Evening star., 1933-03-15

1 Y signed to Washington clubs,
are outlined in the proposed
1888 schedule of the Maryland
State Golf Association, made pub
lie today.
The two main events of the associa-
tion-the amateur and open champion
ships-are assigned to the Indian Spring
Golf Club and the Five Farms course
OF the Baltimore Country Club. Indian
Spring will become the first Washington
club to obtain the Simon-pure title
event Of Marylaudis governing golf
organization.
Only one big invitation tournament
IS listed around Baltimore this year
the event Of the Baltimore Country
Club, to be played at Five Farms on
May rs, 2s and ~. This tourney
was won last year by Harry G. Pitt
of the Manor Club. The proposed
schedule of the Maryland State Asso-
citation follows:
Wednesday, April 26. handicap tour
ney at Five Spring.
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ney at Indian Spring.
Wednesday, May II, handicap tour
ney at Baltimore Suburban Club.
June s, 2, 8, 9 and 10, women's
championship tourney at Five Farms
Wednesday, June T. handicap tourney
at Rolling Road.
Wednesday, June IA, seniors tour
ney at Green Spring Valley.
Monday. June %, Junior champion
ship, Baltimore Country Club
Wednesday, July IL, handicap tour
ney, Rodgers Forge Golf Club.
July 10, 20, 81 and %. amateur
championship at Indian Spring Golf
Club.
Wednesday, July IS, mixed two-ball
foursome, Congressional Country Club.
Wednesday, August 2, handicap at
Chevy Chase Club.
tourney at Cumberland Country Club.
Wednesday, August %, handicap
tourney at Gibson Island.
Wednesday September IL, handicap
tourney at Green Spring Valley.
Wednesday, September 18, mixed two
ball championship. Baltimore Suburban
Club
Wednesday, September ~, Maryland
State open championship, Five Farm
course
Wednesday, October II, handicap
tourney at Columbia Country Club.
Wednesday, October as, handicap
tourney at Hillendale
In addition to the events named, the
association probably will announce one
or two more tournaments. Where a
conflict comes with those tournaments
which have been arranged by clubs
near Washington, postponement of
the one-day Journeys Of the Maryland
State Association will be made
THE Middle Atlantic pros have taken
l. the veil on conversation regarding
the affairs of their organization
Only the sealed lips Of some Is pros can
tell what happened yesterday behind
closed doors at the Kenwood Golf and
Country Club, where the lads who are
supposed to talk golf with sapient hints
about golf form and say 1t with flying
shots suddenly became Secretive and
refused to divulge what happened.
Not that any one cares much, for
what the pros do Is their own business,
but in previous years the pros have in
vlted the newspaper men to their meet
1ngs. The boys were supposed to dis
cuss certain merchandising methods
and what to do about Arthur B. Thorn,
~SPNDSo VVSOSn11Ollt plO.
After their meeting they held a
sweepstakes tournament, which. as ex-
pected, went to Al Houghton, the home
club pro, who is the big shot of all the
golf1ng gents hereabouts. Houghton
shot "a through the mud and wet to
cop all the dough, notwithstanding an
on the second hole, where he had a
bralnstorm and took three shots to 70
about the same distance in yards.
Mel Shorey of East Potomac Park
and George Diffenbaugh of Indian
Spring tied for second place with cards
OF IS; frankie Cunningham, the young
Burning Tree assistant, got out in IS
whacks. but went haywire coming home
for q II and rs. Other scores were !:
Walter Cunningham, Burning Tree, II;
Manor, 79, and Leo Walper, unat-
tached, 80.
Walper announced that Thorn IS to
become attached to his driving course
located on Wisconsin avenue in Be-
thesda.
The boys did not choose officers for
1888, awaiting the return Of Bob Bar
nett of Chevy Chase before getting down
to the serious business of electing. Bob
was the only local pro to attend the
national P. G. A. meeting last Fall
and also was the first president of the
Middle Atlantic P. G. A.
THE second and eighteenth greens ut
L the Army-Navy Country Club are
to be torn up and rebuilt aS part
of the clubs reconstruction program.
Both have gone bad, and because of
faults in the original construction they
will be entirely rebuilt from the bottom
up. This Is one OF the reasons Tor the
club not seeking tournament date this
Spring. The Army-Navy Club may hold
a tourney in the Fall