Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-20
q GOLFERS SHARE
IN Is MEET TITLES
Only Clark, Maureen circuit
and Goodwin Win More
Than One Tourney.
BY PAUL NICHOLSON.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

AosoSidteo EIeSs opotL4 writer.
0HICAGO. March 19.-Flying
1 divots from the Winter
" campaigns are heralding
another big year for Amer
lean golf with new stars and a
heated free-for-all traffic Jam in
the Summer drives for major
titles.
Since the opening of the 1892
golfing wars, the scramble for
championships and gold has been
such a grand and glorious free
for-all that it has taken 81 diff
ferent sharpshooterI to capture Is
crowns along the amateur, profess
sional and powder puff trail ex-
tending from California, Texas
to the great Southeast.
Out of the big professional caravan
only one golfer Clarence Clark Of
Broomf1eld, N. j., has succeeded in
bagging two championships, and both
OF them came in one sweep through
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Texas and Houston open crowns
against smart fields.
Maureen circuit, the New Jersey star
has outdistanced the women by snatch
ing two titles-the Florida and Florida
East Coast crowns-while Tommy
Goodwin. 18-year-old newcomer to
stardom from Monroe, N. Y, so far has
been the only amateur to collect more
than one.
Goodwin, one Of the brightest pros
poets of the year, captured the Miami
Biltmore and Florida East Coast anna
teur events and then followed through
by winning the Dixie amateur without
firing shot when T. Philip Perkins Of
New York got mixed up in night club
hold-up and was forced to default with
a gunmans shot in his hip.
But all the other tournaments had
different winners to indicate that no
one has anything like a mortgage on
the bigger tournaments to be decided
over the Summer and Fall.
A LBERT GATES, business admins
n traitor Of the Professional Golfers
Association of America, reports
that the new golf ball is making ire
mendous ten strike with the pros this
Winter.
"All Of them are pleased with the
new ball." he said after his return
from q tour of Florida, where he
watched several tournaments. TT
seems to be a great pellet for putting.
and that seems to be enough to win
putt he's all praises, and the new ball
has been acting great along the putting
line"
The P. G. A. Is experiencing trouble
landing the right club in the right spot
for its annual championship this year.
Pittsburgh was close to capturing the
big event only to lose out by falling to
offer a large enough guarantee. Bush
ness Administrator Gates says he hasn't
any definite idea where the tournament
win be staged.
NHAUREEN CIRCUIT and Macdonald
lVl Smith, two stars who have seen
several national championships
slip out of their grasps by slender mar
gins, are both in fine form this year
and expect to chase their jinxes. The
veteran Scot, still using the hickory
shafted clubs, is shooting two strokes
better than year ago. And just to
disprove all those Scotchman stories on
frugality. he sent in his entry fee for
the p. G. A. eally in March.
Because Of business conditions, many
golf clubs have adopted emergency
clauses for financially harassed men,
bers. At Olympia Fields, Chicago, scene
Of the 1928 national open. q resolution
has been adopted whereby members may
be relieved Of their dues by renting their
memberships to a suitable non-member
who can nav them
Gene Sarazen appears TO be q cinch
as the leading money winner Of the
Winter campaign for the second success
sive season. With a total Of $4,256
already and his leading rival, Fred Nor
rison Of Culver City, Calf, winner of
the rich Aqua Caliente Stake, out of
further competition, Sarazen only has
to make a good showing in the $3.50
North and South open, March 24-25, to
forge ahead.