Evening star., 1931-04-05
FIRST LINKS MEET
WILL DRAW MANY
Bids to Invitation Event in
Mails Soon-TourneyS
to Follow Fast.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

THREE weeks from next Tues
day the golf season will be
formally blasted open anc
major league golf, as it is
played around the National Cap
ital, will be upon us. On that day
somewhere between 100 and zoo
golfers will make their initial at
tempt to qualify in the curtain
raiser of what looks like one OF
COLTS biggest years-the Spring
invitation tourney of Washington
Golf and Country Club.
For many years, with only one inter-
mission, Washington Golf and Country
Club has. by tine-honored custom, had
the privilege of opening the tourna-
ment season about the Capital. In that
year, back in 1926, the club held the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association cham
pionship, and Woodmont opened the
season with its Spring event.
Tourney Starts Early.
This year the calendar has played
Q tricky prank on the schedule makers,
and by mutual consent of the club and
the District Golf Association the Wash
ington club will hold its tournament
late in April. Needless to say all the
members of the hest club hope for a
good break in weather, and trust the
rain will hold of during the four days
of the tournament.
Invitations to the Washington club
event will be in the mails within few
days, sent to most of those who played
in the tourney last year, when ban
ner entry list was recorded. This
tournament is conducted on a strictly
personal invitation basis, with the Golf
Committee passing on all names to
which invitations are to be sent.
The tournament viii be supervised by
q committee, composed of Fred D.
Paxton, chairman; c, G. Carlin, w. R.
McCallum, Ben l.. Fuller. j. Logan Hop
kins, o. l.. Veerhoff, L. G. Gsrnett, D.
C. Gruver, A. Boiling Gait, DR.. E. w.
Titus, Lowell Mellett, A. W. Howard, D.
r. Elmore, DR.. Jamss T. McClenahan,
DR. Thomas j. Rice, Raymond j. Wise,
Z. j. Swift, r. j. Norman, DR.. R. N.
Sutton, Charles B. Stewart, Ralph s.
Fowler, DR.. w. H. Jenkins, Charles D.
German, Rudolph T. Harrell and j.
Edwin Rice.
It will start on April 20 and end on
May /, which falls on Friday. thus
giving the club members the use of
their course on the following Saturday,
q method of holding tournaments
which Is in line with modern practice.
Course VIII Be Ready.
Greens Superintendent Whaley mas
assured tie cub bo2rd CT directc-s that
the course will be in first-class shape
for the forthcoming tournament, al
though Whaley, as we'll as other green
keepers around Washington, is disap-
pointed and happy at the same time.
Disappointed because there has not
been enough warm weather to grow
grass, and happy that there has been
enough rain to saturate the ground
and preserve the grass roots.
The Washington club tourney win
1naugurate four straight weeks of
tournament golf about the Capital
But that will not end tournament
activities here, for the scene will then
shift to Princess Anne Country Club of
Virginia Beach, where the Middle Allan
tic championship will be held the first
week in June.
Then will come two more tourna-
ments, following closely one on the
other These are the Columbia Country
Club and Manor Club events, the Sec
ond and third week in June. Truly the
golfers of the Capital who care for
tournament play can make no sincere
complaint of lack of competition, with
the six Journeys billed for this Spring
to start only three weeks hence And
in between, for those who want to keep
on, there Is the Baltimore Country
Club event, to be staged the last week
in May