Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-15
w WASHINGTON has contributed
M nearly half the entrants for
the sectional qualifying


rounds for the national anna
teur championship at Richmond 10
days hence. The United States Golf
Association today announced that there
are 19 entries in the Richmond area,
and six places open for the qualifiers,
an unusually large number for those
who will journey down to Richmond on
July 20 to essay the 36-hole qualifying
round for the amateur championship.
The entries from Washington are
Miller B. STEVENSON and Thomas p.
Bones, jr., of Columbia; Walter r. Nc
Callum and James G. Drain of Wash
ington, Harry @. Pitt of Manor, j.
William Harvey, jr, of Indian Spring,
M. Parker Nolan of Congressional and
John c. Shorey OF Kenwood. Ger
tainly with six places open among 10
men two or more Of the Washington
The pairings for the Washington
players will be announced within a
few days. Quite group of the leading
players of Baltimore also have en-
tered for the qualification round at
Richmond Among them are Harry
Farr, Sd, the State champion of Mary
land: Ernie Caldwell and Tom Cole
of Hillendale, Harris Jones of Rolling
Road, Alex M. Knapp, last years State
titleholder, and Donald McPhail.
The U. s. G. A. announced that 525
amateur golfers have taken advantage
of the new rule which permits qualifi-
cation by sections rule that only be-
came effective this year. Last year. tor
the tournament played at Merton, there
were more than 800 applications, but
last year the Tournament Committee
chose those who were eligible to play
in the championship on their records
and not by the sectional qualification
round system. This system is similar
to that used in the open championship.
which drew lis entries. Most OF the
Washington contestants plan TO go to
Richmond on Monday. July 81, to play
a practice round or two over the course
in advance of the 36-hole medal round
which will determine whether or not
they will go to Chicago late in August.
..TF we do not have any more rain
i this month will be just as we'll
pleased" The speaker was Stewart
Whaley, green's supervisor at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club, and his
plant is joined in by most Of the
greenkeepers at the other clubs about
the Capital. Those pessimistic gents,
who foresaw THIS year a Summer where
most of the fairways at golf courses
about the Capital would be bare OF
grass because Of the drought of last
year, have been proven wrong SO far
this year, for not in many, many years
has there been such/a vigorous, sturdy
stand of grass as there is on most OF
the fairways of Capital golf clubs this
Summer. The main trouble now Is to
keep the grass down.
At most of the clubs the same eondi-
ton prevails, and the courses can go
for several weeks without rain and SUI
fer no i'll effects. Not in many years
has a season been known in which
there has been such consistent rainfall,
week after week Whaley claims that
the grass grows too fast and that unless
the rain stops coming so fast he Will
have to cut the fairways at Washington
nearly every day.
ERNIE CALDWELL. former public
IL links star, now attached to the
Hillendale Club OF Baltimore, shot
a rs to lead the amateurs, and Arthur
B. Thorn of the Woodmont Country
Club turned in a fine II to lead the
professionals at Chevy Chase yesterday
in the first tourney of the Maryland
State Golf Association. to be staged
this year on a Washington course. Few
Washington golfers played in the tour
nsy, although many of the clubs about
the Capital are members OF the asso-
citation. and the association had invited
members of the Washington Golf and
Country Club. which is in Virginia, to
play in the tourney.
Thorn finished a stroke in front of
j. Monro Hunter. the Indian Spring
pro. who turned in a card of II, with
6 on the fifteenth hole, where his
tee shot found trap. There were los
entries in the tourney and the last
players did not finish until nearly dark
last night Here are the winners in the
three amateur classes:
Glass A-Ernie Caldwell, Hillendale