Evening star., 1941-04-12
8-Squad Limit Likely
In Big Links Event
Star Sponsors
"a Groups Already Filed
For Contest Starting
Luts This Month
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Lost in a maze of unexpected and
rev entries Charles P. (ChuckD
Redick, president of the Federal
Coli Association and director of The
Star-sponsored match play golf
tournament for Government en-
ployes, today came up for air and
gasped: 1T looms as the biggest
and best of them all" The tourney
will start late this month, marking
the fourth straight year the Federal
departments, with the aid of The
Star, have staged team match play
event.
Washington, of course, is growing,
In size and in population. With the
new arrivals in town have come a
flock of golfers, who have demanded
that they have crack at the match
play title. With "a entries already
on his desk, all representing teams
from the departments and agencies,
and many more expected, Redick
now is trying to keep the list down
to 36.
Must Weed Out Flaws.
His big headache is the multi
plicity of teams from a big depart
ment with many bureaus. Agencies
such as Treasury, with Accounts and
Deposits, Procurement, Bureau of
Printing and Engraving, and Agri-
culture with Soil Conservation, and
many other bureaus with strong golf
teams, must be segregated. Although
his plans so far have not yet
crystallized, the tournament director
thinks 1t would be wise move to
keep the entries of teams from any
one department down to two.
Redick. foreseeing about 36 teams
IN two classes, with three sections
In each class, hopes the schedule
may be arranged so the opening
match will be played on Monday,
April 26. I'D like to have all our
matches cleaned up by July /, so
we can 60 into the playoff early in
the fall without any hangovers." he
said. He also wants to avoid holding
any matches in the hot months of
July and August.
THE response has been much
more than we had figured" said
Redick. I'VE thought we might haye
about 25 teams, and we already have
"a, with many agencies unheard
from. 1t looms as the best tourna-
nlent of them all"
No Gate Fee for Pro Matches.
There will be no gate fee for
the Patty BergHelen Dettweiler
matches to be played here April II
and April 80 Mrs. w. L. Weible.
president of the Women's District
Golf Association, announced today
that all are welcome to see the two
famed feminine pros play at Ken
wood April 27, without charge, in
the match promoted by the womens
golf organization. And we hope
wen have a big crowd" she said.
The April 80 match will be played
NJ East Potomac Park in the after
noon, to be followed by a clinic and
shotmaking exhibition under the
lights. Under the law no admission
charge can be made on the public
courses to witness an exhibition.
There was no charge yesterday,
and no lack of gallery interest as
Jimmy Thomson and George Daw-
son, national topliners, played an
exhibition at East Potomac. Tommy
Doerer and Thomson finished all
square with Dawson and Cliff
Spencer, both teams with best ball
totals of SO. Thomson and Dawson
both scored par 72s, while Doerer
and Spencer had 74s.
G. w. Golfers Sparkle.
Away to flying start in It's
opening links test George Washing
ton University's golf team may pro-
duce the best winning streak the
Colonials have had in their short
lived and sometimes tentative ven-
lures into college golf.
They've gone at it this year in big
league fashion, with q coach and a
faculty outfit. Coach
George Diffenbaugh, the Kenwood
pro, watched his lads trounce West
ern Maryland, 61a to "a, in their
initial match at Kenwood yesterday.
The summary:
Bus Fleming &C. W. beat Fred Hollo-
hss w NJ 9sr Rstseb snd p Piek HsyslsT spd 'w
Fs Roy Dillon 1d. W. beat Woody Preston
tw, M. and 3; Tom Grady &C. W.
beat Neil Eckenrode tw. M. 3 and !.
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ball, George Washington. 2 and /.
Today at Annapolis Georgetown,
the top college links team of this
sector and Eastern college champ,
met Navy in test that had Coach
Tony Sylvester little worried. My
boys aren't at their best" said Tony.
Two feminine links Journeys were
played. At Army Navy a nine-blind-
hole affair was held, with half the
club handicap applying. Winners
were Mrs. M J. Torlinski, AZ; Mrs.
M. X. Barroll, 421a; Mrs. w. F.
Boone, 43, and Mrs. A. C. Olney, A.
Congressional women held a match
play against par event, won by Mrs.
.. Fl. Henderson with score 2 down
10 par. Mrs. Walter L. Rice and Mrs.
p. J. winkler both finished 6 down,
w$sh Mrs. Rice winning the draw.