Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
SEVEN INVITATION
JOURNEYS LISTED
Three City Championships
and Other Events Will
Occupy Linksmen.
BY WALTER R. McCALLUM.

i three District championships
and number of other
minor golf events in the in1medi-
ate vicinity of Washington this
year, and another invitation event
may be held if the Beaver Dam
Country Club carries through a
plan for the tourney the club has
been considering for more than a
year.
Indian Spring, which did not hold a
tournament last year, has decided to
hold its invitation event this year.
Congressional, which also did not hold
q tournament last year, probably will
not hold one this year, for the Golf
Committee has recommended to the
board of governors that tournament
not be held, in view OF changes in
the course. The Manor Club, which
did not hold an invitation event last
Fall, will hold its Fall tourney this
year. and the other tournaments which
have been regularly scheduled from
year to year will follow along as they
have done in the past.
While nothing definite has been done
In the matter of scheduling dates for
the invitation events about the Capt.
tai in advance of the meeting of the
District Golf Association on March g,
the Set-up Of the tournaments has
been fairly we'll outlined. 1t calls for
the opening of the season the last
week in April by the Washington Golf
and Country Club, with the Journeys
at Woodmont, Chevy Chase. Indian
Spring and Baltimore to follow each
week.
Courses Need Rain.
The proposed plan to hold the cham
pionship tourney Of the Middle Allan
tic Golf Association at the Princess
Anne course at Virginia Beach during
the first week in June must now be
set aside, for the womenS Southern
championship tournament is to be
played at Princess Anne from Jule 4
to II. The mems tourney may be
played the following week. although
this may not be known until the meet
ing of the Middle Atlantic Golf Asso-
citation at the Willard the evening of
March z. The Columbia Country Club
invitation event-largest of the local
tourneys-will be played on June 9,
10, IL and IL. In addition to these
Spring events Bannockburn and Manor
plan to hold golf tournaments in the
Fall, while the senior and junior Dis
trict championships and the wor1ens
championship will be played during the
year. 1t looks like a big golf year, If
enough rain falls during the next two
months to bring back the grass On the
local courses. They are in bad condi-
ton now, by reason of the drought OF
last year, but there is no cause for
pessimism regarding their condition
this year.
It Is now pretty we'll established that
the Congressional Country Club is not
to go after any of the major cham
pionships for 1892, and that the Bal
ttmore Country Club has stepped in
where Congressional left off and put
itself in the position of being a lusty
bidder for the amateur championship
next year. The Five Farms course of
the Baltimore Country Club, where the
P. G. A. championship was played irf
1928, Is regarded as one Of the best
courses in this section, and is the
course where the championship will
be played, If awarded to Baltimore.
VIII Look Over Links.
William d. Waxter, chairman of the
Tournament Committee of the club,
tells us that officials of the United
States Golf Association have taken a
cordial attitude toward the bid of the
Baltimore Country Club for the tour
ney and plan to visit Baltimore some
time this year to look over the course
possibly at the tine of the club invita-
ton tourney during the last week in
May. If Baltimore gets the tourney
a good many Washingtonians will see
the championship. for Five Farms is
not more than so miles away from the
heart OF washington. OF course a
championship without Bobby Jones will
not seem like much of champion
ship, but the Baltimore folks are set
on getting it-and they seem to have
the inside track. The award Of the
championship will be announced next
September, at the time of the 1881
title event at Chicago.
A THOUGH it is probable that an
"A invitation tournament will not be
played at Congressional this year
there will be no lack of events for the
members of the club, according to the
schedule prepared by the Golf Com
mittee. The schedule will open with
a field day late in April or early IN
May. during which golf tournament,
a tennis tournament and trap shoot
ing events will be held. During the
entire month Of May weekly sweep
stakes tournaments will be held for
adjusting handicapS. The balance OF
the schedule follows:
May 30-Handicap match play
against par in two classes. Approach
ing and putting contest.
June l4-Mixed Scotch foursome.
July 3 and Miniature tournament
In two classes
July ll-Stsrting Of club handican
tournament at match play in twc
classes
July 17-Mixed Scotch foursome.
August 1e-Mixed Scotch foursome.
Labor day-Tombstone tourney.
September 9-Junior Club Champion
ship.
September 12-Beginning of Scotch
1oursome tournament at match play.
September 1-22-23-Women's club
Championship
october 9-10-l1-Mens club cham
pionship tourney.
october 25-Tatum Cup tournament
ringer tourney Is TO be held at
Congressional starting on MAY / and