Evening star., 1933-03-16
JOINT STEP LIKELY
BY ORGANIZATIONS
Committees From 4 Bodies
Will Meet Soon to Act
on Handicapping.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

BY w. r. McCALLUM.
A UNIFORM handicapping
II system to apply to all events
\ sponsored by the four or
ganizations sponsoring golf
in the Middle Atlantic sector ap-
pears certain to be arranged this
year.
Executive committees Of the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association, the District
of Columbia Golf Association, the Mary
land State Coli Association and the
Virginia State Golf Association are to
meet within a few weeks In an attempt
to settle on a standard handicapping
code. which may be made applicable to
all these associations notwithstanding
the differences now holding between the
handicapping systems now in USE
The District Golf Association, under
its constitution, binds all its member
clubs to use the Calkins system, recon-.
u1ended by the United States Golf As
ISOLATION The Maryland State Golf
Association uses the Watson-Snith
system. The essential difference be-
tween the two systems Is that the
Calkins system takes the par of any
golf course and rates the player on q
percentage of the difference between the
average of his five best scores and par
7 TNDER the Watson-Smith system the
~ Maryland State solons have arbi--
trarily rated two courses IN Mary
land at scratch, while the other courses
all have handicap ratings based on their
respective difficulty. The Five Farms
course of the Baltimore Country Club
and the course Of the Woodholme Coun.
try Club are the scratch courses, and
players using those courses get higher
handicaps than those using the other
iayouts.
The Middle Atlantic Golf Association
has attempted TO handicap the players
of its member clubs only in cursory
fashion, and the Virginia State Associa-
ton uses the system recommended by
the United States Golf Association
the Calktns system. Edgar A. Peppler,
president Of the Middle Atlantic Asso-
citation. was at the head of the Mary
land State body when that organization
adopted the Watson-Smith system.
Naturally as head Of the Midatlaatic
Gaping system to apply all through this
territory. He will preside at the meet
ing OF the four associations out Of
which he hopes standard handicap
ping system will come.
IF it does come, Peppler proposed to
L stage a series of handicap tourna-
ments - two or three a year -
throughout the clubs of the Middle At
lantlc organization. A decade or two
ago the Midatlantic Association used to
hold team match play tournaments,
but they gradually died out due TO lack
of interest The last one we recall was
played at Columbia in 1921 and found
three teams participating II the as
sociation, with uniform handicap
system in force. begins to sponsor
handicap tournaments scattered around
among the major cities within its pur-
view 1t may go long way toward stim-
ulating interest in the game and in
competition. Washington, Baltimore,
Richmond and Norfolk all are hotbeds
OF golfers awaiting competition, and
atlantic would undoubtedly result in
added interest in the game and In the
association.
Meanwhile, group Of golfers located
In the East and Midwest have gone even
further than the solons Of the game
hereabouts. An organization which
numbers among its prominent figures
Max r. Marston, former amateur cham
pion, Is fostering q national handicap
ping system, proposing q week-long
tournament to be played some time
during the coming Summer at all clubs
throughout the United States.