Evening star., 1940-03-31
Meet Will Lack Capital Entry With Mcleod Passing Up Event
Leading Links Stars
Will Fill Tourney
Honoring Jones
Printcrofts Will Stuqe
Title Event at Manor
And Congressional
By WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Washington will not have a com.
petitor in the most publicized goli
tournament outside of the national
events. Fred Mcleod, national oper
champion in 1908 and a competition
In all the previous masters" tour
naments at Augusta, will not COM
pete in the show in Georgia to be
played this week.
It's the one tournament a wear ir
which Bobby LONESOME time EN-.
peror of golf-competes, but not only
on that account does it rate Nation.
wide publicity. The masters" tour
ney, to be played April 4, S, 6 and I
over the Augusta National course
draws all the former champs who
can make it and all the top golfers
of the year. Three national cham
pions will compete, along with al
the hot shots of the winter cam
paign, which will wind up with the
Augusta affair.
AS for Bobby Jones, once the un-
doubted king of world golf, he is just
going along for the ride. Out of
competitive golf with the exception
of this one tournament for 10 years
now, Bob isn't the record-cracking
man the pros all feared between
1922 and $780, The parade has
passed the 37-year-old Jones man
But if Bob happens to ride along for
a while at the forefront of the
gang-even if he doesn't win-that
well known novel, Gone With the
Wind" will be mild Georgia breeze
by comparison. The celebration
would rock Peachtree street to its
curbstones.
Tourney Is Leisurely.
} There's real basis for the pub
licity splash about the Jones affair.
1t happens to be the one big tourna-
ment of the year-outside the
national events-which all the top
golfers want to be in. The field is
small-around 50-the tournament
is leisurely sort of affair, stretch
ing out over four days; the course
Is an outstanding test, and even the
refreshments are good. The weather
hasn't been too good but the boys
down Georgia way are hoping for
something other than the muddy,
rainy weather of past years.
Snead, Guldahl, Nelson, Hogan.
Demaret, Oliver, Little, Armour,
Picard, Dudley, Wood, Sarazen,
Hines, Smith and all the cracks will
play. 1t is the blue ribbon event of
the winter schedule, the grand
vindup. 1t doesn't have many men
who won't be in there cracking
around par, and the winning score
may be below 280 again, as it was
last year.
The man who wins the Augusta
National tournament-no matter
whether he has won previous affair
along the winter circuit-sits apart,
off by himself. 1t also carries five
grand in prize money.
Mcleod, who already has been
South once this year, is pretty busy
at Columbia and won't make the
trip. Witty Cox, who has played in
previous masters events, also is
too busy to 60 So Washington
won't have an entry unless mys-
terlous Leo Walper is able to get in.
Walper Keeping Quiet.
Leo hasn't won anything this
winter and would rate a bid only
by generosity of the sponsors, who
keep tight line on the bids for the
affair. But no one around WASH
ington knows where Leo is or when
he will be home.
He last was seen by local folks
around Sarasota at the end of Feb
ruary. Probably he's somewhere in
the South seeking a couple of pars
and will be home in time to be the
foremost contender in the Mid
Atlantic P. G. A. championship at
Old Point Comfort April 26 and q.
Congressional and Manor have
been chosen as the two golf courses
to be used during the annual tour
nament of the Union Printcrafts
International Golf Association in
August. The tourney is a 72-hole
medal play affair, played over four
days, with several subsidiary fea-
lures in addition to the main event.
E. B. Chick Heimer, well-known
Beaver Dam golfer heads the
Washington chapter of the printers
links organization and Clarence E.
Purdy is Washington commissioner.
Chip Shots.
Middle Atlantic pros will gather
tomorrow at the Rolling Road Club
of Catonsville, Md, to make up
their schedule and play in a golf
tourney.
Capital club members are enthu-
siastic about their coming best ball
tournament. form of play that
should be popular around the Capt.
tai. Bill Pendergast, who has
played in such affairs in New Eng
land. says the emphasis will be
on fun and the tournament won't
be such grim affair as an indi-
vidual event becomes.
Maryland will open it's golf sea-
son against Cornell at Beaver Dam
Tuesday George Washington has
named on its golf team the fol-
lowing: Carl A. Betsch, Scott Gud-
mundson, Robert Groetzinger, John
Guinnup and Elwood Davis. Duke
will meet Georgetown at Capital
April 80.
Congressional Country Club this
afternoon will stage a golf tourney
as a feature of a frontier days"
celebration.
All the pros around town are
pleased that the sectional qualifying
rounds for the open championship
will be played at Manor May q.
The amateurs are just as pleased
that the simon-pure tests will go
to Chevy Chase in August. Manor
is good test for straight hitters
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