Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Great Meet Foreseen
For Field Involving
All Links Leaders
Man, Woman Rulers Held
Representative Of Come;
Dixie. Lures Mcleod
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
1t has been a long time since
golf tourney known as the Cham.
pionship of club champions" has
been held around Washington. Pos
sibly five years have elapsed since
the last one was held and at the
time it didn't create a lot of fuss.
But the idea was a good one, par
ticularly since it also included the
runnersup in the club title Journeys,
who themselves may be quite as
| good as the winners.
Washington this year has q group
of good club champs, worthy
representatives of the clubs where
they won their championships, not
only among the male clubswingers,
but also among the feminine golfers.
It's trite to say that the club
champion may not always be the
best golfer in the club, but in the
main it is true that the best links
| manor inkSWoman-is the title
holder.
List of Club Champions.
At Washington you could get an
argument that Claude Rippy isn't
the best golfer in the club and
some people at Congressional feel
that either Billy Shea or Ralph
Bogart may be the top man. But
| the Washington club champ is
DR.. E. T. Rice and portly Parker
Nolan sits on top of the heap at
Congressional. Right down the line,
however, the club champions usually
are the best men-and women
swinging drivers in the club where
they won their titles.
Here is complete list of the
club champions around Washing
ton this year:
Washington Golf and Country
Club. DR.. E. T. Rice and Mrs. Vida
Martin; Chevy Chase, John r.
Brawner and Mrs: Bishop P. Hill;
Beaver Dam, Forrest Thompson and
Mrs. Clarence E. Purdy: Woodmont.
Howard Nordlinger and Mrs. Ralph
Goldsmith; Congressional, M. Parker
Nolan and Mrs. J. w. Godfrey;
Indian Spring, Roger S. Peacock
and Mrs. C. P. Medley; Argyle,
Maurice Cooper and Mrs. Edward
Widmayer: Manor, Dick Meyer and
Mrs. Walter r. Stokes: Columbia.
Martin +. Mccarthy and Mrs. j.
Franklin Gross; Bannockburn (for-
merly Capital, George Molloy and
Mrs. E. r. Ferguson; Army Navy,
Ralph Bogart and Mrs. David H.
Clark; Kenwood, Don Miller and
Mrs. Richard D. Kreuzburg.
Really Representative List.
That is representative list Of
golfers around Washington. The
men, with three or four exceptions,
represent the best there is in golf,
even though lot of people will
regard it as strange that Claude
Rippy, Volney Burnett, Billy Shea
and Earle Skinker do not appear in
any championship list.
But golf matches and golf tour
naments are not won in the locker
room around bottle of beer.
They're won out where the divots
fly. And no locker room lawyer
wins an argument against a potent
putter. The object of the game
still is to get the ball into the cup in
the fewest number Of strokes.
A revival of the old champion
/ ship of club champions" for both
men and women, say about next
May, might be good stunt, if not
drawn out too much. 1t would
mean nothing particularly, since
the sectional tournaments decide
| the sectional champions. But it
would add another good tournament
to lst of events which has grown
all too small in recent years. And
the champ of them all would amount
to something.
Mcleod to Play In South.
Fred Mcleod, Columbia pro, is
getting ready for his annual trek
South to play in the senior p. G..
A. championship tournament. Fred
die won the title in 1888, on the 30th
anniversary of his victory in the
| National Open championship This
year the Middle Atlantic entry also
will include Alex Taylor, the Roll
ing Road Club pro, who also is a
Scotsman and a good golfer.
Ray Flaherty, Redskin football
coach, has made no restriction
against the husky Skins playing
golf. But Ray says the boys sim
ply do not have time for the game
during the football season. Even
Charley Malone, the big end from
Texas, who is one of Washington S
better amateur linksmen. hasn't
had time to play golf. I'VE work
out every day, and we work hard
said Ray. THE boys simply do
not have time for golf. And neither
do l." Flaherty is a good golfer
himself, a player who scores in the
low Dos, with an occasional dip in
the high los.
Miami Open Draws d. c. Pros.
Three local pros will play in the
luscious Miami Open championship
to be played in the Florida town
starting December II. They are
Al Houghton, top local money win
ner of the year; Bob Barnett and
Leo Walper. For Walper the tour
ney will be one of many stops along
the winter gold trail, because the
Bethesda driving range master in
tends to make the big swing to
California and back.
But for Houghton and Barnett
il will be the prelude to a winter