Evening star., 1933-10-27
CLASSES PROVIDED
FOR MEN, FAIR SEX
Leaves Now OFFER Difficult
Problem for Those in
Charge of Course.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.


around the stove these days be-
wailing the lack of golfers and golf
competition. Harry is going out
and making bigger and better forms of
competition, the main idea being to
lure out on that hilly course w in
the northwestern park flock OF gents
who hold that the golf season doesn't
end when the leaves begin to fall.
And how they are falling at Rock Creek.
Harry's latest attempt to bring out
the golfers. following Summer sea-
son in which tournament followed tour
nament at Rock Greek PARK, is a
turkey tourney, in which the toothsome
traditional Thanksgiving birds will be
dished out to the lucky winners in the
forthcoming event. Although only a
dozen or so golfers have entered the
tournament to date, Harry hopes, with
his customary optimism, Lhat upward
Of 80 golfing lads and laSsieS will enter
for the swatfest, which will start with
an 18-hole qualification round on or
about November IL. Entries will close
with Graham at the uptown park on
November 10, and must be ACCOMPANIED
by the fee Of so cents. Thereafter the
boys and girls can go out and hit 'em
and miss em as they please, the only
proviso being that they must play their
match rounds on schedule. The first
round must be completed by November
1S, the second round by November %,
the third or semi final round by No.
vember 25 and the final round by No
vember 27, at which time a flock of
turkeys who little know their fate will
be Struttlng around the premises at
Rock Creek Park, awaiting the blow of
the AK
TNTRIES to date for the mems
r.. flight are: Pat Axtell, S. c. VIM
staff. E. B. Johnson, c. J. Will
uams, George L. Marshall. T. N. Cain.
NJ. Polinger, Carl Shif1ette. Robert ].
(Hot) Marks Russell j. Hoag, H.
Jarman and George MarloWe. A Spe-
cial flight to be put on for the Iassies
so far has only one entrant-Miss Betty
Keeler-but the ever-optimistlc Graham
is hopeful 16 or more women will enter,
including Mrs. Peggy Wootton. the Dis
trict women's public links title holder;
Mrs. Mae Hill, Mrs. Nick Altrock and
Mrs Gordon Rule.
Meanwhile Graham has a problem
on his hands these days. In the Sum-
mertime Rock Greek Park is blessed
with plenty of shade from the trees
which border those narrow fairW avs.
plenty of trouble. Falling leaves cover
the putting greens and the low spots
in the fairways and Notwithstanding
greens brushed clear of leaves. they will
persist in falling, circumstance which
causes great grief to the golfers, for
the reason that golf balls have habit
of burrowing into piles OF leaves and
losing themselves. But even that trouble
soon will be gone, and Harry will be
all smiles once more.
"HREE matches have been played
in the second round of the COM
petition for the Siamese Cup at
the Chevy Chase Club, but the match
in the top bracket awaits the compile
ton of the Sturtevant- Brand match in
the first round. Frank P Reside is in
the second round. but cannot play until
the winner of the Sturtevant-Brand
contest is known. Three matches were
played yesterday, with the following re-
suits: P. P. Powell defeated Richard D.
feated Henry Ravenel, and 8; Landra
B. Platt defeated DR.. Thomas F. Foley,
2 and /.
"HE handicap match play tourney
in PROGRESS at Columbia for the
Post Trophy is proving two things
at least One of them is that the
handicaps of the woman players Or
ganized under the banner Of the Wom-
ems District Golf Association are kept
as fair and as up to date as 1t is pos
sible to keep handicaps. The other IS
that in match play competition OF
jS hor d1y a
low handicap player to ask her to give
the full difference between her handicap
and that of the higher handicap golfer.
A mere matter of giving away four
or five strokes means little to good
golfer, but when she is faced With the
problem OF taking up anywhere be-
tween 10 and IA strokes it becomes
and she is out of the tournament,
while the high-handicap player, who
expects to lose holes to the better
golfer, can plough along serene in the
conviction that her handicap is work
ing for her and eventually VIII wear
down the better player The solution
of the thing is to give seven-elghths
recommended by the U. S. G. A, with
the split, if any, given to the low
handicap star. To give the full dl-
ference in handicaps imposes too much
on the better player.
Eight women were playing today In
the quarter final of the Post event,
with Mrs William M. Smith, one OF
the real sensations of the tourney to
date, meeting Miss Elizabeth Hough-
ton of Chevy Chase; Mrs. Landra B.
Platt of Chevy Chase clashing with
Mrs. F.. D. Let's of Congressional Mrs.
M. E. Irwin of Beaver Dam match
ing shots with Mrs. McCook Knox OF
Chevy Chase and Mrs. James w. Beller,
the Columbia champion, meeting Mrs.
b. G. Gamble OF Manor.
Mrs j. Marvin Haynes of Columbia,
the District titleholder, was upset in the
second round yesterday by Mrs. Let's,
to whom the champion conceded no
fewer than IA strokes, which meant
stroke on every hole but the four short
holes. Mrs Haynes missed wee putt
on the eighteenth green to lose the
match.
Al HOUGHTON of Kenwood is
II serving notice these days that he
= is going to be tough to beat in the
National Capital open. Equipped with
a new set of iron clubs and new con-
fidence in his iron shots, Houghton has
been hitting the ball better than ever
over the past fortnight. Yesterday he
ploughed his way around his home
course in 50 strokes, beating par by
shot in a game with Sam Rice and
George Diffenbaugh of Indian Spring.