Evening star., 1939-09-01
P. 6. A. Mid-ANantic
Helped as Capital
Meet FizzIes
New Date Is Suggested
For Big Amuteur-Pro
Event Next Month
By WALTER McCALLUM,

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Maybe it doesn't affect flock of
people in Washington, but a good
many folks who follow golf affairs
around the Capital may be inter-
ested in the fact that at least one.
authority in links circles around
town believes that unless the golf
pros get together soon and iron out
their petty little differences there
isn't going to be any District open
championship this fall.
1t has been more or less a syn
thetic championship, this District
open, but it has been held for the
past two years and with the local
pros embarked on what seemed like
lengthy schedule of such affairs,
the District open loomed as one of
the top affairs of the year, if only to
ascertain again who is the top pro
golfer around town.
But George Diffenbaugh, who
happens to be one of the main
springs of pro golf here, as
well as one of the top linksmen, is
pessimistic about the whole thing.
Il don't see much chance of getting
the boys together for a series of
tournaments climaxed by the Dis
trict open championship" said
George. Il don't know why it is but
there seems to be little disposition
among the pros around town to ar
range series of matches, or even to
think about or talk about the Dis
trict open championship"
That would seem to be the tip of
for George always has his ear close
to the ground and knows what is 60
ing on in pro golf circles. If George
doesn't know, it isn't worth knowing.
Mid Atlantic to Be Big.
All of which makes the coming
Middle Atlantic Professional Golf
ers' Association tournament loom as
a big affair. And on that general
track you can dismiss as so much
near-beer the report that one of the
local clubs has put in a bid of 81 900
for the mid-Atlantic AL Houghton
is mysterious about it. Al happens
to be the promoter behind the tour
nament to be played late in Sep
tember, and Ais job is to get as
much money as possible for the
affair. But the parties that were
supposed to have bid that grand
for the tournament were contacted
and know nothing about it. So that
disposes Of that, and as a matter of
fact it makes the tournament
stronger. No pro golf affair will
benefit to any lasting degree by an
out and out gift of such an amount
Of money.
And it makes the coming pro-
amateur play tourney, sponsored by
a downtown store at Indian Spring
October 9, 10 and II, so much the
bigger. This affair to be put on by
a mems clothing store may carry
prize dough of as high as $500 or
S700. The first pro prize will be a
guaranteed 5000, a fair amount of
money in these days when big money
for the paid boys isn't so easy to
come by as it used to be. But one
of the bad angles of this one is that
1t will come during the week of the
Middle Atlantic women'S tourney at
Washington. The women's affair,
scheduled since last January, will
grab most of the headlines, with
Marion Brown defending her crown.
1t might even be smart on the part
of the promoters of the pro-amateur
affair to change their date to the
week preceding to avoid any con-
flict of publicity.
Each team will be charged a $40
entry fee, and the affair undoubtedly
will draw 35 or 40 teams. That would
make quite respectable piece Of
change, for we are assured the 5000
guaranteed the winning pro is in .ad-
dition to the money taken in from
entry fees.
Walper in Jeffra Match.
Leo Walper will be the fourth man
in an exhibition match Sunday,
which will find. Harry Jeffra, chal-
lenger for the world featherweight
boxing championship, playing at
Congressional. In the match will be
Jeffra and Witty Cox against Bobby
Brownell and Leo Walper. 1t will
start about 2:30 pm. Yes, you
guessed it. The whole thing is part
of the buildup for the Jeffra-Ar
bald match at Griffith Stadium come
September II. But Archibald doesn't
play golf. He does his conversing
with flying fists. Jeffra is pretty
good run of the mine amateur
golfer.
Mrs. James E. McCabe of the
Washington Golf and Country Club
is back from summer vacation
with hole in-one to her credit. The
ace came at Moosehead Lake, Maine
on a 120-yard hole. She played the
shot with a spoon.