Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-20
Would Arrange Card
To Avoid Matches
In Midsummer
Fovors Four Sections,
With Title PIoyoff
During September
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Good news for Government golfers
comes today from Charles P. Redick,
boss of The Evening Star sponsored
Federal match play links champion
ship.
Looking over the results of the
season just finished, and glancing
ahead to 1910 Redick, who has
handled both previous tournaments
in manner that drew all sorts of
enconiums, has decided to recon-
mend method which will eliminate
the lengthy schedule of 1899 and
overcome the handicap of playing
through the hot months of the
summer. At the same time the
number of teams in the tourney
would be reduced from the 80 which
started last May to 20.
Here is the way Redick's scheme
would work: Instead of 80 teams IN
three divisions, he would have 20
teams in four divisions of five each.
These teams would play round
robin series within their division at
intervals of two weeks starting in
May, which would in four matches
during May and June produce four
division champions. The four cham
pions then would play off during
september IN a round robin series
Tor the championship.
Method Not Decided Upon.
Our intention is not to discourage
entries in this tournament" said
Redick. "We would rather encourage
them to enter. But some teams
were weak last year, so weak that
they had no chance from the start
Just how we are going to segregate
them by skill and ability I don't
yet know. but I think we can work
it out to the satisfaction of all the
golfers.
If we finish up the section cham
pionships in June before hot weather
really starts I think every one will
be happier about it than if they
played right through july and
August as they have been playing
And by the time they are ready to
start the section playoffs in Septem-
Der they will be keen to play again
in cooler weather"
Redick has agreed again to handle
the tournament. For two years he
has handled the mass of detail
which resulted in a brace of sue
cessful Journeys, drawing up
lengthy schedule running In 1899
for five and a half months. The
Government Printing Office team
led by Joe Balestri, Beaver Dam
Club champion, now holds the title,
won in a round robin tourney
against Interior and Federal Hous-
ing Administration linksmen.
Each of the two years the tourna-
ment has been played and sponsored
by The Star surprise winner has
emerged. Last year Accounts and
Deposits of Treasury, an outfit
hardly given a chance before the
affair started, came out on top.
This year Government Printing Of
flee. another dark-horse group
fought its way through a tough
schedule to win the section 2 title
and defeat F. H. A. and Interior
the other sectional champs-in the
playof.
Oppose Hot Weather Play.
1--WE had a good many complaints
this year during July and August u
said Redick. TT was too hot, and
the boys didn't like it. But with
so many teams playing such long
schedule we couldn't do anything
about it. We just had to keep on
plugging away, and we didn't wind
up until october. But 1910 will be
different. I think by the method
I've outlined we can finish up the
sectional championships before hot
weather gets going, and then pick
up the playoff in September again
when all the section winners will be
keen for the final rounds"
Redick is president of the Federal
Golf Association, which runs a
medal play tournament for the in
dividual championship Of the Gov
eminent departments, and also a
series of team medal play title
events. Main prizes in this tourna-
ment are the Andrew Mellon Trophy
for the team championship and the
j. Edgar Hoover Trophy for the in
dividual title. The tournament is
run off in two days.
Redick will present his plan to the
annual meeting of the Federal Golf
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