Evening star., 1939-04-19
Golf S|uggers Weary
Of Being Exploited
In Tournaments
Sam Poirs With GuIduhI.
Jimmy With Cox in
Match on May II
By WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
So much was written about the
thing in the winter of 1888 that you
might think the "feud' will break
out in the open once again when
Sammy Snead and Jimmy Thomson
the two biggest hitters of a golf ball
wearing spiked brogans, meet on the
first tee, but nothing will happen
when these two lusty larrupers stalk
out to Congressionals first hole on
May 81. Jimmy and Sammy will be
on opposing sides in the exhibition
match which has been arranged by
Witty Cox and Parker Nolan.
Jimmy will pair with Cox, while
Sam. who has been challenging
Jimmy for the dubious crown which
goes to the gent who can smite a
golf ball farther than any one else
will have quite smiter in his own
right at his right bower: none other
than Ralph Guldahl, the only pro in
lifetime who has been good enough
and lucky enough to win the national
open championship twice in row
That's the lineup. and the boys
all have signed on the dotted line
The match will start at 2:30 pm,
May 81, and tickets will be on sale
within a week at a dollar a copy.
Both Suffered by Pairing.
Maybe if you can remember away
back, you'll recall the mild hysteria
that came from California early in
1888 when Snead picked up in a
tournament. after having remon-
strated about being paired with
Hammering Jimmy Thomson. Of
course, the whole thing was so much
near beer, for there isn't and never
has been any feeling between the
boys. Each admires the other for
his ability to sock that ball and his
great golf game. But some mis-
guided newspaperman scented a
1eud and made it appear that the
Thomson's didn't care to speak to
the Sneads. and the yarn went all
over the country. intensified by the
fact that Sammy quit in golf
tournament.
But Lawson Little told me there
was nothing to 1.-THE peeve part
by either of the boys. Jimmy and
Sam simply got tired of playing to-
gether in so many tournaments,
billed as the wonder boys of golf, "
said Lawson. 1T didn't help either
OF them, for each naturally tried
to knock the ball long way; they
didn't want to disappoint the gall
leries. and the result was that neither
played his true game. 1t is true that
Sam asked not to be paired with
Jimmy in a couple of tournaments,
but it didn't have any personal ap-
plication to Jimmy
Wearied of Slugging.
Sam simply was tired of slamming
the ball with everything he had, and
50 was Jimmy. But personal feud?
Nothing to it, They like each other
They'll still like each other when
they move out to the first tee on
May 81, but being only an exhibition
match with nothing but a few
paltry bets depending on the result
you can lay 1t in they won't pull
their punches on the tee Shots 1t
will be the first time Slamming Sam
and Hammering Jimmy ever have
played together around Washington,
and If you think you can hit a golf
ball come out that way prepared to
blush. You'll see golf balls parked
where golf balls have no right to
go. Their driving is positively
indecent.
Women's Battles Surprise.
Surprises come thick and fast in
the women's team matches. Manor
Country Club, which finished we'll
down the list in previous years, to-
day heads the first women's team
competition, following the second
series Of matches played yesterday
at Washington, while the Washing
ton team, which led in the initial
matches, slipped to second place.
Manor tops the parade with % points
won, following its clean sweep of all
~ points over palpably weak Argyle
team. Washington, with 915 -to-212
victory over Beaver Dam, has 2O12
points, and has uncovered a new
star in the person of Sally Whipple
a youngster who played the last nine
through the soggy going in 80
strokes. Chevy Chase, victor over
Columbia by 10 to 2, is in third place
with 1914 points, and Indian Spring
last years winner, is fourth with
1872 points. The Indian Spring team
licked Army Navy 912 to 2la.
Second-team matches were post
poned indefinitely when the Army
Navy course was closed because OF
Its wet condition.
Tech High in Lead.
Schoolboy matches found Tech
High springing into the lead with a
p-to-0 win over Anacostia at Wash
ington. Dick Burgess, scoring "a
led the winners to their clean sweep
George Washington High of Alex
andria licked Gonzaga, last years
winners, by 712 to 112. Wilson and
Western, billed to clash in a Dawes
Cup match, didn't play.