Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

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~ than a month off, local golfers
~ are in for a real treat on the
afternoon Of August 30, when
Billy Burke and George Won Elm VIM
ner and runner up in the national open
golf championship. will show their goIl
shots in an exhibition match against
]. Munro Hunter and George Dlfen-
baugh. the Indian Spring combination
who can point proudly to the fact That
they never have been licked in match
over their own course. An entry lee
probably sl-will be charged to see the
match. Smart boyS-Burke and Won
Elm-to pair together as an eXnloltloh
team, for wherever they go their l44-
hole duel for the open championship
will bring out lot of folks who would
not come out to see any one else play
golf. They will start on tour OF the
provinces next week, to put up the dol
lars wherever they may fall, and de-
preston or no depression. they VIII
make plenty. They are colorful golfers
and put on good show.
Washington's public links team. led
bv Municipal Champion Bradley H.
Burrows and chaperoned by none other
than the irrepressible Jim Preston, Will
leave the Capital next Saturday alter
noon for Minneapolis, to get in prac-
tice round or two over the champion
ship course where the title tourney Will
be held next week. The team is COM
posed of Burrows. John Connolly, Har-
ian Will and Robert Burton. These
four will compete for the Harding Cup
and will play in the individual cham
pionship.
T MUNROE HUNTER, JR., has back
j. in his possession an iron CLUB
which he lost more than year
ago and whose loss he mourned, be-
cause it was one of his favorite nipple
ments. A little more than year ago:
while he. was winning the Maryland
Country Club invitation tourney Hunter
lost from his golf bag No. iron
Last Friday his bag was being carried
In the repetition of the Maryland tour
ney by the same sharp-eyed boy VINO
had logged his clubs for him in the
tourney a year ago. The youngster saw
some children playing with a golf CLUB
near the sixth hole at Maryland, and,
walking over to them, identified the
club as the one which had vanished
from Hunters bag year previous.
Hunter identified the club rs his own
| and it was returned to his kit
| Mrs. E. H. Noyes scored a net 81 to
win the white elephant tourney at the
ArmyNavy Country Club. Mrs. w. r.
! Hoffman scored 81 and Mrs. M. b.
CARRIER turned in an 80 In the nine
hole competition the winner was Mrs.
Alexander Milton with net OF AZ, fol-
lowed by Mrs j. Morrow and Mrs. Ed
ward O'Hara with cards OF Al.
The next handicap tourney of the
! Maryland State Golf Association will be
! played on August at the Fountain
/ Head Country Club Of Hagerstown, Md.
| A special mixed two-ball foursome tour
ney will be played at the Suburban
Club of Baltimore August ID.
IF you want to find out why golfers go
i crazy. take a run down to the
Washington Barracks course next
! Thursday afternoon, where some 81
sports writer's on the Washington daily
newspapers will fight 1t out for the
| Cleland trophy-a tin mug which has
more tradition behind it than If 1t was
an expensive silver trophy.
Sports writers-generally-a not
golfers. and therefore they cannot &c
crazy, but some CT the shots they make
in the Cleland Cup tourney would make
a real golfer jump for hypodermic.
The tourney is an 18-hole handicap
affair and the present titleholder is
Chuck Egan of The Star.
L.. >. Julien leu group OF IL golfers
identified with the automotive trades in
a tourney of the Washington Automo-
tive Trade Association last week at
Congressional. He shot gross 80 to
win first prize-a sand wedge. Second
place went to M. D. Hawkins with a
card of 81. The first net prize went to
H. P. Swartwout with net of rs
while second net went to William
MCGUIRE with a net n. Prizes were
presented at dinner which followed
the golf tourney. Another tourney will
be played during mid-August.
Paul Y. Anderson has the sixteenth
hole at Columbia licked to a fragile
For three consecutive rounds Of the
course he has averaged less than two
strokes to this hole. Two weeks ago he
scored an ace, followed with deuce or
his next round and the other day, play
ing for the first time in fortnight. he
scored another deuce on this par
hole.
Robert Nash won the Golf Commit.
tee Cup at Beaver Dam yesterday with
a card Of 89-22-67. ]. B. Robertson
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