Evening star., 1935-07-25
$4,000 At STAKE
IN SUMMER, FALL
Three New Journeys Added
to List by Manager OF
Paid LinkSmen.
SUMMER and early Fall Scher

SUMMER and early Fall Sched-
~ ule of II big golf tournaments
n for the touring professionals
4 "A was announced Today by ro-
tund Robert E. Harlow, tournament
manager for the National Professional
Golfers Association. The schedule
will carry the pros from Canada to
Oklahoma City, with Stop-offS in sew
eral Middle Western cities and down
into the Virginia mountains. Purses
will total somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $40, 900, fair-sized amount OF
dough to spread among the boys who
do their talking with high-fying
mashie shots
Here is the schedule: August %,
%, "a, Hershey, Pa, open, for $4,000;
Canadian open championship at Mon
treal. August 90. 30 and 81, for purse
of $500: Glens Falls open, Glens
Falls, N. Y, September 6, I and 8,
purse about $4,000. September II, IS,
Inverness Country Club. Toledo, purse,
$500; October, 4, 5, 6, Indianapolis
open tourney, purse of $4,000; Louis
Nlllt OpJlls AOhlSN lAASE AAS ONSSNNA l -
u. l3. purse $4,000; P G. A. cham
pionship. Oklahoma City. October l6,
%. purse $4,000 Hot Springs Va,
open championship. September 19, 20,
purse about $4,000: National Capital
open championship, Kenwood Golf
and Country Club, November 9 and 10,
purse $4,000; Mid South champion
ship. PinehurSt, N. c., purse about
$1,000.
Looks for New Spots.
NEW tournaments on the schedule
which Harlow has been promot-
ing for several months include the Hot
Springs tourney, the Indianapolis
event and the affair at Toledo, AL
ways hopeful of finding new golf spots
where his boys may pick up their spare
change, Bob also is dickering with
Charlotte. N. C.. for a $4,000 open
tournament, which may be played
about mid November, Immediately
after the Mid-South at Pinehurst
Robert is nothing if not busy pro-
moter He has been touring the coun-
try with the Japanese team. in Henry
1. Doherty's palatial trailer and hasn't
been doing so badly.
Kenwoods National Capital open
definitely is on. with Witty Cox, the
new club pro, scheduled TO take the
place of Al Houghton as the organizer
and promoter Prize money will be
about the same as it has been for the
past two years-namely S2,000-and
the KenWood folk are making every
effort to line up the dates of the tour
ney to bring them Just before Pine
hurst. Last year they went inde-
pendent, staging their affair in Octo-
ber in the hope of getting good
weather. The turnout wasn't so hot,
and now they are going to string along
with the Pinehurst dates again.
Fred Gleim, the Hot Springs pro,
has been around Washington drum
ming up business for the initial VEN
ture OF Hot Springs into the open
tournament field. That one, we'll
handled. should bring together good |
bunch Of the better pros. Meanwhile |
the Virginia pros are going to have a !
little ruckus of their own at Newport /
News August 10 and Il. when Bobby /
Cruickshank will defend his State |
title. The purse is small and the
tournament is limited to residents of
the State of Virginia. which bars the
campaigners attached to Maryland
clubs, including AL Houghton, Witty
Cox. Roland Mackenzie and Cliff
Spencer.