Evening star., 1932-11-23

v v them, those forward
looking folks at Kenwood
Golf and Country Club already
are laying plans for bigger and
better National Capital open
championship event for 1888.
Gratified by the success of the tour
nament of 10 days ago, which appears
to have been a financial success despite
the abominable golf weather, officials
of the club are discussing the posi-
bility OF holding tournament next
Spring with bigger purse and along
different lines.
1t may be either a match play tour
nament or a 72-hole medal play event
with q purse totaling $4,000 or more.
Whatever the decision as to match
play or medal play, club officials are
coming to the view that the Kenwood
tourney is big enough and has been
advertised so thoroughly that it can
stand en- its own feet in the future.
They believe that with their successful
record Of two well run open events, AMI
with record turnout of players for
each tournament they can hold a big
golf affair without the allied attraction
of another big event in the same
locality.
This year and last year the tourney
was held few days prior to the Pine
hurst Mid-South event, and in addition
this year Kenwood'S affair was cnly one
of three big tournaments in a row.
The other is the Miami -Biltmore open
to be played during the coming week
end at Coral Gables, Fla.
nRIOR to this years National Capital
I open, Don Chamberlain, vice presi-
dent of Kenwcod, told group of
newspaper men that if the tournament
was a success Kenwood probably will
hold in 1888 another tournament for
greatly enhanced purse, which might go
to $4,000.
A final check-up has not yet been
completed, but it now appears that the
recent tourney was financial success.
If it gees into the red it will only be by
a few dollars and will not approach
the $500 deficit which the club shcul-
dered for the 1881 tourney.
So it would appear to show that
Washington golfers, If they are given
good show, will turn cut to see it. And
there isn't any question that Kenwood
put on a good golf show. Kenwood IS
not given to idle promises. They said
that Hagen, Horton Smith, Farrell,
Armour, Dudley and the other stars
would be here. And they appeared, just
as promised
The only drawback to a really great
tournament was the weather. If they
had tried for months they couldn't
have chosen two days less suited for
golf than November II and 13. But
that IS no fault of Kenwood. They had
to set q date. and if the weather chose
to play pranks on the days designated
they couldn't do anything about it.
Despite the unusual sight of watching
star golfers play in overcoats and
multiple sweaters, the tournament was
satisfying affair.
THAT'S the reason Kenwood is look
l. ing forward to 1888 and another
and bigger National Capital open
tournament. Al Houghton, the cub pro
and handspring of golf at Kenwood,
who conceived the idea of the original
tourney in 1881, favors a match play
tournament with 80 qualifiers, to run
for a full week. Good business for the
club If such an arrangement could be
made Can you imagine Hagen and
Armour paired together at match play,
or Horton Smith and Farrell? What
galleries would follow show like either
Of thesel
Match play tournaments among the
pros are gradually finding favor. Only
three of them are held for big money
in this country each year. First OF
these, of course, is the P. G. A. tourna-
ment, which ranks as the professional
match play championship Of the coun-
try. San Francisco stages a match
play tourney each December, and
Tampa, Fla, not to be outdone by Call
fcrnia, holds its own "Gasparilla open
in February
All these tournaments run for a fun
week. The guarantee for the P. G. A..
is $l0,800; that for the San Francisco
tournament is $1,000, and that for the
Gasparilla is $4,000. All the pros go
for these tournaments If they are any
where near at tournament time, as they
get q slice of the money If they qualify
and more for each time they win
Kenwood could go long way with
match play tournament, and, In our
opinion, such an event not only would
produce some real golf shows but also
would be a noney-maker for the club.
Watch Kenwood in 1888. Those folks
out there have ideas. They are the
original go-getters in golf he-eahouts.
THERE'S always something new
i under the golfng sun by way OF
clubs and gadgets designed to
make a hard game easier for any one
who plays it. Tommy Mcnamara, old
time star professional, now the advance
man for one of the big golf club manu-
featuring concerns. is in town with a
new gadget in iron clubs which, &C
cording to Tommy. makes it impossible
for your ordinary golfer to hook or
slice with the old abandon. Tommy
admits that slight fade can DC I'M
parted to a ball hit with these clubs,
and likewise, what the Scotch call
slight draw" which is Caledonian for
hook, but the old-time roundhouse
slices and hooks cannot be played from
this new tangled weapon.
It all comes about, claims Tommy,
because of scientific construction OF the
head and mathematical distribution OF
weight in relation to the hitting port
CT the club face. To the uninltiated
cyc the club looks queer, for the hosel,
or part which the shaft enters, is very
tn and narrow, and this spare metal
apparently has been placed in a lump
on the toe of the club. 1t looks funny
but it does seem to help. Several pros
have tried it cut and they do say you
cannot get off one of those big hooks
that start out in Missouri and end up
in Maine. Tommy claims the club
will be a delight to buffers also, for
their slices will be reduced to gentle
little curves.
Telford Gibraski, unattached local
pro, who has been operating driving
range, scored a hole in one yesterday
on the l6O-yard fifth at Beaver Dam.
Gibraski was playing with Oscar Blan-
ton. He played the shot with mashie.
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