Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
FIRST BIG TOURNEY
LISTED THIS WEEK
Five Flights viii Qualify
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Play Summer Rules.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

NM tournament OF the year
v Y will be played this week
in a picturesque setting
over in Virginia where the hills of
the Old Dominion State slope
down to the Potomac River. With
one of the largest entries in the
long history Of this tourney-the
initial golf classic of the year over
many SeaSons-the Washington
Golf and Country Club invitation
event will get under way early
Tuesday morning.
AL day Tuesday and all the follow
ing day crowds of golfers will put their
skill and ability against the natural and
man-made hazards of the Virginia
course in an attempt to qualify in the
match play on Thursday and Friday
Judged by the size of the field and the
class of the contestants the struggle
for places among the select 80 who will
qualify in the five flights will be keen.
Less than one-third Of the field will
qualify.
The others must be content to watch
their more skillful associates continue
in the match play rounds. So have
these invitation tournaments gone
around Washington. Time was when
most Of the entrants were certain to
qualify, but that day has passed. For
most of the competitors In these days
OF crowded entry lists the struggle to
qualify for the match play rounds Is
the hardest Of all.
Rwwxxu <S,yS .1S $1,000 <--.A.
= the Washington Club have recon-
sidered their earlier decision to play
winter rules" In the tournament and
announced as entries closed last night
that regular Summer rules will prevail,
both in the qualification round and in
the succeeding match play rounds of
the tourney. Faced by the possibility
that under winter rules" which would
permit placing the ball on the fair
ways, many neutrality-suspicious. would
almost certainly occur. the committees
In charge Of the tourney decided to
order Summer or regular rules. This
means that the ball must be played
where 1t lies, whether In fairway or
rough. The decision was a wise one,
even though 1t may temporarily hurt
the course, for under the rule permit
ting players to place the ball, many
neutrality-suspicious. are possible. Under
regular rules there can be no question.
The ball must be played where it lies,
and that Is al there Is TO 1t.
Tuesday and Wednesday will be given
over to the hazardous business of quail
flying. and Wednesday night the 80
for the match play rounds, which will
be played on Thursday and Friday.
The main prize In the tourney Is the
@. g. Carlin trophy, won last year by
Miller B. Stevenson Of Columbia Prizes
will be presented late Friday afternoon
by L. G. Garnet, vice president Of the
Washington Club.
Meanwhile there are three more
invitation tournaments scheduled for
the month Of May and contestants are
locking forward beyond the Washing
ton tourney 10 these. The WoOdnaont
Country Club tourney is to be played
on May .. 8, and . and will be fol-
lowed by the invitation event of the
Chevy Chase Club, scheduled for May
IL. 10, IL and Is. Then win come the
Indian Spring event the third week
in May, and during the final week Of
May the Baltimore Country Club will
stage its invitation event, while the
women Of washington will play in the
District women's title chase at Con-
gressionaL Truly the month Of May
is busy one for golfers about Wash
tngton.
OVER OF Bannockburn w. Fred
~ RyYne and his associates on the
Golf Committee are busy preparing
plans for big season. Byrne viii
have with him on the Golf Committee
this year william L. Pendergast, Nor
man j. Hall and John j. Goggins. They
have prepared q schedule OF events,
in which the new bali must be played,
while last years handicaps viii be in
effect during the early part OF the sea
son, to Be revised - soon as new scores
are turned in. Here ID the Bannock-
burn schedule:
Ny seR R5s7sss"ss oa InsSssnisi Handicap
hss aEs'''sa ad sfaa ss'''' and special
~. ' ss: p gIss :s' R:aI Ri.
June is-i4 Txo-ssli ioursSms a,..
July Efon6stons tournament and sps-
July s@Mixed Scotch foursoms.
Sslz is:GsaIisaSd 5 sSSssS .p s:s.Rism'n''
Augusl i.2-sysspstskss
septemSsr iS-i3-HIind lev net hasdicsp.
4, september lo-t t-bahnoekVuInA INVITA-
sssss@s:T sS;s..M s..ss gIsSs assin'' par.
xtif !. r.sSS:suisa y silossss s:Tio4s tsr
Pate ana she club ehampionship cups.
VX1oMEN golfers Of the Capital are
w TO play at the Beaver Dam Coun-
try Club next Tuesday. The
tourney will be rnedal-play handicap
affair and the contestants also will be
paired at match play. Mrs. T. N.
Beavers, a member of Beaver Dam,
submits the following automobile route
to the club for those who do not know
the way to reach Beaver Dam Bladens-
burg road TO the Peace Cross in Bla-
denShurg; turn right OF the cross On
the Annapolis road: take right-hand
road at gasoline station about two miles
east Of Peace Cross and cross railroad
tracks to Beaver Dam club, one-hah
mile beyond tracks.
On May II and IL the women golfers
are TO compete In the 36-hole medal
play event for The Star Trophy, which
II open TO all woman golfers In the
city, regardless Of whether or not they
ere AFFILIATED with a private club. This
event, ore Of the oldest Of the tourna-
1nents for woman golfers about Wash
ington, will be played at the Manor
Club, under auspices of the Women's
District Golf Association. Handicaps
of the association will be used. The
tourney was won last year by Mrs. H.
o. Rhyme Of Bannockburn. The course
will be open for practice on May 7 /
and 8.