Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
LOOK UPON BURKE,
Won ELM AS PREY
Undefealed on Own Course,
Meet Famous Pair Two
Weeks From Today.
By w. R. McCALLUM.

1.-TWO weeks from today a big
fellow who bunts a golf ball
a long way and little chap
only shade more than half
his size will step out on the first
tee at the Indian Spring Golf CLUB
to play an exhibition match before
a lot of washington folks against
the winner and runner-up IN the
national open golf championship.
To most golf professionals in the
,,,-nvinces land washington is rated as
nne of the provinces because II Is Oh
the main stem Of golf) sucn Hla.cii
would cause lot OF quaklng anu stLs
ering of knickered knees, olt 70 =: M a'9r,,
70 Hunter and George DlueIipa t1SIs
EEi,,h n will be Just another exhibition
golf match. And one they expect 70
win.
For nearly four years Hunter ana
T,,fFenhaugh have paired together III
axhihition golf matches around the ma
fional CAPITAL, and never have tnen
cnlors been dragged in the dust by an
S,,,soeinr uair. Only once have they
heen licked, and that licking came IN
roltinoore Never have they lost q Sc
,.tous rolf match around washington,
and thew have played some OF the pest
in the land over their own baulWlcK AT
Indian Spring.
RIO such pair Of stout-hearted com.
natitors as these Billy Burke ana
George Won Elm win be just TWO
..o~a roIfers They will not be aWeo
NV their national reputation, nor tne
,,,a,nories Of that stirring 144-hole battle
4I,av va0ed for the national open cham
,,ionshin at Toledo early last montn'
pa,rlre and Won Elm will be just an
nther pair Of opponents to be whipped
n r,ossible and lost to gracefully II tney
must. which Is all by way OF polnsins
out that big as the match ls-nlaIk lns
the first time Billy Burke ever laS
shown around washington ana Von
Elms initial appearance mere %
ssts,einess man golfer"-Hunter and
r1ifFenbauqh do not regard them as
mora formidable than other pairs tneg
have met end either beaten or played
ever. Tsley do not think, for example,
fI,af Burke and Won Elm VIII be any
TOUGHER than CompstOn and Boomer,
uShom they played to a standstin three
years ago and should have trounceo-
Nor does Hunter regard them as more
formidable than Horton smith ano Leo
pierel. whom he and Glenn spencer
beat in an exhibition match Two years
hack. On that occasion, because tne
roafrh was an exhibition benefit atiair
er,d the committee wished to secure as
many baltimore dollars as possible. tney
Ha,bxfftuted Glenn Spencer for Dif1en-
faurh. But this time George viii be "a
there the midget matching shots Win
The giants Of the game, and It Is sale
to say he viii not be far In the rear, II
ct all.
A FTER several weeks OF negotiation
~ the match has finally been ar
ranged for September Q, ano Witn
Che impetus given them in puphcly
nav by their memorable struggle Tor
the omen. the appearance Of Burke ana
Vor Elm AZ Indian Spring should bring
~n,t a rood crowd. II the day Is nne
the match should attract 5000 folks,
and 4 larger turnout would not be sur
S1risirlg. A charge Of 81 q head Will De
made to see the match and Burke ana
Won Elm viii play for q guaranteed
sum. The match viii be run on unoer
the supervision Of the Indian Spring
Golf Committee, headed by Harry KID
well.
Burke and Won Elm nave Deen TOUT
ing the Midwest during recent weeks
and. according to adyices on their
Inatches. have been received everywhere
they have gone with large crowds and
much enthusiasm. Tae echoes OF that
Toledo struggle still reverberate over
the land, as golfng folks look for some
Df the thrills that came IN that memo
rable battle. They make colorful
pafr-cn the one hand the plugging,
Unconditional Polish American open title
holder, straight as string from the
tee and uncannily accurate around the
green, and on the other hand the bril-
liant Won Elm, sole exponent Of a new
Classification in golf and one Of the big
rnoneymakers Of the game; the only
man who has beaten Jones over the 36-
hole route since 1928 and certainly the
man who would be rated as the leader
OF the amateurs had he not announced
last September his retirement from the
amateur game.
That match should be well werth
watching and any man who goes out
70 Indian Spring on September VIII
surely get q dollars worth Of thrills out
Of watching four master shotmakers
perform,