Evening star., 1932-07-15
EVENT TO Be OPEN
TO MUNY GOLFERS
"Uptown Championship" to
Be Played in Flights, Idea
of Manager Graham.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.


- municipal women's cham
i / pionship which he staged
over the Rock Creek course
a fortnight or so back, Harry
Graham, manager of the uptown
link in the chain of the Loeffler
golf enterprises, has another and
bigger idea. That's the way
Harry is-always getting a new
and bigger scheme to promote
golf and tournaments.
The latest scheme which has come
into Harry's fertile mind is mems
tournament. open to all municipal golf
ers. to be played in flights during late
July and August. Just what he Will
call this tourney he has not yet de-
cided. but he is toying with a plan to
call it the uptown championship to
distinguish it from any subsequent tour
nament which the equally fertile nina
of AL Farr may originate down at East
Potomac Park. If AL does put on a
tournament he will then be able to call
it the downtown championship
Harry's idea is to charge small en-
try fee. probably so cents or so. to make
the tournament self-Supportlng al
fair, out of which he hopes will come
real champion OF Rock Creek Park.
Among the prospective title holders ne
sees such fire golfers as Ted Burrows,
the irrepresible Nick Altrock, If Nick
can find time to play, ana Volney U.
Burnett. the latter the same young man
who has been burning up gcf courses
hereabouts and used to be member OF
Beaver Dam.
ST THINK We can have such tour
i nament and get up good deal oil
interest among the boys" Graham
says. Il tried to organize senior goll
tourney, but I guess some OF the oloer
men were shy about revealing their
ages. for they didn't go for it as l ex-
pected. But I think an all-inclusive
event would get 'em all. We have quite
a bunch of regulars here-telloWs VINO
play every day And they would ike,
I am sure, to get at each others throatS
in listed competition"
This Burnett lad hasn't gotten much
publicity on his recent stunts, but dur
ing the past couple of weeks he has
tied two course records and been within
an inch or two of topping both OF
them. Shortly after Byrn Curtiss set
a record of 72-even par-for the Bea-
yer Dam course young Burnett stepped
out and shot himself another 72, thus
Joining Curtiss and Al Houghton as the
joint record holders for this tough lay
out at Landover, Md.
And few days before that he
stepped out over that tough course OF
the Sherwood Forest Country Club and
did himself form-fltting 10. Both
these performances take lot Of golf.
If you don't believe it, try either course
yourself. Burnett has heightened his
game this year and is playing just about
as well as any amateur around the city.
ID OBERT STEAD, Jr., chairman of
II the Golf Committee at Chevy
Chase. warns the prospective en-
trants in the forthcoming sectional
trials for the amateur championship to
be played at Chevy Chase on August l6
accepted
The club has nothing to do with the
tournament" Stead says, although it
was happy to offer its course and happy
that Chevy Chase was chosen as the
course for the sectional trials. How
ever. the actual handling of entries is
being done by the United States Golf
Association at ITO East Forty-second
street, New York, and the club can do
nothing about post entries
Local amateurs who are members of
member clubs of the U. S. G. A, and
have a handicap of or less, should
send in their entries, accompanied by
the IS fee. before pm,. July 26.
a LOOK at the star amateur golfers
"A of the Nation is going to be cheaper
this year than it has been for many
years since the U. S. G. A. put price
on the admission gate at the big cham
pionships. Season tickets were received
in Washington today for the national
amateur championship to be played
next September at Baltimore. The price
tags were labeled $500 instead of
$40 as they have been for other cham
pionships, and in addition a bargain
attraction is listed. all included in this
season ticket which admits the bearer
to the championship for solid week.
The bargain attraction is an exhibit
tion match in which the one-time
emperor of the game-Robert T. Jones
will play. This match will be held
either on the Saturday or Sunday prior
to the opening of the championship
itself on Monday, September -. Tickets
will be sold at the Washington golf
clubs covering a weeks admission to
the Five Farms course for $3.50.
A peek at championships two or
three years ago cost plenty of money.
The U. S. G. A. charged as high as |