Evening star., 1932-06-18
|MUNY LINKS TEST
| IS ONLY ONE HERE
National Open and Maryland
State Will See Capital
Players in Action.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

THREE golf events of more
than casual interest to
i Washington linksmen are
scheduled to be played dur
ing the coming week, one Of the
few weeks without some big anna
teur offering around the Capital.
Topping the schedule is the ma
tional open championship to be
played at the Fresh Meadow Club
OF Flushing, N. Y, in which five
local professionals will make a
bid for the title won last year by
Billy Burke.
This event will be played on Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday. and every
golf bug In the city will be closely
| scanning the news from Flushing.
Locally, the big event of the week is
the 36-ho.e medal play tourney at East
Potomac Park to decide the lone indi-
vidual who will represent Washington
at the national public links champion
ship at Louisville in July Lone" is
dates will start in the tourney, even
though only one Of them will have his
expenses paid by the East Potomac Park
management to the national tourna-
ment. 1nasmuch as each city is enti-
tied to send six men to the champion
ship, it is quite likely that more than
one man will go to the tournament from
Warrington. even though all those who
go, with the exception Of the lowest
scorer in the tourney next Thursday,
will have to pay their own way The
Park Amusement Co, operators Of the
public gclf courses in Potomac and Rock
Creek Parks, have agreed to pay the
expenses OF only one man this year.
Last year the expenses Of four men
were paid and in addition another
player. who paid his own way, went to
the tournament.
A IL the leading public links golfers
OF the city, including Bradley H
Burrows Of Rcck Creek Park, pres
ent holder OF the municipal title, have
entered In the coming tourney and the
struggle for the single place is sure to
be torrid one. Harlan Will. Bobby
Burton, John Connolly. Arthur Urban
and Louis Fuchs are the outstanding
players in the tourney in addition to
Burrows
Quite few local amateurs who be-
long to clubs located in Maryland are
planning to 60 over to Baltimore to
beard Ernie Caldwell over his home
course and try to knock the Middle At
lantic title holder out of the Maryland
State title. Ernie will be the favorite
to win the championship Of the Old
Line State in view of the hot streak
Of golf he put on in the Midatlantic
final The tourney will be played al
Hillendale, where Caldwell is a men,
ber. Entries for this event will close
en- Monday with the Maryland State
Golf Association at l6 McClelland
companied by the entry fee Of So A
played on Wednesday. with 80 players
to qualify, and a 36-hole final round
scheduled for next Saturday.
Meanwhile. down at Richmond the
golf team Of the Woodmont Country
Club will continue its battle tomorrow
with the links warriors Of the Lakeside
Country Club which :tarted today. tn
team Of the Woodmont Club is strong
one and should, in view Of past sue
cesses. bring back again the big inter-
city cup.
THOSE oily Boids" out at Rock
L Greek Park are not bit put out
by the damp weather. They con-
tinue to play their matches even though
dew and rain cover the golf course dur
ing the early hours when they get out,
Simon. Mandell and Burton have
reached the semi-fnal round in the
main flight OF the current oily Boids"
tourney. Meaney has won the first bye
fight from Granson. and Cummings is
the winner of the second bye flight
through a victory over Davis. The
third bye flight went to McGin who
haot uorper in the anal round