Evening star., 1932-05-08
- ENIOR golf activities are moving
forward around Washington. The
Army-Navy Country Club, over

ganization of senior golfers at the serV.
ice club. with a minimum age limit OF
so years, is being developed, and sholly
| the Army-Navy Club will JOIN WIN
| Chevy Chase and Columbia in forma-
ton of senior association WITHIN tne
club. Gen. Charles D. Rhodes mas
| taken an active part in formation OF
| the senior organization at the service
club and many members OF the cluo
| have signed up to join as founoer
members.
The Chevy Chase senior organization
is the largest at any club around
Washington. This organization has
been in existence for several years and
holds many tournaments each year.
senior organization now Is in progress
of formation at Columbia and 1t will
not be long before most of the clubs
about Washington will have senior as
sociations. The Maryland State Coli
Association senior championship IS
less than a month away. This event
will be played over the course Of the
Rolling Road Golf Club at sCatonsville,
Md
THIS week is an open week forth, for the
l. man golfers around the Capital,
but the fair players will have more
36-hole tourney for The Star trophies
will be played tomorrow and Tuesday
over the course of the Kenwood Golf
and Country Club, with 18 holes sched
ued each day. Next Saturday and
Sunday team of fair golfers repre-
senting most of the clubs around the
Capital will play in team matches
with Philadelphia team. The match
on Saturday will be played at Chevy
Chase and the closing match on Sun
day will be played at the National
Women's Country Club.
Chairman Robert Stead jr., of the
Chevy Chase Golf Committee expects
an entry list of some 800 players in
the twenty-second annual invitation
tourney at Chevy Chase for the Taft
and Sherman Trophies. This event
will be played on May II, 1S, 19 and 20
and will mark one of the high spots in
local golf this Spring. The Chevy Chase
tourney will be the last of the big in
vitation events to be played around
Washington during the early part of
1882. The next big tourney to be held
at Washington club will be the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association championship.
to be played at Columbia on June 7,
8. 9 and 10.
Two tournaments are to be played
during the last week in Nav and the
Washington club-swingers who like
bit Of travel with their golfing NAV
choose between the invitation events of
the Baltimore Country Club and the
Hermitage Country Club. the latter in
Richmond. Harry Pitt won the Balti-
more tourney last year and probably
will play again at Baltimore this wear
The same conflict of dates between the
two Journeys at Baltimore and Hermit
age arose last year and most of the
Washington golfers who wanted to play
IN tournament that week Travelled
down to Richmond. Many of them
plan to go to Richmond this year.
Chanman Stead of the Chevy Chase
committee announces that In view of
the expected large number of entrants
in the Chevy Chase tourney 1t may be
necessary to pair the contestants in
threeSomes in the qualification round
instead of the customary twosomes. A
decision has not yet been made, but If
there are more than 300 entrants they
may be paired in threes rather than
in twos.
'TEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY golf
~ team is taking on quite an assign
ment tomorrow at Congressional,
when the Hilltop links representatives
tackle composite team made up of
the boys who handle golf affairs at
the Congressional Club and one of the
leading amateurs of the club. The
match is the result of challenge flung
Congressionalward by Lou Fisher cap
tain Of the Hoya linksmen. and prompt
ly accepted by Archie Clark, assistant,
pro at Congressional. The Congressional
representatives will consist of M Par
ker Nolan, amateur; Archie Clark and
Claggett Stevens, assistant pros; Charlie
Penna, caddie master; Alph Clark and
Dick Melvin. The Georgetown team
will be composed of Leu Fisher, Jack
Slattery, Walter lyman, Joe De Ste
piano, Richard Mcfarland and Vim
cent Wilder.
The Georgetown team, which was
trounced last Saturday by Pennsylvania
and Princeton, will be aided next year
by Joe Lynch, the 21-year old G. U.
freshman who won the qualifying round
in the Army-Navy Club tourney. Lynch
is sound golfer lengthy hitter and
a good competitor One shot he made
in last weeks tourney. at the eight
eenth hole of the Army Navy Club
course, will be long remembered by
chose who saw it.
THE District Golf Association today
i announced that all local clubs have
been asked to stage tournaments
on May 80, with an entry fee to be
charged, the proceeds to go toward the
United States Olympic fund. Most of
the clubs undoubtedly will hold these
events, just as they held benefit tourna-
ments for the unemployed last Fall. The
entry fees charged will go toward de-
fraying the expenses OF the Olympic
games at Los Angeles during the COM
ing Sumner.
THE season Of exceptionally low scores
i l. is over; at least for some time.
Most of the local golf clubs have
| gone back to playing regular rules,
! which means that the ball may not be
/ touched from the time it is struck off
! the tee until it is in the cup. Ever
/ since last Fail golfers have been play
! ing under Win - rules, which permit
| improving the lie.
! Most of the clubs have played Win
! ter rules all over the course, while others
! have permitted improvement of the lie
only on the fairway. But now, with
| abundant grass on fairways and put
| ting greens, Summer rules are again in
| force. This means that the scores will
! jump upward few strokes for 1t isn't
as easy to hit golf ball from an ordi-
! nary fairway lie as when it is teed up
! on a convenient clump of grass. Divot
! digging in bigger and better ways will
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