Evening star., 1933-05-14
NEGOTIATING WITH
WOOD AND RUNYAN
Wants Winters Leading Coin
Winners to Play Hough-
ton and Partner.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

BY w. 4. McCALLUM.
= ATISFIED with the turnout
for the Sarazep -Kirkwood
~ exhibition match last Sun
day, the same match which
turned out to be q personally
conducted tour by Kirkwood,
those go-getters who handle golf
Affairs at the Kenwood Golf and
Country Club are planning an
other match starring two Of the
younger crop Of professionals
within a few weeks.
The gents with whom Kenwood now
Is negotiating are none other than
Craig Wood and Paul Runyan, New
Jersey professionals who placed first
and second in money winning totals
during the Winter.
They will be opposed by AL Houghton.
Kenwood pro, and an unnamed partner,
under present plans.
Runyan played in last years National
Capital open and finished in the money,
but that was before he started On the
winning streak which won him the
Aqua Caliente and Miami open cham
pionships and the international four
ball title. paired with Horton Smith.
Wood won the San Francisco and Los
Angeles opens and enough prize money
n other tournaments to top all the pros
who played the Winter circuit. Gene
6arazen believes Runyan is the best Of
the young crop Of professionals this
year and thinks the 145-pound jersey
ite Is going long way IN golf.
THE coming week is due to be an
i other busy week In local golf. To-
morrow SO professionals from the
Middle and South Atlantic sections will
play 36 holes oyer the testing Manor
Club course to determine the five OF
their number who will represent this
section Tn the national open champion
ship at Chicago early in June. 1t Is
q cinch that Washington will land at
least one and possibly three among the
uualifiers. AL Houghton OF Kenwood,
leader of the local pros, and Henry q.
Picard of Charleston, s: c.. should be
among the five who will qualify. the
pros will start on their 36-hole trek AZ
Manor at 8 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
It's medal play and every shot counts.
watch em steer the ball through the
woods on that first nine holes.
0N Tuesday the twenty-third renewal
~ of the competition for the TAFT
and Sherman Cups starts at the
Chevy Chase Club, with much the same
field entered Is played in the Manor
Club tourney last week. Augmented py
a few visitors from out OF the city, the
entry list Ut Chevy Chase Is large But
in the final analysis only -FOUR nlgnts
ar. to qualify, or "a contestants, ana
as the match play rounds progress the
old familiar faces probably will appear
once again.
Harry G. Pitt, long hitting Manonite,
has served notice that he Is strictly on
top of the game, which has placed nm
at the TOP Of the heap among local
amateurs by winning In Impressive
fashion his own club tourney. wnlcn
had twice before eluded him. Pitt was
not to be stopped at Manor last week,
however. From the time he hit the
first BAH In the tourney last Tuesday,
he looked ike the winner. In the ma!
he couldn't be stopped. HIS putter was
red-hot. Pitt will be the single iavotaIe
week although he may be tired by his
exertions at Manor. The only man VINO
has won the Taft Cup three time IN
row, Harry always has liked the Chevy
Chase course and has played 1t better
than any local amateur since ne became
. tournament winner. ..,.
II good weather comes along TINS
week the Chevy Chase tourney should
be one of the outstanding events OF the
season: Notwithstanding the heavy ram
Of the past fortnight, the course Is IN
excellent shape. Qualfyng rounos
will be played Tuesday and Wednesoey.
with the match play rounos Asteo iof
Thursday and Friday.
MOT in many years has any ciun
IN around Washington put on goit
tournament with trimmings which
eoualed the hospitality shown the VS.
iting firemen at the Manor Club anair:
Determined to make their third annua!
event one Of the outstanding analrS OF
the season, those Manor CLUB gol1els
put on a real show, outstripping even
previous Manor Club Journeys Whicn
had established records for hospitanty
and friendliness. They are greas
Club-and they went the whole way 10
show their guests a good time. Inere
NAV have been better tournaments than
the one last week at Manor. but we
haven't seen 'em yet. And to top on
the show. Harry Pitt won the silver and
the glory. Could better nn1sn nave
been imagined, frcm the Manor Ciuo
standpoint?
RIB. Gwathmey is the winner OF the
French High Commission Cup at the
Chevy Chase Club. Gwathmey won the
final round last week, defeating X. Z.
Shands by 4 and In the hnal.
Great golfers all play their shots
Alike. and use the same methods. rom
INV Armour, former Congressional pro-
fessicnal. says in . copyrighted article
in the Chicago Tribune. Tommy mas
turned author, and has signed up 70
write a series of golf instruction yarns
for the "Trib." We know OF no man
who is better qualified to write on the
game than the Black Scot, who mas
held the American and British open
titles. Aside from few manner1sms
Of grip and stance. the great golfers OF
the world all approach their shots w1tn
the same fundamentals, and the same
grocved swing, Armour points out He
adds that sound playing. using sound
and proven underlying principles. wins
championships. and not trick shots.