Evening star., 1932-11-30
GOLF VETS TOPPED.
BY CHASMAR, ALLEN
Columbia and Chevy Chase
Players Held Capable OF
Pressing Youngsters.
BY w. R. McCALLUM.


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cause a lot of trouble IN
big golf events, despite their age
and the legend that golf is a
young mans game. if they elected
to enter the tournaments in which
younger men usually grab the
headlines.
II Greenleaf H. Chasmar. usually
tournament from Columbia and makes
up his mind to play through, he can
raise plenty Of fuss among the younger
generation, for he is one of the finest
golfers around Washington. particularly
over his own course He does not take
tournament golf seriously and seldom
enters q big event.
And If Gen. r. H. Allen. top liner Of
the Senior Golf Association of the
Chevy Chase Club, elects to enter the
larger tournaments, and particularly
those played over the Chevy Chase
course, he can cut q wide swath. These
two men, notwithstanding the fact that
they have passed the age when most
players are content to knock the ball
around in 80 or worse, are capable of
holding their own in the best of the
local company.
I'D ED BANAGAN, the Columbia
n spark plug and genial aide to
Freddie Mcleod, AYERS that
Chasmar can beat more than half the
youngsters who steal the headlines, If
he took tournament golf seriously. But
Chasmar does not care for competitive
play. Like many other good golfers.
he would rather go out in a four-ball
match and play for q dollar than COM
pete for a pot of silver His rounds
at Columbia, In good and bad weather,
average consistently below 30. That IS
winning golf in any amateur company
around Washington.
Gen. D. C. Shanks, who has served
two successful terms as chairman OF
the Golf Committee of the Chevy Chase
seniors, admits he doesn't know what
TO do about Allen. 1--WE handicap him, =
Gen. Shanks says. land he goes out
and wins anyhow"
Right now Gen. Allen has the lowest
handicap Of any Of the seniors. He
has a rating of plus S. which means
that If he scores an 80 his actual score
Is IS. And despite this rating he goes
out and wins tournaments. He was
the big winner Of the recent senior sea
son at Chevy Chase, and the best
consistent scorer among the 70 mem
hers of this live organization.
Gen. Allen, who is an athlete and a
nne figure of a man at more than so
years Of age, has at least twice played
the rugged Chevy Chase course in 70
strokes. He averages somewhere around
so. and is far ahead Of the rest of the
competition among the seniors at that
club. Yet neither of these men-Chas-
mar nor Allen-played in the District
senior tournament held last october at
Woodmont
IF a senior tournament is held by the
i District association at Columbia or
Chevy Chase, either or both of these
will not be far away from the winning
pest. Both of them play golf in all
kinds of weather, undeterred by cold
and wind
Chasmar Is an old-timer in golf
around Washington. He has been play
ing at Columbia for nearly two decades
Allen Is comp; arative newcomer.
Only since his retirement from the
Army year or two ago has he played
a great deal Of golf at Chevy Chase.
Put either of them in one of the usual
tournament fields around Washington,
over his own course, and he could go
somewhere.
George S. Lyon, Canadian veteran,
won the Taft Cup at Chevy Chase a
few days ago, when the old-timer from
Toronto was verging on 10.