Evening star., 1939-07-24
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

DY WAL MCOAkL
Hopeful of going places in their
biggest test of the year, three Wash
ington public links stars were seek
ing a place in the sun today in the
galaxy of crack municipal golfers
from half a hundred municipalities
as the national public links cham
pionship started over the testing
Mount Pleasant course in Baltimore.
Roly-poly Andy Oliveri, District
municipal titleholder, was the top
man of the trio representing WASH
ington in the Harding Cup inter-
city team competition, as the first of
two 18-hole qualifying rounds got
under way. With slim Jim Gipe and
bespectacled Bobby Morris, the
Capital has three men who may 60
a long way in the championship,
which won't end until the footsore
flnalists steam up to the last green
next Saturday afternoon. Oliveri
wound up his practice rounds with a
one-over-par 73, and started at 7:44
this morning.
Gipe started his medal round at
noon, and Morris was to start at
2:30. One or two of the local lads
may qualify among the 64 who will
enter match play Wednesday morn
ing, for four Sudden death" 18-hole
rounds, leading up to 36-hole semi
final Friday.
Washington Golf and Country
Club women are forehanded. With
the championship scheduled to be
played in October Mrs. G. C. Roney,
womens golf chairman at Washing
ton, has invited the women of the
other clubs to play at Washing
ton next Monday, ito familiarize
themselves with the course in ad-
vance of the Middle Atlantic
championship" OF course, it's a
nice gesture to permit the Wash
ington women to entertain the
feminine golfers from the other
clubs. The championship is slated
for October 9-13, inclusive.
SpenCCT-VuCSdEtny VIII.
Cliff Spencer, Beaver Dams long
hitter, was a favorite today to cop
first money IN the Bedford Springs
(Pa) open tourney, following his
impressive subpar golf in the
amateur-pro tourney yesterday,
which was won by Cliff and Martin
F. Mccarthy, Columbia amateur.
They shot better-ball score of IS.
Cliff scored a SO. In third place
were AL Houghton and Volney
Burnett. Other local pros in to-
days tourney are George Diffen-
baugh, Leo Walper and AL Treder.
Maybe those little men" at In
dian Spring can win a match with
the giants" some day, but it won't
be until Tommy Utz grows a long,
thick beard, judged from the rec
ord. Tommy and his ''midgets"
took another trouncing in their
annual match yesterday, losing to
John Bachman's giants by a score
of 80 to 81, and now the little men,
weighing less than $50 pounds or
standing less than 5 feet 6 inches
in height, again must foot the bills
for the crab feast. Even the pres
ence of Bob Barnett and Claude
Rippy on the "little mems" team
didn't help, for they were trounced
by AL Jamison and Billy Shea.
Rippy, playing perfect golf, shot
a 68.
At Manor A. F. McDougald holed
a mashie shot for the first ace on
the new 180-yard fifth hole. The
ball hit in the cup and stayed there.
Witnesses to the shot were w. H.
Mccarthy, w. T. Farrell and Jack
Sutter. Tied for the top prize in
the blind bogey tourney at Manor
were E. c. MCGOWAN, H. J. Hum
phrey, M. M. Hanlon and George
Moss. Tom Beavers bagged an eagle
2 on the para seventh hole.
At Congressional M. r. Kennedy
and r. N. Evans won the best-ball
two-ball tourney with a net card of
81. Second were L. l.. Biffle and
Frank Robertson with So.
The blind bogey tourney at Army
Navy went to Capt. j. Jordan with
98-24-74, with E. r. Doyle and F.
M. Elliott splitting second prize.
r. L. Nagle and j. B. Powell tied
for first place in the par-birdie- eagle
tourney at Washington, splitting
first place with Is points. F. w.
Bradbury and j. B. Skinner tied for
second with "a points.
Beaver Dam Licks Argyle.
Beaver Dam golfers apparently are
unbeatable in their interclub match
with Argyle. They won the second
of series yesterday at the Landover
course, licking their guests by a
score of II to 13, even though John
r. Miller and Everett johnson, top