Evening star., 1939-04-23
80 Teams, Embracing
200 Players, Will
Fire All Summer
Event Divided Into Three
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Sections; Six Country
Clubs Lend Courses
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Thirty teams OF four players each,
competing in three divisions, will
start play May l for the Federal
golf match play championship in
the tournament sponsored for the
second gear by The Evening Star.
Nearly 200 Government golfers in
placements, will compete in the big
gest golf tournament ever held for
and by employees of Uncle Sam. All
prizes, including team and indi-
vidual awards, will be presented to
the successful contestants by The
Star at a dinner in October, after
the wind-up of the tourney.
The tournament will open May
with matches in all three divisions
and will not end until late Sep
tenber. Every Federal agency which
could gather representative golf
team is in the tournament.
Operation of the mammoth tour
ney is centralized in the hands of
the officers and Golf Committee of
the Federal Golf Association, whose
president, Charles P. Redick of the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion, is the tournament director.
He is aided by J. William Harvey,
vice president, and by the Golf
Committee headed by Don O'Brien
of the Federal Housing Administra-
ton.
Six Clubs Lend Courses.
Harvey headed the Accounts and
NJ
ernment match play championship
last year in brilliant late-season
thrust which found them overcom-
ing the favored War, Treasury and
Navy Department outfits. Other
members of the winning outfit were
John R. Miller, Everett Johnson,
Bob OMalley and Jack Palmer.
Six country clubs in nearby Mary
land and Virginia have consented
to the use of their courses by the
Government golfers through the
five-month schedule. which will find
the three winning teams meeting in
a round-robin affair for the title late
in September. Clubs which have
made their courses available for
the matches are KenWood, Indian
Spring, Army-Navy. Woodmont,
Beaver Dam and Belle Haven.
Completely organized in every de-
tail by Redick and the Golf Com
mittee of the Federal Golf Associa-
ton, the tournament will be handled
by these men. Redick will settle all
questions in section /, Harvey will
handle section 2, while Charles B.
Rollins, secretary of the Federal
Association, will act in section 3.
Don OBrien will handle all mat
ters pertaining to possible postpone
ments due to bad weather and the
Golf Committee will be the final au-
thority on eligibility.
Where to Reach Captains.
Team captains and their tele-
phone numbers are as follows:
Accounts and Deposits. j. William Har-
vey. Treasury extension 535.
Commerce. A. J. Lucas, extension 433.
T Rose. extension IA.
udaas Farm oxts5s{d cTsdt AdminstFati0n' W. L.
-, Federal @ Bureau of Investigation, Astor
Federal Housing Administration. Don
Federal National Mortgage Association
w. ] willis. extension "a.
General Accounting Office, Frank Butler,
exrension ia.
Government Printing ONCE, Joe Balestri
Lincoln 4261-R.
Immlgration and Naturalization. T. W.
OBrien. extension 81
Interior A. w. Van Leer. extension 2O1O
Internal Revenue. A. L. Duncan. extern
sion 761.
Justice, George H Foster, extension 465
Labor. Louis kreamer jr.. extension A.
National Archives, Fred Proulx. jr,
Patent Once c. c. Heath, extension
Post Office, Paul Rosendall, extension
249
Procurement, Paul Carey extension 633
han. extension co..
Reconstruction Finance Corp. Charles
B. Rollins.
Rural Electrification Administration. Al
fred Berg.
Securities and Exchange Commission c.
P. Redick. extension 157.
Social Security Board. John Mossberg
extension 1877
Bureau Agriculture Economics, D. N
Hevener. extension 2l01.
Treasury. W. M. Thompson. extension
Veterans Administration, Francis P.
Kelly. extension 4l5.
War Department, T. NJ. Belshe. exten-
Works Progress Administration. Edward
L. Hogan, extension $50.