Evening star., 1932-07-25

M men and women OF Baltimore
Vl have turned out for the Leap
Year" mixed foursome to be
held tomorrow at the Congressional
Country Club but the lads and lassies
who play on Washington courses are
lukewarm about 1t. So lukewarm are
they that a glance at the entry list
finds only one Washington Miss among
the entries. This is Virginia Pope of
Congressional, who is paired at O'Clock
with A. 8. Gardiner. jr., of Columbia.
And the men of the Capital haven't
taken to 1t any more kindly either, for
Gardiner Is the only Washington male
golfer in the tourney. The Maryland
State Golf Association, which Is to run
this unique feature, will take post en-
tries today and tomorrow.
Certainly there isn't any lack of golf
ing spirit in Washington, and yet in this
tourney We find more than 100 Balti-
moreans entered in tourney played
over local course and two golfers from
Washington. Maybe our fellow towns
folk do not believe in those old Leap
Year traditions.
CEVEN holes in 2l strokes on q regu-
- lation length golf course That's
great putter Of the Washington Coli
and Country Club, has just put on. In
addition to playing all the four short
holes of the Washington layout in par,
Gruver picked up three birdie IS on
the round, scoring seven IS in a single
round of golf. Had he played the rest
OF the holes even fairly well, he might
nave mad a great score, but he picked
up on one or two holes. Gruver pro-
bably Is one Of the finest putters who
ever stroked a ball
Martin F. Mccarthy is PLAYING fine
golf at Beaver Dam these days. He
played that lengthy layout yesterday in
"a strokes to win the Golf Committee
trophy by five strokes from C. H.
Phlpps. The latter carded q 70. Two
over par on the first nine with &c.
Mccarthy came home in exactly the
par of So to finish with a a. He plans
to partner Cliff Spencer, the Beaver
Dam pro, in the pro-amateur tourney at
Bedford Springs, Pa, during the COM
ing week end
.DR. LEE MCCARTHY of the Wash
- ington Golf and Country Club will
think twice next time before he
knocks another ball out of a bunker.
Playing with DR.. F. j. Eichenlaub and
DR.. w. G. Sparks, Mccarthy found all
three balls lying together in a bunker
In front Of the fifth green. He didn't
know the rule that enables the player
farthest from the hole to lift the near
ball, and so he played 'em all. Taking
a mighty wallop he lifted all three balls
out of that trap. His own ball rolled
far over the green. So did that of his
partner. But the ball of his opponent
rolled up to within two feet of the cup
and he lost the hole to bird 3.
yYJHEN the United States Golf Asso-
w citation says entries for one of its
championships will close at
certain hour on specified date,
it means just that. 1t also means
that entries will not be received after
that hour. So those local amateur
golfers who want to play In the
national amateur championship quail
fication rounds on August 16 at
Chevy Chase would better get their en-
tries in the hands of the U. S. G. A.
by O'Clock tomorrow evening or they
will not be able to play in the sectional
rounds. That's the way the U. 8. g. A.
does things. They set the day and the
hour, and 1t Is then up TO the entrant
to get bis entry IN on time. Not %