Benefit
September is.
ARRANGEMENTS were in the
\ making today for post
\ ponement of the scheduled


~ ponement of the scheduled
Middleatlantic open cham
ship carded for September /!
and 16 near Baltimore, in ordel
that there will be no conflict with
the exhibition match in which
Bobby Jones of Atlanta, worlC
golf champion and holder OF
three of the four major titles OF
golfdom, will play at one of the
Washington clubs for the benefit
of Bobby McWatt, injured pro-
fessional who formerly held down
the professional post at the
Columbia Country Club.
While those who will be in charge
of the match, either on September l6
or II. were making arrangements fol
holding the affair at either the Column
bia Country Club or the Indian Spring
Golf Club. officials of the Middle At
lantic Professional Golfers Association
made it plain that they would rearrange
their schedule so that no interference
will be had with the match in which
Jones will play.
Word of the decision of Jones to stop
off in Washington on his way to the
amateur championship at Philadelphia
came yesterday in the form of a letter
to Fred Mcleod, professional at the Co.
lumbia Country Club, and Mcleod i'm
mediately got in touch with Mcdonald
Smith, pro at the Lakeville Club of
Long Island and runner-up to Jones for
both the American and British open
championships, and Leo Diegel, profess
sionai match play champion. Smith
will be one of the players in the match,
but Diegel will not be able to play, be-
cause of previous engagement to play
in the ST. Louis open championship,
which will be held September 19 and 20.
Jones' Letter to Mcleod.
Here is the letter Jones wrote to Nc
Leod:
II suppose that within the past month
have turned down at least 200 re-
quests to play exhibition matches, and
my chief worry about the one you sug-
gest playing is the answer that / have
given to other people, namely, that !
am refusing all invitations of this kind
However, since am coming through
Washington, suppose that could play
and certainly the purpose of the match
appeals to me a great deal more than
do some of the others. If you can,
therefore, arrange the game for the
afternoon of Tuesday. September Is,
18 holes, with the provision that on two
or three days notice it could be changed
to the afternoon of Wednesday, Sep
TENDER II, I can make it all right, but
be certain that 1t will be possible to
change from the 18th to the 18th If I
md 1t tnconyenie1at to come up that
Tar ahead. am leaving town tomor-
row to be gone about 10 DAYS and
should be back by September 9. Please
communicate with me before that time. .
Meanwhile, Mcleod was in touch
with Roland r. Mackenzie, former Dis
trict and Middle Atlantic amateur
champion and one of the ranking anna
teurs OF the world, and hoped to obtain
MS consent to play as Jones partner
In the match. The present lfne-up is:
Jones and Mackenzie VS.. Macdonald
Smith and Fred Mcleod. The Column
bia pro said he did not feel he should
inject himself into the game, but prob
ably he willaplay. for, in addition to
being one OF the greatest drawing
CARDS IN the game, Fred Mcleod is eX-
tremely popular about washington, and
with Smith will form a fine combina-
ton to oppose the two amateurs. Orig
1nally the match was arranged with
George j. Voigt. former District anna
teur, paired with Jones against Horton
Smith and Leo Diegel, but both Smith
and Diegel have pledged themselves to
/ play in the st. Louis open and Voigt
will not be able to be in Washington
at that time.
Not until yesterday was It certain
that the match could be arranged,
for those In charge of the affair real
lied Jones was the one man about
whom their plans for monster bene-
fit match for McWatt revolved. With
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Immediately go forward, and it now is
certain that Washington will be the
scene in Midseptember Of one of the
biggest exhibition golf affairs ever ar
ranged in this sector of the country.
Jones Last Here in '2S.
Jones has not appeared in Wash
1ngton since March, 1928, when he
played with Roland r. Mackenzie, jess
'Sweetser and Phillips Finlay in a match
for the benefit of the Olympic fund at
columbia. That match was played on one
OF the worst days for golf We ever have
seen and Jones plugged along through
rain, hail and splitting snow to register
Tome of the finest rounds of golf
we ever have seen. Since that time
Jones won again the American amateur
championship, lost the title last year,
and this year has done something nc
player ever has done before by winning
the American open and the British
amateur and open championships He
. is today the greatest drawing card in
the game and crowd of more than
600 persons should turn out to honor
him and to pay homage to Bobby Nc
Watt, the pro who never again will be
able to swing a golf club.
McWatt sits in his Richmond home
IG0c n.
with the aid of crutches, looking long
1ngly toward the golf courses he never
again will tour. He was crippled in ar
automobile accident two years ago. Las
year a benefit match for him at In.
dian Spring netted a little more thar
81 800. II the Jones match In Septem.
Der realizes the ambitions of its pro.
motors, McWatt will be made indie
pendent so far as the family income 4
concerned, for the sponsors of tn,
match hope to purchase out of thu
fund TO be raised miniature gol
course which MeWatt will own an,
which will assure him a permanent In
come.
youngsters who we're given no
Il more than an extreme outsid
chance for the title were playin
this afternoon in an 18-hole medal pla
contest at the Washington Golf an
Country Club for the junior golf cham
pionship of Washington. Never given
look-in in the preliminary dope, Rober
Bowen Of the Argyle Country Club.
member of last years Central Hig
School golf team. and Melville Z
Bennett of the Congressional Countr
Club, tied for first place in the 36-hol
championship tourney yesterday q
Washington, both registering cards 9
149. and were playing of for the cham
pionship today. j. Monro Hunter. jr
son of the Indian Spring professional
finished third, at $50, stroke benin
the leaders.
Young Bennett had the CHAMPIONSHIP
Eewed up, all signed, sealed and de
livered. Meeting but brace Of SIS 9