Evening star., 1936-06-25
ROCK CREEK DOING
RUSHING GBUS|NESS
1000 Starters on Sunday
Not UnusuaI-PotomaC
Park Less Taxed.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

rs GOLF getting too popular Tor the
present capacity of the public
courses? Should there be more
i golf facilities for the men and
women who use the municipal layouts?
s. G. Loeft1er, jr., the rotund gent
who operates most of the public golf
layouts in Washington, isn't worried
about the situation as long as the
money continues to roll in, but, In
the face of the unusually heavy play
on Capital public courses this year,
the roly-poly little gent who has op-
Grated public golf courses in WASH
ington for Is years wonders whether
there isn't need for expansion. Up
at Rock Greek Park, which today Is
the most popular of the public golf
layouts, a Sunday with 1000 starters
is not at all unusual, and daily ticket
sales through the week OF 400 and
more isn't anything to be marveled
at, so popular is golf at that course.
On the other hand. the play at East
Potomac Park has dropped of in some
measure in favor Of Rock Greek Park.
Where are we going to get room
to expand up there at Rock Creek?"
asks Leoffler. I'VE have gone over
every inch of ground and we can't
find rooms for another nine holes.
which we need badly"
Game Having Banner Year.
IRON every quarter, every private
club and all the public courses,
comes word that more golf is being
played this Spring than ever before.
Full club memberships attest to the
fact that golf is riding high on the
crest of a wave of popularity. And
why the increase? Leofier says it
Is because there are more people and
more golfers in Washington than ever
before
So busy are Ed Burns and his
helpers at Rock Creek Park that they
won't have time or room to play
part Of the District municipal cham
pionship there next week and the
entire 72-hole tourney will be shifted
to East Potomac Park, where the play
Is not so heavy. Nor will Burns have
time to run off the women's municipal
championship this year.
We are Just too busy up here to
handle any more tournaments this
year says Burns.
Columbia'S -and-son tourney,
originally billed for Tuesday, will be
played tomorrow. Chairman Martin
R. West of the club Golf Committee
changed the date to avoid conflict
with the District Junior champion
ship at Woodmont, which winds up
today.
Tournament at Manor.
livery year the Maryland State
- Golf Association stages mixed
Scotch foursome in the Washington
area, a tournament which always gets
big entry list, with the boys and
girls having loads of fun. This year
the tourney will be staged at the
Manor Club on July 8. Entries will
close with the State association, al
16 Mcclellan place, Baltimore. on
July 6. --..-.-.-
Billy Dettweiler, Harvey johnson
and several other good golfing young
sters who haven't reached their 21st
birthdays were not eligible for the
District junior championships this
week, but will be eligible for the Mary
land junior next week.
The tourney will be played over the
Roland Park course of the Baltimore
Country Club on Tuesday, June 80,
and will be a 36-hole affair. Entries
will close Saturday at noon with the
State association.
Another pro-amateur tourney will
be staged next Monday by the Middle
Atlantic P. G. A. 1t will be held at
the Woodholme Country Club course,
that lengthy layout on the Reisters-
town road, northwest of Baltimore.