Evening star., 1933-04-27
FVE-DAY AFFAIR
TO START MAY 15
All Entrants Will Qualify for
Match PIay-Prizes to
Be Plentiful.
BY w. X. McCALLUM.

n IOT to be outdone by their
IN Rock Creek Park compa-
/ Y triots, who staged their
first big golf tourney of the
year last week, AL Farr and his
associates on the managerial staff
of East Potomac Park, Oldest and
largest of Washington's better
municipal golf plants, are plan
ming a bigger and better links
event for mid-May, in which all
amateurs of the city are invited
to take part.
The tourney, to start on May Is,
will be called the East Potomac Park
Spring tournament" and will be run
off in five days, with one match play
round each day to follow the qualifl-
cation test.
An entry fee of ST will be charged,
and there will be enough flights to take
care of every entrant in the match play
rounds, Farr announces. Prices Will be
awarded to the winner and runner-up
In every flight and to the medalist in
the tourney. Entries may be made at
any of the Loeff1er golf enterprises. at
East Potomac Park, West Potomac Park
or Rock Greek Park.
The Rock Creek Park entry list for
the late open" tourney won by John
Connolly, Roosevelt High School young
ster, went to the century mark. Farr
hopes to go Rock Creek one better by
going far beyond hundred in entries
and by having as many as 10 flights.
There will be no disturbance to the nor
NAL play at East Potomac if so many
flights are filed he says The courses
will be shifHed around for the match
play, with the medal round to be played
either on courses A and c or and D.
CONNOLLY, first of the public links
~ stars to win tourney this year,
ranked by many as the best mu-
nicipal links player in the city, Is ex-
pected to be an entrant. Ralph Bennle,
runner-up to Connolly in the Rock
Greek tourney, will be among the en-
trants, for East Potomac is his home
course. Claude Rippey, who has been
showing a stellar brand of golf at the
down-river course all Winter; Volney
G. Burnett, who made a showing at
Rock Greek far below his normal capa-
bilities; Ed Burns and Pat Axtel are
among the other hot" golfers at East
Potomac.
In addition to the habitues at the
doWn-river layout, many OF Rock
Greek Parks ardent golfers are ex-
pected to enter the tourney, to continue
the friendly fued started up IN the
hills of the uptown park last week,
when Harry Graham, Rock Creek Park
manager. looked down the list of win
ners in his open" and gleefully an
hot To pntnYnor
player had won one Of the five flights.
A grand little master of the game
of golf has Just celebrated his fifty
first birthday. Freddie Mcleod, veteran
professional at Columbia, leading fig
ure in the game for the past 80 years,
passed his flfty-f1rst milestone on Tues
day, celebrating the occasion by play
ing 36 holes and scoring well below IS
on each of the rounds.
Freddie's game instead OF slipping
back with the advancing years seems
to get more accurate. Still the same
straight hitter from the tee that he
was back in his younger days at North
Berwick. his shorter shots retain the
unerring accuracy that kept him in the
very top flight of American profess
SIGNALS for three decades.
Freddie has about finished with tour
nament play. He still likes to play in
an occasional tourney, but the old urge
to win is gone. If he became serious,
as serious as some of the young Ameri-
can home-breds, he still could finish
well up in the money Freddie Mcleod
Is one of the outstanding men in any
field of sport, man who graces the
game of golf, and not alone golf pro-
fessional, but a friend to many hun
dreds of Washington players. May he
have many, many more birthdays as
happy as his fifty-first.