Evening star., 1939-09-29
Straiqht OF the Tee
By WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
There's one thing sure about
match play golf. That is that no
matter what the past tells you, or
how form runs, it's one of the tough
est of jobs to pick a winner. Take
the case of the three teams now
playing in the round robin final
tournament for the Federal match
play links championship in the
tourney sponsored by The Evening
Star.
Three days ago Government
Printing Office, the section 2 WIN
ners, trounced Federal Housing
Administration, the section l vic
tors, by to 2. In view of the fact
that Interior had gone through an
entire season without defeat in
section 3-indeed, without being
pushed around at all-it made them
look cinch to lick Federal Housing.
And what happened? Only that the
Federal Housing boys, no doubt
irked by their whipping at the hands
of G.. P. O., turned on a hapless
Interior team and licked them at
Indian Spring yesterday 4 to 2.
AS the situation now stands, Fed
eral Housing have finished their
part of the round robin, with a total
of points Won Government PRINT
ing Office, which plays Interior next
Monday at Indian Spring, needs a
minimum Of 2la points to win the
title. If they take that many from
Interior, they'll win. But suppose
Interior turns around and licks
G. P. o. to 2. That will throw them
just where they started, and another
series will be necessary, for all three
teams then will be deadlocked at 6
points each. 1t gives you an idea
how important 3-foot putt becomes
in such a scramble as this Govern
ment match play tourney has turned
out to be.
Andestad Low Scorer.
Pat MARITIME and Roger Peed were
the big factors in Federal Housing
Administrations last ditch stand
They won points from A. Wayne
Van Leer and Everett johnson of In
terror, shooting a best ball of II tc
do it. But John Andestad of Interior
was the low scorer of the eight men
He scored a 73, and with Gene Fos-
sum, won points for Secretary
Ickes' boys against Don O'Brien and
Beverly Mason. The latter, by the
way, turned on lot of heat, bag
ging a birdie on the 9Th and an
eagle on the 18th hole.
ut just proves again that we
builded better than we knew when
he used this method of a final play
off," said Chuck Redick, tournament
director. But who would have
thought it would come out so close?
It has us all dizzy"
There's quite a mixup in golf
events next week. On top of a
conflict on October 5 between a
women's tourney at Indian Spring,
when many of the gals will want to
see Byron Nelson and Henry Picard
play that afternoon at Columbia,
comes word from Al Jamison of In
dian Spring that the Maryland
State Golf Association has sched-
uled combination pro-amateur
and amateur sweepstakes tourney at
his club for October 4. That's the
day the Mid-Atlantic p. G.. A. will
stage an amateur-pro tourney at
Columbia, as a curtain raiser to the
big pro tourney next week. It's all
rather mixed up and will have the
golfers hopping around from one
course to another without any letup.
Meanwhile, Al Houghton, p. G. A.
tournament promoter, announced
that Jimmy Thomson and Horton
Smith, two of our top pro golfers,
are scheduled to be at Columbia on
the final afternoon of the Mid-At-
lantic P. G. A. affair, which will be
a week from today. That will make
quite bunch of top pros around
with Nelson, Picard and Leo Diegel
who will be at the dinner on the
night of October 6. And we're
getting in touch with Walter Hagen
to have him as toastmaster at the
dinner" said AL.
Mcclure Wins Holmes Memorial.
John E. Mcclure, who retired the
Bascom Timmons Trophy in previ-
GUS National Press Club tourna-
ments and who now holds the first
leg on the new George R. Holmes
Memorial Trophy, will not play ir
future affairs for the Holmes Tro-
ply. John made a little speech at
the initial presentation at Indian
Spring last night, after he had
scored winning 76, topping all the
70-odd golfers gathered for the Pres.
Club affair.
II really wanted to win the first
leg on this. handsome cup" said
Mcclure. mot only because I was
lucky enough to win the other
trophy, but because I loved George
Holmes so much and spent so many
enjoyable moments on the course
with him. Now that I have had
my name on this cup-the first-I'll
retire"
John, who plays at Burning Tree
won by two strokes, topping George
o. Neville of Congressional, who
shot 78. The third gross award
went to Richard p. Whiteley, with
81. Net prizes were won as follows;
Walter Brown. a9zz-4O-ha; Masue
kato. 93-33-6n; w. H. Mylander. o.
s7-22--65; Sam o'Nen. 9p-36-83
Ed Jamison, 1O4-40--64; Martin Losan
12S-62-66. Third from highest score-
hiRh-Charles e. Nicholson, 100: seventh
hiEh-Bill Doherty and L. Long
And don't get noSy and ask jim
Preston, boss Of the Press Cluk
tournaments, how he arrived Q,