The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-27
Visiting Team VIII Be
Largest And Strongest
Ever To Invade City;
Local Course In Shape

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Biltmcre Golf Club of Miami
will renew relations with the Key
West Coli Club next Saturday.
continuing a series of matches
which were started many years
ago.
The visiting team will be the
largest that has ever invaded this
city and il will probably be the
best. since IL of the best players
in the Biltmcre Club will make
the trip. Key West has been the
underdog in most of the matches
to date. but this time the Tourna-
ment Committee feels that the
visitors will get some surpris-
inslY stiff opposition.
The visiting team will find the
local course in better shape than
it has been on any of their pre-
vious visits. Recent rains added
to the efforts of the Greens Com
mittee to place the course in great
playing shape,
The locals will pin their hopes
on a first team consisting OF Joe
Lopez, city champion, who can
turn in score of 81 if pushed,
and Sam Anderson, owner of
Trumbo Island and a member of
the Key West club for the past
several months. Anderson is
just a shade better than Tubby
Price, the Biltmore captain and
number one man, so the combina-
ton of Lopez and Anderson
should take anything Biltmore
can throw into the match.
Bob Spottswood and Alton
Parks comprise the number two
Key West team. Frankly. this
combination is gamble. How
ever, 1t is hoped that the steady
play and cool head of the veteran
Spottswood will stimulate the
brilliant but erratic Parks and
produce a team that the visitors
will find difficult to take.
In the number three slot will
be Sam Goldsmith and Curry
Harris, another combination of
steadiness and brilliant but un-
practicable play. Harris has de-
veloped into one of the longest
drivers on the local club, and the
knowledge that he can depend
on Goldsmith may work to pro-
duce one of his best games.
Should this happen, any team
would have trouble in defeating
the local pair. Goldsmith can be
counted on for an 80 against COM
petition, and it is possible that he
might turn in rs. In a recent
match, Harris turned in II pars
and two brides out of IL holes.
Such play next Saturday will re-
suit in victory for Key West.
Playing in the No. 4 position
will be team composed of Glen
Price and Melvin Russell Under
the eagle eye of the chairman Of
the tournament committee, this
pair turned in a best-ball of 20 in
a tune-up match last week, so this
couple should be no push-over
for the opposition. Not many
teams on any club can produce a
best-ball of par, so the locals have
a good chance of coming through.
The remaining three teams
viii be made up of the other
players, who, in the judgement of
the tournament committee, will
have the best chance against the
visitors.
The Biltmore Club viii arrive
by Aero-Car about noon Satur-
day and Immediately after lunch
will go to the local course for the
first matches. Il Is hoped to start
play by 2 o'clock
Play viii be for Sc holes. ID
Saturday afternoon and 10 Sun
day morning. All games at match
play where the low bah wins
the hole viii be observed. Scor-
ing win he By Nassau system.
where one point IS given to the
team winning the first nine holes.
one point for second nine holes,
and one point for total. 1t is pos
sible for a team TO take three