Evening star., 1932-11-05
GALAXY OF STARS
. ON KENW0OD LIST
Four Former U. S. Champions
Entered, With Sarazen
a Promised Starter.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

VUST one week from today
somewhere between 1870 and
~ $50 of the finest professional
golfers of the United States
will start play in the second an
nual National Capital Open Golf
Tournament, sponsored and ar
ranged by the KenWood Golf and
Country Club, that up and COM
ing golf organization on the River
road in Bethesda.
The biggest local golf show of the
year and better tourney in many ways
than the initial event held on Novem-
Der 6 and last year, the KenWood
open shapes up as one of the outstand-
ing golf affairs of the year. 1t is the
nrst of q series Of big tournaments
that will carry the travelling pros to
Pnehurst and then on to Miami.
GO far not much has been said about
- this forthcoming National Capital
open turnament. But plenty is 60
ing to be said and told during the next
10 days. You can't gather flock OF
the Nations finest golf professionals
without putting on bit of stark golflng
drama. Getting down to facts, there
will be four former national open
champions and probably the present
holder Of the American and British
open championships knocking golf balls
toward distant pins out there at Ken
wood ON November IL and 49, There
will be host of lesser lights among the
paid stars, from whose ranks will come
the champions Of future years. The
leading amateurs of the Middle Atlantic
section will be there.
1t is not yet definitely settled that
Gene Sarazen will come to Kenwood,
even though the little New Yorker
promised AL Houghton five months ago
that he would appear But the entries
of Walter Hagen. Tommy Armour, John
Farrell and Willie MacFarlane, all for
mer national opsn champions, are IN
the hands OF the Tournament Commit
tee. Hagen and Armour will be here
early next week TO practice In advance
of the tourney. Along about mldWeek
most of the other entrants will begin 70
come in. The Wardman Park Hotel
has been designated as official tourna-
ment headquarters.
A PURSE of $4,000 has been hung up
n for the pros to shoot at. Here is
the way it will be divided: First,
$500; second, $500; third. $500; fourth,
$3.50; fifth, SITS: sixth, SIPS; seventh,
500; eighth. $50; ninth, $50: tenth,
$40; eleventh, $50, and twelfth, $50.
These are real American dollars, ne
gotiahle at any drug store. and consti-
tute the real attraction that Is to bring
the professionals here. An l8-hole
weeding-out round will be played on
Saturday, November IL with the low
so ard ties to play 36 holes on Sunday.
AS the matter now stands. the entry
list is growing SO fast that the vanguard
Of the entrants will have TO start some
time before o'clock on November II,
before the dew has been burned away
by the sun. Last year. 1t will be re-
called. frankie Cunningham, assistant
at Burning Tree, stepped out and did
himself a 10 to lead the pack over the
first round of the 54-hole tourney.
A OMISSION prices to the general
n public will be 81. plus tax, for the
first day, and Sl.50, plus tax, for
the second and final day of the tourney,
So you Washington golfers who
haven't seen much golf this year, will
have your chance at KenWood next
week You will seldom have such
chance for so little money to see all
the stars in action. And when Ken
wood SAYS they will be here, that means
they will show up and play. That's
the way they do things at KenWood,