Evening star., 1941-05-23
Newcomers Augment
Medal Play Event
Slated in June
Mcleod Sees Scoring
Spree in Sectional
Test Of U. S. Open
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

cIIlIlleIlG eliplOyeS, Will play tllCi
individual and medal play team
championships over the rolling
course of the Bannockburn Golf and
. Country Club June 16 and II. An
: nouncement of the place for the in
dividual tourney was made today
by Charles P. Redick, president of
the Federal Golf Association. In
: addition to being the guiding hand
behind the individual tourney and
the medal play team tourney,
Redick also is director of The Stars
match play affair for Government
workers, which has So teams entered
from many departments and indie
pendent agencies.
For several weeks the Federal
Golf Association has sought a site
for the medal play tourney, which
is a two-day affair, with the field
split into two sections. each section
playing 36 holes. Several gross and
net team prizes are awarded, as
we'll as many individual gross and
net awards. A new prize this year
will be the Gene Sarazen Trophy to
go to the low net team winners in
Glass B.
Club Courses Are Crowded.
Because of the crowded condition
of many of the golf clubs around
against admission for golf tourna-
ments Of large groups such as the
Government group. From the view
point of the clubs invasion by such
large groups would cause congestion
on the golf courses. So the Gov
eminent workers. with green's fees
TO pay, and money to spend, had
problem on their hands finding
club at which they could stage their
medal play affair. Bannockburn
consented. and the tourney will be
played on Monday and Tuesday,
June Is and II. with the hope that
the club members will not be greatly
inconvenienced.
Meanwhile the crack golfers in
Uncle Sans employ were playing
six matches today in a resumption
of the match play tourney for The
Star trophies.
Columbia Country Clubs best
duos are leveling their big guns to-
ward the qualification rounds Sum-
day for the Cummings Trophy, en-
blematic of the best ball champion
ship of the club. The two low quail
fers over the 18-hole route Sunday
will challenge Martin F. Mccarthy
and George F. Miller, present title
holders.
Women Playing for Star Cups.
Over at the Washington Golf and
Country Club today a field of l05
Glass B feminine golfers were play
ing in the tourney for The Star tro-
phies. Mrs. Betty P Meckley of
Kenwood won the Glass A tourney
Monday after a tie with Mrs. M. M
Maxwell of Army Navy. Both
scored net TBS, with Mrs. Meckley
winning under Women's District
Golf Association rules, after the
cards had been matched against par
for the course.
Although Fred Mcleod, Columbia
Country Club pro, predicts a spree
of low scoring when a meager field
of % starters tee off Monday in
the sectional qualifying rounds for
the National Open championship,
Freddie's optimism about scoring
can be too high. That Columbia
course plays very long from those
back tees, and is no cinch from
any set of tees.
Five Amateurs Entered.
Twenty-three professionals and
five amateurs make up the starting
field in the 36-hole sectional rounds
Monday, according to the pairings
released by the United States Golf
Association through District Golf
Association Secretary Bill Barr. The
field is small, but the ratio of quail
iflerS to entrieS-one in SeVen-iS
about normal. Four men will qualify
out of the starting field Monday
and the prospect is for a playoff for
one of the last places, so closely
punched will they be.
Notable absentees are Witty Cox,
Congressional pro; Chandler Harper,
the Virginia State Open champion
from Portsmouth, and Ralph Beach
of the Baltimore Suburban Club.
Here are the pairings, with starting
times:
Burning Tree. and Jesse T. Dowling, jr.
tamateur), .Hillendale.. Towson, Md
Dam .nd a9d c psncaI Hss5 pdemc
Park.
,a:1O and -1:1O-Lewis Haas. Gibson
Island; and Ralph Bosart tamateur, In
Roads, and Robert T. Barnett, Chevy
9:2o and 1;2O..Leo J. walper. unat-
Talbot County, Country Club, East, Nd
Park Baltimore: and Tom Stevenson, steven nun un-
a:3o al apd il 11:as9,Maens s, Lar harkn: Wood
Head, Haeerstown, Nd. and John j. oI15acr Dono- D.
s:46 and I;4oIGeorse Diffenbaugh,
kenwood, and Edward L. Stevens. Manor
9:45 and 1:45-William schreiber,
$50 and :5O-Tommy Doerer jr
East PotomsG :, Park: and Fred Chalmers
9:55 and 1:55-Robert A. Cruickshank,
HlIlenQdle, Baltimore Mo.
10 and Jack r. Harris, unattached
Arlington: Va, and George p. Miller lama
teurl, Columbia.
Bogart Simon-Pure Standout.
Among the amateurs Bogart ap-
pears Standout, although it is
doubtful whether Ralph will 60 to
Fort Worth for the big show if he
qualities. Cox said several weeks
ago he would not attempt to qualify.
He has finished we'll up in the open
championship several times. Fred
Mcleod is qualified automatically
because of his status as q former
open champ. Andy Gibson of Bal
timore won a spot in this years
tourney by reason of his 10th place
finish at Cleveland last year. Cruick-
shank twice has been runnerup for
the championship, in 1923 to Bobby
Jones. and in 1882 to Gene Sarazen.
The championship proper, for the
title held by Lawson Little, jr., will
be played in Texas for the first
time, on June 5, and 7.
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