Evening star., 1932-03-30
HNARY EVENTS
HELD BEST RELIEF
Spring Tourney Congestion
Feared Next Year Unless
Plan Is Adopted.
BY W. r. McCALLUM.

begin talking about golf in
1888 when the 1882 season
really is only just getting un-
der way. However, already the old
specter of an overcrowded Spring
tournament season is beginning TO
cause some speculation among
those legislators and executives
of local golf affairs, whose job 1t
is to see that not too many major
tournaments are jammed together
in an all too short season.
For some years there have been any
where from five to seven major golf
events held around the Capital in the
Spring of the year, schedule very
pleasant for the golfers who play in
tournaments but sometimes causing
conflict among the clubs IN Baltimore
and Washington and certainly raising
frowns on the golflng legislators as they
tried 70 fit together the intricate pat
tern Of tournament dates without hurt-
InS the feelings of any of the clubs.
Ills NEHI llltAt has bCtAi A4b AAb0SAN
N arranging tournament dates. For
various reasons three clubs have post
Cane6 their invitation events and an
roanced they are going on bi-yearly
schedule. smother has postponed its in
v.tstsoa tourney in favor of swinging
81 its strength toward the holding OF
major sectional championship, and
THE net result is that even though there
VII bs held in May a tourney new to
So.t here, there will be only two big
invitation events played around Wash
inE1on this Spring.
These events are the Journeys to be
Stsged by Army-Navy Country Club
and Chevy Chase Club. with the serv-
ice club to hold its tourney the first
week in May and Chevy Chase to re-
sumo the competition Tor the historic
Taft and Sherman trophies during the
third week in May.
DUT what Of next year. when all the
ID clubs that have Cancelled their
tournaments this year will come
back into the fold again. all at one
time?
Albert E. Steinem. a member of the
Executive Committee of the District
Golf Association, which acts as a clear
ing house for Spring tournament dates,
fears that in 1888 there will be con-
gestion of tournaments without prec-
edent around Washington unless some
scheme is found to space them out.
As means of reducing tournament
congestion Steinem offers a Staggered"
plan by which each club would hold its
invitation event every two years in
stead of each year, to result in an an
nual plan for a tournament schedule
~.
regularity.
Manor already is on a bi-yearly
tourney schedule, which began two
years ago. Indian Spring has gone on
the same schedule. So have Washing
ton and Woodmont None of these
Journeys will be played this year. but if
their plans work out, all will be played
next year. which will bring up again
the old question of tournament conges-
ton, says Steinem.
EOR example, and only as an ex-
l. ample, Steinem suggests the Manor
tourney next year, with Indian
Spring dropping out. And he would
have the Washington tourney next year
with Woodmont dropping out. The fol-
lowing year Indian Spring would hold
its tourney and Manor would have no
event, while Woodmont would have its
tourney and Washington would not
stage one.
Chevy Chase and Columbia, which
nave announced no bi-yearly plan of
holding tournaments, would 90 on as
they have for many years, holding a
tournament each year.
Under the suggested scheme of
tourney operation. Steinem holds that
each club could fit into the tourna-
ment pattern without tournament con-
gestlon, nor would there be a year
practically without major events. as
seems certain this year The idea has
possibilities and might be worked out.
Strangely enough, the local golf clubs
nave neglected the Fall months as
tournament months. There will be
only two big events held here next
ran the District championship and
the Congressional tournament.
zen. D. c. SHANKS, chairman of
~ the Golf Committee of the Senior
Coli Association Of the Chevy Chase
Club and spark-plug behind all the
senior golf activities at Chevy Chase,
has marshaled his forces for another
drive on par this year among the men
% years of age and more and will start
the offensive on Saturday. when the
ANNUAL meeting OF WaShlngtOns largest
senior golf association will be held. The
annual meeting will be held in the
assembly room at Chevy Chase at IL: 80
O'Clock for election of a president.
treasurer and members of the Execu-
tive Committee.
The first tourney of the year for SEN
ior golfers at Chevy Chase will be
played on April 9 and 10, at 18 holes.
medal play handicap. Competitors
may play l8 holes either day or g holes
on both days. On the same two days
there will be a 27-hole putting compe-
tition.
The seniors again are to have one
OF the favorite events-a ringer COM
petition running throughout the sea-
son from April to October 81 Dates
for the MOrven Thompson Memorial
Cup tourney will be announced later.
The usual senior association cllp will
be awarded to the member turning in
the three lowest scores during the
season.
George G.. Perkins, president of the
ASSOCIATION, is again to present piece
OF plate, to be competed for under con-
oluons to be announced later and 9TH
er prizes are expected 10 be donated by
members during the season The an
nouncement Of the annual meeting saws
an entirely new Executive Committee
Is to be chosen this year.