Evening star., 1940-06-14
BY WALTER McCALLUM.


Red Cross benefit golf matches
spring up all over the horizon. Latest
Of = series Of such matches to be
proposed Is team contest between
the Ryder Cup team, baked of its
1899 contest with a British team,
and a team composed of men chosen
by Gene Sarazen.
Washington will have its own Red
Cross benefit match at Indian Spring
July 4. Right now most of the top
professional golfers of the country
are being contacted to come to the
Capital to play in an amateur-p pro
tourney, with all the money taken
In at the gate to 60 to the war
relief fund Of the Red Cross.
But over and above these things,
all Of them worthy and sure to
succeed. the golfers of Washington,
some 10000 strong, have a chance
to do a real job for war relief on
July 4. Here is the way it could
work, If backed by the proper club
authorities and by the various golf
associations operating in this ter
ritory:
Every golf club in and around
Washington, public and private, has
links events scheduled for July 4
These competitions will find many
thousands of Washingtonians TAX
Ing part. If every man who played
In these Journeys put a 81 (no more
and no less) in the hat for the Red
Cross, it would amount to something
pretty substantial. Add to this
spontaneous outpouring Of several
thousand dollars the money to be
taken in at the Red Cross exhibi-
tlon at Indian Spring and you will
have a considerable amount of
money to be raised by golfers.
Golf Ahead Of Other Sports.
Soon it will be coming to the point
where benefit baseball games, foot
ball games and other sports affairs
Will be staged for Red Cross wal
relief. Golf has jumped out in
front.
Golfers have a chance to be the
nrst to respond. They will do sc
generously, if the clubs and the
golf associations seize this chance
to do something really big. We have
around Is golf clubs operating il
and near Washington. If each
club contributed 5000 from its mem.
bership playing in Red Cross golt
tournaments on July 4 the tota
would be considerable.
Here's a great chance to do some.
thing worthwhile. and for the game
OF golf and golfers, who are generou!
IN everything, to contribute toWarc
alienation of the war sufferers ir
Europe. Another month or two anc
1t may be too late The time is now
and best available opportunity Jul,
4-the day we celebrate our indie.
pendence.
1t isn't new. 1t was done in 1918
and the money raised was turnet
over by the clubs and by the Dis.
| trict Golf Associa ton to the Rec
Cross. 1t can and should be don,
again.
Four ID. c. Boys Qualify.
Four Washington golfers. al
Youngsters, were playing today il
the opening match play rounds il
the Middle Atlantic Golf Association
| championship at Baltimore's Hillen
| dale Club. Two of them met in tn,
first round following a qualifyin,
day when the boys literally took tn,
course apart under a sizzling sun
A two-under-par 63 from the blaz
ing clubs of methodical Spence
Overton Of Baltimore, brace of pa
70s by Buddy Sharkey of George
town University, and John Quinn
OF Baltimore, and a flock of Ills, 70
and on up to 76-the qualifyin!
limit-attest the fact that the cours,
was none too tough.
Meeting in the first round toda,
were Billy Shea, the star Of tn,
Georgetown team, intercollegia t,
champions. and Earle Skinker O
Columbia, the interscholastic champ
Shea scored 73, while Skinker wor
the last place with rs.
Billy Dettweiler, the budding G.
man, back in the championship gol
wars clashed today with Herber
Wagner of the Baltimore Country
Club. Dettweiler shot rs in thu
medal round. Sharkey. who will
leave town next week with Shea fol
the intercollegiate title tourney a
Ekwanok, scored a level par 70
and today was to play Robert E
Jones of Hillendale. who had IA.
In the second flight is George d.
Witt, tall Congressional youngster
with 81, who meets w. H. Parker
! Jr., of Hillendale today. Ralph