Evening star., 1940-04-14
Youngsters Contest
Is Held DESERVING
Of Official Help
Authorities Spurn Fine
Links Sport; WoIper's
Games Are Tuned
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

pionship in two divisions, the high
and prep players from more than q
dozen schools in and around WASH
ington are In the middle Of scrap
that promises more in the way Of
real development Of links talent than
any other item in the game around
Washington.
For years the lads have been fight
Ing a lone-handed battle for golf in
the high schools In Washington.
Where prep school golf is aided, by
faculty supervision and in other
ways, the links game in the public
high schools here gets only tacit
support.
There are in a few schools some
enthusiastic faculty members who
believe in the future of high school
golf and see in the game itself q
sport that will help the boys more
than football, basket ball, baseball
or any other. But in the main
the high school golfers have gone
alone, except for few golf-minded
men like Frank x Emmett of Dewitt,
Julian Colangelo of Anacostia High
and Birch E. Bayh, physical director
for the Washington high schools.
Boys Given Little Help.
They've had the enthusiastic back
Ing of the District Golf Association,
which has procured courses for the
high and prep school matches. But
in the main the necessary backing
from the top has been lacking. High
school principals have been lacka-
daisical In their support Of golf, fac
ulty men have taken only . tacit
interest and the youngsters have
fought virtually a lone hand In
support of the only athletic game
fostered in the schools which can
help the run-of-the-mine student
after he leaves school.
Golf happens to be that. You
don't often hear of the athlete 10
years out of high school who plays
football or baseball or runs on the
track. But you hear of plenty Of
men who played high school golf
who keep 1t up-and with it their
social contacts-a decade after they
have left school.
What high school golf needs
badly in Washington is the active
support of faculty group to work
with the youngsters themselves and
with the District Golf Association in
support of the game.
Sport Needs announcement.
Golf doesn't happen to be a rev.
enue producer. It might be difficult
to get few dollars for purchase Of
golf balls or for payment Of caddies.
The boys tote their own bags In the
school matches, which isn't too hard
a chore for youngster. But they'd
do better with caddies. They'd also
do better II they found golf encour-
aged in the schools, with golf coaches
and faculty men who take an active
interest in the game.
Not many people know about It,
but the fact is that the major sports
goods houses believe that high school
golf Is the spot to spread their
favors. Undoubtedly they would be
willing to have their top profess
sionals do some missionary work
along this line If the schools were
willing.
High school golf, good as it is,
needs more pushing. It happens to
be the one sport that pays real
dividends in later life.
Diffenbaugh Gives Party.
George Diffenbaugh, Kenwood
pro, will play host to a group OF
pros and amateurs at his club to-
morrow In the first big amateur
pro affair of the season around the
Capital. Diffenbaugh expects around
30 entries In the tourney.
Mrs. Leo Walper, the District
women's champion, scored number
Of rounds below 80 in her pere-
grinations around Florida courses.
Leo and the Missus recently re-
turned from Florida. Leo predicts
his wife will be q tough femme to
lick In the women's tournaments
this year. So will Leo himself In
the pro Journeys.
Fred Mcleod scored successive
bird IS on the tenth and eleventh
at Columbia in a round of 70. Try
that ON your niblick sometime. The
holes happen to be two of the tough.
er par Is around Washington.
Chuck Redick, director of The
Evening Star-sponsored Federal
match play tourney, is deep in the
task Of arranging the schedule for
the tournament due to start early
IN May. Chuck has the entries of
around 80 teams and Is busy ar
ranging the details. The tourney
will run for two months.
Dentists Plan Golf Trip.
Lefty" Harrell's Augusta reunion
party will be held today at WASH
ington Golf and Country Club, where
movies Of the February Augusta
trip will be shown and all the boys
will be Harrell's guests at the cock
tail party.
The pros and interested anna
teurs have just a month to get their
entries for the open championship
into the United States Coli Asso-
citation. Entries will close May II
at the association ofnces. 73 East
Fifty-seventh street, New York. And
they don't mean maybe" when they
set a closing deadline for pm,
May IL. There won't be any take
overs.
DR.. w. Marion Falls will head .
party of golflng dentists on their
annual spring trip next week end
to Old Point Comfort, Va. In the
party will be DR.. Bruce L. Taylor
and his son, Bruce, IT,: william @.
Barr and John Strait. along with Q
good many others. The same group
plans trip to Pine Valley later In
the season.
Tom Meany. well-known Rock
Greek Park golfer, perpetrated one
OF the better putting bits at Ken
wood with four consecutive >1e-
putt green's, the puts ranging from
3 feet up to 30. He played the
nine In 50.
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