Evening star., 1932-04-22
HARLOW SUGGESTS
| OCTOBER TOURNEY
Event Will Be HighIight of
BicentenniaI Golf for
Pro Performers.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

and Country Club, on November
and 8, will be held this year on
October l and 2, if the dates sug-
gested by Robert E. Harlow, tour
nament manager of the Profess
sional Golfers Association, are
o. KID by the Kenwood club.
Harlow has written to the Kenwood
Club suggesting these dates if they do
not conflict with tournaments already
arranged for this section, and if the
club approves them the early days of
october will see stellar group of pro-
fessional stars matching shots over the
tricky Kenwood layout for a purse
which will total somewhere in the
neighborhood of s250O. Kenwood off,
cials are anxious this year to avoid the
bad weather of last year. On the day
before the tourney, when most of the
pros were playing practice rounds, the
course was swept by a cold gale, and on
the opening day of the tournament
proper the temperature was none too
comfortable. So this year the club
wants an earlier date and probably will
accept the dates of October ! and
for the classic, even though they will
be month in advance of the Mid
South open, listed for Pinehurst during
the hrst week in November
The National Capital open champion
ship will mark the high spot of big
time tournament golf among the pro-
fessionalS during the Bicentennial year,
gust as the championship of the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association, to be held at
Columbia early in June, will mark the
high spot of competition among the
amateurs in this section Willie Mac
Farlane. the bespectacled Scot from
1uckahoe, N. Y, won the tourney last
November, with Tommy Armour and
Sol Di Buono tied for second place.
DR. BRUCE L. TAYLOR, chairman
- of the Tournament Committee of
the Congressional Country Club,
has appointed his committee associates,
as follows: j. Raymond McCarl Thomas
F. Flaherty, William j. McEvoy and H
H. Mofitt. They will handle the OPEN
ing tourney of the club, on May 4, when
the new tenth and eleventh holes will
be opened for the first time. Arrange
ments are being made to have John c.
open the new holes and be the first
player to drive a ball onto the virgin
fairways.
team match between a picked team
from the Women's District Golf As
the public links probably will be PLAYED
this year as one of the closing features
OF the years schedule. The fair golfers
OF the public links have approached the
Womens District Golf Association with
proposal for such a match and the
contest probably will be arranged dur
ing the latter part of the season.
A L HOUGHTON and Mel shorey,
nFNfaxeinTHolc af
Potomac Park, are to play an ex-
hibition match Sunday afternoon at
Kenwood against Glenn S. Spencer, the
1ong-hitting pro at the Maryland Coun-
try Club, and Carroll T. McMaster pro
at Rolling Road. Another match is in
the making with Houghton and Shorey
20 be opposed by Ralph Beach, the
MARYLAND State champion, and Spencer
at the Baltimore Suburban Club.
More than fifty entries have already
been received for the Keefer CUP Tour
ney, to be played for by women golfers
afflliated with the Women's District
Golf Association at Chevy Chase next
Monday and Tuesday The cup has
been put up by Mrs. Frank R. Keefer,
president of the women's association.
ana entries will close with Mrs. Keefer
at noon tomorrow Entries must be ac-
companied by a fee of 81.
revised schedule of the tournaments
OF the woman's association discloses
that the team match to be PLAYED by
picked team from the local organiza-
}tion against Philadelphia team will be
splayed at the Chevy Chase Club on
sMay IA and at the National Woman's
xCountry Club on May Is.
sT7HE famed Boosters Club" Of the
l. Columbia Country Club will stage
It's 1882 festival of hilarity pnd
, joy on May at the club date which
7 also Will mark the opening day cf the
Columbia season. Bizarre costumes,
bizarre golf shots and an unusual
tournament will mark the affair of the
Boosters" who include in their men,
bership any member Of the club who
has been heard to remark that he can
beat any ether member of the club on
the golf course.
Over the 1882 activities of the
Boosters" will preside none other than
Andrew j. Cummings, the sage of
Montgomery County, whose reedy tenor
voice will be aided by the booming
accents of Hugh H. Saum and William
j. McNally, his lieutenants. George P.
James, chairman of the Golf Com
mittee, will run of the golf end of the
party and Red Banagan, master OF
ceremonies extraordinary will act as
marshal
The new sixth green may be put into
play for the first time on the day of
the Boosters meeting. Temporary
greens now are in use at the sixth and
ninth.
IXALTER P. sKINKER, member OF
w Columbia, whose normal scores
have gravitated for several years
between 80 and 90, has suddenly come
upon some magic of stroking the ball
and has shot himself neat and form
fitting rs. thereby setting himself on a
pedestal from most of the men with
whom he has been playing While the the
small wsgers, he says he is willing to
pay the price Of fame. for 76s do not
come every day to every golfer.
Meanwhile, he is getting a big kick
out Of the joshing Of the men from
whom he has been taking handicaps
and beating with the golf that produced
the rs. And there wasn't a lucky
shot in it." says Hugh Mackenzie
''Walter played them all we'll
AL HOUGHTON, the Kenwood pre-
"A who won the Middle Atlantic Pre-
Sweepstakes over his home course
last Monday, moved over to Rolling
Road yesterday and amid the hilarity
of the "goofy" tournament staged by
the Maryland State Golf Association
stroked the ball well enough to record
II and win the sweepstakes held ir
conjunction with the "goofy' event.
For bizarre costumes and unadul-
terated fun the "goofy" tournament set
new mark for the Columbia Boast
ers" Club to shoot at. No scores were
kept among the amateurs, but the pro:
got down to business and played in 3
sweepstakes event, with Houghton lead
ing the pack. Second place went u
Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase, with {
card Of rs.