Evening star., 1941-06-18
6. A. 0. Linksman Ties
Defending Champion
From Navy al 141
Association Approved
One-Time Paid Player
As Loop Contestant
By WALTER McCALLUM.

For the first time in the history OF
golf around Washington a profess
sional golfer is in winning spot IN
an amateur tournament.
Jack Harris, General Accounting
Office employe. the professional, and
Jim Gipe of the Navy Department,
the titleholder, will play off next
Sunday for the individual golf
championship of your Uncle Sam
uels modest corps of helpers IN the
National Capital. Harris is pro-
fessional golfer. so ranked by him
self. Gipe is the defending cham
pion. the slow swinging gent who
used to play a fast brand of public
links golf and now belongs to the
Beaver Dam Club.
Lest the idea run away with you
that Harris is trying to put over
fast one as a pro playing in an ANA
teur tourney, we hasten to add that
the case of 29-year-old Jack was
discussed at some length last April
at the annual meeting of the Fed
eral Golf Association. Jack, al
though admittedly having profess
sional status, was invited to play.
Harris and Gipe tied for the title
with identical cards of 69-72-14l
over the Bannockburn Coli and
Country Club course yesterday. Both
of them played through the rain
which drenched the course, which
makes their scores more remarkable.
Third was Jock OlmStead, War De-
partment employe, with 7l-72-143.
C. Henry Cohen of Works Progress
Administration who shot 7l-73-l44
Monday. was fourth, just when every
one thought Cohen's score would
stand up to win the title.
It's an unusual situation, to say
the least; that of a pro playing In
an amateur tourney and winning a
prize and possibly the championship.
Harris. of course, is in the clear. The
Federal Golf Association naively
took the position that Harris, even
though a pro, probably wouldn't win.
Harris held down an assistant pro
berth at Manor in 1882 and the fol-
lowing year was the pro at the
Muskogee Town and Country CLUB
Of Muskogee, Okla.
The General Accounting Office
team, with Harris leading the pa
rade, won the Mellon Trophy with
a score of 614, dethroning F. B. l.,
the 1910 winners of the team cham
pionship Works Progress, headed
by Cohen, won the Harry H. Wood
ring Trophy for low net in Glass A,
their net being 579. The President S
Trophy, for the gross team award in
Glass B, went to General Account
ing Office. with 679. while a new
trophy-the Gene Sarazen Hall OF
Fame Trophy-went to the Post Of
flee Department team with a net
total of 579.
In the individual championship,
played for the J. Edgar Hoover Tro-
ply. Harris finished first, winding
up with par on the final hole. A
few minutes later Gipe came along,
needing a 4 to win by stroke. His
third shot was IS feet short and his
winning putt was 2 inches shy Of
pay dirt. They'll play on at l1:4o
Sunday.
Olmstead Third With 143.
The summaries:
Individual championship. Class Aim
Gipe Navy 69-72-141; Jack Harris,
s S%.rA' 4 7io2-7s@l4s. O. s9IES-l4l' Jock olmstead'
Glass A (net-C. Henry Cohen, W. P. A..
r1-73-144-ss-136: C. Beall: F: B. l.
fm7eEd5;2m16w13z; e-15;se. r :, NiZerti IA
Glass B tgross)-W. F. Watkins, Agrl-
culture 71-S3-160; E. D. Holloway, Post
Office S1-s0-164 D. Arnold. Patent
ONCE S1-S3-164
Glass B tneD-Fred Britton, Veterans
Administration. S9-S9-11 1S-42-136
Charles Knox. Agriculture, S4-S4-16S-
3"-136: R. L. Sheridan, Post Once, 81
SCI
Glass mellon Trophyl-General Ac-
counting Once team t6l4: Jack Harris
Ted Rutley Joe Wilson and Don Dudley.
Glass A. net (Woodring Trophyl-t519l.
Works Progress Administration. c. Henry
Cohen Georse F. Borsari, E. L. Hogan and
Henry Deel.
Glass B, gross PRESIDENTS Trophy)-
(61al, General Accounting once, Steven
Brown, w. A. Covert, F. G. Butler and
Class 3. net (Gene sarazen Trophy)-
(5Tal. Post ONCE w. D. Boston, Arthur T.
wannan, r. L. Sheridan and E. D. Hollo-
way.