Evening star., 1936-04-12
LE0FFLER MAKES.
AMBITIOUS PLANS
Has Done Fine Job Running
Municipal Game Here.
H. Smith to Visit.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.
G. LEOFFLER, the chubby
faced guy who left curb

- G. LEOFFLER, the chubby
faced guy who left a curb
stone lunch counter Is years
~ ago to take over the destinies
Of Washington's public links domain,
of most of Washington's public links
domain, hopes to bring to the Capital
two years hence the major champion
ship of the pay-as-they-play golfers.
The rotund little fellow who has done
an outstanding job as the car of the
public courses would like to have the
national public links championship
at East Potomac Park in 1887, but one
tourney next year, so he is going after
1t the following year-1938. If he
gets it he will make it the biggest
ever held.
Back in 1928 Loeffler then a young
ster in the golf busines game, staged
the second national public links cham
pionship at East Potomac Park. The
tournament of that year was won by
Dick Walsh of New York, but public
links affairs hadn't blossomed out into
the big tournaments they are today.
He would like to hold the 1887 tourna-
ment. but the Boy Scout Jamboree
interferes with it. The Boy Scouts
were to have had their international
gathering in Washington last year, and
during part of the Summer the golf
course at East Potomac Park was
mushroom colony of Army tents
erected to house the thousands of
youngsters expected from all over the
globe.
A GolfirT Coney Island.
A LONG Gang an epidemic of in
fantile paralysis and the whole
affair was called on by President
Roosevelt. With the jamboree to be
held this year, East Potomac Park
will be all cluttered up again with
tents, but meanwhile Leoffler is going
after the national public links cham
pionship of 1888.
BY that time all the subsidiary side
shows of the Loeffler enterprise will
be going full speed ahead. Four nine
hole golf courses, big swimming pool,
mammoth driving range and at least
two putting courses will be available.
1t will be a little golfing Coney Is
land under one roof-literally.
The national public links cham
plonship has become big show, quite
different affair from the little tour
nament that Leoffler staged in 1923, a
year after the opening ventures. II
the little Napoleon of public links
golf gets the big tournament two years
hence he will stage it with all the
vlgor which has marked his progress
slve advance in golf here. S. G. Leof-
fer. in case you didn't know, has done
q fine job as the car of public links
golf.
Horton Smith To Play Here
HORTON SMITH, twice winner of
the Masters tournament at
Augusta, will play an exhibition
match at Georgetown Prep School
next Wednesday. under the auspices
of the District of Columbia Scholastic
Golf Association. Horton, who is part
OF the golf promotion troupe appear
ing under the Spalding banner, will
play Billie Shea, the District inter.
scholastic champion; Billy Dettweiler,
former Junior champ. and Buddy
Sharkey of Gonzaga, present prep
school title-holder. The match will
start at 1:30 pm. and all schooIboy
golfers of Washington and vicinity are
invited to see the lanky Horton do his
stuff. II he is putting well he prob
ably will get the ball around that short
prep school layout in 66 or better.