Evening star., 1939-09-03
All Of Capita|'s Clubs
Will Stage Events
On Big Holiday
100 Expected to Play
For City Municipal
Championship
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
The last big golf holiday of the
year tomorrow will find special
events listed at all the country
clubs around town, with several
starting their club championship
tournaments.
Here is the lineup of Labor Day
tournaments around Washington:
Argyle-Qualifying rounds for club
championship.
Beaver Dam-Qualifying round for
club championship and tournament
for the Needham C. Turnage Trophy
two-man medal play handicap. Also
driving, approaching and putting.
Kenwood-Tourney for the j. E.
Hutchinson Trophy and field day.
Army Navy-Competition for the
Admiral Standley Trophy, 18-hole
handicap.
Indian Spring Mixed foursome
tournament.
East Potomac Park-Mixed four
some tournament.
Capital-Team match, Alibiers VS..
Moaners and match play against
par event
Congressional-Hou Committee
tourney, in four classes with handi-
caps.
Manor-Driving, approaching and
putting and 18-hole handicap tour
ney,
Columbia-Best ball, two-ball
tourney.
Chevy Chase Club-Competition
for the Secretary's Cup, 10 holes
match play against par.
Woodmont-Match play against
par and mixed foursome.
Annapolis Roads-Medal play han
dicap tourney for the Charles DENLY
Trophy.
Public Links Pairings Due.
Pairings are to be announced to-
morrow for the city public links
championship to start at the three
major public courses Tuesday.
Tommy Doerer, East Potomac Park
manager, already has more than
rs entries and expects 100 will enter
the affair before entries. close to-
night. 1t will be the first time IN
many years the municipal cham
pionship tourney has been run off
at match play. For several years
the boys have settled their little
differences over the eminently salts
factory medal play route.
Top prize in the tourney, with
Andy Oliveri cast as the defending
champ, is the S. G.. Leoff1er Trophy,
put up by Papa Leoffler, who runs
all the public layouts around town
Claude Rippy retired the original
Leofler Trophy three years ago and
the present trophy is the second
OF the series.
Sixteen men will qualify at East
Potomac Park Tuesday. with eight
each to qualify at Rock Greek and
Anacostia. The 80 qualifiers will
swing into match play Wednesday
morning at East Potomac.
DENLY Trophy Back in Play.
Annapolis Roads, another of the
Leofaer enterprises, comes into the
picture today and tomorrow with
renewal of the competition for the
Charles DENLY Trophy Jack Pom
eroy, the club pro, will run the tour
ney today and tomorrow and will
set the handicaps.
The last tournament for the DENLY
Trophy was played in 1929, and was
won by Walter McCallum of the
Washington Golf and Country Club.
Pomeroy reports the course is in
good shape. 1t has been one of the
best in this neighborhood since it
was opened up in 1927.
Out at Kenwood George Diffen-
baugh has a pupil for whom George
claims the biggest improvement he
ever has seen in a feminine golfer.
The pupil is Mrs. w. Jago, and
George says she has been playing
golf about a month. "She played
this course in 103 the other day."
said Diffenbaugh. Mrs. Jago, accord
ing to George. uses mems clubs and
swings with all the power of man.
Brownell Goes to Chicago.
Bobby Brownell lone local quail
fer for the national amateur cham
pionship will leave town Wednesday
for Chicago, to get ready for the
title tourney opening a week from
tomorrow over the North Shore
course at Glenview, Ill. Bobby will
drive to Chicago and may be accom-
panied by his parents. He should do
all right in the tourney. for the
blond-thatched Manor youngster is
right at the peak of his game. And
Bob we'll may be the dark horse of
the tournament. He is good enough
to go long way.
At Congressional this afternoon a
brace of pro champions and fel-
low who aspires to world boxing
title were to play an exhibition
match. The headlined performer is
Harry Jeffra, wisp of man who
hopes to lift the world bantam
weight boxing title from the beetling
brow of Joey Archibald.
Jeffra, who is fair country golfer,
will pair with Witty Cox, Congress
sional pro, against Bobby Brownell
and Leo Walper. Cox is the Dis
trict open champ and Walper is the
Mid-Atlantic P. G. A. title-holder.
The match was to start around 2:30
and was open to the public.