Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-24
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- OFF teams of four washington
clubs win swing into action
Sunday In the opening jousts
Of the team championship Of
the Maryland State Golf Association.
Several matches were played last Sum
day, but none of them involved any Of
the local golf organizations.
Beaver Dam win entertain the golfers
of the Baltimore public parks at Beaver
Dam In one Of the engagements on
Sunday, while Chevy Chase viii enter
tain the Rolling Road team at Chevy
Chase. Indian Spring, with much the
same lineup that won the State team
championship last October, viii play
against Rodgers Forge at Indian Spring
in the initial match In defense Of its
title. Manor win play against the
Maryland Country Club team at Manor.
The victorious Indian Spring aggre-
cation, winners Of the big team trophy
last year, VIII have virtually the same
team which last year won the final round
in the team tourney from Columbia.
The latter club, along with Congress
sional, Woodnont and Bannockburn,
! has not entered team In the tourney
this year.
Charles r. Morrow, one Of the main
stays at Indian Spring, has returned to
washington from a European trip and
Immediately was drafted by Capt. j. v.
Brownell to play on the Indian Spring
team. Among the contestants who viii
play on the team are: J. w. Harvey, r.;
j. Monro Hunter, jr.; Elliott Spicer,
Leroy Sasscer, the club champion; Har-
old ". Graves, DR.. L. s. Otel and
BrowneM Based on last years result,
and with the same team that won last
year, Indian Spring should have q good
chance to repeat In the team tourney
this year.
Manor Club golfers are to gather to-
night at the club to pay honor TO Harry
q. Pitt. the clubs outstanding golfer.
who recently capped a successful season
by winning the District amateur cham
picnship. j. Webster Manning, chair
man Of q committee in charge Of the
affair, today is busy choosing q suitable
gift for the new champion.
THE open tournament to be played
i at the Kenwood Golf and Country
Club on November and will be
tbilled as the National Capital open
golf tournament" with a prize list
totaling $4,000 in cash and plate, the
tourney viii be q 36-hole affair, open to
all professionals and TO amateurs with
handicap Of or less. Eentries al
ready have been obtained of enough
top-ranking golf stars to make the
ttourney an unqualified success. The
opening of the tourney also will mark
1.-THE ofhcial opening of the new nine
Ehole course at Kenwood, which has been
iunder construction this year and now
Is ready for play. The dates set-No-
tvember and 6-were chosen in order
TO catch the touring professionals as
they move south toward Pinehurst,
kwhere the Ptnehurst Country Club will
Istage It's annual Fall best-baIl tourney
'on November 10 and IL, carrying q
total of about $4,000 in prize money.
Tom Creavy, the new p. @. A, cham
pion; Tommy Armour, the British open
champ, and q number of other stars
will play in the Kenwood open, among
Them Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, VIII
1ie MacFarlane, Bobby Cruickshank, Joe
R<irkwood, Joe Turnesa, Cyril Walker,
fAubrey Boomer, Whiffy Cox and WAL
tier Kozak. The entries of Billy Burke,
national open champion, and George
Won Elm, runner-up to Burke at Toledo,