Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-07

homore year at Georgetown University
boy has determination, courage and
a good golf game.
He must rank as the top junior Of
this sector this year.
Strafaci Brothers Sought.
Frank Strafaci, 1885 national public
links champion, and his brother
Ralph. against Claude Rippy and
Parker Nolan at Congressional.
That's the set-up Of q match Witty
Cox is trying to promote for the big
club near Potomac, Md. Strafaci
happens to be a protege Of Cox. who
saw the black-haired kid working out
at the Dyker Beach course in Brook
Ign few years back encouraged him
and set him on the right track.
Ralph. about whom you haven't
heard SO much, IS as good as Frank.
Together they make a pretty tough
team.
Forty-five entries are ex-
pected by Tommy Doerer, East
Potomac Park manager, when
the junior public links cham
pi0nship gets under way tomor-
row over that heightened layout.
Bob Morris. 1s-year old Labor De-
partment employe, will defend the
crown he won last year. Chief oppo-
sition will come from Andy Oliveri,
newly crowned city municipal king;
Bobby Bowers and George Graham.
Chip Shots.
Capital Golf and Country Club has
tossed $40 into the pool for an
amateur-pro match tomorrow at the
hilly Glen Echo layout, and Tony
Sylvester. the club pro. says all the
boys will be around Another
amateur-pro affair is to be staged
Wednesday at Woodholme by the
Maryland State Golf Association {.
don't forget, you aspiring amateurs :. :.
Entries for the National Amateur
Championship will close with the
United States Golf Association at 5
pm. next Friday, and when they say
Close" they aren't fooling they
really will close at that time (.
Sectional rounds will be at Congress
sional August 30.
Toss an orchid or two to that
enthusiastic Washington Golf and
Country Club bunch less than
two years back. following the dis
astrous fire at the club, the member
ship dropped way below 800, and it
looked for while as If the club might
fold then Col. c. B. Garrett, Fred
Nesbit, Dorie Gruver and the other
backbone" men of the club worked
out financing plan, rebuilt the
clubhouse at a cost of about $50, 900.
and today Washington has one of the
better clubhouse plants in the land.
But the payoR is that today
Washington has 49, members,
and with Is more new members
expected in 10 days, they will
close the membership and hang
up the waiting list" sign.
All this from enthusiastic and hard
working Marion Falls, new chairman
of the Membership Committee &.
they really have done a Job out there
in Virginia.
Bob Maggie licked Reggie Munson to
win the Horton Cup at Washington
last week.
Can newspapermen eat. If it's on
the cuff? ask the promoters OF
the 1887 Chicago open they paid
q bill of $1,000 for cuff" lunches CT
the scribes who covered the tourna-
ment, and the bill for the same setup
Of the 1898 tourney Is expected to
knock 'em over.
Pro golfers of the town are looking
forward to the Lancaster (Pa) So
hole open to be played at Arthur
Thorn's course on August ~ Leo
Walper is at Cleveland, where he'll
play in the $4,000 open this week u.
Earle Cheney has resigned from
Congressional and gone over to Army
Navy, but his interesting and illumi-
mating golf pictures still hang on the
srill-room walls at Congressional.
Witty Cox Is getting himself
quite = picture gallery on the
walls Of his golf shop.
Wonder what the pros want? . .
they had q schedule tossed at them,
which included all Of them, and now
some of them are squawking because
they aren't named in all the matches
that would be impossible in q
short exhibition series, and people
want to see the top men. anyhow .
what they need Is q rough, tough guy
to tell 'em what to do and make 'em
like it.