Evening star., 1933-06-25
TOURNEY IN FALL
SEEMS CERTAINTY
Mrs. Haynes Offers to Give
Trophies-CoIumbia Club
Is Likely Scene.
BY w. r.. McCALLUM.
w WASHINGTON prob ably
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Y ' vitation Women's golf

Y Y vitation women'S golf
tournament next Fall.
The Women'S District Golf As
sociation has before it an offer
made by Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes,
the new District Womens cham
pion, to donate prizes for an in
vitation tournament to be held in
the Fall, probably in September,
and very likely at the Columbia
Country Club.
While plans for the event are un-
settled. as yet, there is every probability
that the vigorous and energetic present
leadership of the women's association
will accept Mrs Haynes offer and stage
make two big events for the woman
golfers in this section in the Fall, for
the Middle Atlantic championship for
women will be played at the Country
Club of Virginia in October.
IF her offer is accepted Mrs. Haynes
plans to invite several of the lead
ing woman golfers of the East to
take part in the event, among them
Maureen Orcutt the Englewood, N. j..
miss who played here in April; Helen
Hicks of Hewlett. Long Island, former
national champion; several of the lead
ing feminine stars from Philadelphia
and from the Midwest. Mrs. Haynes
has played extensively in the South and
In several national tournaments and is
intimately acquainted with most of the
leading fair players of the Nation.
Never before has a women's invitation
golf tournament been played around
Washington, although the Gibson Island
Club, in nearby Maryland has staged
such tourney for several years. How
ever, Gibson Island never has had the
impressive entry list which the forth
coming tournament probably will have.
AS the Middle Atlantic event now
stands, tentative dates have been set for
October 1920, inclusive, when the
of Virginia will be at its best. These
dates are expected to be ratified by the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association with
IN q few days.
Kenwood Coli and Country Club has
received Official sanction from the Pro-
fessional Golfers Association for its
1888 National Capital open tournament
Letters received yesterday by A. Monta
que Ferry, Executive Committee chair
man at Kenwood, and by AL Houghton,
the club pro, places the association
stamp of approval on the 1888 edition
of the $4,000 open tournament
The letters were signed by A. r.
Gates, administrator of the Profession
al Golfers Association, and state that
the p. G. A. will back the National
Capital open with all its resources. The
dates for the tourney probably will be
about the middle of November.
DR. JAMES T. McCLENAHAN,
chairman of the Greens Commit
tee of the Washington Golf and
Country Club. Is planning two major
ginia club. With a temporary green
now in use at the third-one of the
better two-shot holes at Washington
DR. McClenahan plans to raise the
green several feet from its present level,
which will bring 1t up so 1t may be
seen for the second shot. AS the Sec
ond shot now stands only the right
corner Of the green may be seen from
o long tee shot.
The eleventh hole will be entirely re-
built under the plans Of the Greens
Committee chairman. The present
eleventh green lies in a pocket in the
woods and is so cut Of from air that
It Is hard to keep good surface of
grass on it. Brown patch wreaks havoc
with the eleventh green when hot, still
nights come along. So DR.. McClenahan
plans to build new green over on the
hillside near the back of the twelfth
tee to make a hole which will be much
longer than the present eleventh and
which probably will play somewhere in
the neighborhood Of ITS yards.
Instead OF the present mashie-niblick
or spade shot the shot will become
full No. or No. 3 iron, depending on
the wind. The miniature lake which
now Is one OF the features Of the elev-
snth hole will be retained as water
hazard and the shot will be played over
the water. Work is to begin on these
kuo isnnrovenn nts within a few days