Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-25

Y1TH both the sectional quail
M flying rounds for the Ma
tional open and the Nation
al amateur championship
awarded this year to Richmond courses,
to be played in early June for the
open and late July for the amateur,
Washington golfers, who hope to COM
pete in both these events are wonder
ing when, If ever, a washington course
is to be chosen for the sectional rounds
for these two events. Not IN many
years has the sectional qualifying
round for the National open been play
ed here, and under the new scheme
of sectional qualification for the ANA
teur championship. it is about time
course about the National Capital was
chosen as the scene of the qualifying
round for the Middle Atlantic section.
than 80 professionals and smatter-
ing of amateurs from the clubs
about washington, Richmond, Norfolk,
Petersburg, in North Carolina and near
Baltimore will gather at the James
River course Of the Country Club OF
Virginia to find out which three OF
their number will qualify for the Ma
tional open championship, and on July
% a group of amateurs from the same
cities and sections will gather TO quail
fv for the National amateur. Rich
mond thus has both sectional qualify
inr tests and while the course of the
Country Club Of Virginia and the
Hermitage Country Club are fine lay
outs. there are courses just as fine
around Washington.
In awarding the sectional qualifying
rounds for both open and amateur
championships to Richmond, the United
States Golf Association Championship
Committee apparently has overlooked
the fact that washington is the central
city in this section Of the country
Both the Columbia Country Club and
the Baltimore Country Club offered
their courses for the open and amateur
Qualifying rounds, but the committee
insisted that they 60 to Richmond. And
to Richmond they will go. Next year
a change may come about. Some OF
the clubs near Washington and Balti-
more want these sectional rounds and
one of them probably will get one or
the other Of them next year.
0NE of the largest fields ever to
" start in the championship started
play today over the Chevy Chase
Club course for the District womens
golf championship. Mrs. Betty P.
Meckley of Indian Spring Is to defend
her title in the tourney, whose match
play rounds start tomorrow. An 18-
hole qualifying round today will see the
contestants paired in several flights for
the first match play round tomorrow.
Leroy w. Sasscer Of Indian Spring.
In addition to being runner-up in the
invitation tourney held last week at
Indian Spring, also is the medalist in
the tourney Tied with Charles r.
Morrow of Indian Spring at rs in the
qualifying round. Sasscer and Morrow
played of their tie yesterday, with
SaSScer winning by single stroke. The
scores were 80 and 81. Morrow, who Is
the son of former Gov. Z. p. Morrow Of
Kentucky, had a one stroke lead at the
end Of the first nine. with 80 to 40 for
Sasscer, but the pair stood all even on
the seventeenth tee. Morrow's tee shot
at the seventeenth was trapped and
Sasscer went into one-stroke lead at
that point, retaining his advantage
when the last hole was halved in SIS.
Sasscer was runner-up in the tourney,
which was won by Harry G. Pitt of
Manor.
Henry c. Phipps won the competition
for the Grosner Cup at the Beaver Dam
Country Club yesterday, scoring an SO