Evening star., 1940-09-29
Grosner Match Play
Affair Tomorrow
Highly Rated
Sports Writers Paired
With Paid Divoters
In Golf Trovesty
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Middle Atlantic P. G. A. champion
ship comes up this week at Manor
where big field of pros and
amateurs will start tomorrow a
match play best-ball affair for a
purse which may go around $500.
It's called the Grosner match play
amatevr-pro tourney, and in addi-
ton to the entry fees at IS man
a local haberdasher is adding $3.50
to the purse.
Winners last year were Ralph
Bogart. the reigning District amateur
champ, and Lew Worsham, pro at
the Burning Tree Club.
AS a gallery show that tourna-
ment can be hot stuff, for when you
get together crowd of good pros
and amateurs shooting at best-ball
match play they take all kinds of
chances for brides. And usually
bag 'em. Brides will be dime a
dozen at that tourney.
Betting Eddie Oliver, the burly
boy from Hornell. N. Y, will bring
along his own partner for this one.
Eddie will have as his running mate
Tom Devenny of Hornell, an
amateur about whom little is known
In this neighborhood. But Eddie
says he is good.
PIG. A. Event Of Again.
The Mid-Atlantic P. G. A. affair
again has been delayed. 1t was to
start next Saturday at Richmond,
but because it conf1icted with one
of the Maryland State Golf Asso-
citation team matches the thing
again was postponed. In view of
the public booing it has received
this year, they may as we'll forget it.
But in its place we'll have the Gros-
ner event. and if PreXy Bob Keilty
of the District Golf Association has
his way We'll have a good District
open championship.
DR.. Keilty now is working on a
plan which may provide a good
purse for the District open. He
hopes to coax all the local member
clubs of the District Golf Associa ton
to kick in with various amounts to
boost the purse and if all goes we'll
will obtain around $500 from this
source. Together with entry fees
at IS apiece. the purse should reach
good proportions for this stepchild
affair of local golf. The local pros
might do themselves a good turn
by getting squarely behind the Dis
trict open and helping the District
Association to make it an outstand-
ing tourney. That one could be built
up into a feature annual affair.
The event starting at Manor to-
morrow is not a Middle Atlantic
P, G. A. affair 1t will be run by
Al Treder with the backing of
Grosner.
The date was reserved by Treder
at at P. G. A. meeting to avoid
interference with any other affair.
Pros and Scribes tc Team.
One of the bigger laugh tourna-
ments of the year will come up Oc-
tober IA at Kenvood. when the
sports writer's on the local news
papers and the Washington pros
stage a pro- writer's tourney. Bob
Barnett and George Diffenbaugh
are handling 1t for the pros, who
say they will put up some special
prizes for the writer's. These same
writers, by the way, loom as the
worst crowd of golfers en- masse
anywhere. Pairings will be made
by draw from the hat. which is
right. The sports writer's are put
ting up mystery prize for the pros.
Maryland State Coll Association
team matches start today, with nine
local clubs slated to play The local
pairings: Woodmont VS. Woodholme,
at Woodmont; Indian Spring VS..
Bonnie View, at Bonnie View; Ar
gyle VS.. Capital, at Capital; Con-
gressional VS.. Beaver Dam, at Con-
gressional; Kenwood VS.. Terra
Mariae, at Terra Mariae; Manor VS..
Suburban, at Suburban: Chevy
Chase VS. Green Spring Valley, at
Chevy Chase. AS usual, teams will
consist of 10 men and the club pro-
fessional.
Federal Teams Resume Play.
Next match in The Star-sponsored
tourney for Federal employees will
find Agriculture meeting General
Office Tuesday at Ken
wood One of the two teams must
win by at least to 2 tc stay in the
race for the championship. Ac-
counts and Deposits licked G. A. o.
in the opening round robin match
last Tuesday Feminine golfers will
play tomorrow at Washington in a
field day The U. S.
G. A. wants to know why it has only
around 800 members out of a total
club list around 5000 in the United
States. They can't point finger
at Washington, for almost all the
local clubs belong to the parent
body incidentally. the rap for golf
association dues by many of the
local clubs runs heavy-in the neigh
borhood of s100 and more by most
clubs
Tommy Doerer picked a winner
In Leroy Smith, the South Caro-
lima lad who won the public links
title. Last spring Doerer was toot-
ing the trumpet for Smith and pre-
dieting that here was another Rippy.
Smith isn't as good as the Ripper,
but he's good enough.
Columbias new frs green will be
open in the spring They've bum
kered the green and planted it to
grass, and that first hole will become
the only hole around the Capital
with three separate putting green's,
The twelfth has two green's, which
are used alternately Postponement
of the women's tourney for the
Payne Trophy makes 1t the last big
event on the womens schedule this
year. 1t will be played at 81 holes