Evening star., 1941-08-28
Silent Ace in Quartet
OF Virginians 10 Go
For Fat Prizes
Houghton Wins Proise
As Tourney Chieftoin;
Stones Show Set
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

sNHhA Inv ANsSSEhAISA'A'
There's some tough shedding ahead
for the local professionals who have
ambitions about winning the Wash
ington Open Championship at In
dian Spring next week.
A tall, skinny gent who will be
making a speech if he links together
more than half a dozen words in
one sentence, has entered the tour
nament, and probably will be Mr..
Dark Horse when the 36-hole affair
gets under way week from today
over the 9-hole merry-go-round
which is all that is left of great
course.
The tall gents name is Chandler
Harper, and although he plays the
conversational course in something
worse than par he can talk plenty
with golf clubs. Chan has been
around Washington good deal. AS
an amateur he won the sectional
qualifying rounds for the simon pure
championship at Columbia a few
years back. 1t is a matter of rec
ord that he spoke three words dur
ing those 36 holes. He couldn't see
the pin on the 18th in the playoff
against Ernie Caldwell, and said to
his caddie, Where is it?" Other
wise he was Sphinx.
Talks Best With Clubs.
Harper prefers to do his talking
with golf clubs. He makes an ele-
CANT and eloquent speech with a
set of clubs in his mitts, and all
in all the tall Harper gent can and
probably will bring the local pros
down with first-classe case of jit-
ters when the boys start playing
that good Indian Spring course for
the heavy dough that will go to
the winners.
Harper will be one of four Vir-
ginia entrants, all of whom can
go all right in the tournament.
Bobby Cruikshank, Darrell Napier
and John ODonnell are the others.
ODonneu was coed enough to win
the 1899 Maryland open champion
ship, and now Is assistant to Cruick-
shank at Richmond.
AL Houghton, tournament man.
ager for the Middle Atlantic P. G.
A., has done his usual fine Job in
promoting this one. But AL doesn't
want all the credit. Please give
Witty Cox, Mel Shorey and Gene
Larkin a boost" says Houghton.
They worked like dogs TO make
this tournament q success. And
now 1t Is success. Shorey particu-
larly has gone in with both fists
swinging to make it good one. He
has raised the dough-not me-"
Cox to be Toastmaster.
Witty Cox will be the toastmas-
ter at the dinner following the
tournament. That in itself bespeaks
success for the affair. Whether he
talks Brooklynese or American Witty
can handle a crowd. As a golfer
he Is great toastmaster. And he
can play golf, too.
Sixteen Columbia golfers will
leave town tomorrow heading for
Hot Springs, Va, and a week end of
golf. Included in the party will be
Professionals Fred Mcleod and
"Set" Collinge, Jim Gipe, Beaver
Dam champion, and winner Of the
Fairacre Cup at Hot Springs last
year, will defend his title In the
tourney starting Saturday and run
ming through Monday.
Stone Course TO Open.
Witty Cox has been named cap
tain of the Washington professional
team which will clash September
IA with Baltimore pros in the initial
demonstration Of American Golf by
William r. Stone. inventor and
founder Of the new game. The
demonstration will be put on at
$3.50 pm. Sunday, September IA,
before seated spectators. Seats will
be provided for about 1.100 people
to witness the opening match, at .
50-cent gate fee.
Stones new course, to be opened
for the match, Is located at Halpine,
Md. This spot, in case you aren't
familiar with Maryland locations,
Is about half mile north Of Con-
gressional Airport, on the Rockville
pike.
The course is the first of q series
Of two-hole units. which Stone ex-
poets will be built throughout the
country as a departure from the
conventional 18-hole course One
hole ranges downward from 400
yards, and the other ranges down.
ward from 200 yards.
Ali the top pros who are not tied
up In Maryland State Golf Associa-
ton team matches September IA
will be on the Witty Cox-led team,
according to Stone.
The demonstration will be inter-
esting. If only for the new angles
involved. For one thing. a ball hit
into what would be the rough on
the usual course, is out Of bounds
on the American Golf course, and
involves penalty.