Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
Ed BROOKS BEATEN
BY DON DOUGHERTY
Ex-Middle Atlantic Champ
DiSiIIusioned by Long,
Discussed Test.
BY W. R. M.cALLUM.

club and beat a man many
~ strokes below his class
with the inferior player
using his entire kit of golf equip.
ment2
Perhaps it can be done, but vol
find Eddie Brooke of the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club hare
customer to convince that single
club can be made to serve the
purpose of all clubs in a gol1
match. Eddie won the Middle At
lantic golf championship back ir
1918, in the days when most of the
youngsters now winning tourna-
mentS were infants.
He still retains the accuracy anc
power which made him an outstanding
golf figure in those days, but he nov
is convinced that you need more than 9
single club to play golf course in win
ming figures Meanwhile Don r. Dough-
erty. the opponent of Brooke in q match
that had much of the membership OF
the Washington club gazing in pop.
eyed anazement as the two squared
away for their challenge match. ehoFtles
as he looks back on the and S score
by which he beat Brooke, who played
tools used by Dougherty.
For several weeks the match had
been in the making, and finally 1t was
arranged, Brooke to play any one club
of his own choosing against Dougherty
with his whole bag of clubss Dougherty
for many days prior to the match, had
been unable to break IS for the Wash
ington course, but he might have been
holding his best game back, for when
he and Brooke finally came up for air
after the first nine of the match
Dougherty was 5 up. He laid Brooke
away on the thirteenth hole, winning
by 6 and S with a score that probably
would have finished around the 80
mark. Just day or so before the match
Brooke had gone out to practice with
his one club-a No. 3 iron-and played
the first nine in 80 strokes, but he un-
corked nothing like that as Dougherty
piled up hole after hole to win easily,
and thereby upset the predictions of
many of the clubhouse sharps who had
1t figured out that Brooke, with his &C
curacy and putting ability, would out
steady Dougherty. The rough border
ing on the fairways at Washington is
high and thick and whenever Brooke
got into it he needed a lofted club to get
out. So Doueherty, whenever Eddie
got into trouble, had big advantage.
That was the story of the match.
TWO big golf events are listed locally
i this week. with one Of the high
spots OF the season to be reached
for the professional brigade in the play
ing of the Maryland State open cham
pionship at Congressional on Friday.
Both tournaments fall on the same day
for on Friday also the woman golfers
of the Capital win play in an 1s-hole
tourney for the Corby Cup, one OF the
mnst-prized trophies played for by the
fair golfers about Washington. on
Thursday a picked team Of Washington
women viii play a team of Baltimore
women in match over the Chevy
Chase Club course,
The Maryland open, for which an
added purse Of grand $l,000l was
put up several months ago by the Mary
land State Golf Association, is ex-
pected to draw the entry of practically
every professional golfer in Maryland,
near washington. Only two of the
washington pros are not eligible to play.
These are Dave Thompson Of the WASH
ington Club and Mel Shorey of East
Potomac Park, whose clubs are not
members of the Maryland State Assoc
citation. There has been no date set
for the Middle Atlantic open cham
pionship and probably such q tourna-
ment will not be held this year, and
most of the pros feel that the Maryland
open is their last big chance to grab a
slice Of prize money, even though there
have been rumors that one Of the local
clubs will stage big open tourney later
in the year.
SO most Of the paid brigade are look
ing forward to next Friday and the pot
of gold that awaits the winner Of the
Maryland open. Most Of the pros feel
that the entry fee of $40 for pros and
assistants Is too high, but that is the
fee set by the association and TO play
they will have to pay And they want
TO play, and will pay, even thought the
Zee for an assistant, who has not too
much money at best, seems unreason-
ably high.
The Corby cup tourney probably viii
draw an entry Of four score or more
golfers, for it is the last big event Of
the season for the women, next to the
women's Middle Atlantic championship
10 be played at Hot Springs next month
1t Is handicap affair, with entries to
be received by Mrs. Frank r. Keefer.
president Of the District Women's Golf
Association. The women's naid-Atlentic
event is listed for the week of October
1928 inclusive.
4 hOALlF1GAI1ON TOuuoS III LWc
club championships are TO be con-
cluded this afternoon. The medal
rounds in the championship Journeys
at Washington and Beaver Dam. which
started yesterday, are to be finished
this afternoon, with first-round pair
ings to be made Immediately. The
Washington tourney will be concluded
next Sunday. with the first three match
play rounds scheduled for this week
while the Beaver Dam event will be
played on the basis of one match round
each week In addition to the cham
pionsiip flight the Washington play
eTs will qualify in two other classes.
the 1911 handicap class and the flight
for the Birney cup, open to players
with handicaps over II.
At Beaver Dam 1t is hoped there will
be enough entries to make up four
flights, although flights win be added
TO take care Of all those who enter the
event.
At Manor, Argyle and Woodmont.
matches are scheduled today In the
championship Journeys of these clubs.
The new sixth green ct Columbia has
been completed and temporary green