The Washington times., 1933-07-26
R|PPY AND BAER
MEET IN GOLF
TITLE EVENT

Today is the day-for Claude
Rippy and John Baer.
They are scheduled to meet in
the final match of the District
public links golf tournament.
The match is scheduled to get
unday way by 2 o'clock this after.
noon. It will be played over the
Rock Greek public course, and a
large gallery is expected to follow
the duo struggling for the cham
pionship.
A ding-dong match is in pros
pect. Rippy, a North Carolinian,
said to be somewhat of a stylist
with an excellent repertoire OF
shots, and Baer, a student at
Catholic University and who won
medal honors in the tournament,
are rated on a par. The latter
is a long hitter but more than
holds his own around the green.
Rippy Plays Well
Rippy moved into today's final
battle by taking a oneIsided vic
tory yesterday from w. w. shay.
The final count had Rippy on
the right end of a Z up and 6 to
play score. The Carolinian man.
aged the first nine in 80, sub
par performance, and was 5 up
at the turn.
In another final match, this
one in the first flight, Larry Day,
former District marathon cham
pion, will meet Bob Marks. Day
yesterday went into the final by
trimming N. A. Pixton, 3 and !.
In the third final match sched-
uled for today, H. B. Williams
tries conclusions with A. M.
Holmes in the third flight.
George Berkheimer already has
won the final Of the fourth flight.
Harlan Will, medaist, won his
way into the semifinals of the
East Potomac contention yester-
day after a tough battle against
Bradley Burrows. The final score
of this one was 2 and i. The
medalist will tackle the winner Of
the John Downey-P. L. Sweeney
match, scheduled to be decided
today.
Sensational Golf
Sensational golf featured the
Will-Burrows match. A dispute
arose during the match, on the
third green, when the putter
handed him by his caddy slipped
from Wills grasp and touched his
ball. Will won this hole with a
par 4 as against for Burrows.
The claim was made that the in
cident lost Will the hole, but the
rules of golf establish that Will
should have been penalized one
stroke, which would have given
him the hole, strokes to 6.
Burrows was showing the way
to Will to the tenth hole; but Will
came back with some remarkable
golf to end the match on the sew
enteenth green. Will had an ap-
proXimate medal of 76 as against
78 for Burrows.
In a Semifinal match in the
fifth flight, at East Potomac, c.
Thorn moved ahead by winning
over M. I. Simpson, 2 and /. He
will meet M. R. RoySter in the
final.
Thirty women golfers today
start competition in a 36-hole
tournament at the Washington
Golf and Country Club. The win
ner will come into possession of
the MuncaSter trophy. Players
with handicaps ranging from an
ordinary 4 strokes to 35 will COM
pete. DR.. F. B. Muncaster, donor
of the trophy, is expected to
watch the contention. The event
will be conducted by threesomes.
Mixed FOurSOmeS
Sixty District golfers are listed
among the 100 who are scheduled
to participate today in the mixed
two-ball fourSome tournament at
the Congressional Country Club.
Post entries probably will bring
the number of contenderS to $50.
John Taylor succeeds Spencer
Pyle as greenSkeeper of the Ken
wood Golf and Country Club. He
was appointed yesterday by the
board of directors of the clup.
Taylor was a grass expert for
the Department of Agriculture.
Pyle will remain as Taylor'S chief
assistant.