Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

among the entrants.
That big invitation golf tourna-
ments rob the members of the
club holding the tournament the
use of their course for a period
running from four days to a full
week, and otherwise inconvenience
the golfing membership.
That Congressional does not
propose to stage an invitation
tournament and diveSt its own
members of the use of their course
for the benefit of few members
of the club who play in the tour
nament and a host OF visiting
players.
For these reasons Congressional will
not hold an invitation tourney this
wear. It Is the first club about Wash
inEton which has definitely decided in
committee 10 abandon It's invitation
tournament for single year in order
to alleviate the tournament congestion.
The view of the committee. as ex-
pressed by Guy Mason, its chairman. Is
that the clubs should hold invitation
tournaments only every three or four
years and not every year But, mas
much as Congressional cannot speak
for the other clubs, 1t intends to take
the initial step by cancelinE its own
invitation event, in the hope that the
move may find favor among some of
Of tourney congestion.
Not District Matter.
Several years ago DR.. Bruce L. Taylor,
then chairman of the Congressional
golf committee, brought before meet
ing of the District Golf Association a
plan for Staggered tournaments, by
s,,tsiat. club rr,os,1l hold
ton event every other year instead of
every year. The plan never has been
adopted by the District association, on
the ground that the association may
not dictate to the individual clubs what
they shall do with their own club af-
fairs.
The scheme proposed now by the
Congressional golf committee would 60
further than the alternate year plan
proposed by DR.. Taylor and would have
the clubs hold Journeys only every third
or fourth year. Naturally Congressional
cannot enforce its wishes on the other
clubs, but it hopes that remuneration of
its invitation event will lead other local
clubs to take the same step.
Along with abandonment of the
Spring invitation tourney Congressional
also has decided to forego the buffers
tourney" for high handicap players,
which was staged last year. This event
did not meet with the success hoped for
By its sponsors, and will not be re-
peated this year.
Seeks Wcmen's National.
Congressional however, Is very much
IN the contest for the women's national
championship. Although the club was
not represented at the annual meeting
Of the United States Golf Association
In New York week ago, the national
golf body has before It letter putting
forward the claims of the local club
for the women's event. That letter has
not been published before and reads as
follows:
The board Of governors Of Con-
gresstonal Country Club hereby ex-
tend an invitation to the United
States Golf Association to hold the
women's National Championship
In 1882 over the course Of Congress
sional
Our course, 10 holes. is $3.50
yards in length: the outgoing nine
/! holes are 3,504 yards long and the
!! incoming nine holes are 3,046 yards
long. Tees Nos. ] and 10 are at the
clubhouse. as are and 1s Par for
the course Is 10. We inclose here
with q scoEe card.
THE club Is spending approx
rlately $4,000 year in changes
and betterments on the golf course.
During the next two years we plan
to build two new holes, 10 and 16,
ard shift the tee at No 10. This will
increase the total ysrdage but at
We have about completed the re-
building Of our traps. The tees on
all the long holes are TO be length
ened so as to give us q long and
short course.
Club House Spacious.
"Our club house : SPACIOUS. There
are so rooms with baths, most Of
which are double rooms. The rates
for these rooms range from $3.50 to
So per person per day. We have rs
many as 125 people at one time, but
could house only about 100 women
comfortably. There are two dining
rooms, the main dining room and
grill where 500 persons may be FED
at one time. We have large indoor
swimming pool and commodious
women's locker room with showers.
Congressional Country Club Is
70 10 miles, depending on the route,
from the Treasury Department.
which Is in the heart Of Washington
and the same distance from the 10
leading hotels. There are three
hard-surfaced highways running
directly 70 the club from Washington
and a hard-surfaced pike between
the club and the Lincoln and Ma
ttonal highways. The club may De
reached over hard-surfaced roads
from Baliton1re, Philadelphia and
New York without going into Wash
ingtcn. II the Championship Is
awarded our club We will operate e
bus on an hourly schedule between
the club and central point IN
Washington, during the tournament,
which will eliminate any need for
taxi service
I'm the District Of Columbia sec
tor Of the Middle Atlantic area there
are % golf clubs including two pub
lie links. Among the woman players
In the District four are scratch and
twenty-one have a handicap OF
or less. Cumberland, Hagerstown.
Baltimore and Annapolis, Nd, New
port News, Lynchburg and Roam
oke Va, all IN the Middle Atlantic
section, have several woman players
with handicap Of s or less.
Handy Location.
1--WE are advised that some Of the
entries from this section In the
vomen's championship we're asked
Why there we're not more entries
from here and farther South. We
cannot say definitely why but are
Of the opinion that the reason Is
found IN the expense Of making the
Ilp. IL WOulQ DC ICES expensive 4OL
entrants on the whole Atlantic sea-
board If the championship was held
here.
ANY additional information de-
sired relative TO Congressional or this
section will be gladly furnished"
PRO BASKET BALL.
Rochester, 81; Fort Wayne, 20.
Cleveland, %; Chicago, 20.