Evening star., 1932-07-21
TRIO Of JOURNEYS
CLAIM ATTENTION
All of Paid Brigade to Try to
Qualify for P. G. A. in
Test Next Week.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

to have a busy time in COM
L. petition during the next 10
days. With the sectional
qualifying round for the Profess
sional Golfers Association cham
pionship billed for one week from
today at Columbia, quite a group
of the paid brigade are planning
to play in the Bedford Springs
open championship, to be played
at the picturesque course in near
by Pennsylvania on July 81 and
August l.
A week later three of four of the
local pros will move to Philadelphia to
compete in the Philadelphia Open
championship, which Bob Barnett OF
Chevy Chase has previously won.
Every pro around the Capital in
tends to compete in the P. G. A. quail
fication rounds next Thursday and
many of them will be at Columbia
practicing for the tourney during the
carly part of next week Among those
who have signifed their intention of
playing at Bedford Springs are: Al
Houghton of Kenwood, Arthur Thorn
of Woodmont, Mel Shorey of East Po-
tomac Park, Al Treder of Manor,
George Diffenbaugh of Indian Spring
and Bob Barnett and Gene Larkin of
Chevy Chase. In addition a number
of amateurs from Washington clubs
plan to play in the tourney.
THE P. G. A. qualification will be a
i 36-hole test, with only three men
to qualify from the Washington
Baltimore area. So the competition
for the three places allotted to this
area is certain to be of the keenest
kind, over a course which is in the
pink of condition. Some twoscore Of
the paid players will take part in this
test. the last big national event of the
year for American pros.
Both Barnett and Larkin plan to
play in the Philadelphia Open, and
the Chevy Chase pair probably will be
Joined by several others from Wash
lngton- The Chevy Chase professionals
both hail from the Quaker city.
4 THOUGH there hasn't been a
n great deal of real hot weather so
far this year your we'll dressed
golfer of 1882 is taking more and more
to long jeans. known to the clothing
trade as "slacks." The older dress of
knickers is dropping back in popularity
as long trousers come more and more
into vogue And good many players
around Washington are going further
in their quest for comfort on the golf
courses by wearing what are known
as shorts" or pants cut of just above
the knee
These abbreviated panties do away
with that punching of heavy material
below the knee when knickers are worn
and are more comfortable than any
other lower garment when the ther-
rlometer reaches for altitude records.
A few of the golfers at Chevy Chase
play in them most of the time and the
vogue has spread to several of the
other clubs.
There's no doubt they are cool, but
can't you picture the gents who used
to play in red blazers, spats and coats
holding up their hands in horror at
the way the younger generation is pro-
flaming the ancient and tradltion-bou
game of golf?
THAT forthcoming uptown cham
i pionship" to be held at Rock
Creek Park, is getting quite a
play from the boys who play their golf
over the fine Rock Creek layout.
Harry Graham. manager at Rock Creek
Park, tells us that more than half
hundred entries already have been re-
ceived, with more coming in every day.
The qualification round will start next
Monday and Harry expects IS or more
entries before the first ball is hit of the
tee Monday morning.
It's going to be real tournament,
says Harry And We want all the
golfers who use this course to play"
GONE day AL Houghton will break
- that course record of Sc for the
layout at the KenWood Golf and
Country Club. but the big par-and-
birdie man from Kenwood is little
discouraged about it today. Last Oc-
tober Walter W. Cunningham of Burn
ing Tree blazed his way around the
Kenwood layout in Sc strokes to set
record for the course that still stands.
Since that day Cunningham's 66 has
stood like a thorn in Houghton's side
for it isn't right thinks Al. when the
pro from some other club comes over
and sets a record for your own golf
course.
Al has had almost year to bust that
record, but he is a little discouraged
about it now. for yesterday he came to
the home hole needy only a par to
score a 65. He took a buZzard and
tied the record for the fourth time
"Seens as if I never will get that 65,"
says Al.
OF course, 66 isn't indifferent golf by
any stretch of the imagination, for the
KenWood par is 72, and it's tough
enough when you have to go under