Evening star., 1932-03-25
LEAGUE ARRANGED
FOR SECOND TEAMS
Six Clubs Form Circuit in
Innovation of District Body.
Start April 5.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

THERES going to be plenty
of golf played by the fair
L sex around Washington this
year. With lengthy
schedule for interclub matches
between first teams of women
golfers already arranged and
announced by the Women's Dis
trict Golf Association, to start on
April 4 at Columbia, another
series composed of second teams
from six clubs is to start on April
5 and run through until we'll in
July.
Details Of the schedule for second
teams. an innovation among the fair
golfers around Washington. we're an
nounced today by the association, and
here is the schedule:
Tuesday April 5, at Army and Navy:
$3.50, Columbia VS.. Army and Navy;
9:45, Congressional VS.. Manor; 1000,
Washington VS.. Beaver Dam
Tuesday May 8, at Columbia: $50,
Washington VS.. Manor; GAS, Army and
Navy VS.. Beaver Dam; l0:00 Columbia
VS.. Congressional
Wednesday, May 25, at Congressional:
$50, Manor VS.. Beaver Dam; GAS,
Army and Navy VS.. Congressional;
1000, Columbia VS.. Washington.
Friday, June 10, at Washington:
$3.50, Congressional VS.. Beaver Dam:
9;45, Columbia VS.. Manor; 1000, Army
and Navy VS.. Washington.
Friday, July 8, at Beaver Dam: $50,
Arvf1U and No NEoy "A
gressional vs.. Washington; 1000, Co.
lumbia VS.. Beaver Dam.
The opening of the schedule for
first and second teams is less than two
weeks of and the initial tourney-a
miniature event at Indian Springs
less than three weeks away. With a
full schedule of tournaments and team
matches to be held through the early
part of the season between first and
second teams of most of the clubs
about Washington, the women players
about the Capital have gone further
this year than ever before. And in
their spare time, if any, they will play
team matches with teams from nearby
cities. Mrs. j. Marvin Haynes is the
chairman of the Tournament Commit
tee and with Mrs. Frank r. Keefer,
president of the association, has ar
ranged the schedule
DAvIE THOMPSON, the little Scot
~ tish pro at the Washington Golf
and Country Club, has lots of re-
freshing ideas about golf. Davie, who
halls from Montrose, right in the heart
OF the golf country Of Scotland, where
a man can play a half-dozen courses
in one of the icng Scottish Summer
days, believes that the most important
part OF the game Of golf is what Tom
my Armour calls "tile art of finishing
hole" Expressed in other words,
Davie, who is himself one Of the finest
putters to be found anywhere in this
part OF the bunkered country, claims
that the stroke which knocks the ball
into the hole-the putt-is the most
important stroke in the game.
Thompson is one Of the great bulk of
professional golfers who have good jobs
at country clubs and who believe in
sticking close to those jobs, letting the
Sarazens, the Armours, the Hagens, the
Farrells and the others who go on the
tournament tour get the headlines. He
has watched the professional golf
troupers tour the South for the past
han-dozen years or 50, and he has come
to the conclusion that few of those wno
follow the tournament trail from Cali
fornia in December and January
through Oklahoma Texas and Louisiana
to Florida in February and March do any
more than break even on the jaunt.
Davie says it costs any man who makes
this trip a minimum of close to $4,000.
and few Of them pick up anywhere this
amount in purses.
T7HoMPsoN'S idea is that if a group
J. of or IL of the top-notch pro-
fessionals banded together and
toured the country in competition
among themselves, playing for the gate
receipts, they would all benefit f1nan-
cially by the tour and would do more
to spread the gospel of good golf among
the galleryites than all the tournaments
put together can do. ITS quite a job
for any one man in tournament gal
lery to see all the stars in action"
Davie says For they are not all
paired together, and to trot around