Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-25
TOURNEY IS LISTED
At COLUMBIA CLUB
Houghton, Kenwood, Favored
to Win Links Title Now
Held by Beach.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

~ OFF activity in the mid
- Atlantic sector this week
" will center on Columbia
Country Club, where, next
Wednesday, group Of some two
score of the leading professionals
and amateurs from Maryland
clubs will. gather to contest over
a 36-hole route for the Maryland
open championship crown now
worn by Ralph Beach of Suburban
Country Club of Baltimore.
Ralph-a former caddie at Washing
ton Golf and Country Club-won the
title last year in a driving finish at Con-
gressional Country Club. He will be
among the favorites to win again at
Columbia. with Al Houghton of Ken
WOOD probably installed as the out
standing favorite to annex the title.
Houghton blazed his way around the
Columbia course in 141 strokes in the
qualifying tests for the P. G. A. cham
pionship a month and a half ago and
stu is playing the same sort of golf
wat<hed than any of the others.
Freddie Mcleod, veteran Columbia
pro, can crash through to victory over
his own golf course if he plays as he is
capable of playing. But Freddie has
lost interest in competitive golf and is
not hitting the ball as we'll as he did
year ago. A brace of 70s would win for
Freddy.
fnr hn fnI1,- will nj
II tomorrow with the Maryland State
Golf Association. which will run the
affairs. Entrance fees are as follows:
Professionals, $3.50: assistant profess
SIGNALS and greenskeepers, IS; anna
teurs, SIS.
Ten cash prizes will be distributed
among the leading pros, and two prizes
will be given the amateurs.
AS last year. the event is open only
to professionals connected with Mary
land clubs and to amateur members in
good standing of clubs affiliated with
the Maryland State Association who
have an association handicap card.
Under this ruling such professionals
as Mel Shorey of East Potomac Park,
who qualified for the open and the P.
G. A. championships, and Dave Thomp-
son of Washington, are not eligible to
compete.
Most of the professionals who will
compete in the Maryland open will
gather at Chevy Chase tomorrow to play
in another of those enjoyable senior
pro events which are staged annually by
the Middle Atlantic Professional Golf
ers' Association. Partners OF the pros
will be drawn from the members of the
Senior Golf Association of Chevy Chase
Club.
MEMBERS OF Washington Golf and
vi Country Club today are continu-
ing the qualification round for
the club championship. Match-plaY
rounds will run through the next two
weeks.
Columbia Country Club members are
locking forward to their annual club
tournament-one of the biggest affairs
of the year around Washington-Sched
uled for October 4. 5, 6 and 7.
Some 200-odd golfers usually compete
In this tourney for six cups put up by
members of the club. Everett Eynon
repeated in the club titular event last
year, defeating Miller B. STEVENSON.
ERED ]. MARBLE of Washington is
i bemoaning the unkind fate which
robbed him of a hole in one at
Washington last week.
On tie eleventh hole-a 140-yard af-
fair-Marble hit tee shot which struck
directly in front of the pin, took a short
hop and ran to the hole. But the ball.
instead of staying in the cup, caught
the edge and lay quarter inch away.
None of the members of the hole-in-one
club at Washington, some 10, have come
as close since the club was organized
two months ago. Dorie c. Gruver's tee
shot at the ninth stopped inches away
a fortnight ago