Evening star., 1931-02-26
AMATEURS TO SEEK
SPOTS IN NATIONAL
Baltimore C. C. Also Offers
Use of Its Course for Mid
Atlantic Test.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

rounds in the Mldatlantlc
i area for the national anna
teur championship of. 1881
may be played at the Columbia
Country Club some time during
the coming Summer. The Colum-
bia Country Club, scene of the
national open title event of 1921
recently wrote the United States
Golf Association, offering the use
of its course this year for the sec
tional qualifying round for the
amateur championship, under the
new qualification plan adopted
this year by the parent golf body
which will be tried out for the
first time next Summer.
Oficials of the club have received
o letter of acknowledgment from the
q. s. g. A., pointing out that the letter
offering the course has been turned
over to the Championship Committee
and that Columbia will be given
full consideration when the mat
ter Of a course on which to hold the
sectional trials for this sector of the
bunkered land comes up.
Columbia, however, Is not in the posi-
tion of an active campaigner for the
sectional qualifying round tourney: The
club wished simply to place itself on
record as offering its course to the
latter sees At to hold the trials over
It. Columbia will make no campaign
70 secure the tourney, according to Ar
thur B. Shelton, the club secretary.
Has Two Choices.
The Five Farms course Of the Baltt-
more Country Club, where Baltimore
Country Club folk hope the 1882 anna
teur championship will be played: also
has been offered to the u. S. G. A. for
the 1891 sectional qualifying rounds,
and It would appear that the Cham
pionship Committee of the national golf
body will have to make decision be-
tween Five Farms and Columbia as to
which course the sectional trials will be
played over. The two courses are out
standing layoutS near their respective
cities Baltimore, however, is going
after the sectional tests and the 1882
championship in aggressive fashion and
Is pulling strings and using all possible
influence to secure both the sectional
trials for 1881 and the amateur cham
pionship for 1882.
WI1Cn 10 DcAACNbAy GAL AA6AAO "@SAA
Columbia people, and If Baltimore gets
the sectional tourney Columbia will be
one of the first clubs to offer its re-
sources to help the Baltimore folk put
on q real show, both for the sectional
tilt and the championship itself, II
awarded to Baltimore. All OF which
means that there is not the slightest
tota Of rivalry between the two clubs.
on the other hand, cooperation Is the
byword, and If Columbia gets the sec
tional trials Baltimore viii be equally
willing to help.
Shelton explained that the sectional
tests will require only one day Of actual
tournament play, although the course
probably will be available to the 80 or
20 men who essay the test for practice
several days in advance of the tourney.
If the procedure followed in the quail
flying tests for the open championship
are adhered to for the amateur cham
pionShip three, and possibly four, men
will be qualified fom the Middle Allan
tic section In the coming sectional trials.
Only one man from the Capital played
an the championship at Merton last
year. This. entrant was Miller B.
champion. One man from Maryland
Alex M. Knapp Of the Baltimore Coun-
try Club-played, and there were no
entrants from Virginia, although Billy
Howell, the Middle Atlantic Golf Asso-
citation title holder, was eligible to COM
pete None of the entrants from this
section qualified at Merton.
The amateur championship of 1881
will be played over the course of the
Beverly Country Club near Chicago.
Y MONRo HUNTER, the tall
professional at the Indian
~ Spring Golf Club. had quite a
day yesterday. In the first
place, playing ball which he frankly
saws he does not like, he shot score
n "a to tie for the leading position
in the sweepstakes tourney held yes
terday by golf professionals from TINS
neiShborhood at the Maryland Country
Club, and In the second place, he was
elevated TO the presidency OF the Mid
die Atlantic Professional Golfers AS
sociation. The gent vino tied with him
for first place was A. L. Houghton OF
the Kenwood Club, near Washington,
so first honors in the tourney went to
local professionals. Hunter was play
ing. as were all the others, with the
new ball. which he admits he does not
like. To make the showing OF the
washington contingent more impress
eive Walter w. Cunningham OF Burn
ing Tree turned in "a TO nnlSh In
third place, while Carroll T. McMaSter
of Rolling Road was fourth with 10.
Nine professionals competed IN the
tourney. The new president secured
brides on the fifth, ninth, tenth ano
eleventh holes, one a par 3, another a
par s and the other par analr
Houghton had brides on the sixteenth
and eighteenth, the latter to tie with
Hunter.
Ralph Beach Of the Baltimore Subur-
ban Club, who now is in Florida, au-
tomatically became vice president OF the
association. The pros elected Bob Bar
nett of Chevy Chase to the oflce Oi
second vice president, and chose Car
roll T. McMaster treasurer and Warner
Mather, the retiring president, Wa'
named secretary.
The pros decided to follow the lead
of the Maryland State Golf Association
which has closed its Maryland open utlt
70 pros connected with the Maryland
clubs, and close the Middle Atlantic
open to pros connected with clubs II
the Midatlantic area. Because severa
of the pros are in the South, the asso'
ciation did not draw up its tournament
schedule. The schedule will await an
other meeting when the pros are home
from the South