Evening star., 1938-07-24
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
One 43 will win the Maryland State
open golf championship next Tuesday
says Cliff Spencer. the defending
champion.
Two-ninety will win the city public
links crown next Wednesday and
Thursday-sayS Tom Doerer, East
Potomac Park manager and the gent
who has arranged the hea daches fol
the contestants in that tournament
by toushening the course.
With the Maryland championship
only two days away. Spencer thinks
par Will be cracked by single shot
Tuesday 10 produce the winner OF
the Old Line State title over the
Congressional course Spencer is the
champ, and should have a pretty good
idea what it will take But Witty Cox
the guy who probably will be the IA
vorite, holds that par won't be cracked
and says the man who knocks the ball
around In l44-or level par-will win
the coveted Maryland championship,
and first money of Sl2O Notwith-
standin" the 5-under-par 81 scored
by young Lewis Worsham. 2O-year-old
assistant 10 Bob Barnett at Chevy
Chase, in \ practice round At Consres-
siOnal The other day. Witty holds that
the boys won't burn up the track in
The championship itself They don I
DO that against the card and PENCIL
says Cox
Busy Golf Week Here.
All in ALL it looks to be busy week
for the midiron -maulers. for today
down at East Potomac Park q eroup
OF IL pros and Smattering of anna
teurs will play in an informal exhibi-
tion match billed as a curtain-raiser
to the municipal championship. The
boys will have purse Of around sl35
TO shoot at. for the East Potomac
PARK management will add so Der
cent OF the total purse raised by the
pros who will stick five bucks each
INTO the pot. 1t will mark the first
real test for the revamped East Po-
tomac Park championship course. and
according to Doerer, it will be q tough
lest.
we've stretched it out to 67OO
yards and have seven out-of- bound,
holes, he said last night. That will
% something new for the lads who
hit EN- all over the place and come
up with 4 par. They won't do that
IN that 72-hole tournament" The
match this afternoon was to start
around o'clock.
Doerer predicts that Claude Rippy's
record score Of 274, made in 1896
won't be touched in the Forthcoming
tourney, He says that any gent who
SHOOTS 2SO can rack up his clubs and
nang the new s. 6. Leoffler trophy
In the crook of her arm and whit fo,
the photographers to snap his pic
ture. And 300 will qualify for the
Harding Cup team" says Tommy. It
must be a tough course that Doerer
has arranged. Never exactly a push
over. the East Potomac Park layout
mas been fairly easy Rippy won the
city championship last year with 2s4,
out he won't be in there this year.
Andy Oliveri, jim Gipe and Dutch
hitlenhouse will be the favoriles tu
win.
Congressional Green's Slow.
Slowed up by heavy rams those
greens nj Congressional will be easier
TO hold than they would have been
week sgo, and the boys who play
IN the Maryland open may take par
for fast ride II they can pitch to
the pin. 1t wouldn't have been SO a
week back when those putting surfaces
were fast as lightning And the slow
green's may result in lower scoring.
Distance through the fairway isn't
so important, even on such q lengthy
course as that Congressional layout.
The course will be open tomorrow for
practice to all the tourney contestants.
and you may get big surprise in
the amateur contingent. Otlo Greiner.
the State amateur champ and Billy