Evening star., 1939-01-31
80 Capital Golfers
To Enjoy Harrel|'s
Augusta Party
Four-Doy Links FroIic
Planned by Popular
Washington CIubmon
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

A four-day private tournament
for a group of between 80 and
40 Washington golfers will be held
at Augusta, Ga, starting February
10. Tired of looking at snoW-cov-
cred golf courses, or playing-if at
winter conditions, some
twoscore linksmen from the Capt.
tai are planning a trip South over
the Washington's birthday holiday
as members of Lefty" Harrells
Augusta crowd.
This trip, started about eight
years back by Harrell, Ralph Fowler,
Eugene C. Gott, jr., and George E.
Elliott, has expanded from the
original quartet until now it is the
biggest mass excursion of golfers
from the Capital during the winter.
It's quite a job for Harrell, too,
even though he enjoys making the
arrangements and staging the side
features that go to make up the
party.
HOpefuls in Reserve.
Here are the 40 odd timers" who
have indicated their desire to go
on the trip:
Maurice E. Horton, Mack L. Lang
ford, Hugh A. KerWin, T. M. Beav-
ers, Edgar A. Merkle, William B.
Putnam, Charles H. Pardoe, Paul
Sleeper, William E. Davis, Maj. F.
M. Dawson, Dr. O. U. Singer, God
frey L. Munter, Ralph S. Fowler,
Frank Bell. F.. N. Stricklin, Casey
King. William Throckmorton Harry
C. Gretz. Dave Morris, R. T. Har-
rell, DR.. Marion Falls, Ray j. Nor
man, Martin Wiegand, Maurice R.
Palmer, w. R. Winslow, Frank E.
Johnson, G. BoWden Craighill, John
Widmayer, F.. j. Kane, Elmer
Jenkins, Frank T. Mitchell, j. S.
Nicoll Arthur j. May, L. J. Goode,
Kenneth N. Parkinson, John Shaw,
D. N. Pratt, Dan Norman. A. G..
Dezendorf and George E. Elliott.
This year Harrell wants to hold
the party down to 80 in number,
but if there are Withdrawals from
the ranks of the "old-timers' nine
applicants have put their names in
the pot for the vacant spots.
These hopefuls are Lafayette
Franklin, Julian Heron, E. c. Baltz,
A. P. Woodson, Joseph T. Kirchner,
Guy B. Chase, Col. Leroy w Heron,
M. K. Heartfield and Barge L. Hartz.
Much Work for Harrell
Fifteen years and more ago Co
lumbia Country Club had an "Au-
gusta gang" whose members made
annual winter pilgrimages to that
good Georgia golf spot, but the Co.
lumbia parties didn't have the mag
nitude of the party which Harrell
has been arranging now for nearly
a decade. In good many ways it
is the least expensive golf party out
of Washington. for this year it will
cost each member less than S75, ex-
elusive of caddy fees. They'll leave
Washington on February 18, arriving
back in the Capital on the morning
Of February %.
The whole layout is a tribute to
the energy and spirit of Harrell, the
man who started it all He prefers
to be called Lefty" although he is
right-handed golfer and a good
one. But he isn't left-handed in
the arranging of these winter golf
trips. 1t happens to be quite a Job
to do, for it involves a multitude of
detail work, comforting with hotel
men, railroadmen and others for the
transportation and housing of 40
men for several days.
Promoted d. C.-Virginia Meet.
And in addition Harrell and Dave
Thomson, the Washington Club pro,
stage daily tournaments for prizes
put up by members of the party.
They also hold one-day sweepstakes
Journeys.
Harrell is the gent who put over
the Virginia pro match
last fall, which resulted in a 61a to-
51a victory for the local pros over
their Virginia brethren in home
and-home match played at the
Washington Club and the Country
Club of Virginia.
He long has been one of the main
stays of the Washington Club and
a leading figure in all the moves
for promotion of caddy welfare at
Washington, one of the few clubs
around the Capital which takes
care of its caddies in winter when
the chances for picking up a dol
lar are slim.