Evening star., 1932-12-20
=[|NKS WOULD TEST
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; AMATEURS FAIRLY
D. c. Body Approves Move by
Club Qualifying Three
for '32 National.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

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~HAIRMAN DAVE THOMSON
of the combined Golf and
.. ~ Greens Committees OF
Manor Club, has his idea
factory working overtime these
days. Dave is so good that they
added the Golf Committee man
agement to his duties as Greens
. Committee chairman a few
months ago, and now he presides
over both these important bodies
at Manor.
But the added duties simply spurred
him ON to promote bigger and better
a. ideas, all with the purpose OF betterlng
Manor Club.
For weeks Dave has been playing
with the notion of holding at Manor
big open tourney next year slmliar 10
'the cne held at KenWood last month.
And now the old plan evolver has pro-
duced something else. This is to have
the sectional qualifying rounds for the
national amateur championship at
Manor in 1888.
SDufrcQ Oh py lIle DIdfc dIiI SoiAelAiO
showing made by Manor entrants in the
sectional tests at Chevy Chase this year,
Thomson has formally submitted bid
for the sectional rounds to the United
States Golf Association on behalf OF
his club.
This bid was turned over as matter
of course to the District Golf AsSocla-
ton, which indorsed the Manor Club
action and sent the letter on TO the U.
S. G. A. No other club has asked the
District association to 20. X similar
abid. and at present Manor has the field
- to itself, insofar as the washington
: clubs are concerned.
II no other bids are forthcoming at
the annual meeting of the U. S. G. A.
three weeks hence, the sectional trials
will be held ct Manor, although both
Richmond and Baltimore probably will
BID for the tourney.
THE amateur championship sectional
i rounds were held at Chevy Chase
last year and found three golfers
from Manor qualifying for the cham
pionship held at Baltimore in Septem-
ber. No other club in the East had the
distinction of qualifying three men for
the championship, and it is this. as we'll
,as the honor of obtaining the sectional
trials. that prompts Manor to seek the
tests for 1898
Qualifiers for the 1882 championship
from Manor were Harry G. Pitt, who
placed second to Chandler Harper with
>, IA: Maurice Nee. the District Junior
= champion, and the l4-year-old Billy
Dettweiler, who shot a sensational y
: over the first round and was the young
est qualifier IN the championship.
Manor would be a good spot for
poa01r1iOr1 shin nllalltVlflg
rounds 1t is fairly far from Wash
ington by motor but not too far, and
as Washington is the central point IN
this territory the sectional rounds might
we'll go to washington club for the
second consecutive year
The course. under the fatherly care OF
Thomson, has rounded into excellent
shape, and this year has been i'll its
best condition. II IS good test OF the
game. notwithstanding the walls OF
these who cannot steer gof pail
straight on that first nine.
The second nine is very strong. longer
than the first nine, and probably bet
ter test. On the whole the course
shapes Up as championship stuff. Those
who contend in championships could do
far worse than play at Manor.
THE boys in the golf shop at Colum-
i bla are IN IlOt spOl tIlcoo uoyo,
all because a four-legged animal
has come to live with them. presumably
to bask in the effulgence OF Red Bana-
gans smile. But the boys don't care 1or
the presence of their little pet at all,
and are making strenuous eloEt5 10
root the animal cut as eXpedltlously as
possible.
A wandering polecat. driven from the
woods by the deep SHOWS found lhc
basement CT the gclf shop warm. dry
place in which to spend the Winter
and now all the lads are busy thinking
I'D ways of getting I'd CT tne!r unWe!-
come visitor Many suggestions nave
been made. but the animal remains 1lXeo
dn his position.
eats at the golf shop, for ingenuity
thrives in that spot at Columbia. The
boys will do anything to get rid OF the
brute. short of burning down the shop.
TIVE members of the board of gov
Il ernors have been elected by the
Manor Club. and will meet with the
10 hold-over board members on Janu-
arv 9 to choose officers Of the club 1or
1888. RAYMOND +. Garrity. president
of the club; Stanley D. Willis and
Charles H. Zeller. were reelected TO
the board, and Stephen T. Early and
.Jerney S. Ebert were elected for a
first term. All five will serve for three
years.
officers of the club are: Raymond F.
Garrity, president; Frank A. Blrgteld,
vice president, and Stanley D. Willis,
secretary. Garrity has served as presl-
dent for the past two years.