Evening star., 1940-10-01
Bing Crosby 10 Golf
Here Sunday 10 Aid
Red Cross Fund
Will Pair With Pennu
To Oppose M'Leod and
Partner at Columbia
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Bing Crosby. radio and screen
favorite of millions, who swings a
good baritone as well as a potent
driver, will appear in an exhibition
golf match Sunday afternoon at the
Columbia Country Club for the
benefit of the American Red Cross.
Golden-voiced Bing. who annually
puts on privately arranged tour
ney for the touring golf profession
ais, will play with Tony Penna,
| famed Dayton, Ohio, pro, against
Fred Mcleod, Columbia Country
Club professional, and a partner to
be named later. Crosby and Penna
will arrive in Washington around
noon Sunday. The match at Co.
lumbia will start at 1:30 pm. and
is open to the public. Tickets will
be sold by the Red Cross, which
will receive the entire proceeds of
the match, with no cuts for expenses
of any player or any other item.
Crosby, Penna, Mcleod and the
amateur partner of the Columbia
pro are to pay their own expenses.
Mdtcn Maue Quay.
Arrangements for the match were
completed today by DR.. Paul M.
Stewart. golf chairman of Colum-
bia, and officials of the Chevy Chase
chapter. American Red Cross. The
Chevy Chase chapter put on in 1917
the match in which Walter Hagen,
Jim Barnes, Fred Mcleod and Chick
Evans played. Freddie Corcoran,
chairman of the Tournament Bu-
reau of the Professional Golfers
Association, is, handling the match
for Crosby and Penna.
Under the usual circumstances
there wouldn't be any big news in
the fact that Tony Penna is going
to play golf here with a partner.
Tony himself happens to be one
of the glamor boys of pro golf, win
ner of the Kansas City open last
year, runner-up in the Western
open this year, high up in the ma
tional open and so on. But when
Tony plays in Red Cross match
with Bing Crosby that is different.
Bing is 4-handicap golfer at
Lakeside, the sWanky country club
at Los Angeles where many movie
celebrities play. But there are lots
of 4-handicap men in the country.
There's only one Bing Crosby. This
fellow with the quaver in his voice,
the favorite playmate of the golf
pros, happens to be a good golfer
and a great Snowman. Bing played
in the recent national amateur
championship at Winged Foot.
Crosby Gallery Favorite.
Where such good golfing mechan-
ical men as Marvin (Bud Ward,
the defending champ, and Dick
Chapman, the champ to be, were
drawing a couple of score in their
galleries Bing Crosby (the crooner)
drew hundreds during the two days
he played. He didn't qualify in
his first attempt at the amateur.
He scored 83-77-160. But if Bing
had been accustomed to the adula-
ton of a New York crowd which
continuously thrust at him requests
for autographs until it became a
question of room to swing a club,
he might have qualified.
1--WE played a lot with Bing
Crosby" said Leo Walper. Hes
good golfer and a tough man to
lick. But above that he's a great
fellow. The kind of a fellow who
endears himself to every one, no
matter how he plays. I think it's
great that he will be here next
Sunday"
It's the second big Red Cross
benefit match in Washington this
year. The first was the District
pro-amateur championship at In
dian Spring July 4. This one should
do all right, too.