Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-17
OR|OLE L|NKSMEN
CLOG TITLE TRAIL
Clash for State HonorS on
Neutral Rolling Road
Links Tomorrow.
BY w. Il. McCALLUM.

TIME golf team Of the Indian
Spring Golf Club meets its
i supreme test tomorrow aft
ernoon, when the links war
riors of the club out Silver Spring
way clash with the STURDY team
of the Baltimore Country Club for
the team title Of the Old Line
State.
Smarting under the humiliation
Of last years monopoly by a brace
OF Washington teams in the con-
test for the team title, Baltimore
has gathered together a group OF
its finest golfers under the banner
of the Baltimore Country Club,
and has fought its way to the final
round in the team championship
where they will inset the smooth
working Indian Spring combina-
ton, present champions and VIC
tors by large margins in most OF
their preliminary matches in the
chase for the team title.
The match will be played over the
neutral course OF the Rolling Road Golf
Club at Gainesville, Md, one which is as
familiar to the Indian Spring team as
it is to the Baltimore Country Club ag
gregation. Indian Spring and Rolling
Road always have been very friendly
and frequent friendly team matches
have been played between the two clubs
over the Rolling Road course. Natural
~. most of the Baltimore Country Club
golfers often have played the Rolling
Road layout so in a sense the course
is completely neutral, because both
teams know the battle-ground thorough
ly. Last year Indian Spring and Co
lumbia met in the team final, which
irked the Baltimore golfers no little
bit, and this year Baltimore has strain
ed a point to put its best teams in the
lists, with the result that the strong
aggregation representing the Baltimore
Country Club has fought its way to
the final.
The match tomorrow is strictly a
toss-up. Both teams have strong play
ers in the top brackets and both have
evenly balanced strength in the lower
pairings II We had to make a choice,
we would pick Indian Spring to Win,
because Of its strength below the first
two matches. Baltimore will have such
outstanding stars as Harry A. Parr. Sd,
the State champion; Alex M. Knapp.
last years State title holder; Talbot
T. Speer, William D. Waxter and the
veteran B. Warren Cochran, while In
dian Spring will go into the match
with the same lineup that has been
uniformly successful over a two-year
stretch.
GOLFERS OF the Veterans Bureau
" today were competing in the an
nual Autumn handicap tourna
ment of the Veterans Administration
Golf Club at the Annapolis Roads Golf
Club Play started this morning and
was to continue throughout the day.
The tourney is flag affair. with ham
dicaps arranged on the basis of score
made during the Spring tournament
and other events. A silver cup is to be
awarded to the winner Of the event.
WITH nearly 60 entries already in,
w the list of players, who will COM
pete in the womens Middle At
lantic championship at Indian Spring
next week. closed today. All the stars
of Washington and Baltimore, with
only two notable exceptions, are mis-
sing. These are Virginia Holzderber,
1928. and Dorothy White Nico!Son, the
Washington Golf and Country Club
star, who has won many other tour
neys, but never has annexed the Mid
die Atlantic. The tourney will start
Monday morning with an 18-hole quail
fication round, to be followed by Tour
match-play rounds. The present cham
pion is Mrs. M. Louise Bell OF Rodgers
Forge Club of Baltimore.
Capt E. S. Kellogg is the winner |
of the Pearson and Grain Trophy for !
senior golfers Of the Chevy Chase Club. !
Capt Kellogg defeated w. NJ. Morrow
by and l in the final round.
Tom Belshe. last years interdepart-
mental champion, has snuffed out the
aspirations OF j. William Harvey. ir, |
to annex the Indian Spring Club cham |
pionship. Belshe defeated the long |
hitting Harvey by 6 and yesterday in
the only second round match played
in the championship tourney.
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