Evening star., 1933-04-05
PLAN MORE EVENTS
TO ENHANCE SALES
Journeys for "Advertising''
Held Necessary-Meet
Next Monday.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

will be an aid to sales, are plan
ming to draw up an extensive
tournament schedule at their an
nual meeting to be held next Mon
day at one of the Baltimore clubs.
"A meeting of the Middle Atlantic P.
q. A. was held at Kenwood early IN
March, but this meeting resolved itself
into a protest gathering against certain
merchandising methods and nothing
was done toward organization OF the
tournaments for the year. Bob Bar
nett, Chevy Chase pro. and first presi-
dent of the sectional P. @. A. body, Is
scheduled to be chosen president again.
He will succeed Ralph Beach OF the
Baltimore Suburban Club.
The professionals view 1888 as year
In which promotion of the game by
themselves will be necessary to go along
with prospective enhanced sale OF goil
equipment. In past years golf mer-
chandise has virtually sold itself, but
this year the pros are planning to pro-
mote sales by various methods, such
as numerous tournaments, exhibition
matches and publicity of the desirable
kind. With this thought in view they
are planning a comprehensive schedule
to be drawn up at the meeting next
Monday, which will include all kinds
Of tournaments, among them mixed
four-ball matches, senior-pro tourna-
ments, amateur-pro affairs, and sweep
stake events.
HNE of the first moves will be to Sc
~ cure the maximum numerical en-
try for the national open sectional
qualifying tests at Manor on May 15,
In order that this section may get the
maximum number of places for the
championship itself at Chicago in June.
Last year, with sc entrants, there were
eight places open for the pros in this
section. Another step will be to secure
the p. G. A. championship qualifying
round either for Washington or Balti-
more. Last year the tourney was held
ct Columbia, so In all probability 1t
viii 60 to Baltimore club this year.
Plans for the Middle Atlantic p. G..
"A. championship also will be discussed.
Last year this event was held at the
Maryland Country Club as q match
play affair and was won by Glenn 8.
Spencer, the home club pro, with the
Arst two rounds played In driving
rainstorm. The biggest professional
tournament Of the year In this section
viii be the National Capital Open at
Kenwood, with tentative dates sched-
nled for October Z and 8.
There Is some doubt about the date,
bs q tournament for $4,000, sponsored
bg q cigarette company, is being dis
eussed for Richmond In October. II
khis tournament goes through, an at
Ssmpt win be made to reconcile the
oates with those for Kenwood. in order
% secure the best field for both events.
H1EMBERS Of the Senior Golf As
El sociation Of the Chevy Chase
Club will gather within Q few
days to outline . schedule for the CON-
petitive season among the seniors,
This year, according to members of the
association, Gen. D. G. Shanks. chair
man Of the Golf Committee for several
years, plans to 60 through with his
limited retirement from active direc-
tion Of the senior golf tournaments,
and q quiet search Is under way for o
man to succeed the competent chair
man in that post.
Gen. Shanks has made an admirable
record as the spark plug" Of the larg-
est senior golf organization in this ter
yitcry, running of numerous tourna--
ments throughout past years without
pleta satisfaction to all members.
TOLLEGE golf activities rapidly are
~ getting under way around Wash
ington. A call for candidates has
gone out from George Washington Uni
yersity, and today Georgetown aspirants
began their tryouts for what looms as a
strong varsity links aggregation. The
Hoya trials will continue through Friday
ever the course of the Indian Spring
Golf Club.
4 The Hilltop team will be built around
such veterans as Jack Slattery, captain
az the 1898 outfit: Joe De Stefano, WAL
ter lyman, Richard Mcfarland. Donald
OBrien and Rupert Friday. But. IN ad-
dition, Joe Lynch, the Newton. Mass,
lad who won the medal at the Army
Navy tourney last year and showed him
self to be one of the best golfers who
ever wore the Blue and Gray, will be
eligible for golf competition this year,
along with Dick Kreuzberg, Washing
ton lad who plays at Indian Spring, and
Joe Calvin.
The Georgetown club-swingers are
planning match with North Carolina
Tor wednesday, April 26. The following
Friday, April %. the team will open its
regular Eastern intercollegiate season,
mCCtulS I1Oly SIOoo, Ddl ain
Harvard in week end matches at Prince
ton, N. j. Georgetown looks to be one
of the strongest competitors for the in
tercollegiate team crown.
eTHE Kenwood Golf and Country Club
- plans to hold stag smoker on the
evening of Wednesday. April IL.
With boxing bouts and other athletic
entertainment. Efforts will be made TO
have several of the Washington ball
club members attend the smoker.
Mel Shorey, East Potomac Park pro
who has been walloping the ball in
great style this Spring, knocked in an
ace on the l45-yard fourth hole OF
Course G at the down-river park lay
out yesterday. Shorey used a mashie
for the shot, playing with John NJ
Downey and Ralph Bennie.
Dave Thomson, the club pro, finally
has put quietus to the doubt that has
existed regarding dropping away from
water pipes in water hazards at the
Washington Golf and Country Clut
course. Dave has ruled in two recent
cases that ball in water hazard can
not be touched, regardless of the rule
which states that 1t may be dropped q
club length from water pipes. Tht
hazard rule, Dave says, takes prece.
dence over the rule regarding mainte
nance of the course, under which classi
nsation the pipes come. Dave also ha
ruled that ball struck past the las
out-of-bounds stake on the sixteenth
hole is not out of bounds, although
lies between the stake and the seven
teenth tee.