Evening star., 1939-07-26
His Play as Keen
AsAny in U. 5.
Scrap
Originator Of Event
Surprised by Its
Growth Since "
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star Staf CorreSpnndent

BALTIMORE, Md, July 26-
Colts national tournament infant
Is getting to be quite a lusty
youngster.
Rotund Jimmy Standish Of De-
troit, who started the public links
| championship back in 1922 with
the donation of cup to go to the
best municipal golfer, stood at the
| scoreboard at the Mount Pleasant
course, and grinned about it all.
That baby is getting to be quite
child" he said. Jimmy used to
be quite golfer himself. Twice
runnerup for the Western amateur
championship, the Detroit capitalist
has played a lot of championship
golf.
When I gave the cup back in
1922 l didn't dream this tourna-
ment would become as big as it
is said Jimmy. To-day it's one Of
the biggest. if not the biggest, in
the world They had more than
$500 entries in the sectional rounds
for this championship last month,
and 100 players qualified, with 1T
actual starters. That makes it
bigger than the amateur cham
pionship, and just about twice as
big as the open title tourney, which
this year drew around 1900 starters.
Consider CurtaiIing Entries.
Il think i will come around to
| the point where We'll charge
nominal entry fee, about 25 cents"
said Joe Dey, United States Golf
Association secretary. This public
links tournament is the biggest
thing of the year, from the stand
point of Office work Sure, we
charge actual qualifiers S.. but per-
haps We should go further than
that, and charge each sectional
entrant a small fee" At the same
time Dey said that plan for cur
failing entries in the tournament
is being contemplated by the as
sociation. Il think it will be done
by sectional public links associa-
tions, like the one I hear is being
planned in Washington" he said.
That will be fine thing and I
think We will back it to the limit"
He referred to the plan of Tommy
Doerr of East Potomac Park for a
Middle Atlantic public links Or
ganlzatlon.
Only Andy Oliveri of the three
Washington men remain in the
chase for the national title. And
21-year-old Andy will be tough to
nudge out of this tournament. The
rugged, chunky boy of Italian de-
scent, who used to captain the
Roosevelt High golf team. played two
IN 146, which happens to be two
above par for the torturous layout.
Playing as well as any man in the
tournament, he won't be a soft spot
for any man he meets.
Ties for Sixth.
Il think I have that hot round
coming up pretty soon said barrel
chested Andy Those puts can't
stay out all the time" But he did
all right. When they counted up the
final returns Andy had tied for sixth
place, which is plenty good in
tournament as tough as this one.
Jim Gipe and Bob Morris, the other
two Washington entrants, missed
qualifying by a couple of brassie
shots. Neither man was able to get
his true game going at any time.
Gipe wound up the medal round
with 82-81-163, while Morris re-
deemed himself somewhat with a
final round 78. He had a 36-hole
total of 1865
Washington's Harding Cup team
finished far down the list, with 474,
flock of shots behind the winning
Los Angeles outfit, which grabbed
the mug for the second straight year
with their 442 total. The winning
outfit was composed of Brande,
Erickson and Egbert.
Gipe and Morris had no excuses.
Both admitted they played bad golf,
(See McCALLUM, Page A-11)