Evening star., 1939-08-31
Hershey Golf Meet Gold Lures
Wolper, Iron Man of Links;
Big Field After Muny Title

What a man that Leo Walper is.
Today, up at Hershey, Pa, Leo is
playing in the Hershey open
tourney, which happens to be the
personally earmarked tournament
Of Henry G. Picard, national P.
G. A. champion. Yesterday at 6
pm. Leo was finishing a round of
golf at the Washington Golf and
Country Club. where he scored a
level par 10. In other words, Leo,
in a few hours, wound up one round
Of golf, drove some 1876 miles
through mountain country, and
started in an important links affair.
Few men could do it, but it's just
part of the days work to Walper,
the iron man.
When you consider the thing it
isn't so tough, either, for Leo. For
the Middle Atlantic P. G.. A. cham
pion has been used to hard work
all-his life. He grew up on a farm in
West Virginia, and he's used to
getting up at the crack of dawn.
1t isn't anything unusual for day.
light to see Leo working around his
driving range on the East-West
highway.
Walper Is Iron Man.
But it is a contrast. Where most
pros and all the amateurs wouldn t
enter a big tournament without a
day of practice and a night of rest,
Leo woke up before dawn today and
drove his car up to Hershey to
play in a tournament which may
mean quite a few dollars to him.
With him at Hershey were several
of the top pros around the Capital
among them Al Houghton, winner
of the Bedford Springs open; Lewis
and Virgil Worsham. AL Jamison of
Indian Spring and Amateur Ralph
Bogart of Army Navy, determined
to atone for his bad showing in the
sectional rounds for the amateur
championship by a few good rounds
at Hershey The tourney which
started today, will end Saturday,
and probably Picard again will grab
the major slice of the coin. Henry
knows the course forward and back
ward, and has gotten into the habit
OF winning his private" tourney.
Big Muny Title Looms.
Entries will close Saturday at the
three major public courses for the
city public links championship next
week. and to hear Tommy Doerer
tell it, the tournament to start next
Tuesday will be the biggest affair
ever pulled off among the municipal
golfers. not alone in point of entries
but in class of competition.
1--WE have already more than 75
entries for this tournament
Tommy said today. And well
probably have more than 1O0.'
Qualifying rounds Tuesday will be
held at East Potomac Park, where
16 men will qualify, and at Rock
Creek Park and Anacostia Park
where eight men will qualify at each
course. The 80 qualifiers will start
match play Wednesday, September
6, at East Potomac Park. The first
three match rounds will be at 16
holes, with a 36-hole final billed fol-
September 8. 1t still sounds screWy
to make it such an important affair
in point of time for a relatively un-
important tourney, when the whole
thing could be settled much easier
in a 72-hole medal play tourney
over two days. But that's the way
they want it and that's the way it is
Meanwhile, down at East Potomac
Park Doerer is lining up his gol1
team for an important match with
the Laurel Club of Richmond next
Sunday and Rock Greek Park anc
Anacostia linksmen are making face:
at each other in advance of theil
match slated for September 10. Thi:
will be the rubber engagement be-
tween the two teams. They have
split two previous contests.
War Navy in Tough Spot.
Up in section l in The Star.
sponsored Federal match play tour.
nament a situation is developing
which may result in a lot of fur
between the War and Navy teams