Evening star., 1932-03-16
UICK action was promised the
membership Of the Beaver Dam
Country Club toward immedi-

y Country Olup toWato innleoi-
ate construction of the new
club house to replace the old house
which burned late in January. And
quick action they are getting at the
hands of President E. S. Brashears and
his associates on the board of governors
Ground was broken yesterday for the
new $50,000 club house which will go
up at Beaver Dam and today and for
several days to come steam shovels will
be in there at work excavating for the
foundations Of the new house, which Is
expected to be ready for occupancy by
May 80.
The old house was fully covered by
insurance and the fire represents only
a small net loss to the club, so Beaver
Dam has not had to stand a heavy
financial outlay as the result of the fire.
! But the club will not be in position
this year to stage its much-wanted in
vitation golf tournament, according to
| M. Maier, chairman of the Golf Com
mittee. Beaver Dam wants to stage an
| invitation event and might have asked
| for a date this year had not tl~ de-
struction Of the club house by fire put
an end to plans for such an event. In
the future, possible next year, 1t Is pos
sible that Beaver Dam will hold an in
vitation event
| Meanwhile Maier and his committee
are going forward with plans for chang
| ing the course to bring the ninth and
eighteenth greens near the new club
house; located several hundred yards
north and east of the old site, where
the old ninth and eighteenth greens
now are located. To bring the end OF
both mines near the new house 1t will be
necessary to construct three new greens,
| including a new ninth and eighteenth,
and these improvements will get under
way Immediately. Under the recon-
struction plans the present seventeenth
hole will be entirely abandoned.
The women's Golf Association Of the
District of Columbia will hold its an
nual meeting next Monday at the Ma
tional Women's Club, near Bethesda,
Md, to consider changes in the consti-
tuition and to formally ratify the team
match and tournament schedules which
were announced few days ago. The
opening match of the series will be
played on April 4, If the snow ever
leaves the ground.
MOST of the travelling pros will
III gather at Coral Gables tomorrow
| morning to start play in the open
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money in the United States. The event
is the Miami -Biltmore open tourney, a
36-hole affair with bulky purse total
| ing $4,000 to be drawn down by the
| gents who cut into the prize money.
Aqua Caliente has 4 bigger purse, but
the Miami tourney is the biggest money
event OF the year in this country. Next
week the pros viii wind-up their Winter
season with the annual North and South
open tourney at Pinehurst, where Witty
Cox will defend the title he won last
year.
Pinehurst does not shape up so badly
as tournament for heavy dough, for
the Pinehurst management spreads
$1,000 around among the prize winners
in its event. The Pinehurst tourney is
strictly an invitation affair, limited be-
! cause so many pros flocked to the Caro-
lima resort to partake Of the free bed
and board offered for the three days of
the tourney that they could not be
taken care Of Several OF the local golf
professionals have been invited to go
! to Pinehurst and it is probable that
Fred Mcleod of Columbia. Sandy
Armour Of Congressional and AL Hough-
ton of Kenwood, will 60
So far this Winter Gene Sarazen has
won the biggest slice of dough in the
Winter tournaments, but the little New
York Italian American hasn't any
where near the winning percentage Of
Tommy Arnour-the Black Scot from
Edinburgh. Tommy, who is as well