Evening star., 1940-07-28
Beaver Dam Tilt Held
Spot for Ba|estri,
Merk|e, Heimer
Event to Draw 200 From
U.S., Canada; Malone Out
Of lntereity Play
By WALTER McCALLUM.

craft International Golf Association
when the annual tourney comes off
1T Beaver Dam a little more than
a week hence
That's the tip the printers are
talking about around town these
days as they groom their golf
games for the four-day event in
which 200 printer-golfers from all
over the United States and Canada
will play.
Joe Balestri, the lantern jawed
Beaver Dam Club champion, who
is bookbinder at the Government
Printing Office, is the man about
whom most of the talk centerS. But
the forecasters are not forgetting
Ed Merkle, club champ at Columbia,
or E. B. Chick Heimer, one OF
Beaver Dams top golfers, who has
been banging the ball around that
long layout in 76 and better lately.
Meet Will Draw Heavily.
The Union Printcraft Interna-
tional Golf Association proudly
claims to be the third largest golf
association in the United States.
1t may we'll be, but it comes pretty
close to being first in spirit. The
printers go the whole way in that
regard. Their four-day tourney
will draw not only about 200 men,
but also large group of feminine
golfers that will compete for the
title won last year by Mrs. c. E.
Purdy.
Balestri was not eligible for the
printers title last year at Cincin-
natl. He won the Allied Trades
championship with a score of 302.
Victor in the printers tourney was
Eddie Rack of McKeesport, Pa,
who scored 301. But a change in
the rules has been made this year,
which permits Balestri-a book
binder to enter the larger tourney.
A few days ago Joe set course
record of 50 for the revamped Bea-
yer Dam layout. One score like
that and three of his usual 74s or
so will win for black-haired Joe
the coming tourney. He knows all
the tricks and angles at Beaver
Dam and will be an outstanding
favorite.
Schedule for Tourney.
Here is the schedule for the print
ers' golf gathering:
August 3-Regisrtration at May
flower Hotel tournament head
quarters). Reception at 9 pm.
August 4-Practice round at Bea-
yer Dam, followed by annual meet
ing and election of officers.
August 5-First round OF 72-hole
golf tourney.
August 6-Second round of goli
tourney, and two tournaments for
women, one at 18 holes and one at
8 holes
August Third round OF tourney
August 8-Final round Of tourney
and banquet at the Beaver Dam
clubhouse with prize presentation
Working steadily for the success
of the affair this year have been
Heimer, president of the Washington
chapter OF the U. P. I. G. A.; Clar-
ence E. Purdy, Washington COM
missioner, and Edgar A. Merkle
first vice president Of the inter-
national body.
The visiting printers are going
to have a real surprise when they
first knock a ball out over that
Beaver Dam course. 1t is long and
tough. Those 6,717 yards Of length
are all 36 inches long, and it won't
be any pushover. Any score below
3O5 probably will win. And the
winning score may be higher.
Pro-Woman Event Tuesday.
A pro-woman tourney originally
scheduled for tomorrow has been
postponed until Tuesday, July 30, at
Chevy Chase CLUB.
The idea of Bob Barnett, Chevy
Chase pro, the affair will find about
IS of the pros around town playing
with feminine partners-and the
best of them lined up strictly &C
cording to Women's District Coli
Association handicaps.
Mrs. Robert A. Lacey, president
of the women's organization, is
working with Barnett in arranging
the affair and today will give him
the list of the first IS loW-handi-
capped feminine golfers. These will
include Mrs. Betty Meckley, Mrs.
w. R. Stokes, Mrs. Leo Walper, Mrs.
L. G. Pray, Louise Claytor, Eliza
beth Houghton, Mrs. L. B. Platt,
Marion Brown and others. The
women will play from the front
tees with full handicaps, while the
pros will play from the back tees.
Mrs. Lacey says some of the pros
will receive handicaps, which is new
stuff in any pro tourney around
this town.
Pittman Eyes National Play.
So large was the number of anna
teur entries in the recent Maryland
open tourney that officials desig-
mated the pros with asterisks
Usually it is the simon pures who
are so designated on the score
board.
Charley Malone, the Congress
sional slugger, won't be around for
the Washington Baltimore amateur
team match next Sunday. Charley
will be at Spokane getting ready
for the Redskin football season. He
says he is underweight from
strenuous season of golf, but will
gain during the training season.
Gene Pittman, Congressional
champ, is getting grim about the
coming national amateur cham
pionship. "Ah'm going not only to
qualify sectionally at Chevy Chase
but Ah'm going to qualify at
Winged Foot, too," grins Gene. "And
no English boy is going to whip
me this time" Gene predicts the
entry list will be so large at Chevy
Chase that this sector will have Is
places.
Going around town last week was
a rumor that Helen Dettweiler in
tends to enter a convent and give
up feminine pro golf. 1t has nc
foundation IN, fart SaVS Mrs w r