Evening star., 1932-04-08
FIRST BIC TOURNEY
! WILL OPEN MAY 3
Clubs of Middle Atlantic
Sector Asked to Submit
Lists of Members.
BY w. n. McCALLUM.


invitation golf tournament of
the season, and the first such
event ever held by the Army
Navy Country Club, the big service
organization located in Arlington
County, Va, overlooking the Ma
tional Capital, will be received by
scores Of golfers around Washing
ton within a few days.
The opening tourney of the
scanty 1882 competitive season
starts on May and runs through
May 6, less than a month away,
and, in keeping with the practice
of most of the clubs around WASH
ington during recent years, will be
strictly personal invitation event.
The clubs which comprise the Dis
trict Golf Association, the Middle At
1antic Golf Association and the Mary
land State Golf Association will be sent
invitations for their members to play
in the ArmyNavy Club tournament,
but will be asked to submit lists of
members to the service club, to whom
personal invitations will be mailed. A
few unattached players will be invited,
who must be sponsored by the men,
bers of the Army-Navy Club who in
vite them.
IN preparation for the tournament the
i regular putting greens Of the Army
Navy Club have been closed for
more than a week and will remain
closed for several days more in order
IN fhny11 in Rrct-nlocS r0f1dftt0y,
during the week of the tourney. The
event will be in charge of the Golf
Committee Of the club, headed by Col.
r. M. Danford.
The Arrny-Navy Country Club lay
out is known locally as the bunker
less golf course. because of the fact
that in place of the usual array of sand
traps scattered along the fairways of
most courses, the Army-Navy Club
course has no btlnkers along its 6,100-
odd yards of length. Natural hazards,
the place of the artificial bunkers
which confound the duffer on most of
the local layouts. The amateur record
for the course is 72, set a year and a
half ago by Lieut.. R. w. Meals. Only
one major tourney has been played on
the course-the championship event of
the Army Golf Association, played
three Summers back and won by Lieut..
r. w Baldwin. The professional rec
ord for the layout is SO. held by Ar
thur B. Thorn of the Woodmont Coun-
try Club. Lionel G. Walker, who used
to be the pro at the Bannockburn Golf
Club, now holds down the professional
berth at the Ar1ny-Navy Club.
THE tournament announcements state
l. that the course will be open for
practice rounds by contestants in
the event Monday, May g. and that on
account of the anticipated large num-
Der of entries two days have been re-
served for qualification. These days
will be Tuesday. May 8. and Wednes-
day, May 4. First and second match
play rounds will be contested on Thurs
day, May s, with the semi-final and
final rounds carded for Friday. May 6.
Prizes will be awarded to the winner of
the low gross and low net scores In
the qualification rounds, and to the
winner and runner-up in each of the
five flights and the winner of the con-
ISOLATION prize in each flight. Entries
for the tourney, which must be certi-
fed by the home club of the entrant,
VIII close with the Golf Committee Of
the Army-Navy Country Club at ep.m
on April "a. Course and club house
privileges will be extended to all tour
nament entrants from May 2 to May 8,
both dates being inclusive.
Par for the Army-Navy Country Club
layout is ia mark which never has
peen made by an amateur golfer un-
Ger medal play conditions.
DOLAND MACKENZIE. the Columbia
IN Country Club lad. who spread the
fame Of the National Capital far
ana wide in national golf circles by his
nne play in big-time competition a few
years oack, and who has been men,
per OF three Walker Cup teams, arrived
nome last night with Mrs. Mackenzie.
after an automobile trip from Cali
1ornia. Roland was married on March
u IN Sacramento Calf. His bride was
Betty Bowden of Sacramento. The
young couple will make their home for
a time at 3248 RittenhouSe street Ro-
land came home over the Southern
route and stopped off in Atlanta for a
lew days. where he saw Bob Jones
pALKED by bad weather during the
- flrst two weeks in March. the
Ony Bo1ds" Of Rock Creek Park
those sun-dodging golfers who get up
before dawn to play their golf in the
uptown park, now are in the middle Of
thelr Spring tourney First-round
matches have been finished in the in1-
tlal event OF the early risers, with the
following results: Cotton defeated
Cummings, 6 and 4; MandeI defeated
Bowly. Wickers defeated Dickinson, 2
and l; McGill defeated Tarbett and
D; Simon defeated Poison, 3 and Q:
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