Evening star., 1940-06-23
Three Championship,
Two Trophy Events
Crowd Links
Schedule Runs Through
Next Six Days; Public
Tourney Test Packed
By WALTER McCALLUM.

The busiest links week in all the
years your Uncle John McNiblicA
has been looking at golf affairs
around Washington comes up this
week with man, woman and junior
golfers all going at it in search o1
championships and cute little silver
mugs. Three championships will be
decided this week while two Other
big tournaments-for fun-also are
scheduled.
Here is the schedule:
Columbia Broadcast.
ing System tourney for Class 3
woman players at Washington Coll
and Country Club.
Tuesday-Maryland junior cham.
pionship at the Terra Mariae Clut
of Towson, Md. Also qualifying
round of the Maryland women's
championship at Hillendale.
d. C. Juniors Start Wednesday.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. round fol
District junior championship at
Woodmont First round of match
play in Maryland women's title
tourney at Hillendale.
Thursday-First and second match
rounds in District Junior champion
ship. Second match round in Mary
land women's tourney.
Friday--Semifinal and final rounds
for District Junior and semi
final round in Maryland women's
event. Qualifying round in Capital
Golf and Country Club best-ball
tournament.
Saturday-Final round in Mary
land women's tournament. First
and second match rounds in Capital
Club best-ball tourney.
The schedule makers aren't such
smart hombres after all. If they
were they'd have showed tourna-
ment or two over into July to avoid
overlapping. In all the years the
boys and girls have been playing
competitive golf in this area there
hasn't been a week as crowded as
this one.
Early Public Links Start.
Down at East Potomac Park
Tommy Doerer, jr., public links rep
resentative for the United States
Golf Association, is getting the
course ready for the sectional rounds
for the national championship
scheduled for July 8. Tommy has
we'll over 100 entries and is figuring
on starting the boys around 7:30 am
on the first hole of their 36-hole
trek.
S. G. Loef1er again will be the
Santa Claus for the local qualifiers
He will pick up the check for the
top three qualifiers who will form
the local Harding Cup team-if
three men from Washington qualify
Doerer probably will ask the en-
trants to play winter rules, although
that hasn't been decided.
1t hasn't been talked about in the
papers, but the final round of the
Maryland State best-ball tourney be-
tween Roger Peacock and Claude
Rippy of Indian Spring and Erford
Barnes and Spencer Overton OF
Rolling Road wasn't all roses and
honey. The boys had quite an argu-
ment about club-grounding Incl
dent in a bunker. and as result
Overton is said to have entered the
Maryland amateur championship
only after some urging.
Tomorrow's c. B. S tourney for
women at Washington winds up the
spring schedule of the Women's s Dis
trict Golf Association. No more
Journeys are listed until September
6, although two mixed-foursome
events will be played July 10 and 16
at Congressional and Columbia.
That Red Cross exhibition match
at Indian Spring July is shaping
up as quite an affair. But if they
open the door to any amateur-pro
combine they are going to find the
course all cluttered up with a lot of
gents who don't rate in that COM
pany. Maybe it would be good idea
to limit the field to Is foursomes
which would permit spacing the stars
around whom the big galleries will
gather and permit every one to see
some good golf
Virginia Schedules Meet.
The Virginia State Golf Associa-
ton championship will be played
over the fine Cascades course at Hot
: Springs, Va, July 4, S, 6 and Z
Smooth-swinging Spencer Wynsol
of Newport News is the present
champ. The membership of the
State association does not include
any local club.
AL Houghton has arranged pro-
senior tourney for Beaver Dam next
Friday, with the seniors to be drawn
from all the local clubs.
John McClure's &c at Burning
Tree few days ago reminds us OF
the time Leo Diegel shot a 66 over
the same course and lost all three
ways of Nassau bet to Fred Nc
Leod. Freddie had 81, but won
each nine from Leo by one hole
That was in the days when Burn
ing Tree had a par of .68. Now it's
72-by the score card.
Why wouldn't it be smart to get
National Open Champ Lawson Lit
tie and Ed Oliver to play in that Red
Cross match at Indian Spring? II
they'll come.