Evening star., 1939-07-31
Crown Flight Of 81
From 3Courses Is
Urged for Meet
Event PIunned to Lost
; Days; SpeeioI Club
Events Decided
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

IVY SH o0
Events Decided
BY WALTER McCALLUM.
The public links boys are taking
their District municipal champion
ship seriously this year. Managers
of the three major public courses in
the National Capital were to meet
today to null over a scheme for re-
turning the championship to match
play, early in September. For sew
eral years the municipal links title
tourney has been a 72-hole medal
play affair, which generally is re-
garded as the outstanding test of
consistency in golf championships.
AS the proposal stands today the
scheme is to hold separate qualifi-
cation rounds at East Potomac Park,
Rock Creek Park and Anacostia Park
to qualify Is men from the first course
and 8 each from the other two
courses. This would form a cham
pionship flight of 80, who then would
start at match play for the title now
held by chubby Andrew Oliveri, the
only local lad who did anything at
all in the national public links i'm
broglio at Baltimore last week.
The match-play tourney, under
the scheme as outlined by Clair Mil
Ter, Rock Greek Park manager, would
start September S and would run at
least three days, in addition to the
time required for the separate quail
fication rounds. 1t all sounds like
too much golf, for a little tourney
that could very well be settled in 36
holes of medal play and at the most,
could be handled over 72 holes of
score play. But if they take them
selves that seriously maybe they
would better have it once, learn that
it isn't as important as all that, and
then revert to the older and estab-
lished tournament-at medal play.
Wood Would Quit Betting.
william H. Brick" Wood, caddie-
master at Washington, is just about
ready to call off all bets with Leo
Walper. For weeks now Wood and
Walper have had a standing bet on
Leos score of a buck stroke from
81 to 70. Sometimes Leo won and
sometimes Wood won But Brick"
is about ready to call it quits, for
Leo has won so often lately he now
is convinced Leo is good.
The big Walper man shot q 68
yesterday to win 6 of 7 bets from
Wood, following a 81 he had last
week. But at that Leos 68 wasn't
good enough to win an exhibition
match in which he paired with Dave
Thomson against Bob Barnett and
George Diffenbaugh. Bob was hot
ter than the blazing sun as he
knocked the ball around the Wash
ington course in 81 strokes, and Bob
and George won by and 2.
Bob missed a 4-footer on the
last green to tie the course record
of 66, held jointly by Maurice Nc
Carthy, Dave Thomson and Witty
Cox. Tomorrow Witty is going over
to Washington to have a whirl at
busting that record. He can do it,
wv, IL AlC 6Cto All VIC SlOOVC, 1OI lllC
course is perfect for low scoring.
Yesterdays match was played un-
der blazing sun, which kept many
golfers from the links at some of the
courses.
Grape Likes Hot Weather.
But Theodore S. Grape, former
president of the Congressional
Country Club, needed hot day to
get his game in gear. Ted whacked
out 80, with a rs handicap, to win
the Witty Cox Trophy with a net
"a, while George o. Neville and Otto
Elble tied for second. H. j. Klossner
was low in Glass B and other win
ners were S. E. Golden and Frank
Robertson.
At Kenwood j. A. Thurston, Les
Shade and K. A. Brasfield tied for
first in the blind bogey handicap
tourney, with net cards of IA. Wal
ter Brown, c. D. Johansen and A.
D. Kane tied for second.
At Manor Mrs. H. j. Beech and
w. F. Beasley won the mixed four
some affair, with 84-20-64. Sec
ond were Miss w. Jennings and
L. P. Connors with 91-25-76.
Joe Balestri, who will be a favorite
to win the printers tourney at Gin
cinnati early in August, won the
miniature tourney at Beaver Dam,
after grabbing the medal with a 81.
He licked Doug Matteson, 2 and /,
in the final. Other winners were
w. w. George. R. Milbourne, C. Hall,
w. L. O'Brien and c. K. Mccarthy.
Entries were to close today for the
high handicap tourney at Argyle, to
be played Wednesday for feminine
golfers with handicaps of 18 and up.
At Indian Spring Mrs. Ora Emge
and Leo F. Pass, who used to whack
'em at old Bannockburn, won the
mixed foursome tourney with IS.
Mrs. c. M. -Hammers1a and John
Dudley had low net with 93-20-73.
First low net in blind bogey affair
went to John Bachman with 82-9-
73. Jerry Hart, former Government
champ, scored a 2-under-par SO to
prove the bright star in a match in
which Hart and Volney Burnett
licked Bobby Brownell and Charley
Malone.
Army Navy Club members played
in a handicap tourney which found
F.. M. Elliott and r. B. Hunt tied for
first, both with net 75s.
At Capital Duvall Martin and
E. r. Ferguson won the foursome
tourney with 74-9-65. r. E. Brewer
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