Evening star., 1940-08-04
Group lII| Here Expected
To Bag Most Places
In. Sectional Test ~.
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Trials Due August ~
At Chevy Chose; Typo
Meet Is Popular
BY WALTER: McCALLUM.

keen to get along In phase of
the game that hasn't nowadays
many high class performers. are
going to set a new high mark for
entries in the sectional rounds at
Chevy Chase August a..
From every club around town
come reports that the simon pures
are going in big way for this
years national tourney, and II the
enthusiastic predictions come true
the sectional rounds may find Is en-
tries and total Of IS places. Any
gent who isn't good enough to win
one Of is places isn't good enough
to play in the championship, which
Is supposed to gather the cream of
the national group every year.
Amateur golf In the United States,
barring . half dozen men, is in a
pretty low state. The amateurs no
longer figure in the Open champion
ship. as they used to figure. No
amateur has won the Open since
1888, when John Goodman grabbed
the crown at Chicago.
Marvin (BudD Ward of Spokane
who come close to winning the Open
in 1899, undoubtedly Is the best
simon pure in the. land. He is good
all right, but there's q question
whether he Is as good as the Bobby
Jones who won four Opens, or
Francis Ouimet, or Chick Evans, or
George Won Elm, when they were
at their crest as amateurs, licking
the pros in the Open champion
ship. ..-,
The consensus is that amateur
golf isn't as good as It used to be,
although that's debatable, on the
theory that the pros have improved
by the steady round Of tourna-
ments which the amateurs now do
not have.
But whatever the case, amateur
golf around Washington is healthy.
Today there are a dozen men good
enough to get along in first class
company anywhere In the land.
Roger Peacock. Bobby Brownell,
Ralph Bogart. voiney Burnett,
Claude Rippy. Parker Nolan happen
to be few men who can get along
In any company. And there are
others not too far away.
Washington's sectional rounds
will draw the best from Baltimore
and Virginia, which do not have
separate qualification spots this
year. But the best are here in the
Capital. TIE boys have a little
more than week to get their en-
tries to the United States Coli As
sociation. The list closes at 5 pm,
August Is, and the charge is the
usual i've bucks.
District Aces Favored.
It won't be any pushover, but the
Washington lads should win that
team match at Baltimore this after
noon, billed to start at the Terra
Martae Club at 1880. Both cities
have tossed In the acknowledged
cream Of the crop and Baltimore,
hungry for its first victory, has
reached back into the past and dug
up some gents who used to figure
10 years ago and haven't done much
Ately. But it will be good.
One Of the more interesting
phases Of the affair is that the spec
tators won't have to hoof it. Cecil
H. Spedden, the smart-thinking
president Of the club, has made ar
rangements for seats for the on
lockers. which is something new in
this sector. If the weather is hot
they'll appreciate it.
Charley Malone, the big Redskin
end, won't be around for q while
and the chances are Charley has
racked up his golf clubs for the
next four months. Charley Is at
Spokane, getting ready for the
Skin football season.
Printers Keen for Tourney.
The way registration is going for
that printers tourney at Beaver
Dam q record will be set for the
affair. The tourney will open to-
morrow morning over the Landover
course and If the crown isn't won
by a Washingtonian there are 60
ing to be plenty of sour pans around
the premises. Joe Balestri is the
favorite. with Edgar Merkle and
Chick Heimer not far behind. It's
72-hole medal play event, to wind
up Thursday.
Fred Mcleod is all enthused over
that cmapions tourney at Southamp-
ton, Long Island, August "a. "It's
quite an honor to play in a tourna-
ment only for champions" says
Freddie, And I'm delighted they
asked me-"
The impression Is getting going
around town that George F. Miller,
the tall Columbia star, is going to
be tough nut In the District cham
pionship at Manor next month.
George has improved his game tre-
mendously and Is earnest about 1t.
He's also one o fthe favorites to win
the Columbia title in October. Edgar
Merkle licked him In the final last
year. .. -.'-
Watered Fairways Planned.
Two more Washington courses are
In line for fairway watering short
ly, although mechanical difficulties
and cost may step in to cross up
the plans Of one Of the clubs.
AT Washington, where fairway
watering is being talked up by a
group Of members, the cost for that
hilly layout runs into real money,
for the water will just run OF those
hills without doing = lot OF good.
But at Congressional, with q
ready-made supply Of water In the
form Of q springfield lake. the cost
won't BE- 80 much. Further, Con-
gressional doesn't have 50 much
hillside trouble. :. -, :.
MocFoyden Fined 500
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