Evening star., 1934-12-25
California to try some
thing new.

tIIiIlS IfcN.
Out in Glendale, on the last
of January, they are going to
try to establish, definitely and finally,
the best golfer in little s6,50O links
tourney. They are going to do it by
choosing not the man who scores the
best over 70 holes, but the nine men
who score the best on eight rounds of
nine holes and then the one man
who scores the best of the nine. In
other words, the pros and amateurs
who play in the Glendale open, slated
for January l to February 5, will
play combination Of match and
medal play under a method never
before tried in big tournament. The
affair will get most of the big shots,
too. and its sponsors hope it will go
a long way toward determining the
best golfer TO play in California tour
nament this Winter of l934-35.
The tourney will open with a To-
hole medal round with the low nine
men to go into Nassau or round robin
match play. The others outside the
first nine will share in the division Of
$4,000, then the nine leaders will
go out to play at Nassau match and
medal play for an added purse of
S2.5OO, which makes the total avail
able purse S6,500.
The theory is that one bad round,
after the first 70 holes, will not elimi-
nate the player as in straight match
or medal play, or even one bad nine
will not toss him out on the COM
petitive ash heap. These nine leaders
are to play four rounds, or eight mines,
against each, and against the course.
with each player shooting for pos
sible IL points in each round, or
possible win of 48 points in the four
rounds.
with 70 holes of medal play pre-
ceding, we should be able to demon
strate the best golfer" says Sherman
Dany, secretary of the Oakmont Club,
where the big tournaments are about
to get under way. The Australian
transformers were to land today in
California and will play this week in
$4,000 tournament at Los Angeles,
with many other affairs to follow
through the months of January and
February Aqua Caliente, where the
purse of $4,000 of a few years ago
has been slashed to $4,000 for the
affair slated to start February z, also
has adopted new scheme, which en-
bodies a pari-mutuel sweepstakes on
each round with the players to share
in the pot. Tickets will be sold on
the players with 80 per cent of the
take going to the ticket holders and
10 per cent to go to the leading players
each day.
1t will be an interesting sideline to
the usual gambling which is corollary
of the Caliente tournament, where
they have a quaint system of playing
only one round each day for four
days in the hope that the golfers may
find it possible to do little betting on
the nags and the dice after their
golf. Caliente will wind up the Cali
fornia schedule, with the first Florida
tournament to be run off at Tampa,
where the Gasparilla open is to be
staged starting on February %.
PREPARING for a tour of a few
of the Florida amateur tourna-
ments, where he should be a
big shot if his game comes back, Dick
Lunn, former District amateur champ,
is tuning up those booming tee shots
before departing for the South after
the holidays.
Convalescing from an extremely
serious illness, Dick is not yet strong
enough to go back to Princeton, and
his stepfather, Senator Wallace White
of Maine, insists that he needs out
door exercise in copious quantities.
So the young man plans to move
South to play some of that Florida
golf, under the palms, and perhaps
grab off a few of the prizes that
abound in that State.
Just to show how he can go when
he gets his game geared up. Dick
moved over the first nine at Ken
wood yesterday In 36 strokes, even
with bumpy greens and soggy fair
ways. Dick is going to pair with AL
Houghton, Kenwodo pro, in a st. Au-
guStine amateur-pro tourney late In
March, and will play in some of the
tournaments preceding that one.
Dick Lunn IS a good golfer-how
good he hasn't yet fully revealed. He
might go very well in Florida, even
though a couple of gents like Tommy
Goodwin and Carl Damn usually have
a lot to say about the winning of tour
naments in the Grapefruit League.
DD you know that the golf cup
IL into which you try to knock that
little round golf ball of yours
this Christmas day probably is the
brain child Of DR.. Thomas j. w.
Brown, inventor of golf equipment and
guiding genius of the Bannockburn
Golf Club for these many years?
The Bannockburn cup and flag
equipment is almost universally used
around Washington and has spread
all over the country. carrying the
name and fame Of the chap known
to golfers all over the city as doc"
Brown.
doc" used to work In the Pension
Bureau, job which he gave up to
devote his time to Bannockburn and