Evening star., 1939-09-16
Nv WALTER NcCALLUM.

Two of the top links teams of the
Government departments and agen-
cies today took their places as vic
tors in brace of the three sections
in The Star-sponsored match-play
tourney for Government employees.
Winning clean-sweep victories in
the final contests of the five-month
tourney which started back in May
the teams representing the Federal
Housing Administration and the In
terror Department both won their
way into the playoff for the cham
pionship. Federal Housing closed
out a fought battle in section !
with 6-to-0 victory yesterday over
a hard-fghting Farm Credit Ad-
ministration team at Kenwood
Interior wound up with an i'm
pressive 6-to-0 victory over Recon
struction Finance Corp. at Indian
Spring to win in section 3. Members
of the two winning teams are: Fed
eral Housing-Don O'Brien, w. Bev-
erly Mason, Buck Freeman and Pat
Martino Interior - Everett John
son. Don Lee, John Anistead ano
Gene Fossum.
These teams will clash within q
week with the victor in section {
of The Star tournament in a round
robin affair which will produce the
Government team champions fol
1889 and the successors to the Ac-
counts and Deposits team, which
won last years tourney. The round
robin playof, details for which now
are being worked out by Tourna
ment Director Chuck Redick, prob.
ably will start the latter part o1
next week.
Meanwhile Government Printing
Office, which has a 3-point lead ir
Section 2, plays its final match
Monday against w. P. A., an outfit
which has been no weakling. In
terror needs 31a points to clinch the
victory. Accounts and Deposits
wound up it's season with a Az to-
IL win over Treasury, finishing ir
second place in Section 2.
Interior Dark Horse Outfit.
Interior has shown exceptiona
ability all through the section
series. The Interior boys have
dropped only 31a points in II
matches, a record not approached
by any other team. This does not
necessarily make them favorites te
win the title, but it does make them
impressive They are a well-bal.
anced outfit and have shown it.
Women's Journeys were played al
three clubs. At Congressional the
feminine golfers played in an affair
for prizes put up by Mrs. .Myror
Davy. Winners were: Mrs C. S
Teal, 89-9-8O; Mrs. P. j. Winkler
1lO-27-83; Mrs. H. H. Moffitt, 9e
-14-85; Mrs. F. E. Berquist, ia
29-85. Low puts, Mrs. G. F
Goetzman (2D.
Mrs. j. A. Marr won the women's
handicap affair at Columbia with g
net for the selected nine holes o1
351a. Mrs. B. c. Hartig was mex
with 81, and Mrs. e. D. Krewsor
and Mrs. Norman B. Frost tied fol
third with 371a. Mrs. Frost holed 6
spoon shot for a birdie 3 on the 18th
hole
At Indian Spring Mrs. Charlotte
S. Stern had a net of 70 to win the
club tourney. Mrs. F. G. Butler wor
the selected-hole tourney with {
total of 40 strokes, and the putting
event went to Mrs. w. Brady with
"a puts
Jones Wins N. B. C. Tournament.
Victor Jones of Indian Spring to.
day holds Gordon Hittenmark
golden putter," but gent namec
Arthur Carroll ought to get a sym.
pathy prize, if only for his hard luck
AS part of his National Broadcastine
Co. tourney Hittenmark, who put or
a good show at Kenwood yesterday
staged hole -one contest, held OF