Evening star., 1939-12-05
Two Old Line Events
And i. ). Amateur
Pre|im Included
Washington or Woodmont
May Hold Invitation;
Women's List Heavy

In contrast to the meager tourna-
ment season Of 1899, when the male
amateur golfers around town had
little chance for real competition.
and tournaments were scarce, 1910
looms as year of considerable
tournament opportunity for the
budding champions of the links.
Although the Middle Atlantic Golf
Association title tourney, held at
Chevy Chase this year, goes to
Baltimore in 1910, the Maryland
State Golf Association will shift
both its major mems affairs to
Washington, while the sectional
qualifying rounds for the national
amateur championship also are
slated to return to the Capital area.
Both Maryland State mems
tourneys-the amateur and open
championships - were played in
Baltimore in 1899 Bill Eager of
Baltimore won the amateur cham
pionship at Rolling Road, while
John ODonnell won the open title
at Hillendale Columbia and Chevy
Chase probably will be asked to take
the amateur and open champion
ships in 1910, with Columbia enter
tanning the amateurs during late
June The open championship
one-day affair-usually is played
during August, and under the tenta-
tive schedule, will 60 to Chevy Chase.
Neither club has been asked to take
the tournament, but that is the way,
the wind is blowing.
Women's Schedule Bigger.
With these Journeys and the Chevy
Chase invitation affair-plus pos
sible invitation event to be staged
either by Washington or Woodmont
the tournament schedule for men
around Washington will be far from
anemic in 1910. But the womens
schedule, as usual, will be the big
one. The feminine golfers hold far
more affairs than do the men, with
longer schedule, and a greater
variety of events.
The feminine slate of affairs
usually is out by the first part of
April, and usually opens with the
Phyllis Keeler Miller Memorial
tourney in the middle of April. The
Maryland State women's tourney,
held at Congressional in 1899, will
60 to Baltimore in 1910, Despite
the attempt made in 1888 to get the
1889 women's national tourney for
Washington, it isn't likely the
Capital will get the tourney if it
continues to be played in August.
1t is no secret that the golf courses
around Washington are not in the
pink in August, and if a national
tourney came to Washington during
the hot months it would result only
in a flock of headaches and a black
eye for the city and the club which
holds it. But a tournament in late
September is a different matter. BY
that time the courses have recovered
from the beating they take in July
and August and are in good shape.
Chevy Chase Tentative Host.
The Mid-Atlantic mems cham
pionship will go to the Hillendale
Club of Baltimore around the mid
die of June. while the women's
Middle Atlantic tentatively is sched-
uled for Chevy Chase early in
October.
The sectional rounds for the ma
tional amateur, held at Baltimore In
1899, will come to Washington in
August, 1910, while the open cham
pionship sectional rounds, played in
1899 at Congressional, undoubtedly
will be staged in May, 1910, at the
Five Farms course of the Baltimore
Country Club. This follows the
regular rotation scheme for these
affairs, arrived at several years ago
by agreement between officials of the
District and Maryland golf associa-
tions.
Chevy Chase will stage its tourney
in May, 1910, for the Taft and
Sherman trophies. Either Wash
ington or Woodmont may come into
the tournament fold on an earlier
date. So with these affairs, the two
Maryland State events, the District
amateur title tourney, and the Sec
tional rounds for the national cham
pionship, 1910 looms as much
bigger year in competitive golf than