Evening star., 1941-04-14
-Four Team Matches
On Indian Springs
LIST Of Events
Bright Easter Brings
Out Thousands; Gipe
Beaver Dam Victor
BY WALTER McCALLUM.


Washington Golf and Country
Club will be the first local club to
stage its club golf championship this
year. The golf schedule of the Wash
ington club, made public today by
the committee headed by Ralph S.
Fowler, lists the title tourney for
the crown won last year by DR.. E
T. Rice for May 24-June l, inclusive
Washington is one of two clubs
which hold their title events in the
spring, the other being Chevy Chase,
which usually stages its champion
ship in June.
Major events are listed by the
Washington Golf Committee as fol-
lows:
Club championship, qualifying
round, May "a, 25; match play
rounds May 26, 27, %, 29 and 30,
with a 36-hole final listed for June
/; Horton Cup tourney, for players
with handicaps beWteen II and II,
starting July II and ending August
10; Birney Cup tourney, for men
with handicaps of 18 and over,
August Is to September IA; Harrell
Cup for the tWo-man team cham
pionship, September 20 to October
10; Mosby Memorial Putter tourney,
l8 holes medal play, May 80; Junior
club championship, August 81:
ringer tourney. between June l and
September 30 in three classes.
The weekend and holiday sched-
ule follows:
May Blind bosey; 17-British War
Relief tourney, at 8 holes medal play
and over.
June Selected nine-hole tourney, half
handicap; 15-mixed Scotch toursome: Fl
best ball med Play tourney
July 4-Flag tourney; 19-Birde and
eagle event: August @-Sweepstakes: %
September Labor Day frolic: Prizes
for fewest puts, most IS most pars' gross
the cd HoeS oS @ s on the Res
handicap 27-Selected nne-hole tourney.
october 1@-Mixed fourSome: 25-
Four Team Matches Slated for l. S.
Four team matches are included
In the Indian Spring Country Club
golf schedule, made public today
by Chairman Dick Melvin and his
committee. Team matches will be
played with Kenwood, the Stonewall
Jackson Club at Staunton, Va, and
the usual intraclub affair between
Giants and MidgetS.
Here is the Indian Spring sched-
ule:
Maryland four-ball championship and
mixed foursome; lS-20-man team match,
S3ahno1 {PasR sDFns sS9 st9nex 5akson tys a.
May 30 and June Flag tourney and
@ Fsd Ssp ss9toh and mqed coeh o6fome Snd
15-,Indian Spring vs., Kenwood at Ken
wood, team match; 2l and 22-Seagram
fRaInphhi eRampionship; 38 snd 99@DP !s a. T. U3z
Trophy tourney, Is holes medal play
vs. 'uis Kenvood 4fs at '1usf indian spfins. 0 team
assa hos5 saa medal PisS = sSsn snd sS
sS 97MFirst 'Poun Pound, club cub championShip
August 2. Second round, g 10-Third
s2Hnd s2p 5 5sPnf Bowl SuG toaFns9 iha@D0s
holes medal play; 3l-Giants VS.. Midgets,
. sspsenSsr s.. s: 717Boaggd Of. Of Governors s ,
somes. IS holes; ,,- 2l-Mixed fo1rsome
VS.. Midgets.
October 4, 5-Senior tray tourney; 12--
Mxed Scotch foursoms; lSsans6and and
trophies at dinner-,dance:
November 11-Armistice Day tourney
Thousands Enjoy Easter Golf.
Washington's country clubs had
their biggest day OF the budding
season as thousands took advantage
of bright and warm Easter Sun
day tC fail away at unheeding golf
balls.
At Bannockburn the Moaners
eked out 19-to-17 victory over the
Groaners in an intra-club team
match, with % on each side Feature
of the affair was the upset victory
scored by Capt. S. S. Fletcher of
the Groaners over Capt. Billy
Hodghton of the Moaners.
Kenwood staged a handicap
tourney, with long-hitting Jack
Keele winning the gross award at
rs. George o. Vass, jr, was next with
76. v. G. Myers paid two entry fees
and did all right, winning two net
prizes with his 79-10-69. Other
net winners were: C. D. Wright, |
s0-26-64; Harry w. Sharpe, 76-8
-58; r. Nash, 86-18-66; Tom !
Powers, 85-17-68; Ivan Carson,
100000; c. M. Dinkins, 81
l2-69.
Gipe Beaver Dam Winner.
SloW-sWinging Jim Gipe scored a !
two-over-par "a to grab the gross
award in a medal play tourney at |
Beaver Dam. Net awards were |
won as follows: Billy Griffin "a
40; John R. Miller, 76-5-71;
j. D. Smith, 84-13-71: G. Scott,
90-18-72; Jerry Burch, 83-11-72;
c. Hartman, 95-23-72; G.. Abbey,
Se-16-73; Bill OBrien, 83-10-73.
Blind bogey winners we're: Carl |
Schmidt, IT; G. Hough, 10; S. C.
Carroll, IA, and DR.. w. G. Pur-
year, rs.
Pro Al Jamison will be back in |
town late this week, and probably |
will play in the Mid-Atlantic P. G. |
A. tourney at Beaver Dam Friday |
afternoon.
Two schoolboy matches are sched-
uled tomorrow. With the lads on
their Easter vacation Roosevelt will
meet Tech at Capital, while Wilson
will play Anacostia at Army Navy. |
Both matches are scheduled for
1890 am.