Evening star., 1938-10-05

and the entries that will be added to!
the list before play starts tomorrow,
you feel that the rugged little $500
if the boys can get their shots clicking.
Thomson sticks to his prediction that
288 will win the district open cham
pionship, in the 72-hole test which
opens with 36 holes of medal play to-
morrow. He says further that 10 won't
be broken for single round. Now par
for the course is 10, and the course is
short, judged by the standards of some
of the lengthier layouts over which
championships are played these days.
Yet these men, or most Of
them, can knock a golf ball far
and straight, and it looks as If
10 will not only be busted, but
that a new record Of IS or better
may come out of the tourney.
That record has stood for IL years
since Maurice Mccarthy first set it
back in 1927. Dave tied it in 1884,
and no one has come close since.
Twenty -0ne Listed TO Start.
Out of 81 golfers listed today to
start in the tourney there are at least
dozen who are potential par
wreckers any time they step on the
first tee, Witty Cox, the present
champion, is one Ed Oliver of Wilm-
ington is another Leo Walper, AL
Houghton, Cliff Spencer, George Diff
enbaugh, Mel Shorey and Lewis Wor-
sham are a few of the others. Entries
will be taken up to GAS tomorrow
morning. when the last of the original
81 starters will leave the first tee.
Parings follow:
9:15-Gilbert Willett. Kenwood: Ed.
Stevens; Manor: c. c. Trautner tamateur).
9:2O-Frank Cunningham. Burning
Tree Gene Larkin Woodmont AL Treder.
9;25-George Diffenbaugh Kenwood;
Chevy Chase.
Al Houshton Old Point Comfort. Va. and
9:35-Tony Sylvester. Capital: Maury
94O-Al Jamison. Indian Sprine: Ed.
Oliver. Wilmington. Del. and Lewis Wor-
9:45-Ralph S Fowler and R T Harrell
famateurs) WASHINGTON and Dave Thorn
SON. WASHINGTON.
Government Tourney Final Today.
Over at Indian Spring today eight
Government golfers from the Com
merce Department and the Division of
Accounts and Deposits Of the Treasury
were playing in the final round of The
Star-sponsored Federal match play
championship.
Vict0rS in semi final matches
Monday the two teams were
evenly matched in ability, al
though the Accounts and De-
posits outfit, with a group Of
four veteran golfers, was con-
ceded an edge in experience.
tory over the War Department team
Monday you couldn't sell Commerce
short. T. Welby Kines, A. j. Hoskin,.
son. c. R. Lucas and L. c. Lande
clicked like a group of crack profess
sionals to lick good Army team. Play
ing for Accounts and Deposits were J.
w. Harvey, jr: Bob O'Malley, Everett
Johnson and John R. Miller.
Prizes won in today,s final round, as
well as the prizes which go to the in
dividual winners in the tourney, will be
presented at a banquet to be held
october II.
She is known only to few who have
admired her golf in past years, but Mrs.
David H. Clarke, the Navy matron who
won the Middle Atlantic links cham
pionship back in 1894, looms today as a
potential winner in the coming Middle
Atlantic tourney, opening next week at
the Rodgers Forge Club in Baltimore.
Mrs. Clarke has played in few local
Journeys.
Her lone start in Washington
over the past 10 years was the
Mid d-Atlantic Of 1884, which she
won h2ndily.
But she can win the title next week,
for she is playing we'll. as she showed
yesterday by winning the medal in the
Army and Navy Club championship
with card Of $685.. She clashed
today in the first round with Mrs. w.
M. Moses Mrs George F. Hussey was
second with a 90, which included 8
penalty shots.
Five other women's tournaments are