Evening star., 1940-12-15
D. {. Clubs Deprived
Of Sectional Tests,
Maryland Events
Meets at Chevy Chase,
Bunnockburn Are All
Now Listed Here
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Capital, l94l looms as the SKlmpleSt
in many years, even though some
tournaments not now scheduled may
pop up before spring
The men haven't been exactly idle,
but the old days of steady tourna-
ments from late April to late June
have not been in evidence for many
years. The women have picked up
where the men left off with the
most extensive feminine schedule
of all time-locally.
Three major sectional qualifica-
ton rounds for national champion
ships will go away from Washing
ton in 1941, where all of them were
held this year. These are the sec
tional tests for the Open champion
ship, the amateur championship
and the P. G. A. title tourney.
In addition the Maryland State
Open championship, held at Colum-
bia Country Club In July, 1910,
will go back to Baltimore in 1941.
But the women's Maryland tour
ney is scheduled to come to Wash
ington. while the mems event, held
in 1910 at Congressional, will be
played at a Baltimore club next
year. The Payne Trophy tourney,
to be enlarged next year by increas-
ing the handicap limit, will 60 to
Baltimore in 1941.
Two Meets Listed Here.
Two local clubs have announced
invitation golf affairs for 1941. These
are Chevy Chase Club, which will
stage the annual tourney for the
Taft and Sherman Trophies in May,
and Bannockburn Golf and Coun-
try Club, which again will hold a
two-man team tourney late in the
spring.
The pros, of course, will not go all
out for the 194l open championship
as they've done in late years. Rea-
son is that the title affair will be
played at Fort Worth, Tex, which
happens to be quite few parasangs
from Washington, making a bid for
the title expensive in time and
money. The amateur championship
also will not be as attractive to
the local simon pures as this year,
New York. The 194l championship
goes to Omaha. which also is quite
lengthy toss from Washington.
So the two sectional qualification
rounds to be played at Baltimore
will not get the big entry that has
been the rule when the champion
ships were played nearer home But
the Maryland State Golf Associa-
ton will come along with the usual
grist of o-amateur and sweep
stakes Journeys and the Middle At
lantic P. G. A., under the leadership
of Witty Cox, plans its biggest sea-
son. Witty now is working on plans
for holding three big pro meetings
in 1941, here and at Richmond and
Baltimore.
Odd Birdie by Harrell.
Can you figure out how golfer
can knock ball out of bounds with
its penalty stroke and still bag a
birdie on a tough hole? R. T.
Gefty) Harrell did it on the AS
yard third hole at Washington. He
slapped out a good tee shot, hooked
a spoon second out of bounds and
then knocked his third shot into
the cup for the birdie The holed
spoon shot was about 1875 yards
long. Sounds easy, doesn't it?
Harrell again will be the shepherd
of a flock of Washington golfers
who will trek south in February for
four or five days of golf at Augusta.
The group now is being organized
and will include 74-year- Maurice
E. Horton, the grand old man of golf
at Washington, who has gone on all
previous junkets during the l8 years
the Washington golfers have been
going South late in February.
For a while they talked about
going to Miami or Palm Beach in
1941, but that trip has been shelved
in favor of return to Augusta.
Dave Thomson, Washington Golf
and Country Club pro, runs the
golf events.
Mcleod Getting on Game.
Fred Mcleod, Columbia pro and
former senior P G. A. champ, will
not be any soft touch when he goes
to Sarasota next month to play
again in the senior pro tourney.
Freddie knocked out a 70 and a II
at Columbia last week and with good
weather before the tourney starting
January IL will be in shape to win
again the event he grabbed in 1885,
Mrs. Walter L. Weible, new prexy
of the Women's District Golf Asso-
citation, is going after the proposed
changes in intercity and interclub
team events. She has named COM
mittee to cover all angles of the
suggested changes, to report at
January meeting of the Executive
Committee of the association. The
committee includes Mrs. G. E.
Stratemeyer, Congressional chair
man; Mrs. w. E. Hall, Columbia
Mrs. Myron Davy, Congressional;
Mrs. F. Dickinson Let's, Chevy
Chase. and Mrs. Harvey j. Cooper,
Kenwood.
The prexy believes that Washing
ton should import the best feminine
players from Baltimore and Virginia
in matches against strong out-of-
town teams, such as Philadelphia
She has something there. Washing
ton has licked Philadelphia only once
in several years of their team meet
ings. That licking came, when Helen
Dettweiler and Marion Brown, two
of the best youngsters ever produced
around this town, were playing for
the National Capital.
Youngsters Need Help.
Mrs. Weible also holds that more
encouragement should be given the
budding Young stars of the game.