Evening star., 1932-11-07
GOLF PROS TO TRY
PUTTING GRASSES
Tests Here Are Expected to
Determine Best Grade
for Greens.

~ mine which of the many species
~ of putting green grasses is best
liked by the leading professional
golfers of the country is to be con-
Quoted by the greens section of the
United States Golf Association at the
Arlington Turf Garden next Friday
Invitations today are going out to most
Of the pros who will play in the Ma
tional Capital open to go over to the
turf garden equipped with their favorite
putters to test out the putting qualities
of the various kinds of grasses, most of
which can only be found of pure strain
at the experimental garden plant of the
Department of Agriculture.
After the pros have putted on at
least 10 different kinds of putting green
grasses they will be asked to give their
opinion as to which they like best
whether it be one of the creeping bent
strains, the red-top, fescue, poa annua
or other kind. There will be no marks
Of any kind on the grasses to tell be-
forehand what kind OF grass Is being
used.
42iC tCoI, dSCOlQAlS W hCIulcIl Wel-
ton of the United States Golf Asso-
citation greens section, can only be held
here in Washington, where SO many
strains Of pure putting green grasses
are available, and are expected to be
of immense value to the greens section
I'VE will value the results of these
tests as expert opinion" Welton said
today. Certainly the pros are equipped
as few golfers are to decide what kind
of putting green grass is best. We know
that some do not like creeping bent
because of the grain Of the grass.
Others do not like poa annua, while
others favor a fescue. With this un-
biased test, in which the pros will not
know what grass they are using, we
hope to obtain some valuable opinions
on putting green grasses"
A FEW of the big shots of golf were
"A scheduled to play today at Ken
wood. with Tommy Armour and
Walter Hagen among the stars listed.
The Kenwood layout is being brought
along into topnotch shape for the tour
ney, which starts next Saturday. The
second hole still has temporary green,
but the regular green. which has been
rebuilt during the past few months. will
be in shape for play about midweek
and will be used during the tourney.
Most of the local professionals were
scheduled to play at Kenwood today.
Tommy Armour is to go on the air
over Station WMAL tonight at 7:30
O'Clock to plead for Washington's full
support of the coming Community
Chest drive With Armour on the pro-
gram will be Walter johnson. former
pilot of the Nationals, and Dorothy
Jordan, film star.
TWENTY THREE members of the
i BrightWood Ex-Caddies' AssocIa-
tion plodded through the mud and
mist yesterday at Beaver Dam to see
Harry G. Pitt score brilliant rs and
annex the low gross award in the an
nual tourney and watch Harvey Shipley
grab off the net prize for the second
consecutive year. Last year at Manor
S.lipley annexed the net award. Yes
terday he did the same thing. shooting
49, with 9 handicap. for net of So
which led by two shots George j.
Voigt. the brightest star of the lads who
caddied at the old Columbia course 20
wears and more ago, played the Beaver
Dam course in 78 strokes and failed to
win the gross prize for the first time IN
several years. Three years back Voigt
shot 81 at Indian Spring to top the
Brightwood golfers.
Pitt, mud horse supreme, scored
a par SO on the first nine holes and
slipped back over the long last nine in
40. with three puts on the eighteenth
hole: Voigt had brace of 39s. Sum-
maries of the tourney follow:
Harvey Shirley. 7s-9-69 George voigt,
Is; Harry Pitt. 76-1-75; Johnny Miller.
n4 Wanaa1 saciat7i! cl!a M'y%mis 5 a Cox g; 7as5;As
John Baldwin. so-I5-74; W. j. Cox. IS
.7-71; Torn Pitt. s7-G-sI: NJ A. Shin
ley, s3-5-7S: Jessie Baoeett 7S-5N73:
G. c. Gist: sn-7--73; Bill DiFste. S3-5
as 1oo "a McAieer' % Sooi, SaM13I73; Ed Mohlar,
s5-I2-75: jack waldron. o5H@om77: @s1.n%T!sJ j
DOOM: 96-l5-Sl; Harry Bakley. $40
-15' L. P. johnson. 9S-15-S3
Johnny Miller the new champion
OF club champions," who is one of the
former Columbia caddies, slipped around
his home course in IT, which failed to |
win him prize in the Brightwood |
tourney. but did annex for him the |
Grosner Cup, for members of Beaver |
Dam. William J. Cox and Jesse F.
Baggett tied for second with cards !,
of 78.
RMY-NAVY COUNTRY CLUB
"A golfers were wondering today what |
the shooting was all about, as they |
looked back on a 2O1a to 91b licking |
administered to them yesterday on |
their home layout by the golf team of |