Evening star., 1932-03-12
MIDDLE ATLANT|CS
/. WILL SHOOT JUNE G
Section Allotted Three or
More Places in National
at Fresh Meadow.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

| BY WALTER X. McCALLUM.
TIME sectional qualification
rounds in the Middle Allan
/ tic sector for the Nationa
Open Golf Championship
will be played at the Congressional
Country Club on June 6. Presi-
dent David L. Thomson of the
District Golf Association, after
comforting with officials of the
Congressional Club, has written tc
the United States Golf Association
notifying it of the decision tc
award the sectional rounds for the
open to Congressional and the
U. S. G. A. has acknowledged re-
ceipt of the letter in a manner
that expresses the complete salts
faction of the national golf body
with the choice of Congressional
as the venue of the sectional
rounds.
This means that on June 6 some
where in the neighborhood of half a
! hundred golf professionals drawn from
Maryland, the District of Columbia, Vir-
ginia and North Carolina will gather at
Congressional to contest for three or
more places in the national open tour
ney itself, which will be played at the
Fresh Meadow Club of Flushing, Long
Island, June %, "a and IS, when Billy
Burke of Greenwich, Conn, will defend
his championship. For time there
was some talk of the open qualifying
rounds in this section going to Colum-
bia, but Chairman George P. James of
the Columbia Country Club Golf Com
mittee says his club never has been Off
cially approached by any golf organiza-
tion concerning the award of the quail
f1cation rounds to Columbia.
The Congressional Country Club of
fered its course to the U. S. G.. A. for
the sectional rounds, through the Dis
trict Of Columbia Golf Association, and
the offer was accepted. The sectional
qualification rounds for the national
amateur championship will go to the
Chevy Chase Club on date in August.
This rounds out the program of the
District Golf Association embarked upon
L
wrote the United States Golf Associa-
ton that the National Capital would
like the sections qualification rounds for
both the major championships in 1892
the Washington Bicentennial year.
CTRANGELY enough, it is likely that
- few of TIE local professionals who
hope to compete in the national
open will not play at Congressional, but
will go either to Pittsburgh or to Phila-
delphia. where there probably will be
more places open for the qualiflerS than
there will be at Congressional. Never,
since qualification rounds for the open
were inaugurated, have there been more
than three places open to the profess
sionals and amateurs who enter from
this section, while at Pittsburgh there
have frequently been as many places as
nine, and at Philadelphia there are
usually six or more places open. The
pros believe that the more places there
are the more chance they have to
qualify, and so few Of them each
year have gone to Pittsburgh or Phila-
delphia. However, the sectional rounds
never before have been held at Wash
ington club. Richmond Is the closest
spot to Washington at which the sec
tional rounds have been played, and
with the tests to be held right on the
doorstep Of the Capital, it may be that
all the eligible men In this sector will
play at Congressional. The same rule
applies to the open that applies to the
amateur. That is, the more entries
there are, the more places will be
awarded. If there are so entries at
Congressional, there may be four or
| five places, while if there are only 80
entries there probably will not be more
than three places.
T Asst year the sectional rounds for
- the open in this section were held
at the James River course of the
| Country Club of Virginia. Al Houghton
of Kenwood was the only local pro to
make the grade. j. Munro Hunter and
Freddie Mcleod went to Pittsburgh and
both qualified there to enable the Capt.
tai to have three contestants in the ma
tional open at Toledo. The sectional
rounds for both the open and the anna
teur championships will be run off
under the direction of the District of
Columbia Golf Association.
The annual meeting Of the District
association is to be held Monday night
at the Racquet Club at O'Clock and a
quiet meeting is predicted. This year
is far different from past years. when
to go to considerable Juggling of dates
to get all the tournaments into line
without conflict of dates. This year
there are only two invitation Journeys
scheduled in the Spring and one in the
Fall and there will be no scramble Tor
the best dates. The Army-Navy Coun-
try Club will hold tourney early IN
May, and the Chevy Chase Club will
hold tourney during the third week
in May. The Middle Atlantic Golf As
sociation championship is scheduled for
the Columbia Country Club on June Z,
8, 9 and 10.
Golf1ng bridge players Of the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club, having
participated in two contract bridge
Journeys, now are to compete in con-
tract bridge event for the club cham
pionship. The tourney will start next
Monday night at the club house. with
entries to close tomorrow. The eight
leading pairs in the play tomorrow Will
go on to the finals, which will be played
on March 81 and March %, with cups
to be awarded to the championship
pair and the runners-up. The COM
mittee in charge of the tourney is COM
posed Of D. C. Gruver, chairman A.
B. Gait, E. P. Brooke and o. L. Veer-
hoff. An interclub bridge tourney be-
tween Washington and Baltimore is in
prospect. with negotiations going on
between spokesmen for the two clubs.
TENWOOD GOLF AND COUNTRY
n CLUB officials today have before
them a proposal made by that
pepper-pot of professional golf and pro-
moter extraordinary. Bob Harlow, pub
licity director for the Professional Golf
ers' Association, to hold the P. G.. A.
championship at Kenwood this year.
The Golf Committee will hold an early
meeting to consider the proposal, made