Evening star., 1940-01-14
Constant Wa||oping
OF Orioles Takes
Pep From Play
Parker NoIun's Scheme
Would Eliminate Lot
Of Unneeded TruveI
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

"Why not have our own team
matches here in Washington every
fall, with 8 or 10 local clubs enter
ing teams, and then play the winner
of the Baltimore City championship
for the Maryland State team title?"
Parker Nolan, captain of the Con-
gressional Country Club team, Just
now getting ready for probable
trip to Hawaii, where he expects to
live for two or three years, seems to
have something there. Not that
Parker is burned up too much about
what he called the ringing in of
ringers in the final match of the
Maryland State team matches last
fall, when Indian Spring copped the
title. But Parker does think Wash
ington should have its own series,
run by the District Golf Association.
That was done about Is years ago.
AT that time Washington had
tight little schedule of team
matches played every summer by
teams from Indian Spring, WASH
ington, Columbia, Chevy Chase and
the then Bannockburn Club, which
has been succeeded by the Capital
Golf and Country Club. The
matches ran along for three or four
years and then were abandoned. No
one seemed to know just why. They
Just were dropped.
Nolan Twice Winning Captain.
A few years later along came the
Maryland State Golf Association to
secure as members a lot of the
Washington clubs and to incor-
porate them in the fall team match
schedule. Nowadays the State team
matches played in the fall are dig
stuff in a competitive way. The
spring handicap matches are all
right, but they don't draw the
entry of the fall contests, played
without handicaps.
Nolan captained the Congress
slonal team to two straight State
championships. He went through
the whole thing successfully. but he
isn't convinced that Washington
shouldn't stage its own series of
team contests.
when did Baltimore club last
win the State championship" asks
big Parker. They can't win against
us-or haven't - and so why
shouldn't we hold our own team
matches without the bother of SO
much traveling?" It is true that
since the Washington clubs-eignt of
them-Went into the State associa-
ton no Baltimore outfit has been
able to win the State team title.
I'VE should have our own city
championship" said Parker. "and
then If they want a post-season
match for the State title, let 'em
schedule it that way"
Parker has something there. If
Washington is too strong for the
Baltimore clubs-and that has been
proved-Why can we not hold our
own championship, to be run by
the District Golf Association?
Attend Turf Conference.
Following the short course for
greenkeepers to be held at the Uni
versity of Maryland starting Janu-
ary "a, few of the local green
keepers will move up to New York
to attend the 14th annual turf con-
ference and equipment show in New
York, scheduled for February 6, 7. 8
and 9. Your golf course may have
a better complexion next year by
the work of these greenkeepers and
it may not be known to you that
golf courses in the United States
are in better condition than those
across the water, due to the activ-
1ties of the American greenkeepers.
Charley Malone, the big Redskin
end, who can wallop a golf ball
about as far as any man around
town, has joined the Congressional
Country Club and probably will be-
come a member of the team, even
though, because of his football
duties, he won't be able to play in
the fall Maryland team matches.
Charley has been at Indian Spring
for a couple of years and has been
one of the top golfers there.
IF Charley ever gets his short
game clicking" said Al Jamison,
Indian Spring pro, hes going to
be the toughest golfer around this
town."