Evening star., 1939-04-11
Schedule Difficulties
Force Committee
To Limit Field
Greens Fees to Enrich
Clubs; PIoy Storts
Early in May
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Thirty teams of four men each
will start in the Government match
play golf championship during the
first week in May. A schedule for
the tournament, to be sponsored
again this year by The Evening
Star. is to be drawn up this week
by the Golf Committee of the Fed
eral Golf Association.
Team entries for the tournament,
which closed today with Charles p.
Redick, president of the Federal
Golf Association and tournament
director, were held down to 80, in
stead of possible 36, making 1t
possible to play the affair in three
divisions instead of four. Redick
wanted to keep the event in three
divisions rather than four because
of the difficulty of arranging
four division schedule Six private
courses again will be used this
year, with green fees to be paid by
the players on the 30 teams. Redick
estimates the clubs will gain revenue
from greens fees of between 81 100
and 1900 over the schedule which
will run through May, June and
July. Clubs which have agreed to
use of their courses for the matches
include Indian Spring, Beaver Dam,
Army Navy and Belle Haven, with
two more to be heard from.
Expects 200 to Play.
Redick estimates that with re-
placements of men who will be un-
able to get away at the time of the
scheduled matches more than 200
Government golfers will play in the
tourney which was won last year by
the Accounts and Deposits team
from the Treasury Department.
Redick will gather with the asso-
citation Golf Committee this week to
make up the schedule. The COM
mittee consists of Don O'Brien,
Federal Housing. chairman; George
Foster of Justice, Lou Harrison of
Navy and Bill Harvey of Accounts
and Deposits. Harvey is a vice
president of the Federal association,
and was a rstalwart member of last
years winning outfit.
This year the schedule will be
spaced out, with one match for each
team to be listed only at intervals
of two weeks. The fortnight period
between May % and June II will
not be used. because of the Memorial
Day holiday and the Federal Golf
Association tourney, scheduled for
the Indian Spring Country Club
June 5 and g. With interest in golf
mounting among the boys who work
for Uncle Sam, on the heels of the
successful Star-sponsored tourna-
ment of last year, Redick plans this
year to play the association medal
play tourney in foursomes.
IF we have 200 entries, as we
expect" he says, I'VE will have trou-
BILE getting 200 men around SO holes
each in two days"
80, instead of playing in three
somes, as in past years, we are talk
ing about playing in foursomes to
save time. I don't think a four
some takes much more time than a
threesome
Jerry Hart of General Accounting
Office won the individual cham
pionship last year and the G. A. o.
team won the team championship.
Chip Shots.
Tony Sylvester. Capital Golf and
Country Club pro, says $50 club
golfers may play in the "Moaners
VS.. Alibiers" match next Sunday at
the club above Glen Echo I'VE
have more than 100 entries already"
says Sylvester, land will get more
this week. the local pros have
no scheduled events until April "a,
when the Middle Atlantic P. G. A.
will play tournament at the Mount
Pleasant course in Baltimore :.
Dutch Rittenhouse, last years win
ner of the East Potomac spring
tourney, may come down from York,
Pa, to defend ;. the qualifying
round now is being played, with
Melvin Skagg's rs topping the pa
rade so far that mark probably
will be broken :. Washington may
have to get along this year without
a public links committeeman -. no
appointment has been made to re-
place Dave Herman, who resigned
a month ago. Witty Cox, Con-
gressional pro, has been suffering
from another cold he's had a
succession of them this year {.
they've held a series of hole-in-one
tournaments at Rock Greek Park,
but no one, in a dozen such affairs.
has made an ace they make
plenty of them on the 97-yard fifth
when the chips aren't down.