Evening star., 1939-02-07
Hoya Star Is Ruled
Within Handicap
Limit for Meet
McGrew Of Chevy Chase
Is Named President
Of Links Group
By WALTER McCALLUM.


For long months the thing has
simmered until finally it came out
in the open at the District Coli
Association annual meeting. And
today Johnny Burke's skirts are
clear, and the red-headed District
amateur champ from Rhode Island,
even though he isn't bona fide resi-
dent of the city beneath the Capitol
dome, stands cleared of any sus-
picion that he may have tried to put
across a fast one in entering the
District championship as member
of the Capital Club last September,
after having been member OF the
club only short time.
mo one who saw that boy play
golf could deny that he comes with
in our handicap limit Of IA for the
championship, said Dallas D. L..
McGrew of Chevy Chase, newly
elected president of the association,
who succeeded Ralph S. Fowler OF
Washington at the annual meeting
at the University Club last night.
Johnny plays too fine a game for
that" But McGrew revealed that
the question of future eligibility did
come up at an Executive Committee
meeting and laid before the annual
meeting a proposal that entrants IN
future District championships be
required to belong to club for an
unspecif1ed length Of time before
becoming eligible.
The association took no action
after James A. Cosgrove warned the
delegates they would be treading
on dangerous ground" if such action
was taken.
Vinson Case Cited.
Cosgrove cited the case of Gene
Vinson, District amateur champ Of
1884, who won the Chevy Chase
tourney only few weeks after he
came to Washington and joined the
Manor Country Club So Johnny
Burke's skirts are clear and the
rrel-thatched District and inter-
collegiate titleholder will defend
his local crown in the tourney
to be played at Burning Tree next
September. He was the best man
in the tournament last year There
wasn't any doubt Of that, even
though there was plenty of con-
versation regarding his entry in the
affair at Congressional last Septem-
ber.
The District links solons Endorsed
scanty schedule of tournaments
this year. Here are the tournaments
to be run under District association
auspices, with dates: Chevy Chase
invitation, May IT, 18 and 10; Manor
Country Club invitation, May %,
"a, Is and 26: District amateur
championship, Burning Tree Club,
September 20, 81 and %; junior
championship, Army-Navy Country
Club, June %, % and 3d. mixed
Scotch foursome. Kenwood Golf and
Country Club, September q.
Schoolboy Committee to Be Named.
Nor will the schoolboys go along
this year unheeded. The association
pledged its support of schoolboy golf
this year along the same lines as last
year by voting to appoint junior
committee which will draw up
schedule Of team competitions, and
a plan for the metropolitan inter-
scholastic title tourney won last
year by Buddy Sharkey, who is at
Georgetown University this year and
will not defend. This junior COM
mittee will be nominated by Birch
E. Bayh, athletic director for the
public high schools. and by Francis
x. Emmett Of Georgetown Prep,
handspring of schoolboy golf in the
city.
McGrew New Prexy.
Officers elected were as follows:
President, D. D. L. McGreW, Chevy
Chase; first vice president, DR.. Rob-
ert A. Keilty. Congressional; second
vice president, DR.. Paul M. Stewart,
Columbia; secretary treasurer, DR..
William c. Barr, Columbia. Chosen
to the Executive Committee in ad-
dition to the officers were Ralph
S. Fowler, retiring president: DR..
Thomas A. Utz. Indian Spring;
James A. Cosgrove, Manor: Comdr.
w. S. Popham, Army Navy, and AL
bert E. Steinem, Woodmont. In
addition to those named the follow
ing attended the meeting. Earl W.,
Clary, Indian Spring: DR.. o. U.
Singer Congressional; P. w. LIE Due,
Argyle; j. S. Gorrell and A. S. Balm,
Kenwood; Roy K. Aten, Ken Spen-
Ger and George Molloy, Capital;
Robert Stead, jr., Chevy Chase: AL
bert R. Mackenzie and w. E. Furey,
Columbia; Harry G.. Pitt and Ralph
S. Gibson, Manor.
The District fathers of golf,
spurred by Fowler, voted to appoint
a committee of one member from
each club to seek method of elm
mating overlapping of the sectional
links associations in this territory,
and also voted to appoint a greens
section Of three members.
The tournament schedule around
Washington this year now is COM
plete. Major affairs, in addition to
those Endorsed by the District asso-
citation, are the Middle Atlantic
championship, at Chevy Chase June
13, IA, is and Is; the District wom-
ems championship at Columbia
starting June 10, and the Maryland
women's title tourney at Congress
sional, May % to q inclusive. In
addition the sectional qualifying
rounds for the open championship
will come to Washington this year,
although the course has not been
chosen