Evening star., 1940-01-11
Fair Divofers Divide
Fields According
To Handicaps
Committee Appointments
At Congressional Club
Okayed by Governors

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today had their tournament setup
for 1910, insofar as dividing the
tournaments is concerned, practi-
cally completed. A special Tourna-
ment Committee, meeting with Mrs.
Harry A. Knox, chairman, decided
yesterday to split the fields this
year into handicap classes on two
different courses. The fields will be
split into handicap classes from l
to 18 and from 10 to 36.
The report now goes to the Execu-
tive Committee which will o. K. it
at the initial meeting of that group
January 49, An equal number OF
prizes will be given in each handicap
division, but there will be no gross
award for the higher handicapped
competitors. There will be no split
in the District women's champion
ship field, since it usually is smaller
than the fields in other tournaments.
Congressional Country Clubs
board of governors o. KID a list OF
committee appointments made by
President Myron Davy after series
of conferences. Most of the chair
men of major committees, excepting
the Golf Committee, were appointed.
DR.. o. U. Singer has headed the
Golf Committee for the last two
years.
On the Executive Committee are
Myron Davy, D. S. Bethune, F. w. S.
Evans, DR.. R. A. Keilty, r. M. Eaves,
T. J. Groom, Frank E. Johnson,
Harry E. Randell and Frank L.
Yates. Committee heads are as fol-
lows: Greens, Frank Murray; main
tenance, B. P. Foley; admission<
Frank E. johnson; house, Bernard
L. Eberts entertainment, H. D.
Kraft: publicity, G. j. Wilkinson.
Mrs Russell D. Conn was named
chairman of a special women's
Entertainment Committee.
Chevy Chase Club golfers are
lucky folks. While the major part
of their golf course is covered with
snow, they can play the game on
putting green's almost as good as
they are in the summer. For where
there isn't another golf course
around town whose putting greens
are cleared as those at Chevy Chase,
and the hardy golfers of the club
can knock the ball around the snow
covered fairways and putt on those
expansive greens.
Dick Watson, the Scotsman in
charge of golf course upkeep at
Chevy Chase is out before the last
flake falls with a crew of men re-
moving the snow on the green's, and
the course has been played by few
rugged souls who wanted exercise.
Watson does the job by using
q man-drawn scraper.
Cox Is Planning Trip.
Out at Congressional, where Witty
Cox, the club golf pro. is making
plans to get away from winter
around January 81 for stay of a
month in Florida, winter sports are
in full sway. Congressional is one
of the few clubs around town with
q large skating pond and plenty OF
hills for sleigh-riding.
But the golfers haven't been over
looked. More than 200 men and
women gathered at the club couple
of days ago to play bridge in a
benefit affair for the women's golf
fund. All prizes were donated and
women's golf chairman, Mrs. Marvin
Johnston, predicts the 1910 feminine
golf season at Congressional will be
a big one.
Mcleod Tuning His Game.
Fred Mcleod, Columbia Country
Club pro, is at Sarasota, Fla, prac-
ticing for the defense of his P. G. A.
senior title in the tourney which
opens Saturday, but before he left
he made a nice gesture in favor Of
one of his brother pros around
Washington.
Freddie chose Witty Cox as
his selection to play in the
Masters tournament at Au-
gusta early in April.
It comes about because the
Masters is open only to selected
group of pros and amateurs, in
cluding all former open and amateur
champions, and men who have made
notable records in the tournaments
OF the previous year.
Witty played in only one major
tourney-the National Open-and
didn't do much in that. But Freddie
thinks tall Wilfred rates a shot at
the $4,000 in the Masters, and has
nominated him for one of the open
spots, of which there are two, one
for a pro and one for an amateur.