Evening star., 1933-01-22
WALKER CUP PLAY
DUD ASACONTEST
Question Arises as to Wheth.
er Uncle Sam Shouldn't
Pull His Punches.
BY w. r. McCALLUM,

n EAR old Britain seems to
thrive on adversely. Brit
- tania may rule the waves,
as the old British song has
it, but she certainly does not rule
the golf courses, either in her own
land or ours. The British can
take It," but the main question
before the world Of amateur golf
these days is as to how long her
amateur golfers will continue to
accept repeated rebuffs to the
neighborhood of the chin and
come back for more.
Granted that membership on a
Walker Cup team Is one of the highest
honors that can come to an amateur
golfer anywhere in the world, has the
have to be done to pep up British golf
and permit them to win q Walker Cup
engagement? Or will 1t automatically
come about by refusal of the gray
boards who rule the game from their
fastness in the club house Of the Royal
and Ancient at st. Andrews to contrib
ute further to competition for the
Walker trophy?
THE 10-year history Of Walker Cup
i matches Is be-sprinkled with
thrills a-plenty, from the time
when an impromptu match was played
back in 1921, to be followed by the first
formal match in 1922, down to George
Dunlaps performance at Brookline in
1882, in aiding the American team to
turn back the latest thrust of the Brit
ish invaders. But the history of Wal
ker Cup matches fails to show a single
British victory. To be sure, several
times chiefly on British SOIL the Britons
have put on a remarkable back-to-th
wall stand, but they have yet to ac-
complish win In the international
golflng amateur classic. The Walker
Cup has travelled across the ocean four
or five times, but it has always returned
safely to the United States, to be en-
bellished again with the recording of
another American victory. The next
contest Is scheduled in Britain in 1884,
where the British team always has put
up its strongest defense. But they are
due fer another licking next year, If
the records Of past competition mean
anything.
THE lineup Of the American team.
i unless the United States Golf Asso-
citation pulls its punches by substi-
tuting weaker lineup than that Of
1882, will be fully as strong as that of
other years, while there do not appear
to be any British golfers coming along
capable of beating the best Of the
Americans. Johnny De Forest, the
British amateur champion, Is about as
good as few of our second-raters, and
the balance of the British team is
hardly strong enough to cope with our
best. Tony Torrance, captain of the
1882 British team, stands out a pillar
OF strength In weak lineup. but the
rest of the team of dears Old Albion
hardly measures up to American stand
ards. Something must be done about
these Walker Cup engagements, or the
string will stretch cut interminably, an
unbroken series of American victories.
How long can they take them and like
them-these indominable Englishmen
and Scots?
A MERICA has so many fine young
IA players coming along every year
that unless British golf Improves
considerably no thinking man can see
anything but an unbroken series Of VIC
tories for the U. S. A. Last years team,
composed Of Francis Ouimet, George
Dunlap. Billy Howell, Harrison r.
Johnston. Don Moe, Maurice Mccarthy,
Charley Seaver, Jess Sweetser, George
Voigt, Jack Westland and Gus More
land, so clearly proved its superiority to
the British that there can be no ques-
ton, If matters continue as they have
been going, Britain is in for line of
lickings. And if they put the lively
young John Goodman and the taciturn
John Fischer on the American team III
place Of the aging Jimmy Johnston
Americans do to the helpless and hap
less Britishers? 1t would be Just too
bad.
IT has finally been arranged-that
i match that the public golf course
devotees at Rock Greek Park have
been waiting for q long time. Next
Tuesday, at 1880 pm, Sam Rice. feet
outflelder for the Griffs, and Nick Al
trock, Washington base ball comedian,
will meet q pair Of professionals in a
match at Rock Greek Park, and B.
Harry Graham. congenial course mana
ger, expects quite throng out to see
the contest. The pros are AL Price,
mentor at Rock Greek Park, and Mel
Shorey, East Potomac Park instructor
And don't put too much dough on the
pros. Both Rice and Altrock can WELD
a mean golf club Nick, for example,
has been around Rock Creek in better
than 10 and Sam Rice, a southpaw
golfer Of considerable ability, has played
Indian Spring In II several times. It's
no set-up for the pros, this match.
VIIOMAN golfers of the Washington
w Golf and Country Club are to
meet at 10 am, January 81, to
choose officers and members Of the Golf
Committee, now headed by Mrs. Doug
las Tschiffely. A schedule for the year
will be drawn up and after the meeting
an informal tourney will be played.
Mrs. Tschiffely, who has a fine record
as chairman Of the committee at Wash
ington, has recently been honored by
appointment as chairman OF the i'm
portant Tournament Committee OF the
Women's District Golf Association. In
that post she will conduct all the affairs
held by the association in 1893.
The schedule of the fair golfers will
not be made public until after the an
nual meeting Of the mems District as
ISOLATION, scheduled for March 6. The
women will attempt to fit their dates in
with those Of the masculine players, In
order to avoid conflicts Of dates so far
as Is possible. It Is practically settled,
however, that The Star Cup tourney
will he plAyed at CONGRESSIONAL in Nav