Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
DOZEN CAPABILITIES
IN TEST TOMORROW
Columbia Course in Fine Con-
dition for Its Invitation
49,. Event This Week.
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ping the golf bill this
week about the National Capital,
the eyes of golfers will turn mo-
mentarily tomorrow to three wide
ly scattered cities in the vicinity
of Washington, where IL OF the
golf professionals of clubs about
the Capital and l lone amateur
will strive to qualify several OF
their number for the national
open championship, to be played
at Toledo early in the bllsterlng
days of July.
Ihe sectional qualifying ROUNDS for
the open championship will be played
tomorrow at some 20 widely separated
cities, from Maine to California, and
out of the sectional rounds Will emerge
approximately ITO golfers-amateurs and
professionals-Who will be qualned
thereby to go to Toledo early in July
to struggle fol- the greatest prize IN
golf-the American open championship
Six of tn, Washington professionals and
the lone amateur entrant have chosen
the James River course of the Country
Club of Virginia, at Richmond, az the
layout over which they will essay the
task of qualifying for the open. Th-re
are but 81 entries from Washington,
Virginia and the Carolinas in this sec
tional round and only three out of the
81 will qualify.
Up at Oakmont near Pittsburgh,
where the classic outlines Of some 288
k.,,r.l t1niN
lines over that famed course where
Tommy Armour, the newly crowned
British open champion, won the Amer
lean open in 1927, four Washington pro-
fessionals will try tomorrow to qualify.
Only one of the Washington boys has
decided to go to Philadelphia, where the
sectional trials will be played at White
marsh Valley. This is Gene Larkln, the
Well-liksd assistant pro at Chsvy Chase,
who, like his mentor, Barnett. halls from
the Quaker City. All of them will play
SO holes over the courses which they
have chosen and it will not be az all
surprising ere night falls tomorrow to
see four or five of them make the grade.
Last year, it will be remembered
three Washington pros grabbed all three
of the places open at Richmond. Al
Houghton of Kenwood, Arthur Thorn of
Woodmont and Mel Shorey of East Po-
tomac Park all qualified for the big
show at Interlachen.
Who and Where They Play.
Here are the men who now are prac-
ticing in preparation for the qualifying
rounds tomorrow, and where they will
play:
Richmond-Mel Shorey, East Potomac
Park; Arthur B. Thorn. Woodmont; A.
L Houghtcn. Kenwood: j. williams Har-
vey. jr. (amateur, and George Diffen-
baugh, Indian Spring Walter w. Cum
bingham. Burning Ire: AL Treder,
Manor
Oakmont, Pittsburgh-Bob Barnett
Chevy Chase: Fred Mcleod, Columbia;
j. Monro Hunter. Indian Spring. Alex
Armour, Congressional.
Chase
At Oakmont there are eight places
open for a field of about 90 men, and
the early predictions have it that a
pair of 62S will qualify over that tough
layout. The scoring at Richmond and
Philadelphia probably will be lower. for
neither the course of the Country Club
OF Virginia nor Whitemarsh Valley
have the possibilities for unlimited
trouble that awaits the hayward pill
at Oakmont. That course, you know,
Is where they have 3-inch burrows in
the traps and when ball gets in them,
as Bob Jones says, all it takes to get
out Is a strong back and a willing
heart" All the boys from Washington
are playing well. or were when they left
here. and it will not be surprising to
see several of them qualify for the
JonesleSs championship at Toledo a
month hence.