Evening star., 1932-03-05

by the four golf associations
~ operating in the Middle At
lantic district to increase
interest in the game this year.
The associations hope a large and
fully representative entry list may
be found for the sectional quail
fication round of the national
amateur championship that the
Middle Atlantic district will have
the most complete and best rep
resentation in the title tilt, to be
played at Baltimore starting Sep
tember r.
For the first time in golf history
Washington club is to have the sec
tional qualification round for the anna
teur The trials this year for the
amateur are to be at Chevy Chase
Club on a date-probably in August
to be announced later by the United
States Golf Association.
The sectional qualification round for
the national open also will be played
at a Washington club on June 3, but
the pros do not need any urging TO
enter and compete in these trials.
They are all so anxious to play In the
national that no extra effort is needed
to get them to enter.
System Started Last Year.
Last year for the first time the United
States Golf Association inaugurated
the sectional qualification system as
an innovation to relieve the Cham
pionship Committee of the responsibility
of hano-picking the entrants for the
amateur tourney. The sectional quail
fication rounds we're a huge success
and undoubtedly made the system so
popular that it will be continued, per-
hapS for years.
But in Richmond when the qualifi-
cation rounds were played last July
there were only 81 entrants. Surely
there are more than 81 players with
handicaps of 4 or less in the vast ter
ritory of Maryland and Virginia who
rate a crack at the amateur champion
ship. So the four sectional associa-
tions in this territory believe.
On the number of entries filed Tor
the sectional test the United States Golf
Association allots the number of places
1OI Lille SGCLlOll. IL lliC p11NNkO l1IidtitiN
section gets so entries it undoubtedly
will be assigned at least 8 and probably
IL places in the entries for the cham
pionship itself. In other words, out of
so competitors in the sectional trials at
least and probably II will qualify.
Only 2I Entries in 1881.
Last year this section, with only 81
entries, vas fortunate enough to be as
signed six places, an assignment out OF
ali proportion to the number of entries.
On the basis of last year. if there are
SO entries this year the Middle Atlantic
section would get dozen places in the
championship.
The more entries the more places
and SO the four associations handling
golf in this territory are inaugurating
a plan to procure enough entries to as
sure this section II places.
Last year the qualifiers were Thomas
p. Bones of Columbia, John c. Shorey
of Kenwood Billy Howell of Richmond,
Chandler Harper of Portsmouth, DON
aid McPhail and Tom Cole of Balti-
more. 1t is true that many of the best
golfers from this section played in the
sectional tests, but a few of the finest
players in the Middle Atlantic territory
were absent. Among the abSentees was
Harry G. Pitt, the District champion,
who was i'll at the time of the sectional
rounds
Dozen Places Sought.
This year with the championship
itself to be played almost in Washing
tons back yard-at the Five Farms
course of Baltimore Country Club-the
competitors themselves should not need
much urging to, enter for the sectional
rounds. But in the hope that the entry
may be large enough to justify dozen
places from this section in the cham
pionship the Middle Atlantic Golf AS
sociation, the Maryland State Golf As
sociation, the District Golf Association
and the Virginia State Golf Association
all are going to urge their best players
to enter the sectional rounds to make
the entry from this section both large
and fully representative
Billy Howell, the Richmond kid,
proved last year at Chicago that a man
who can win in this territory can go
far in the national, too. He went to
the semi-flnal round in the amateur be-
fore he was snuffed out at the hands
of Francis Ouimet on the thirty-fifth
green, which proves at least that golf
in this sector of the land is good enough
to stack up against the best of other
sections and go long way.
FREDDIE MCLEOD, the Columbia
l. Country Club master of the short
game, continues to give par an un-
merciful beating. In addition to whip
ping par irto unwilling submission,
Freddie has just given a golf lesson to
Clyde B. Asher and o. j. De Moll while
he was knocking the ball over the Co
lumbia layout in 81 strokes, which is
three better than par. To get this score
the popular little pro bagged no fewer
than six brides and thrice went over
par. He was out in "a and back in 49,
Here is the score:
Out-Par A 4 3 5 4 4 3 4-35
Mcleod A 3 4 4 4 3 4-34
1n-Par ...4 4 3 4 4 3 4 4-35-70