Evening star., 1935-04-10
LUNN, DETTWE|LER
BIGGEST THREATS
Nee Will Not Return From
Notre Dame in Time for
Early Tournaments.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

w YITH all this gloomy weather
M around and with golf
courses softer than they
have been since last Fall,
its hard to realize that the official
opening of the big-time tournament
season-when the top-liners will start
their Spring hunt for headlines-is
Just month away.
Yep, it is just a month to the ini-
tial golf affair of the 1885 amateur
season around Washington, when all
the lads will be out there on the first
tee at Woodmont awaiting the start
er's signal to smack a sizzling tee
shot down toward that tricky first
green. And right after that opening
event at Woodmont will come flock
of big affairs, topped by the Middle
Atlantic championship at Virginia
Beach and the national intercollegiate
title tourney at Congressional
The Southern Golf Association
championship at Richmond, an affair
which richly deserves the support of
all clubs, has caused so little splash
on the golf calendar that the Mary
land State Golf Association, acting
in the face Of protest from Rich
mond, has set its championship tour
ney for the same week
Peacock Heads Field
4 LOOK over the winning prospects
~ this year discloses the same
stars who figured so prominently
In the headlines last year. with Roger
Peacock, Indian Spring ace, again the
top man in the pre-tournament dope.
q lad who can cut a major slice of
the tournament cake, provided he
plays in most of the big events
Rogers biggest hurdle this year is
likely to be Dick Lunn, the burly
Chevy Chase lad who handed Roger
q trouncing over the Indian Spring
course in the 1893 District champion
ship to succeed to the crown Roger
had worn the previous year.
Maury Nee, Columbia's youthful
star. whose game so far has been more
one of promise than of fulfillment, will
not be back from Notre Dame in time
to play in the earlier events. But
across the path of Peacock looms the
skinny figure of Billy Dettweiler, the
lanky Congressional kid who went to
the final in the District amateur title
just last year
And Gene Vinson. the reigning Dis
trict champ. may come back to WASH
ington to play. even though he landed
q job in Mississippi last year which
was supposed to keep him down
among the home folks.
Journeys Well Distributed.
"HE men who follow the tourna-
ments will not be as busy this
year as in past semesters, for
there are fewer tournaments, and, on
the whole, they are more widely scat
tered. Three Of them come in a row
right at the start of the season, with
the Woodmont, Chevy Chase and
Manor events coming right along in
consecutive weeks, but after the Manor
tourney there is a lapse until the Mid
die Atlantic, which starts on June IL
81 1IA1iCcoS A1lIlcy d ldpSe VI u 1OFJ-
night, which is not usual in local
tournament golf.
But If the men are not going to be
20 busy this year. scrapping it out
among themselves. the women are
making up for lost time. Their sched-
ule Of interclub team matches, already
started. will reach its peak in June
with the District title tourney at In
dian Spring and the Maryland State
championship at Rolling Road. April
Is the getting-ready period. The first
week in May will find the big guns
of golf firing their salvos all over the
landscape. Notwithstanding the cur
tailed tournament schedule, there
will be plenty Of action for the mashie
brigade this year.