Evening star., 1932-02-26

State Coli Association IN
so far as the Washington clubs
are concerned will be held tonight
at the Chevy Chase Club, with
Robert Stead, jr., of Chevy Chase,
a vice president of the State aSso-
citation, acting as host. The meet
ing will be the first formal gather
ing of 1882 by the State associa-
ton since the annual meeting
early in January, at which Edgar
A. Pepplet of the Rolling Road
Club of Baltimore was chosen
president.
The meeting is expected to bring out
the project. discussed at the annual
gathering of the Middle Atlantic Pro-
fessional Golfers Association some
weeks ago, of reviving the old Middle
Atlantic open tourney with part OF
the prize money to be donated by the
MARYLAND State Association. 1t IS fair
ly definitely settled now that the Mary
land State open is to be open only to
professionals attached to Maryland
clubs. This tourney was held at Con-
gressional last year and was won by
Ralph Beach, pro at the Baltimore Sub
urban Club, who now is president OF the
Middle Atlantic P. G. A.
Stead announced today that part OF
the time at the meeting tonight Will
be given over to discussion of hand1caps
and the system of handicapping used
bv the Maryland State Association. Al
though the system of rating courses
used by the association has been criti-
cized in some quarters, officials OF the
association have alway insisted that
their minds are open, and that II a
better method can be demonstrated, II
will be placed in use.
THE Maryland State Golf Association
i played major part IN securing
the amateur championship tourney
for the Five Farms course OF the Bal
timore Country Club, where 1t will be
played next September, and the men
associated with the organization Will be
largely the same men who will handle
the amateur championship. They are
po-petters of the first water, all OF
them. and knowing them as we DO,
we are sure they will put over the anna
teur championship in the same hlgn-
class way they put across the eminently
successful P. G. A. championship at
Five Farms in 1923. At the meeting
tonight also an announcement Will De
made as to whether or not the Balti-
more Country Club is to hold an invl-
tation tourney this Spring, and II 1t
is to be held, the dates will be recon-
ciled to those already chosen Tor the
JOURNEYS of the Washington CLUBS In Or
der that there shall be no conflict OF
dates. Harry G. Pitt won the BaItlmore
Country Club tourney last year. Dele
gates from all the Washington CLUBS,
which are members Of the Maryland
association have been asked to attend.
COMETHING by way of modern
y record for consecutive rounds of
golf has been set this Winter by
Freddie Mcleod, the Columbia pro who
has been knocking par for loop ever
since cool weather set in last Fall.
Counting in the round he played yes
terday afternoon, when he again was
around in near-par figures over Colum-
bia, Mcleod has played go rounds OF
golf in the 81 days of 1882 already
elapsed. He has played 36 holes several
days, while on other days rain has
forced him to idle, but he has played
60 rounds of golf in 81 days. which,
we believe. is something Of record for
Winter golf around Washington. And
Freddie does not like to play on real
cold days, either. The truth Is that
there has been no weather cold enough
to stop the Columbia pro from playing,
and the contests in which he and
Walter Skinker have been opposed to
Albert R. Mackenzie, Columbia amateur,
and Sandy Armour of Congressional,
have been going on with the regularity
of clockWork. Another one OF these
informal affairs is scheduled for next
Monday, when Mcleod and SkinKer
hope to score their first victory. In the
four matches to date Armour's putter
has played a major part, for on no
fewer than three of the matches the
winning stroke has been played on the
eighteenth green, with "Spark-Plug"
contributing heavily to the grief of the
MCLEOD -Skinker combination. Once
iSandy finished 2, 3, 4, and another
time he finished 8, 8. 8, with the on
the eighteenth hole winning the
match.
MILLER STEVENSON has served notice
IVl on the amateurs around Wash
ingtoa that he Is in top-notch
fettle for a big season this year by
rornping around the Columbia course
in 66 a few days ago. Stevinson went
out in 81 and came home over the short
last nine in 35 for his best score Of all
time at Columbia.
t N. Beavers of the Manor Club, an
executive of one of the chains of drug
stores in Washington, has returned from
Bermuda with a handsome cup won by
his skill with driver and putter in a
tourney held there by chain drug store
golfers.
Speaking of days of consecutive golf,
Jack McCarron and Sandy Armour of
Congressional have come very close to
McLeod's record. McCarron and Armour
have played every day golf was possible
since the first of the year, although
they have not played as many rounds
as the Columbia pro has because they