Evening star., 1933-11-22

"HE end Of gifts of free golf balls
to professional and amateur
golfers and sale Of golf balls to
amateurs at sharply slashed
prices is in sight.
Most Of the major ball manufacturers
have signed an agreement by which
they request all golf professionals to
put q stop to the practice Of selling
balls at less than the full retail price.
This step, together with the proposed
golf ball code. which prohibits manu-
facturers from making gifts of balls to
professional and amateur golfers, will
bring to an end, II the agreement is
carried out. the practice of giving away
balls or selling them at less than the
full price. The code has not yet been
adopted by the manufacturers In full,
but it will be adopted, with its provision
that no member of the golf ball manu-
lecturers division of the sports goods
industry may make gifts of any kind to
any golf player, either professional or
amateur. or charge them lower price
for merchandise than the price charged
other customers of the same class.
For many years the free golf ball sit
uation has been sore spot with the
manufacturers and the U. S. G. A. Al
though the amateur code provides that
acceptance without payment Of golf
balls, clubs or golf merchandise Will
render player ineligible to compete in
the amateur championship. this code
has been winked at for so many years
that 1t has become standing joke in
the championship.
A,,ao rvoIforc I1ou al fvoo
golf balls at the championship or have
paid nominal price for them to keep
themselves within the spirit of the reg
ulation.
Indeed, at the last amateur tourna-
ment at Cincinnati 1t was reliably re-
ported that only two or three Of the
men who reached the match-play
rounds paid full price for their golf
balls.
The others either got them free or
paid something like 10 cents a dozen
for them.
It's a racket like that in many
branches Of sport, but now the manu-
facturers are trying to put stop to it.
They may succeed, but they will have
hard time doing 1t.
George DifIenbaugh, Indian Spring
professional, looks for more than 100
entries In the turkey tourney to be
staged at Indian Spring next Saturday
and Sunday. More than half a hun
dred entries already have come in in
both the mems and women's classes. A
crate OF turkeys will be placed on the
club lawn next Saturday and the sue
ceSsfu contestants may pick out their
own birds at the close Of the tourney
Sunday afternoon. They may play
their 18-hole round, with club handl-
caps, either on Saturday or Sunday.
Prizes won during the season in club
tournaments are to be distributed at
the Kerwood Golf and Country Club at
dinner to be held on the evening of
November 2S. A. Montague Ferry will
preside.
NNE of the interesting phases of
~ golf as the game is being played
at Columbia these days, Is the
frst-rate brand of play being shown
by one OF the real veterans of the
game around Washington, a man who
was winning tournaments when the
present crop Of leaders were wondering
what Q mashie shot meant.
The man Is Albert r. Mackenzie,
one Of Columbia's better known mem
bers, who has come back on the ganne
he used to have q half dozen years ago.
Just 10 years ago Albert won the
Middle Atlantic championship In q
hectic final round with his son Roland.
sNAn illness caused him to renounce the