Evening star., 1940-08-18
Norsham and Larkin
loo inexperienced
To Be Threats
Acacia Company to Buy
In Congressional Club;
Anocostions Cocky
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Lewis Worsham, Burning Tree pro,
and Gene Larkin, Woodmont pro,
= Gill leave this week for the Profess
Nsional Golfers Association cham
. -pionship at Hershey, Pa. The
: tournament will start on August 26,
with all the acknowledged stars of
the game, except Lawson Little, the
National Open champion, out there
seeking the title now held by Henry
G. Picard of Hershey. Part of the
expenses of the qualifiers will be
paid, and the money piles up for
. each winning round, until the WIN
ner of the affair collects $1,000, while
the runnerup receives $780,
1t wouldn't require any great
stretch of imagination to see a
youngster like Worsham capture the
P. G.. A. Youngsters have won it
before, but generally the more ex-
perienced competitors-men between
26 and 32-have dominated the
event. Gene Sarazen was 20 when
he won his first P. G. A. cham
pionship in 1922 and Tom Creavy
: was % when he won in 1881. So
the youngster precedent wouldn't be
new.
Capital Entrants Submerged.
But in such great field as that
. which will gather at Hershey the
two lads from Washington will be
submerged. Worsham, good as he
is, hasn't yet shown enough stuff
to win big one. Gene Larkin, who
takes competitive golf in stride and
doesn't train for it, may be good
enough to qualify among the 81 who
enter match play. But in cold, hard
fact you can figure that the local
qualiflers are going along for the
ride.
Best showing by any local COM
petitor in recent P. G. A. champion
ships was that of Leo Walper at
Pinehurst in 1886. The husky West
Virginian went to the third round
before Harold McSpaden licked him
If either Worsham or Larkin ad-
vances that far next week he'll do
all right. There hasn't been any
thing in recent years to indicate
that a Washington pro is ready to
step out and win the P. G. A.
championship, but you never can
tell. A youngster like Worsham
might run into hot putting streak
and upset lot of the talent. AS
for winning the title, that's asking
too much.
The pros right now are looking
ahead to their own P. G. A. argument
for the sectional crown, which prob
ably will wind up at Bobby Cruick-
shanks course at Richmond in Octo-
ber. That's usually the testing
ground for young pro. who may win
a sectional affair before stepping out
after bigger game.
Anacostia'S tough 30-man links
team, hot after the city team public
links championship. is out with a
challenge to Rock Greek Park for a
match within the next month. If
Rock Greek Park doesn't accept the
challenge the Anacostia boys will
play East Potomac for the title. As
the team series for the Bill Davis
trophy now stands Anacostia is away
out in front, where nothing but a
miracle last-ditch stand by East Po-
tomac can stop them.
Acacia to Buy Congressional.
You'll hear all kinds of rumors
about the Congressional Country
Club before the auction sale of the
property scheduled for September 4
and advertised few days back in a
Montgomery County newspaper. The
rumors have at least two local clubs
interested in buying the property,
one being a group from the Wood
mont Club and the other the
Chevy Chase Club. Another rumor
has it that the Coca-Cola Co.
OF Atlanta, wishing to make some To-
cal investment, will buy in the Con-
gressional property and continue the
club las is" The true story is that
Congressional will be bought in by
the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance
Co., which at present holds a
mortgage on the property.
.r Sale has been advertised through
William Montgomery, John T.
Meany and L. P. Steuart, trustees.
Some of the rumors will be wild
ones and utterly untrue, but out
OF 1t, Congressional Country Club
officials insist, will come a better
club. Some auction sales are ar
ranged, but it is almost impossible
to arrange one completely. The set
up at present is that Acacia will buy
in the property, will loan the club
some money, and everything will
go along as at present. However,
the sale, advertised for 4:30 pm.
September 4, may bring out some
fireworks.
d. c. DuOs Play at Lancaster.
Quite a flock of local amateur pro
combinations will be at Lancaster,
Pa, tomorrow to play in the annual
affair promoted by Arthur B. Thorn,
former Woodmont pro. Leo Walper
and Roger Peacock loom as the top
due, but you never can tell. Bob
Barnett, Chevy Chase pro, will stop
at Lancaster on his way back from
Toronto and will join Ralph D..
Quinter for the amateur-pro affair.
That forthcoming District mu-
nicipal championship for the second
S. G.. Leoff1er trophy is apt to be a
pain to the rotund local promoter.
Andy Oliver is standout and prob
ably will retire the Leoffler trophy.
To be consistent, Leoffler will have
to put up another. They cost lot
of potatoes, and if the cups are
retired every three years the mileage
on them mounts up, so that even a
gent in the heavy sugar, as Leoff1er
lis supposed to be, may bride at the
idea of putting up a new one so
often. This week will tell the story
OF local entries in the sectional
qualifying tests for the amateur
oh q rain1a shin The liSt will be O.