Evening star., 1934-05-27
ALL CLUBS PLAN
SPECIAL EVENTS
First Big GoIfing Holiday of
Season Will Offer Great
Variety.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.
r IAVING watched the par
. seeking antics of the
better scoring golfers in

r TAVING watched the par
- seeking antics of the
better scoring golfers in
u = a series of major tour
naments which ran for more
than a month, John j. Duffer,
the gent who supports the golf
clubs, will step out in all his
glory on Wednesday and gather
to himself flock of topped tee
shots and magnificent three
foot puts in the first big golfing
holiday of the 1884 season.
You don't hear much about Johnny
Duffer-the gent with the big handi-
cap and the funny golf swing. He
seldom hits the headlines. But he Is
the guy who pays dues to the fifteen
or SO golf clubs scattered around
Washington and he Is the chap who
keeps 'em up. Without Johnny Duff
fer there wouldn't be any private golf
clubs, for there are very few Harry
Pitts, Roger PeacokS and Gene VIM
sons on the premises. But gather
yourself couple of thousand Johnny
buffers and you have the where
withal to support a good many golf
clubs.
Johnny will have his day-a day
devoted to him alone-on Wednesday,
May 80, when the initial big golfing
holiday of the season will find divots
flying from Hams Point to Norbeck,
and from Landover to Arlington
along the bunkered front. All the
clubs about the Capital have arranged
special holiday tournaments for their
members, and if Johnny Duffer
doesn't have a good days outing on
the spot where the turf flies thickest,
1t won't be the fault of Golf Commit
tee chairmen. Here is the schedule
of events arranged by the clubs for
May 80:
Columbia Country Club-Best ball
two-ball medal play tourney, one-half
combined handicaps to count.
Chevy Chase Club-Annual tourney
for the Victor Kaufman Memorial
day trophy, match play against par,
with seven-eighthS Of the handicap
to count.
Washington Golf and Country Club
Tombstone tourney with club han
dicap. Women's putting tourney in
the morning.
Woodmont Country Club-Annusl
tourney for the Marc Goldnamer
trophy. 18 holes medal play handicap.
Manor Club-Tombstone tourney for
men. Driving contest.
Indian Spring Country Club-Flag
Journeys for men and women.
Argyle Country Club-Flag tour
nament.
Kenwood Golf and Country Club
Flag Journeys for men and women.
Also driving and putting Journeys for
men and women.
Beaver Dam Country Club-Compe-
tition for the Presidents Cup. Driv-
ing contests and approaching and
putting contests for men and women.
Army-Navy Country Club-Medal
play handicap tourney.
Congressional Country Club-Blind
bogey tournament.
"A N OLD golfing landmark is due to
~ 60 from one Of Washington's
oldest golf clubs within a few
days, when the old golf shop at CO.
lumbia, a spot where links history has
been made, will be torn down. The
new golf shop, constructed of tile and
concrete, is due to supplant the old
shop tomorrow. when Fred Mcleod.
Darcy Banagan and their aides take
over the new shop. The old hedge
which followed path down to the old
shop has been eliminated and a green
lawn now stretches down to the new
shop.
Dwight F. Davis; former Secretary
Of War, Is known internationally as
the man who donated the Davis Cup,
premier world tennis trophy. But
Davis, who in his earlier years was
a co-holder OF the national tennis
doubles title, also Is q golfer Of note.
as Abner Y. Leech. donor Of the
Leech tennis trophy, and Capt. K. J.
Fielder of Army Navy found out the
other day at Columbia. Paired with
Col. r. P. Parrot the former War
Secretary shot the Columbia course in
70 strokes to administer a sound
trouncing to Leech and Fielder. He
hadn't had much practice and he
v,oissaI cos,nla of short r1ltts fno