Evening star., 1935-02-07
Belle Haven Plans S Spring GoJfTou1ney
EVENT PROPOSED
FOR LATE IN MAY
Chairman HoIIins Feels He
Can Obtain Sanction
to Hold Affair.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

A MOTHER invitation golf tourna-
~ ment for local linksmen ap-
~ pears probable for the third
week in May to bolster up the
slim schedule approved Monday night
by the District of Columbia Golf
Association.
The addition to the tournament
field this year is the Belle Haven
Country Club of Alexandria, which
has a good little nine-hole course
located on the highlands overlooking
the Mount Vernon Boulevard. The
club staged an invitation event last
year, won by Harry G. Pitt of Manor,
but for some reason the notice of the
annual meeting of the District Asso-
citation was mislaid and Belle Haven
had no delegates at Mondays gather
ing.
Although Charles B. Rollins, chair
man of the Golf Committee at Belle
Haven, isn't dead sure he will obtain
the assent of the club board of gov
ernors to his plan to hold tourney
this year, he feels reasonably sure the
board will o. K his plan to hold an
invitation event during the third week
in May, which is an open week in the
local golf schedule in so far as the
male players are concerned. The
board will discuss the tournament at
O meeting tomorrow.
Belle Haven Planning.
II Belle Haven holds a tournament
(and it seems likely now, there vii!
be four invitation affairs on the local
schedule instead of the three approved
by the District Association. Rollins
anticipates no trouble in securing the
District Associations o. K on the
dates chosen for the Belle Haven
affair.
He plans to have flights of 16
players qualify for the match-play
rounds in a 4-day tournament, but
he wants a later date than last year.
for that Belle Haven tourney held
during the last week in April of 1884
ran into some astonishingly bad
weather, and Rollins doesn't want any
more Of that brand.
If Belle Haven takes the May date
1t will leave but one open week during
May and June, and the fourth week
In May includes the Memorial day
holiday.
Just a Lot of Gossip.
"a ND here's a bit of gossip which
IN should get laugh. It did from
the main parties concerned A
yarn is going around Baltimore that
Fred Mcleod is going to take the job
Of pro at Rodgers Forge, to be vacated
by Charlie BetSchler on March l.
Also that Red" Banagan is going to
leave Columbia.
It's all news to both Freddie and
Red" who are as much a part OF
the fixed scenery at Columbia as the
elevated seventeenth green. In other
words, it's just the plain bunk, but
also part Of the fuel that keeps the
hot stove league fires burning these
snowy days.
Snow isn't keeping Al Houghton
these days, when the Kenwood pro
cannot get out on the golf course to
wallop those pin-splitting tee shots
Cdered $40 member by the club for
new candidates at Kenwood, Al has
stepped out and grabbed 18 new mem
bers. Not bad. The lad should be a
salesman, anyway-which he will be If
he takes the Virginia Beach post.
Rave Of New Shaft.
"a NEW steel shaft, which has the
n major part of the whip and feel
just under the grip, is due to be
the real rave of golf next Spring..
The new shaft has a lot of kick and
does get that extra distance. Bob
Barnett had a few of them before he
went to Florida and Albert Mackenzie
has a set Of wooden clubs made up
with the new shafts. Barnett now
has his new set of steel-shafted irons,
but no one has heard how he likes
'em. Bob isn't much on letter writing
Even Bill Hardy, who runs the Chevy
Chase golf shop in Bob's absence, only
gets about two letters each Winter
from his boss.