Evening star., 1939-01-23
Links Events Slated
For Capital From
May 10 October
Heavy Program Planned
By Women; Pros Yet to
Assign Journeys
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
With only one major golf associa-
ton meeting still on the calendar,
the links schedule for 1899 around
Washington is fairly well settled.
Three more tournaments will be
placed on the schedule when the
fathers of District golf meet at the
University Club on February 6.
These are the Chevy Chase and
Manor Country Club invitation
events and the District champion
ship, which probably will be played
this year at Burning Tree, for the
first time in nine years, when Frank
K. Roesch last won the title.
General Tourney Lineup.
Here is the way the links sched-
ule of major affairs lines up:
District tournaments-Chevy Chase
invitation, probably May 9, 10, II and
IL; Manor Country Club invitation,
probably May l6, II, 18 and 10: Dis
trict amateur championship, Burn
ing Tree, probably September 20, 81
and %.
Women's District Golf Associ-
alton championship, Columbia
Country Club, June 1923, inclusive.
Middle Atlantic tournaments
Mems championship. Chevy Chase,
June 13, IA, Is and Is; women's
championship, Washington Golf
and Country Club, October 8, 10,
II, IL and 13: junior championship,
kenwood, July IL.
Maryland State major affairs
Womens championship, Congress
sional Country Club, May % to 27,
Inclusive; mems amateur champion
ship, Rolling Road Golf Club, June
%, "a and 25; open championship,
Hillendale Country Club, August 8.
Linkswomen to Be Active.
In addition to these Journeys will
be the usual grist of womens cup
tournaments, with more than a
dozen one-day affairs to be sched-
uled. the Junior District and Mary
land championship events; rigid
schedule of women's team matches
starting late in April; and in the
sectional qualification rounds for the
national open championship. slated
FOR a Washington course, one of the
more important affairs from the
pro angle.
On the professional side of the
links picture, the Middle Atlantic pro
body doesn't know what to do about
Its championship. For the past two
years Sid Banks. operator of hotel
ut Old Point Comfort, Va, has been
the "angel" of this tourney. But
this year Dame Rumor has it that
Bid isn't inclined to do anything
about putting up money like the
grand he tossed into the pot in 1888.
The rumor is bolstered by the fur
ther rumor (Which Al hasn't de-
nied) that AL Houghton will not go
back to Old Point Comfort in the
spring. For two years Houghton has
been the handspring behind the
tournament, which has twice been
won by Leo Walper, currently taking
In the pro Journeys on the Pacific
Coast.
Government Meet Again Due.
Nor has a date been set by the
District Pro Golfers Committee for
the District open champion. That
tourney usually comes along in Oc-
tober to wind up the pro season
around town. Witty Cox of Con-
gressional has won it two years in a
row.
Toss in the Government match
play tourney, to be sponsored again
by The Star, with the usual flock of
small club affairs and any one can
see another busy golf year looms,
even though the invitation tourna-
ment list won't be large. The Balti-
more Country Club invitation tour
ney, which always draws a few
golfers from Washington. probably
will be played May 81, June l and @
Two intercity events, first staged
last year, will be continued under
the wing of the Maryland State Golf
Association. These are two matches
between Washington and Baltimore
amateurs, the first of them an all
ages contest, to be held at Manor
August s, and the second an inter-
city junior team match, slated for
Woodholme August %. In both these
matches last year the Washington
lads were victorious and probably
will be returned the winners again.
No Bid for Open Trials.
Last year an agreement was
reached to rotate annually the Sec
tional qualifying rounds for the
open and amateur championships
between Washington and Baltimore.
This year the open championship
medal rounds will be played at one
of the Washington clubs, while the
amateur title test will go to Balti-
more.
Last year at Congressional the
eimon-pures were paced by Bobby
BrownHl, who went on to Pittsburgh
to become the lone qualifier from
this section
No local club has yet bid for the
open championship sectional rounds,
but bid probably will be made at
bhe District association meeting.