Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-11-10
CAROLINA TOURNEY
LURES D. c. STARS
Only Big Shots, However, to
Make Winter Drive With
Its Lean Pickings.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

championship-bigges golf event
of the season around Washington
will be played on Saturday and
Sunday, some 100 golf profession
ais will board trains for Pinehurst,
there to start the long Winter
grind.
The trail for most of them will lead
through the Winter circuit of golf af-
fairs that will terminate with the North
and South open at Pinehurst next
March. 1t isn't such bad life-this
business Of being a golf professional
II you consider that the career is just
q round Of tournaments and pay for
playing the game they love.
But to hear few of the leading pros
talk about 1.-THE business of playing
tournament golf isn't what it's cracked
up to be. Not all the boys make ex-
penSes and some of them take fearful
licking if they follow the tournament
round from California through the
South to Pinehurst.
Only the top-notchers make a little
out of the tournament game and even
their take" is not heavy, by any
means. to hear them tell it.
TOMMY ARMOUR probably knows
L as much about it as any profess
sional hitting a golf ball. Tommy
admits that this business Of playing in
the Winter tournaments is losing
game except for the men who consist
emily n no no
those, he says, do not pile up any boat
ed surplus in the old SOCK
Only a few of us are making any
real money nowadays" Tommy says.
THE boys who do not finish in the
money in lot of tournaments take a
bad beating. You've got to play fine
golf all the time to break even.
Such men as Armour, Sarazen, Hor-
ton Smith, MacFarlane, Farrell and
Dudley do better than break even. But
the comparative unknowns spend the
Summer saving up money to go on the
Winter tour. hoping for a break that
vii lenable them to pick UP money to
paw railroad fare
They have many long jumps to make;
ho.el expenses are not light, despite
special rates; caddy hire and golf balls
cost something, and incidental expenses
cut INTO the purse.
Most Of the younger pros would give
a slice of their right ear to get
Florida job in the Winter. Any Job
would do for most of them. Down
there where the sun shines during those
Grcary days in January and February
W find lull-fedged Northern profess
SIGNALS holding down unimrortant Jobs,
jill. to have Winter berth Il hasn't
hon SO long ego that Billy Burke, 1891
c--.2Tp.cn, was caddiemaster
a Belleair.
THE boys who will play at kenwood
i during the coming week end will
all so to Pinehurst. That is fairly
close to home and the cost isn't much,
fer they are the guests of the Pine
hurst management for two days
But for those who go on to the
Miami Baltimore tournament at Coral
Gables the last week in November the
cost amounts to something. And the
Florida season doesn't really get under
way until January.
Railroad fare alone to Miami, even on
q tourist rate, runs somewhere around
$50. with sleeping-car accommodations.
And when you figure in the incidentals
for trip Of at least week it amounts
to something like $3.50 and perhaps
$500. Which is quite al right for the
boys up in the big money. but not so
good for the lads who have yet to make
their mark
The pickings are lean nowadays on
the side. Time was when a good pro
could pick up century now and then
by giving private lesson to some rich
old duffer who was willing to pay
that to be seen in the company Of big
shot In golf.
But that day has gone. Exhibition
matches are fewer. and bookings are
rare The old exhibition racket isn't
by any means what it used to be. But
skill still pays dividends in cash. Where
a hundred lesser pros barely make the
grade. the big boys-the Armours.
Hagens, Farrells and Smiths-can pull
'em in
AL Houghton and Roland Mackenzie
probably will be the only Washington
entrants in the Miami Biltmore Tourna-
ment. but all the local pros are plan
ming to go to Pinehurst.
"A GOLF course slowly drying out
n from four days of practically
steady rain found many Of the
links luminaries practic;ng today over
the Kenwood layout The first rain
out all the tournament entrants who
are in Washington. Billy Burke, 1891
open champion Horton Smith. Tommy
Armour. Willie MacFarlane, Paul Run
yam and many other Of the visiting
stars tried out the course today.
The committee Yesterday received the
entry of T. Phillip Perkins. erstwhlle
amateur and 1929 British amateur
champion. who went to the final OF
the 1928 American amateur champion
ship, where Bobby Jones slid 10 and
9 licking under his chin. Since those
days "Tottering Phil" as the news
paper boys call him. has become a fine
PLAYER Probably he ranks with any
Of the leading pros today In the ma
tional open at Fresh Meadow last June
Phil looked like a sure winner until
Sarazen came charging over the last
Is holes like a runaway race horse and
little Bobby Cruickshark tied the tall
Bri isher.
Just prir to that tourney Phil an
nounced rs decision to Join Won Elm
as a BUSH - man golfer" class OF
anomalies. so Phil no longer is an anna
teur threat. But in his brief campaign
as IN amateur in this country he went
t. the final round in the simon-pure
championship, something no Britisher
he's Gone since Harold Hilton used
ro-'- II win back in 1911. An erst-
VIE Washingtonian, TEX" Newton, Is
s--- on Perkins and has PLAYED lot
OF gclf with him around New York.
OILY BURKE and Paul Runyan
- came into town yesterday, but were
unable to play because OF the filthy
weather. Farrell, Kerrigan. MacFar-
lane. Hagen and many others are to
arrive today, to get in few holes OF
practice before the tourney opens Sat
urday morning.
Other entrants include the following:
j. Monro Hunter, ArmyNavy Club; w.
Glenn Spencer, Middle Atlantic P. G.
A. champion from Baltimore Joe
Lynch. star amateur from Georgetown
University; Bill Carson. Anacostia; Leo
Walper, unattached; Billy N. Malloy
and Freddie Mcleod, Columbia; Joseph
Ford. Lakeville Conn; John Kinder,
Greenbrook. N. j.; Francis and Len