Evening star., 1932-06-19


National Capital open champion
ship, on October l and 2 next,
those in charge of the golf course
already are planning to impose
additional hurdles for the gents
who say it with brides by con-
structing a total of 81 more traps
along the layout.
Both the first and second mines will
come in for the new trapping treat
ment. according to club officials and by
the time the trapping program is fin
ished, which will be some time late in
the Summer, the course will be a far
more difficult layout than that over
which a stellar field of professionals
performed last November in the tour
nev won by Willie MacFarlane
Other improvements also are planned
at Kenwood- including reconstruction
of several of the putting greens, but
these will not be undertaken until after
the second National Capital OPEN The
trapping schedule will be carried
through during the Summer and by
tournament time the course will be a
far more rigorous affair than the lay
out over which the pros performed last
Fall The traps will be installed under
the direction of Al FoughtOn, the club
pro who has carefully watched where
bad shots go on the kenwood layout
and has picked those spots as the loca
tons for the new traps.
HOUGHTON is to leave for New
L l York tonight with Mel Shorey and
Bob Barnett. for the national open
championship at Fresh Meadow. While
at the national open he Will do some
missionary work by way of securing
the promise of many Of the leading pro-
fessionals Of the land to compete in the
open tourney at KenWOOd in the Fall.
Already the KenWCod tourney promises
to be an even more ColOrful affair than
the event Of last Fall for the entries Of
T Myamoto the japanese professional,
and Jose Jurado the little star from
the Argentine have been promised.
Hcught0n hopes to get the entry of the
new national open champion who viii
come ont of the melee at Fresh Meadow
this week. provided Billy Burke does
net repeat his victory Of last year.
Tuning up for the open Champion
EIllD. T1CUSIItblI SiIJk lliC AA1i4"bOA
course in Go last week, four strokes un-
der par, to tie the unofficial record
made last Fall by Walter Cunningham.
In doing a 66 he polished of Mel
Snorey, who himself had SO. by
and l. Houghton's mines were 33 each
way. while Shorey had "a each way.
Tough game, golf, when you shoot 68
end lose.
GENERAL of Washington's leading
- amateur golfers plan to go over
of the Hillendale Club Of BaltI-
more this week to play in the cham
pionship tourney Of the Maryland State
Golf Association. This event will open
with a 36-hOlc qualification round on
"Wednesday. Entries will close tomorrow
with the Maryland State Golf Asso-
citation at IS Mcclellan place, Bal
t.mOre.
Thirty-two men will qualify for the
championship, with four match-play
rounds scheduled on Thursday and
Friday, to be followed By 36-hole final
on Saturday.
TWO golf events are listed by the
! MARYLAND State Association next
week These are the State junior
championship, an 18-hOle medal play
event open to Junior members and sons
Of members of member clubs and a
handicap tourney, open to all members
The junior championship will be
PLAYED at the Maryland Country Club on
June 28 and the handicap tourney will
be played at Rolling Road on June %
The junior tourney Is tpen only to
Youngsters under q years Of age.
NEXT Thursday field of something
~ in the neighborhood of go of the
leading public links golfers Of the
city viii gather at East Potomac Park
to qualify for the National public links
championship tourney. to be played at
Louisville, Ky, in July. The expenses
Of only one man will be paid by the
management Of the municipal courses
here, although Washington is entitled to
send six men 10 the National event,
under rules Of the tourney. So it is
certain that every one Of the siXty-odd
contestants will be out there shooting
the works to get his expenses paid to
Louisville, times being what they are.
Those who went to the tourney at St
Paul last year were: Bradley H. Bur-
rows, Robert Burton, John Connolly
Harlan VIII and w. w. Billings. The
tourney on Thursday also will decide
the city municipal links championship,
which is not such an important affair
as it was eight or ten years ago. Back
in those days Washington had quite
formidable group of divOt singers COM
ing up among the public links stars.
There were George Voigt, Harry Pitt,
John Shorey, Page Hufty, Al Houghton,
Earl McAleer and one or two others
who were coed enough to win in al
most any company. But all OF those
men have left the public links and to-
day the quality Of public links golf
around Washington, as measured by
the success OF the local representatives
In the national competitions, is not
what it was or 10 years back. That
may be at the root of the decision of
the public course management to cut
down its outlay for expense money to
the national tournament. In 1924
Washington won the Harding Cup. In
1925 one of the Capital contestants
went to the semi-final, and also in
1924 Earl McAleer won the qualifying
medal But CT late years the Washing
ton entrants in the public links classic
have not figured extensively. And the
public course management probably
figures that if there is no chance to go
anywhere, why spend the money?
THREE Washing, professional
i golfers and one pro from Baltimore
will play an exhibition match this
afternoon over the course of the Beaver
Dam Country Club at Landover, Md.
Cliff Spencer, newly appointed pro at
Beaver Dam, will pair with his brother
Glenn, from Maryland Country Club,
against Al Houghton Of Kenwood and
Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase. The
match will start about 2 o'clock. Cere-
monies incident to the formal opening
of the new Beaver Dam club house
were held yesterday, with golf tourna-
ments for men and women.
TIP at Fresh Meadow, where the
~ national open will be played this
week, the members have adopted
a novel method of paying for the in
stallation of an automatic fairway
sprinkling system. This has been done
nv raising the caddv fees from 81 Or