Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-12-19
Equipment Shortage
Apt 10 Hit Capital
Golfers Soon
New York Rushes to Buy
Spheres; Maryland Links
Group Ignores D. c.
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Lean times loom for the some
thing more than 100000 golfers of
the land, in the form of consider
able curtailment in equipment and
threatened total inability to buy
new golf balls. The order cutting
golf and tennis balls from rubber
production came as a bombshe1 to
sportsmen.
In Washington there was not the
frenzied rush that New York saw,
for in the hamlet by the Hudson
great throngs of people besieged
sports goods stores, buying up golf
and tennis equipment in such guam
titles that by afternoon almost all
stocks were exhausted.
Golfers here took the warning in
stride, although many will not be
able to buy their favorite brand of
sphere next year.
So far the situation is unsettled.
Soon the manufacturers who must
abide by any Government reStrlc-
ton on manufacture will issue state
ments as to what the golf public
may expect, but for the present the
wise guy will lay in stock of golf
balls.
Maryland SolOns Meet Tonight.
Solons of the Maryland State Golf
Association will meet at the Balti-
more Country Club tonight to work
out their 1912 program and null
over the question of whether there
Is to be a program. In the mean
time a lot of local golfers are Won
dering whether Washington ever is
going to furnish another president
of the State golf association.
1t had been understood and pre-
dicted by State association officials
for year that DR.. Robert A. Kelly
of Congressional was to be the 1912
president of the Maryland State
Golf Association. The nominations
for 1912 came out today. naming
Edgar A. Lucas of the Baltimore
Country Club as the candidate for
president, and naming DR.. Keilty for
his third term as vice president.
while at the same time retaining
Harry G. Pitt of Manor as vice
president.
The annual meeting of the asso-
citation will be held at the Baltimore
Country Club at $3.50 pm. Friday
January Is. and the association will
he asked to consider a change in
the constitution moving the annual
gathering back to the third Friday
in March of each year. This change
would help in arranging a schedule
No Washington Prexy In Decade.
Eight Washington clubs belong to
the Maryland State Golf Association.
They furnish a good proportion Of
the tournament entries and the
funds by which the association func-
tons. They haven't had an associa-
ton president since Robert Stead,
IT., of Chevy Chase held the office,
nearly q decade ago.
Meanwhile the State association
functions from Baltimore, when a
big part of its real backbone Is In
Washington territory, over which
the District of Columbia Golf Asso-
citation has jurisdiction.
Here are the nomint tions for 1912:
President, Edgar A. Lucas, Balti-
more Country Club; for first vice
president, DR.. Robert +. Kelly, Con-
gressional; vice presidents, Harry G.
Pitt, Manor; Nathan r. Smith, IT,,
Elkridge, Charles S. Californian, ST.
Cumberland, and A. Herman Stump
Green Spring Valley; vice president
and treasurer, John D. Hospelhorn
Country Club of Maryland; general
counsel, Albert E. Steinem, Wood
mont; secretary, Emmett Gary, Hill
endale.