Evening star., 1932-09-20
ONE TOURNAMENT
OPENS THIS WEEK.
Nicholson Will Not Defend
Title at Washington Colt
and Country Club.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

~ championship t tourn a
v Y mentS around Washing
ton in full swing during
this month. and with all the win
nerS pointing toward competition
In the tournament of club cham
pions at Kenwood on November
7, still another golf club title event
will get under way during the
coming week end.
This will be the tournament for the
championship of the Washington Golf
and Country Club, which Henry D.
not defend his title, for he resigned
from the club several months ago.
The schedule for the tourney. as an
nounced by Chairman Veerhof of the
Golf Committee, is as follows: Qualify
ing round, September "a and IS, for all
flights. First round in all flights. Sep
tember 29; second round October l.;
semi-final round, october 1; final
round, October g.
In addition to the main flight, which
Is for the low-handicap golfers of the
club, the events for the l2-17 handicap
division and the Birney Cup, for golfers
with handicaps Of Is and over. also will
be held. Those in the l2-l7 division
are men with handicaps from II to II
and those in the Birney Cup event are
drawn from the members with handi-
caps Of l8 and over.
DOBBY CRUICKSHANK, the wee
- Scot from Edinburgh, who tied
Bobby Jones for the national open
championship in 1928. and tied for sec
ond in the recent national open at
Fresh Meadow. has been appointed to
the professional berth at the Country
Club Of Virginia, club of some 5000
members Bobby's advent into this ter
Titory will bring to the mid-Atlantic
section great competitor and truly
fne professional golfer Bobby is a
schoolrnate of Tommy Armour, was
captured by the Germans during the
World War. and managed to make his
escape. He is one Of the great golfers
OF this country.
Fate has not been kind to Bobby He
has shifted around from one profess
sional berth to another Only year or
20 ago the New York club with which
he had been associated for three or four
years crashed Bobby has been work.
ing in New York department store for
a year. But with his accession to the
berth formerly occupied by Bill Auch-
Lerlon;c pt the Country Club Of Virginia,
Bobbvs troubles should be over. He was
chosen. according to report. from an
appli"f i9l Isl numbering many OF the
Nat.o.'. ,cadirg pros. Gossip has 1t
that on pu.ra the new p. G. A.
ChanpG'. 9rd Horton Smith, the Jop-
In Cncs.. vc-c among the applicants
for the berth Two local professionals
also applied for the Job
ENTRIES were to close today for the
IL C3rby Cup tourney. to BE- staged
On THURSDAY over the course of the
Columbia Country Club. Post entries
will rot be accepted and there is no
entry fee for the tourney insugurated
several years ago by the former presi-
dent Of the District Womcn'S Golf AS
ISOLATION. The event is an l8-hole
handicap affair, with the handicap
limit set at 10. TWO of Washington S
outstanding woman golfers will not be
able t9 participate. On tnat day Mrs.
: Nsry.n HAYNES. wcmans Middle At
lant;c champion, and Mrs. Betty F.
Mecklsy. former District title holder.
will tc en- their way TO the national
tourney near Boston.
CENIOR golfers of the Chevy Chase
y Club have moved into the semi
flnal round in the competition for
the Sheridan Cup. With three OF their
number in the perultimate round and
thu ota-r second-round match sched-
uled TODAY Here are the results to
date Of the tourney:
\ Lewis defeated G A. Mckay, up
IN 10 holes; John W, chlIdreSs defeated R
csmpec a.ce: ID D. W snfnr1 Mason a.2,.fsd :, ds
Norro: Gc-eated Df. G. B Miller by de-
leult: CO.! f, U. Patterson defeated " G G
6rans h dstagH s5aritE i md r. Eskin defeated
secona rourd. .chilaIezs sssH deleated MeSay Mex
Eakn defeated Patterson. and l.
ONE hcle halved out of 18 played.
~ That is the record Of a foursome
ct Congressional. composed of
golfe~T wno shoot the course in the low
sos. Seventeen of the holes were won
and al the end one side had margin
Of cnly single hole. That is somewhere
near record for winning and losing
holes only to finish with a single hole
between the two SIDES.
On cnc side were William j. McEvoy
ard .Io-eph E. Murphy. On the other
were 7. r. McCarl and Henry J. Rich
ardscr The latter combination fin
jshed up on the first nine when Nc
Carl Xix putt for birdie on the
ninth rhev finished the same way on
the eighteenth The only hole halved
in the match was the long thirteenth
where all four took skies.
T AWSON LITTLE, Pacific Coast star,
IL son OF an Army colonel, was o
play another round OF the Arm :
Navy Country Club course today after
two successive It's registered over the
service club layout. Little has been a
nationally known golf star for four
years more.
Back in 1929 he whipped Johnny
Goodman in the second round of the
amateur championship after the Omaha