Evening star., 1932-09-04
AFFAIR IS SLATED
/ FOR NEXT SUNDAY
Mixed Match to Be Feature.
D. c. Event, U. S. ANA
teur Hold Attention.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

" a field day with all Lne
traditional trimmings that
60 with field day performances
over the fine nine-hole course OF
the club in Bethesda, Md.
This year the field day will be staged
next Sunday and Leopold Freudberg,
energetic chairman of the Field Day
Committee, has arranged a four-ball
exhibition match as the headliner of
day devoted to golf and golfers. In
past years the field day exhibition
matches have involved male golfers
usually drawn from the professional
ranks, but this year Freudberg has
arranged a mixed foursome which in
cludes two of the leading woman golfers
of the city.
In this match Mrs j. Marvin Haynes
of Columbia, middle Atlantic women's
champion, will pair with Fred Mcleod,
the Columbia professional, against Mrs.
Betty P. Meckley of Indian Spring,
former District women's champion, and
Arthur B. Thorn, Woodmont profes-
sional. All interested golfers are in
yited to watch the match, which Will
start about 80 pm. In addition to
the feature match the club will stage
two more tournaments for its members
as part of the field day ceremonies. An
lS-hole sweepstakes tourney will be held
for the men and the women niblick
wielders will take part in a 9-hole
sweepstakes event. -,
The afternoon will be topped off with
driving contests for men ana women
and pitching and putting events for
golfers of both sexes. 1t looks ike
big day out Woodmont way next Sun
day.
DR. WILLIAM C. BARR, secretary OF
H. the District Golf Association. left
washington today for Aylesford,
Nova Scotia, where his son, Carlisle
Barr. is to be married shortly. DR.. Barr
will not be present to run the District
championship tourney, to be played
at Chevy Chase next Wednesday and
Thursday. The tourney will be run on
under the direction Of DR.. Bruce l..
Taylor and D. l.. Thomson and other
members Of the Executive Commlttee
Of the District Association.
The Executive Committee has had a
busy time this year with the usual
district events and the two sectional
uualification rounds for the open and
amateur championships which came to
washington during the Summer. They
did q fine job. too, in handing ootn
Tournaments. which were run on With
out a hitch by committee which had
no previous experience in such affairs.
TNTRIEs for the District champion
I ship will close tomorrow night at
the Chevy Chase Club. The tour
ney is open to all members OF memper
CLUBS of the District association VINO
have a handicap Of IA strokes or less.
THE entry fee is So. The course OF the
Chevy Chase Club will be open for
practice to entrants in the tourney on
Nuesday, September 8.
Because of the proximity OF the ma
sfional amateur championship TO the
nistrict championship Miller B. Ste
A1nson of Columbia, and possibly one
sor two other prominent local amateurs,
do not intend to play in the local
tourney.
Stevinson says he does not wish to
tire himself out in the 72-hole District
title tourney few days in advance OF
the amateur championship, which starts
on September IL at the Five Farms
course Of the Baltimore Country CLUB.
THE Five Farms layout, by the way,
III is rounding into excellent condl-
ton for the national title tourney.
The only major course in this section
with watered fairways, Five Farms is
sure to be plenty long enough even 10
satisfy the longest hitter. They are
soaking those fairways every day over
there in the Green Spring Valley ana
it is certain that nothing IS being lelt
undone to make it tough test OF the
game. In many ways the coming
tournament will be one OF the hneSt
Fever staged by the United States Coll
EAssociation. ~,
THOSE hard working men who will
ia,andle the affair for the Baltimore
fCountrv Club have gone into every
ketan to make the event enjoyable tor
tcontestants and spectators. Both the
hnited States and British Walker Cup
Eteams will be in the tournament, TO-
scether with every other amateur OF
mote in this country. Much OF the
slocal interest will center around the
play of the nine local entrants In the
tourney. led by Roland r. Mackenzie OF
Columbia, former Walker Cup team
member and Harry q. Pltt, the DlstflcO
amateur champion.
good many Washington people are
nlanning to watch the tourney. AT
least a dozen of them have made hotel
reservations in Baltimore to remain
there for the entire week OF the event.
TrHAT Five Farms course, measuring
/ about $500 yards normally, will
be stretched out to about 60OO
Yards for the qualification rounds on
September IL and IS. And every yard
of them is three feet long" says Harry
Pitt. i've played Five Farms nearly
20 times and I never realized until
the other day it could be so long. We
played from the back tees at the second.
fifth and twelfth and it took all had
to get home on these holes in the right
number Of shots. They have tees over
there never knew existed. And they
will use 'em during the championship
too"