Evening star., 1933-07-16
MARYLAND STATE
EVENT HEADLINES
Women's Teams Engage in
Two Close Competitions.
Columbia Ahead.
BY WALTER X. McCALLUM.


THREE championships are to
be decided this week in golf
i around Washington. The
main competitive angle
hinges around the Maryland
State title chase to start on We'd
nesday at Indian Spring, but not
the least interesting of the group
is the closely locked battle for the
first team title, to be decided to-
morrow at Columbia, where three
teams virtually deadlocked for
the lead will play in the deciding
matches.
Columbia. the present holder Of the
first team championship, which leads
Kenwood and Chevy Chase by 2l2
points, is scheduled to play Kenwood.
Meanwhile Chevy Chase is slated to
meet Manor, and if Chevy Chase con-
quers the Norbeck club by heavy
margin the Chevy Chase team may slip
in under the wire while Columbia and
KenWood are killing each other off. The
situation is full of possibilities. and
more than ordinary interest attaches to
the matches tomorrow. No past season
has seen the teams so closely deadlocked
as this year of 1898. In previous years
the team championships among the tair
sex have been decided a match or two
in advance Of the close of the season,
but this year the contests among both
first and second teams go right down to
the final match before winner can be
named.
Second Teams Also Close.
"HE second team competition is
close. too. With the final
matches in the series billed on
Wednesday at KenWood Club, Chevy
Chase has q slim lead, While Army
Navy. victorious last year. is well back.
Here again, anything may happen. Not
in many years vii! the women find such
close contests as there have been in the
team matches. The answer to the well
balanced race is the substitution of the
total point system for the winning
match system Of counting and the fact
that one or two of the stronger teams
have been weakened, while the weaker
teams Of last year have been strength
ened
Among the men the main competitive
angle OF the week is the Maryland title
event at Indian Spring for the crown
now so gracefully worn by the popular
B Warren CCrkran, Of the Baltimore
Country Club. The State title tourney
Is an elongated affair, consisting of eight
rounds Of golf for the two finaliSts,
starting with a 36-hole qualification
round on Wednesday. from which 30
men will emerge to play for the title.
There are no subsidiary flights. but it
will be a real championship. Four l8-
hole match play rounds On Thursday
and Friday Will bring the finallsts to-
gether On Saturday over the 36-hole
route Entries will close tomorrow with
the Maryland State Golf Association at
l6 Mcclellan place, Baltimore, Md.
Columbia Course GroOmed.
TOUR weeks from next Tuesday
II some 60 or 70 golfers recruited
Il from the entire Middle Atlantic
area will gather at the carefully
groomed course Of the Columbia Coun-
try Club to decide which of their num-
ber will represent this sector IN the
National Amateur championship, to be
played at Cincinnati in Mld-Septemper.
It will be Columbias first trial as the
scene of a sectional qualification round
for the highest amateur honor in the
land, and Columbia stands ready to-
day to meet the test. SO carefully and
we'll has the course been brought along
through early heat spells and brown
patch weather that if the sectional
rounds were to be played tomorrow Co.
lumbia would be in shape.
The home club, incidentally. will have
quite a few OF the more prominent local
b,C rli fNy- n
the amateur sun when the sectional
trials are played on August 8. BY the
times entries for the amateur champion
ship close next Thursday half dozen
or more Columbia golfers will have en-
tered the tournament, including at least
three men who qualified at Chevy
Chase last year. Miller B. Stevenson,
Maurice L. Nee and Martin F. NC
Carthy already have entered from Co
lumbia. and more will enter before the
dead line Thursday evening at O'CLOCK
Distance Makes Difference.
EA LII the entrants are hoping Tor
~ large list in order that the maxi
- mum number Of places may be
awarded to the local field. Last year,
with SO entrants at Chevy Chase, there
were 10 qualifiers. with Chandler Har-
Der of Norfolk leading the field at l43.
This wear if there are 70 entrants at
Columbia. there will be about Is places
available for the qualitiers who hope to
60 to Cincinnati. But last year. with
the championship itself being held at
Baltimore, every one wanted to go.
This wear there is not likely to be such
a scramble to enter. for Cincinnati Is
500 miles from Washington and dis
rance costs money.
At least two Of Washington's most
prominent golfers plan to qualify IN
other sections. Dick Lunn, towering
Chevy Chase lad. who won his club
tourney last Spring, probably will essay
to qualify at Boston. Page Hufty, Con-
gressional Country Club title holder.
plans to make his attempt either at
Boston or at Buffalo.
A uuirk in the regulations governing
the qualifying rounds provides that en-
trants who qualify in a district other
than the one from which they hail
must return a score equal or lower than
the hiahest score in his home district,
which means that Lunn and Hufty. to
ouahfy. must return scores as good or
better than the highest score which
Qualities at Columbia. This no matter
If the course over which they play Is
harder course than Columbia.
The L. S. c. A. does no. take eX-
Cuses from late entrants. so those who
hope to play at Columbia on August
are warned to get their entries In be-
fore & n m neyt ThurSdav