Evening star., 1939-01-28
Group Here Is Loath
To Re|inquish Rule
Over Own Meets
Mid-AtIontie, Maryland
Bodies Ready to Aid
In Reudjustment
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

WAL
President Ralph S. Fowler of the
District Golf Association will bring
up at the annual meeting of that
organization on February a plan
to relieve the overlapping of Sec
tional golf bodies in this area.
First proposed at the annual
meeting Of the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association, which organiza-
ton agreed to appoint a delegate
to any meeting which may be called
Tor the purpose, the proposal came
up again at the Maryland State
meeting, in letter written by Fow-
Ter to Harry p Gallagher, president
of the Maryland golf body. CALI
CHER said he will appoint delegates
to any meeting that may be ar
ranged.
Fowler says he does not know Just
what can be done about the situa-
ton, but he points to the fact that
many of the Washington clubs be-
long to the Mid-Atlantic, Maryland
and District associations, all of
which hold tournaments throughout
the year. Dues to the Maryland
association are $35, to the District
association $25 and to the Middle
Atlantic SIS.
While he wouldn't favor elimina-
ton or abandonment of the District
association or giving up local con-
troll of District meets, he would
consent to such abandonment if 1t
would clarity the situation, Fowler
said.
No Clubs Actually in d. C.
The situation arises from the un-
usual condition that all the private
clubs listed as Washington clubs in
reality are either in Maryland or
Virginia. Most of the clubs within
few miles of the Capitol dome
are members of the Maryland State
Golf Association, while one of the
two clubs in Virginia near WASH
lngton belongs to the Virginia State
| association and the other intends
to join that organization in the
spring.
Most of them also belong to the
Middle Atlantic association, the one
| organization which holds tourna-
ment for a sectional championship
in which golfers from both States
and the District of Columbia are
eligible.
There is not and never has been
any quarrel among the three associ-
ations. Their territories overlap and
their tournaments, in the case of the
Maryland association, also overlap
IN the sense that most golfers be-
longing to Washington clubs can
play in the affairs of both the Dis
trict and Maryland associa tions. But
golfers of the Washington and
Army-Navy clubs, located in Vir-
glnla, may not play in the Maryland
affairs.
Chip Shots.
Fred Mcleod will defend his. senior
P. G. A. championship at Sarasota,
Fla, next winter The Bobby
Jones course there has George Jaco-
bus, p. G. A. prexy, as the pro
Wonder what will happen when
Walter Hagen becomes so and
thereby is eligible for the senior
tourney?
Comes card from Leo Walper,
dated Oakland, Calf, January l,
which kinda shows up Jim Farley's
boys . . Does it take weeks for
mail between California and Wash
ington? Leo should be fixed
for the winter with that $500 won
at Augusta :. The pros have ways
OF picking up spare change.
Benny Loving, former assistant to
Witty Cox and a lad who deserves
break, has been named pro at the
Longmeadow Club of Springfield,
Mass. . . Jimmy Farrell, who was
pro at Quaker Ridge, N. Y, and
st. Augustine, Fla, is dead 1.
Jimmy was a brother of Johnny
Farrell, 1928 open champion.
Rudy Harrell's Southern-heading
gang have choice of three spots
this year and now are balloting on
whether to go to Pinehurst, Augusta
or Ponte Vedra, Fla. They'll
leave town February 18 for a week.
Witty Cox and other local pros
have been asked to buy stock in a
P. G. A golf ball manufacturing
proposition, the idea being to make
a coreless golf ball Wonder
what the old-line manufacturers
will think of the P. G. A. being in
direct business conflict with them?