Evening star., 1940-05-12
Leoff|er Ready 10 Pay
For QuaIifiers' Trip
To U. 5. Tourney
Capitol Likely to Have
Three Spots; M. A. Pros
Compete Tomorrow
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Compete Tomorrow
BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Washington public links golfers
will qualify at East Potomac Park
July 8 for the national municipal
championship. Probably three
places will be allotted the local quail
iflers in the 36-hole test to be super
vised by Tommy Doerer. jr.
The tourney for the Washington
municipal championship and the
s. G. Leofier Trophy. will be played
at later date, probably in Septem-
Der, over the 36-hole medal play
route. An entry fee of 81 will be
charged in the sectional qualifying
rounds for the national champion
ship. The national tourney is
scheduled for the Rackham course
at Detroit July 1927, inclusive.
Grandfather Leofler, donning the
property beard which he uses for
these occasions. will bring the spirit
of Christmas six months nearer by
paying the expenses Of three quail
ders from Washington to Detroit.
Wants National Tournament.
These announcements, of major
concern to all ambitious public links
golfers in the city, were made last
night by Doerer, who runs Leofner's
links affairs at East Potomac Park,
and also doubles in brass as the
local public links representative of
the United States Golf Association.
The sectional rounds for the ma
tional tourney come to Washington
this year under a deal made with
Baltimore last year by which the
trials will rotate between the two
cities.
Grandpappy Leoffler, who MAIN
tains his golf courses are pretty
good samples of public layouts,
would like to see the 1912 municipal
championship come to East Potomac
Park. He has said so many times.
OF course it would mean spending
several thousands of dollars on them
to put them into the condition be-
fitting a national title tourney. Such
items as elevated tees, greens which
will hold pitch shots, properly
placed and adequately sanded traps
would be necessary before the United
States Golf Association awards a
national championship to WASH
ington. But these matters can be
arranged-maybe.
Pro golfers of the Mid-Atlantic
sector will gather tomorrow at Balti-
more's Bonnie View course to play
in a pro-amateur tourney, each pro
having three amateur partners. But
before the golf tourney the pros will
hold meeting which may become
the most important pro gathering
Of the year. They'll null over the
events leading up to the recent post
ponement of the Middle Atlantic
p. @. A. championship at Old Point
Comfort, Va, and fireworks may
sprout II .some of the fire-eaters
who want a thorough investigation
60 through with their plans. Ia.
Chip Shots. "
Here's q new one for the rule
makers. If the head of a golf club
flies OF the shaft midway in the
stroke, just before the ball is struck,
is the player deemed to have struck
at the ball and does he count 1t q
stroke? 1t happened to Lou Har-
rison, Indian Spring star, en- the
first hole at Woodholme. The Mary
land State Golf Association decided
Lou hadn't completed the stroke.
The National Open championship
of 1941 will go to the Colonial Club
OF Fort Worth, Tex, and is Dallas
face red? The rivalry between these
two Texas towns is intense (they're
only 80 miles aparD and now Fort
Worth receives the links prize for
next year. Do we discern the
smooth Italian hand of Anon G.
Carter, Fort Worth's leading citi-
zen and dispenser of five-gallon
hats?
Colonial is a show spot for that
part of Texas. It's the only course
in that area with bent greens On
the fiat side it is a good test of the
game. And Fort Worth really will
put on a show.
Eddie Adams, president of the
Bradley Hills Country Club, has
something in his idea of an nvi-
tation women's tourney, probably in
July. Nothing of that kind Is held
around Washington and if he gets
the support of the Women's District
Golf Association the tourney will be
Q good one and a popular affair
Adams meanwhile is going ahead
with his new nine, which will be
completed. he says, in March OF
1s41, to make the Bradley Hills
course one of 18 holes.
Diffenbaugh Praises p. G. A.
George Diffenbaugh thinks the
P. G. A. of America deserves a pat
on the back for trying to help Cyril
Walker, former National Open
champion. The P. G. A. sent Cyril
to Bill Browns health camp in the
Adirondacks for four weeks. eve
regret the effect of that training
was not lasting" says statement
by Jack Fox, president of the New
Jersey section. "Cyrirs case is un-
fortunate, due to circumstances
some of which perhaps are beyond
his control, others Of which he must
bear responsibility for himself"
The amateurs around town in
wade Chevy Chase this week for the
biggest simon pure tourney Of the
year, the affair for the Taft and
Sherman trophies. Chevy Chase Is
In its finest condition-as usual
and the event will be another "
the lengthy series of one of the out
standing golf tournaments in the
land.
Dick Metz had early ambition
to become a petroleum engineer
Tommy Armour and Bobby Cruick-