Evening star., 1941-04-17
Perfect Seer in Past,
This Time He Gives
Up as Dopester
All 36 Teams Entered
Tough; East Potomac
Match Intriguing
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Ace Handicapped Chuck Redick
admits he's stumped. Redick isn't
one of those fellows who glances over
his morning mail, slicks back his
locks and then begins poring over
the race track entries. But he's an
ace Handicapped just the same. For
three years now Chuck has been
doping the winners In the Federal
match play golf tournament, spon-
sored by The Star.
So far Chuck has been exactly
100 per cent right-no more and no
less. A lot of guys who dope those
funny-looking nags that gambol on
the race tracks would like to have
an average half that good. Chuck
has been calling his shots for three
years and he hasn't missed yet. but
he's stumped this time. He admits
he cannot dope winner in the
l941 tourney, to start 10 days hence
tagged with one of those bigger
and better" labels.
AS Redick bent today to the job of
segregating the 36 entries into di-
visions and classes he admitted that
the several changes that have come
about in the lineup of the teams
this year will strengthen hitherto
weak teams to the point where he
cannot pick a winner. I'll give
up" said the genius of the Federal
tourney. They're all tough this
year. I've been trying and I can
not dope it out"
36 Teams Entered.
One of his big headaches is over.
That was the task OF keeping the
entries down to SO teams In order
to make an even draw and one that
will work out without playing too
many matches. He had 40 team
entries in all (the tourney had 20
teams in 1889 and by grouping
some players in other units he re-
duced the list to SO. It took some
shrewd maneuvering but Redick is
equal to that.
This year there will be no Ac-
counts and Deposits team from
Treasury. Instead there will be
two teams called Treasury" and
Treasury Defense" from that big
unit Of your Uncle Samuel's work.
shop. On the Treasury team will
be Roger Peacock, possibly the best
amateur lnksman in Washington;
Joy Weisenberger, Jack Palmer,
John r. Miller and r. H. O'Malley.
The four last were mainstays of the
champion Accounts and Deposits
team last year.
The Treasury Defense team will
have Don Miller, Kenwood champ:
Paul Carey. Bernie Hallock and
George Bolger, while Agriculture,
last years runners-up, will have
Maurice Cooper, Wilbur Seay, Frank
Gradoville and one or two equally
as good. War will have Col. Ken
meth Buchanan, Jock Olmstead,
Maj. B. M. Giles. K. M. Skaggs,
Lieut.. w. H. Turner and w. E.
Archibald.
"All in ALL" said Redick, "the
coming tourney shapes up as the
best we've ever had. But III give
up on predictions. Every team has
been strengthened, and I can't pick
a winner"
Tourney List Closes Tomorrow.
Entries for the opening feminine
tournament Of the year will close
tomorrow with Mrs. E. r. Hotze at
Chestnut 8755. The tourney will be
the Miller Memorial affair, to be
played Monday at the Washington
Golf and Country Club. No entries
will be taken after l pm. tomorrow.
A match that will be sure to cause
lot of ruckus among the public
links boys is coming of April 81 at
East Potomac Park. 1t will be be-
tween Claude Rippy, thrice mu-
nicipal links champ, and Jimmy
Gipe of Beaver Dam on one side
against Leroy Smith, present publinx
champ, and Bob Morris.
1t all comes out of a challenge
flung toward Rippy and Gipe by
Smith, and promptly accepted. All
the lads are good. but II you Judge
from the way Rippy has been
knocking that ball around the
Washington Golf and Country Club
course this year it's hard to figure
he can be licked. And Rippy hasn't
forgotten his old tricks.