Evening star., 1932-05-13
BATTLE ON IN June
! At COLUMBIA CLUB
An Leading Performers in
! Section to Seek Crown
Worn by Howell.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

A announcements were in
" the mail today for the
n twenty eighth annual
championship tournament
of the Middle Atlantic Golf ASso-
citation, to be played at the Co.
lumbia Country Club on June 7,
8, and 10. This is the third and
last of the big events to be played
around Washington this Spring,
and is the biggest sectional cham
pionship held in this part of the
country.
1t will attract entrants from Balti-
more, Richmond, Norfolk and other
nearby places in Maryland and Virginia
and will include virtually all the lead
ing golfers Of this sector of the coun-
try.
Country Club of Richmond, the same
lad who thrilled thousands at Chicago
last September as he carved his way
am teur championship and gave
Francis Ouimet, the champion, his
stiffest fight, will defend his title at
Columbia. At least four former cham
pionS also will play in the tournament,
for Roland R. Mackenzie. the 1925
title holder; B. Warren Corkran, cham
pion in 1921 and 1929; Thomas w.
Sasscer, the 1922 title holder, and AL
bert r. Mackenzie, who won in 1923,
plan to play in the tourney. The Co
lumbia Country Club has decided not
to hold its Spring invitation tourney
this year and will concentrate on max
ing the Midatlantic complete success.
IN place of the customary medal which
i has gone to previous winners of the
Middle Atlantic championship, the
winner this year will receive a replica
of the historic old Middle Atlantic
Golf Association Cup. This cup has
been in competition since 1904. when
the old Virginia, Maryland and District
Golf Association was disbanded to form
the present Middle Atlantic Golf As
sociation. Names of many golfers IA
nous locally and nationally grace the
historic old silver cup, which now rests
at Hermitage, where Billy Howell plays.
Howell won the title in 1880 and 1881.
The tournament this year is an event
officially sponsored by the Washington
Bicentennial Commission and is part of
the sports program of the Bicentennial
Commission, which looks upon it as the
major sectional golf event in this sec
ton during the Bicentennial year.
THE event will open with a two-day
l. qualification round on June and
8, to be followed by four match
play rounds on June and 10. Entries
will close with w. r. McCallum, sec
retary of the Middle Atlantic Golf As
sociation, at the Columbia Country
Club on June at 2 pm. They must
be accompanied by the entry fee of 50.
The tourney is open to all members of
the % clubs which form the associa-
ton. A team championship event will
be held in conjunction with the quail
fication round, for five-man teams from
the various member clubs, and six
flights of 16 will qualify for the match
play rounds. The event will be run
of under the direction of the Executive
Committee of the association, which
consists of Donald Woodward, Colum-
bia Country Club. president; Edgar A.
Peppler, Rolling Road Golf Club, first
vice president; Gerald D. Mccarthy
Hot Springs Golf and Tennis Club,
second vice president; w R. McCallum,
Washington Golf and Country Club,
secretary-treasurer. The course of the
Columbia Country Club will be open
for practice to tournament contestants
on Monday, June 6, and course and
club house privileges will be extended
to all tourney entrants from June 6 to
10 inclusive