Evening star., 1934-06-20
AMATEURS STRIVE
|. THERE AUGUST q.
Entry of About 80, With 9
to Qualify for National,
Appears Likely.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.
TIME sectional qualification
rounds for the national
al L.

TIME sectional qualification
rounds for the national
am teur championship
u are definitely to be
played over the Five Farms
course of the Baltimore Coun-
try Club on August 81.
Notice to this effect has been served
on the officers of the club where the
championship itself was played in
September, 1882. Thus, for the first
time since 1881 the sectional qualifi-
cation trials to determine the simon
pure aspirants from this sector for
the amateur crown will be played
away from Washington.
The sectional system Of quslifica-
cation started in 1881 and the initial
test in this sector was held at Rich
mond. In 1882 and 1888 the trials
we're held at Chevy Chase and Co.
lumbia, respectively. and this year
the aspiring amateurs will move over
TO Five Farms.
The championship itself first to be
staged under the new system OF the
U. S. G. A., will start sans further
qualification rounds at the Brookline
Country Club course of Brookline,
Mass. on September 10.
Indian Spring, which submitted a
bid for the sectional qualification
rounds, may be rewarded in 1895.
The solons Of the United States Golf
Association, always with the thought
of securing the maximum entry list
and the maximum in entry fees at S5
per head. consider Washington to be
the central point in this territory and
probably will recognize Indian Spring
next year.
Needs Entrance Fees.
T IKE any other golf association
the U. S. G. A. is supported by
championship entry fees and by
club cues. The more entries in
major tourney, the more money
comes to the Golfers of the parent
body. Therefore, the moguls who
govern the game are always seeking
some central point for their major
Journeys, place where the CUSTOM
ers will turn out in paying quantities
Washington always has been a fine
golf town and a steady supporter of
all championships. 1t is also con-
sidered by the parent golf body the
central point in this sector and for
these reasons probably will get the
lions share of the sectional tests for
both the amateur and open champion
ships in years to come
All of which has no bearing on the
merits of other courses or other cities.
Five Farms is a fine course, but 1t is
hardly likely it will draw the big field
the tourney would attract in Wash
tngton. So on August 81 all the gents
who have championship ideas will play
SO holes at Five Farms for the right
to play at Brookline.
The usual ratio assigned by the U. S.
G. A is one place to each eight or
nine entrants, SO that If a field of
80 or so enters at Five Farms this
sector will get about nine places. Let's
hope it will be so. The more the mer-
rier and the more chance for some
fun at Brookline.
Louis w. Laudick, the big gent who
pastes 'em a mile from the tee, has
the laugh on his playmates at Burn
ing Tree. Lou stepped out over that
tough Burning Tree layout a few days
ago and burned up the last nine with
%, four strokes under par. His
score for the first nine was 80. three
above perfect figures, and his total
for the entire distance II. one below
par Roger Whiteford. playmate Of
Laudick on many golf excursions.
looked on and cheered as Lou rolled
EN- in for that 80.