Evening star., 1940-08-24
Middle Atlantic Golf
Coin Is Predicted
For Rut Coffey
Pros and Amateurs Play
Monday; Linksmen Pull
For Injured Voiet
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Monday to play In an amateur pro
tourney and pro sweepstakes over
the tricky little course of the Win
chester Country Club. That hap
pens to be the club where one OF
the to- playing golf pros of this sec
tor holds forth. Rut Coffey is his
name. Rut is chunky little fellow
who would be-if he had more good
competition-one of the toughest of
the lads around this area.
He will be favorite to grab most
of the money in the pro sweepstakes
tournament over his home layout,
but there's one rub about this COM
ing tourney. The pros won't get
most of the high class amateurs
Most of the. better-playing simon
pures will be humping the ball
around the immediately groomed
course Of the Chevy Chase Club,
where Tuesday they face their big
gest test of the year-the sectional
qualifying rounds for the national
amateur championship. They won t
be willing to pass up a chance to
work out at Chevy Chase for the
amateur-pro affair at Winchester,
an affair which happens to be badly
timed. if the boys want the better
amateurs to play. Monday is the
only day open for practice at Chevy
Chase before the crucial 36-hole
trial Tuesday.
Friends Hope Voigt Receivers.
From every side among Washing
tons amateur golf colony-and from
a good many of the pros-came the
hope today that George J. Voigt,
once Washington's leading amateur
linksman. will survive the automo-
bile accident which put him in a
Baltimore hospital with skull frac-
ture. The accident occurred a week
ago. but news about it came out
only yesterday.
Voigt was on his way to Washing
ton from New York to visit his Ill
father. His car was hit from the
rear by another car travelling at a
high rate of speed, the door flew
open, and George was catapulted to
the street. Mrs Voigt had several
teeth knocked out.
X-rays at Mercy Hospital. Balti-
more. disclosed the skull injury. Ac-
cording to Otto. a brother of George,
he will be in the hospital about six
weeks. Which means that George
will not play in this years anna
teur championship, if he plays golf
at all for a long time.
George Voigt was one of the two
top amateurs developed around
Washington. During the years from
1925 to 1923. when he left the Capt.
tai to live in New York. he was al
most unbeatable. He won something
like Is tournaments in row, and
suffered only one defeat in that time
around the Capital That came in a
Bannockburn tourney, where John
C. Shorey beat him. George also
won the North and South amateur
title thrice, was a member of two
Walker Cup teams, medallst in the
amateur championship and semi
fnalist and in any sense of the word
was one of Americas top amateurs.
Georges many friends in Wash
ington were shocked to learn Of the
accident and all of them-in which
we join-Wish him a speedy re-
covery He was very fine golfer,
and while in recent years he hasn't
trod the victory trail so often he ~e-
mains one of the best of a gen.
Grafton which produced the finest
amateurs America has seen.
Women Hold Journeys.
Feminine golfers, not to be kept
out of competition even though the
bigtime women's schedule hasn't
yet started, held Journeys at several
clubs. Three of them were flag
affairs
At Congressional the winner in
who played her final shot, with IA
handicap, on the eighteenth fairway.
Winners in Glass B were Mrs. M. B.
Daniels. who finished on the seven
teenth green: Mrs. H. R. Harringan,
who finished on the edge OF the
seventeenth green. and Mrs. F. E.
Berquist, who was short OF the
seventeenth green. Mrs. H. R.
Harper, who was in charge of the
tourney. won the putting prize.
Mrs. o. M. Reed won the flag tour
ney at Washington, playing her
final shot into the cup on the
eighteenth green, an incident which
shows pretty good handicapping.
Other winners were Mrs. Lafayette
Franklin. Miss Elsie Stavely and
Mrs. w. E. Baker
Army Navy held flag tourney,
won by Mrs. M. Rutledge. Second
was Mrs. M. j. Torlinski. while Mrs.
A. A. McEntee of Kenwood won the
guest prize.
Mrs. j. A. Marr scored an 81 to
win the gross prize in tourney at
Columbia. Mrs. w. E. Hall and Mrs.
j. P. Harper tied at net A in the
affair held on the odd holes. while
Mrs. w. D. Barkdull won on the
even holes with a net 36, followed by
Mrs. j. Epperly at net 36. Mrs. j.
Franklin Gross, the club champion,
won the putting award with 80
puts.
Local Pros at Hershey.
At Hershey, Pa. today, working
out their shots in advance of a
tournament in which they are
strictly horses of the darkest hue are
two local qualifiers for the P. G. A.
championship. Gene Larkin Of
Woodmont, the strawberry blond
who believes he plays better without
much practice, and Lewis Worsham,
the 22-year-old Burning Tree pro,
reached Hershey today, and were to
get in a practice round.
Worsham plans to play So holes
tomorrow, but Larkin will satisfy
himself with hitting few practice
shots. The boys are good, but are
they good enough in such an all-star
field as the p G. A. tourney has at