Evening star., 1938-04-12
Return Of Entry Fees Marks d. C.. Journeys
UNW|E[DY LISTS
AVOIDED BY STEP
Applies to Non-Members
for Chevy Chase and
Washington Events.

for Chevy Chase and
Washington Events.
Free invitation golf tournaments,
sans entry fees and with that old-time
whoopla touch of the olden and per-
haps golden 20S, are out around Wash
ington. For 1898, at least. The Chevy
Chase Clubs 28th annual affair for the
Taft and Sherman trophies, which
happens to be one of the two major
invitation golf jousts around Wash
ington this year, will require an entry
fee of five bucks from every competitor
not member of the club This is not
new to Chevy Chase nor to the sector.
In fact every club which holds an
invitation event would be doing a
smart thing were it to require an
entry fee. Washington Golf and
Country Club will levy 50 fee for
non-members playing in the invita-
ton tourney May 3. 4, 5 and 6, so the
thing is not new. It's been done before
and will -be done again.
The main point is that invitation
tournaments, as they are being held
around Washington, are entry fee
affairs, as they should have been years
ago. The Chevy Chase Club tourney
will be staged May II, II and 13. and
will be open to invited members of
United States Golf Association men,
Der clubs who have handicaps of IA
or less That handicap restriction is
important
1t will keep the entry list
down within reasonable limits.
The tourney for the Taft and Sher-
man trophies is only one Of six affairs
listed for the male members of Chevy
Chase this spring, with two more
billed for the feminine club swingers.
The season will open with the event
for the French High Commission Cup
between April 25 and May 7. The
Treasurer's Cup tourney is scheduled
for May 1928, inclusive, while the
annual competition for the Victor
Kaufman Memorial Day Trophy will
be held on May 80. Top golfers of
the club will play over the 72-hole
route on June 7, 8, 9 and 10 for the
F.. Oden Horstmann Trophy, emblem
attic OF the club golf championship,
won last year by Page Hufty. The
Hungarian Cup tourney on July 4
will wind up the slate for the mere
males
Tournaments listed for the fair
golfers are the Mrs. Frank r. Keefer
Trophy affair April 27 and %, at 36
holes medal play, and the event for
the French High Commission Cup,
announced for May 1922, inclusive.
Publinx Golfers to Meet.
Public links golfers of the Capital
are going to town in a tournament way
their more swanky brothers of the
country clubs may well envy, If all the
promises held out for the municipal
linksmen are made good this year. The
first big meeting of the year of the
East Potomac Golf Club will be held
Saturday night at the East Potomac
clubhouse, where officers for 1888 will
. be elected and tournament schedule
will be announced. The public links
boys already have been working on
their schedule and have come up with
proposals for series of affairs to run
through the summer, opening with
team match at Richmond April "a
against a picked team of public links
men from the Virginia capital. A re-
turn match will be played at Wash
ington May %. Just by way of pass
Ing the public course golfers of the
Capital are pretty warm hombres in
this golf business
They've played 19 matches, of
which Is have been won and
lost.
BY way of Warm-up most of the
municipal divot lifters now are qualify
Ing In the annual East Potomac Park
spring tourney, whose match play
rounds will open May q Gus Kupka,
captain of the Washington team has
shot "a in the first round of the 36-
hole medal affair, with Bobby Burton
and Wesley Billings tied for second
at rs.
Jamison New Star.
Out of the initial tourney of the
Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers
Association comes new figure to rise
as threat to his brother pros in
future affairs. It's AL Jamison, newly
appointed professional at Indian
Spring, where only few days ago
Jamlson took over the job vacated by
George Diffenbaugh. Jamison didn't
win the tourney at Belle Haven yes
terday, but he took down second money
in the pro sweepstakes and also got
slice of the dough in the amateur-pro
tourney. That tricky little layout
down near Alexandria, swept by the
wind as it usually is, defied the pros
to break par.
Witty Cox. the District open cham
pion, performed as champion should
do to win first money with level par
card of 70, but Jamison, who used to
be WHY'S aide at KenWood, was the
surprise.
He led his former boss at the
turn, but faded on the last nine
to finish two shots backs with
"A.
Al Houghton was third with IS, and
Frank Walsh, visiting pro from Chi
cago. who couldn't get the touch OF
those tricky green's, was third with II.
The real star of the day, however,
was Emmett Spicer, amateur from In
dian Spring. Emmett, well-known
simon-pure, who has been playing
around Washington for good many
years, shot 2-under-par 10 to top the
scoring of both pros and amateurs.
He was the big gun in the amateur-pro
victory of Spicer and Diffenbaugh, with
a net card of 68. Cox and Levi Yoder
were second with So Six pairs tied
at II. They were Cox and Gillie
Young, Cox and Maury Fitzgerald,
Jamison and Harry Peacock, Jamison
and Arthur Urban, Charlie Betschler
and Frank McNally and Houghton and
Joe Baldwin. -Four other pairs tied