Evening star., 1940-10-16
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Hold your hats, boys, the Middle
Atlantic Professional Golfers Asso-
citation championship tournament Is
on again. It's been on and off twice
this year, and the affair coming up
next week at Baltimore will be for
peanuts as compared with the COM
paratively lush tournament which
the boys brushed off last spring
when Chandler Harper got peevish
and insisted he had the right to
play against the edict of P. G. A.
Prexy Ralph Beach.
/ That one was to have been played
for a guarantee of $1,000. The one
to have been held in Richmond
early this month was to have been
| for half that, but it conflicted with
a Maryland State team match and
was called off by order of the powers
| that be in the association.
Now those same powers have de-
cided to go ahead and hold the
tourney. 1t will be played over
Baltimore course some time next
week, the course and date to be an
nounced later. The purse will be
not opulent. 1t will consist, under
the present arrangement, of the
entry fee of the pros, with a posi-
bility the club holding the affair or
some gold minded gent may kick IN
with a few extra dollars.
Little More Than Sweepstakes.
So, from a tourney that was sup
/ posed to have been good affair
the Mid-Atlantic P. G. A tourney
I has dwindled to little more than one
Of the monthly sweepstakes events.
It is pity such thing has hap
pened. but there it is.
The big news may be (probably
will be- that a change is due to
come about in the personnel of the
officers of the association. Among
. the Washington pros for long
time there has been a growing feel
/ ing that the local boys should take
over the responsible jobs in the as
sociation. Association executive
posts have been centralized in Bal
timore for two years. There also
has been an increasing sentiment
that a fellow like Witty Cox would
serve as the new broom. That Witty
would weld together the warning
factions and come up with new
deal for pro golf in this territory.
| That happens to be thing badly
needed, not in Washington, but In
the territory outside the Capital.
So it will come as no great sur
prise to see Witty emerge from the
annual meeting of the P. G. A. next
week welding the gavel of presi-
dent. The swing toward Cox has
become very pronounced over the
last few weeks. and many of the
boys have hoped on the Cox band
wagon.
Whether Witty will take 1t or not
depends on the cooperation he
will demand. He has been luke
warm toward the honor, but he will
take it if he can rally the now
divergent views of the pros around
one aim: improvement of the golf
pro and all he stands for.
Ralph Beach, who has been presi-
dent of the P. G.. A. for the past
two years, said today the date
and place of the tourney and the
annual meeting will be made known
soon. 1t will probably be held at
Rolling Road, which is as near
central spot as the Washington
Baltimore pros could have.
Cox Is Politician.
The Cox gent has way of kid
ding the opposition Gf any into
coming around to his point of view.
Furthermore he is a politician in
the sense that he works for the
greatest good for all, and so far
as we have been able to determine,
he doesn't insist on cut of the
take for Witty. That's lot to say
for man who grew up in the
hurly-burly of Brooklyn politics,
where they grow 'em tough and
hardy.
First of the local clubs which
have been using summer rules to
shift over, Columbia went on a
winter rules regimen today. From
now until spring the ball may be
teed. 1t will improve the scoring
for a while, until bad weather slows
down the carry of a golf ball.
Sixteen Chevy Chase golfers were
to start today in the opening match
round of the handicap tourney for
the Siamese Cup. Here are the
pairings:
:, Gen, F. w. Coleman U4l VS.. Page Hufty
| 80; Reeve Lewis, jr. CD VS.. John S.
Brookes 90: Walter R. Tuckerman 90
vs. J; B: Patterson (s): c. A. Fuller 90
n5) vs. W. G.. Brantley qO; r; G.
90; LIE Roy Eakin 90 VS.. DR.. T. M.
| Foley G6): Richard P. Whiteley Q2) VS..
| Oscar Coolican 05).
Gen. Coleman won the Presidents
Cup final round, defeating Gran
ford Brantley, and /.