Evening star., 1933-01-25
PREFERS TOSTAGE
TOURNEY IN SPRING
Not to Promote $2,500 Meet
Should KenWood Move Up
Its Annual Event.
BY WALTER B, McCALLUM.

Il De nelO Dy manor Olup IIllS
year has progressed to the
point where the club actually Is
seeking favorable dates for a ST.
500 event for the professional
golfers, to catch them as they re-
turn to their jobs from the South
shortly after the Pinehurst North
and South open tourney.
D. L. Thomson, chairman Of the Golf
and Greens Committee at Manor, and
the man on whom most Of the work
in connection with the proposed tour
nament will fall, said today he is
awaiting word from Kenwocd Gclf and
Country Club on the date5 fo- the
third National Capital open tourney
before proceeding with plans for the
Manor Club affair.
The situation. as it stands today, as
explained by Thomson, Is like this
If Kenwood changes its dates from
Fall to Spring this year. Manor will
not stage a tourney in 1888 But If
Kenwood holds its National Capital
open in the Fall, Manor will proceed
with plans for its tournament In the
Spring. Naturally, since the Kenwood
tourney Is the original big open event
held about Washington annually. Manor
will await definite settlement by Ken
wood on the dates for the tourney Of
that club.
s.VXTE have not definitely decided to
w hold the tournament because
OF the indecision regarding
dates" Thomson said. But the sug-
gested tournament has been talked
about good deal at Manor and We
find such a favorable response that If
we can have good date for the tour
nament, preferably soon after the
Pinehurst event, we probably will 60
ahead and stage It,"
Meanwhile Bob Harlow, manager Of
the Tournament Golfers Association,
has written Thomson at Manor, giving
him an outline of the tournament sit
uation and the possibility of drawing a
strong field. The field probably would
include most of those professionals
Capital open at Kenwood.
Harlow is working toward the end
of securing the promise of most Of the
top-notch pros associated with the
new organization to appear and play
in the tournaments sponsored and ar
ranged by his association, believing
that their appearance will not only
build up the game of golf. but also
will rebound to the benefit of the pro-
fessionals.
His idea is that if the appearances
of the American open and British
champions and few other stars can
be guaranteed, any open tournament
is certain to be a success, and he
ture tournaments sponsored by the
Tournament Golfers Association the
appearance Of most Of the top
notchers.
Until we can guarantee from four
to six Of the stars we never can win
this battle" the rotund and affable
Bob says. 1T can be done"
"1N places where tournaments are
i hopeless offer my list Of men,
bers for exhibition purposes,
making no selection, but permit
ting the clubs to name the one, two or
four or more players it wishes. This
has worked out in six Florida cubs
where it was impossible to obtain
tournaments, but where work has been
obtained for members of the T. G. A."
Harlow announcer that two new tour
naments have been promoted by the
association of them a $1,000 open
in Miami for March 3, and S, and
the other a $4,000 open in Charleston,
S. c., with the dates yet to be named.
In addition, individuals and commit
tees are working In other sections
toward promotion of tournaments in
which members Of the T. G. A. will
appear
AL Houghton Of Kenwood, only men,
Der of the T. G. A. in this section,
plans to leave Washington for Florida
early in February to play in the in
ternaticnal four-ball tournament at
Miami and the other Florida events.
THE boys were just not good enough.
L Sam Rice and Nick Altrock. vet
eran warriors Of the Washington
Babe Ball Club, who have taken up
golf with considerable success, took
licking yesterday at the hands Of
Mel Shorey and Al Price. public park
professionals. but not before the base
ball stars had put on gallant show
and had gone down fighting.
Shorey, who is the pro at East Po-
tomac Park, and Price, who holds
down the paid berth at Rock Greek,
were just too good. They slipped
around Rock Creek before small
gallery with best ball of Ct. finishing
the first nine l up and ending the
match on the sixteenth, where Shorey
canned a short putt for a birdie 3.
One of the featurese of the match
was the hila-ity Nick Altrock got out
of winning the eleventh with birdie
2. The deuce came from a thunder
ing putt which roled across the green
and found the bottom of the tin.
Shcrey had an individual card Of
68, while Frice was IA. Altrock. who
is nobody's set-up at golf, waltzed
around the course in II, while Rice
scored a 49,