The Washington times., 1937-08-03
.PAIRINCS LISTED
FOR PUBL|NXERS
IN FRISCO PLAY
BY CHICK KENNY

sixteenth amateur public links !
championship which will be staged
at the Harding Memorial Course
at San Francisco, were announced
today from the office Of the
United States Golf Association.
The play starts Monday, August 9.
Much local interest in focused
on this national event as Wash
ington is not only represented in
this big event. but has included a
full-fledged team which will COM
pete for the Harding Cup which
Seattle Snagged last year.
The washington entries, Claude
Rippy, Andy Oliveri, Bobby Bur
ton and Jimmy Gipe, were ex-
pected to arrive at San Francisco
late today. They departed from
the Capital last Saturday night
and headed direct for the scene
Of the clash. Workouts for the
balance of the week, should aid
the four Washingtonians to draw
bead" on the course, to enable
them to thoroughly study the lay
out in ample time before the start
Of play.
Rippy With Brown
According to the list of pair
ings, Claude Rippy. will lineup
with Ed Brown, Louisville, and
Harry Umbinetti, Seattle. Oliveri
is scheduled to play in the three
some with S. Tatol, Dayton, Ohio;
and William Love, Hawthorne,
Cal. Burton is booked to tee off
with Earl D. Cameron, Albany, N.
Y, and Kenneth Long, Haw-
thorne, Cal, while Jimmy Gipe
will travel the course in company
Of Ralph E. Jordan, Indianapolis,
and Joseph Amaral, San Jose, Cal.
A field of 1911, 80 less than last
year, are listed to go after fame
and honor among the publinx set
Monday, and included with this
turnout are 40 teams of four play
ers each, nine less than last year.
Two former individual cham
champions are listed in the play
this year, they being Carl F.
kaufman, Pittsburgh, three-time
winner of the event, and B. Pat
rick Abbott, Pasadena, Cal, de-
Tending titlist.
Tending titleholder.
Abbott defeated Rippy in the
finals at Farmingdale last year.
Seattle on Hand
Then, again, the championship
intercity team is on hand to de-
fend its laurals. It is the quar-
tet representing Seattle.
One player from Baltimore,
who is we'll known in Washington
golfing circles is also a starter in
the meet. He is otto Greiner, the
17-year-old Forrest Park player
who is the current rage in the
Baltimore sector.
A hole in one was staged at
Woodmont yesterday afternoon
when Mrs. L. e. Harris, scored an
ace on the seventeenth hole, using
a brassie to bridge the 144-yard
trip. Alvin Newmeyer, jr., and
Greenhoot Fisher were on deck
when Mrs. Harris staged her epic
shot.
Due to the success of the Middle
Atlantic P. G. A. championship
which was staged last weekend
over the Chamberlain Country
Club at Old Point Comfort, Sidney
Banks, president of the Virginia
club, is hopeful of landing this
event each year.
In addition, plans for a major
$4,000 open are we'll underway
and it is the hope Of the enter.
prising Banks to stage such an
event in April, following the mas
terS' tournament at Augusta, Ga.
Proving that baseball and golf
can really mix, especially in
mixed company, Helen Dettweiler
and Frank Buck" O'Neill, We
Times sport scribe, are listed to
oppose Marian Brown, the George
Washington coed, and Clark Grit
filth, president of the Washington
Griffmen, next Monday at Indian
Spring.