Evening star., 1941-12-23
Chevy Chase 10 Hold
Invitation Golf in
Middle Of May
Decides Not to Cancel
Event Thut Has Been
Unbroken Since 1911
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

| The Chevy Chase CLUBS INVITA-
ton golf tournament will be held
as usual in mid-May, 1912. Oldest
major club event in this section,
and the oldest Of all the affairs
annually held around Washington
with the single exception of the
Middle Atlantic amateur champion
| ship. the tournament will go on
next year, even though war clouds
obscure the horizon and the entry
may lack some of the big names OF
other years.
Decision to hold the tourney next
year and MOTTO abandon it because
of the war was announced today
by the Chevy Chase Club Golf Com
mittee. The committee Is COM
posed of Frank P. Reside. chair
man; c. Ashmead Fuller and Frank
lin L. Fisher.
Has Had Notable Contestants.
The tourney has been continu-
ouslv held since 1911, when Jovlal
william Howard Taft, the flrst
polfing President. was in the White
Hou~e. President Taft, who played
at CHEVY Chase, and James S. Sher-
man. then Vice President, presented
to the Chevy Chase Club almost
Identical trophies to be the MAN
prizes in an annual tourney to be
nlaved at that club. Among the
prominent competitors in those
davs were the two golflng sons OF
Vice President Sherman. Tom ana
sherill Sherman were worthy Zoe
men on anyone's golf course, 700.
they carved their name high IN
fame in many hard fought INKS
match. ....,.
So the Chevy Chase invitation
tourney. hoary with age and oouno
I'm with all that is fine in the INKS
tradition in this part OF the lano,
will be continued throughout az
least the first year of another World
war. It was held through the TWO
years Of American participation IN
the last world conflict. The Chevy
Chase Beard of Governors SO oe-
cided ve-terday, laying the matter
cf holding the 1872 tourney IN the
Ian of the Golf Committee. !nal
committee announces the affair
will be held.
Barnett Wants Elbin as Aide.
Max Elbin, for the past year as
sistant pro at the Burning Tree
Club. and generally rated one OF
the better young professional golfers
around town, probably will go 10
Miami Beach next week to work IN
Bob Barnett's golf shop at the IN
dian Greek Country Club. Bob has
asked Max to be one OF his gol1
shop aides at Miami Beach. and al
though the Cumberland, Nd.
voungster hasn't made up his mlnd
he is being urged by Burning Tree
pro Lewis Worsham, Jr., to make
the trip and get the experience ne
will be sure to gain in the big golf
Shco of one of Americas major
ccr-~try clubs.
E,h:n h~s played the Burning
Tree course several time il better
than rar End is REGARDED as one OF
the top Young playing pros in this
pert Of the country.
Doerer Getting Course in Shape.
Members of the Bradley Hills
Country Club hardly will recognize
the old place when spring comes
around, so busy has Tommy Doerer,
the new golf boss at Bradley Hills,
been since he took over three weeks
ago.
Tommy hopes to have those new
holes open in the spring, and will
have them in shape If he gets
break in the weather. But he isn't
wasting time now. He has cleaned
out the bordering woods, sowed all
the fairways, and has everything
ready months ahead of spring to
start the course moving quickly
once warm weather comes to stay.