Evening star., 1941-01-20
Norbeck Club Favors
1912 Tourney Over
Event in Spring
Sneud Now Is Free-lonce
Pro; Jones Resigned
To SociobIe Game
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Manor Country Club will not hold
an invitation golf tournament in
l94l, but will hold the Middle At
lantic amateur championship in
1912.
Harry G. Pitt, golf chairman at
Manor and vice president of the
Middle Atlantic and Maryland Golf
Associations, said today that his
club has been considering an invi-
tation tourney for l941, but has
abandoned the idea and will con-
centrate on the mid-Atlantic next
year. I'VE had thought about
tournament this year." said Harry.
But 1 think now we will forget it
and work toward that Middle At
lartic. 1t should be a good one,
too. Well have big entry from
| Manor"
There's more than rumor
around town that another local club
will stage an invitation event next
spring with the announcement to
be made at the annual meeting of
the District Golf Association Feb
ruary 3.
If this tourney is played Wash
ington is going to see a busy links
season in 1941, with three invita-
ton affairs slated. sectional quail
iflcation rounds for the national
open and amateur and a host of
lesser affairs. Not the least of these
will be the lengthy feminine sched-
ule
Although it has not been an
nounced nor acted upon, Kenwood
will get the mems District anna
teur championship on a September
date.
Snead Without Club Tie.
Sam Snead, the uncrowned
champ, is not connected with the
Hot Springs Club of Hot Springs,
Va, although he registers in tour
naments from that place.
John Hicks Kerr, president of the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association,
who is member of the Hot Springs
Club, says Sam wanted to repre-
sent that organization as playing
pro, but his price was too high.
Snead represented the Shawnee
Country Club of Shawnee Della
ware, Pa. last year.
Snead was born near Hot Springs
and got his start there. He served
for several years as the Hot Springs
caddie master and first made his
mark in tournament golf at the
Cascades course where the mid
Atlantic will be played in June.
Sam led the 1885 Hot Springs open
with first-round &c. The next
year he blossomed out as a major
money winner in big-time pro golf.
Jones' Title Touch Gone.
Bobby Jones is through as a tour
nament winner. The 38-year-old
former world king of golf says in
an Associated Press interview from
Atlanta that although he can, at
times, play good golf, he has lost
his tournament concentration and
his championship touch is gone.
You can't win in tournament
play unless you concentrate on every
stroke Bobby said. That's why I
never expect to win the masters.
Bob refers to the annual tourney
at Augusta, which has marked his
lone competitive appearance for the
last eight yearsD And that's why I
never expect to play again in any
tournaments elsewhere.
Il like to get together with the
gang and play few rounds of golf.
I guess it's the main reason play
at Augusta every year. But the
open-forget it."
That seems to dispose of any
chance of the once great master
playing in the big championship.
OF course men who follow golf
know that Bob hasn't worked on
his game and would have no chance
against the modern masters. But
he was the best when he had it.
And he still has it-for a round
or two.