Evening star., 1941-08-23
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Club championship season is NOV
ing in on the golfers OF the town,
and those who aren't already en-
gagged in the business of settling
their little arguments as to the best
linksmen within the clubs soon will
be so engaged. So far three clubs
have staged their championship af-
fairs, and one more is in the thick
of the scrap, with possibility that
the Indian Spring club title will be
decided tomorrow.
Champions so far decided are:
Chevy Chase, Reeve Lewis: Wash
ington. Harold H. Hair, and Beaver
Dam. James r. Gipe
At Indian Spring today Dick Mel
vim. one of the smoothest club
swingers around town. was to clash
with Jock Olmstead, the winner to
move into the final round, where he
will meet Volney Burnett, the golfing
fire laddie who already has won the
Maryland State amateur title this
year. Burnett, however. will be no
heavy favorite over either Olmstead
or Melvin. both of whom know their
way around any golf course. And
particularly that Indian Spring lay
out.
September Is Title Month.
September. of course, is the big
club championship month. It's the
month when most of the club titles
are decided. either in Journeys run
OFF on a one-match-a-week basis or
in three or four days, as is the Gus
tom at Columbia and Congressional.
Defending their titles next month
will be the following 1910 victors:
Woodmont. Howard Nordlinger. who
will be an even-money choice to win
his 10th Woodmont title; Congress
sional, M. Parker Nolan, also fairly
close to an money choice: Ar
gyle, Maurice Cooper, man who
seems to have the Indian sign on
the other boys at that club; Manor,
Dick Meyer. a youngster with flaw
less golf swing; Columbia, Martin F.
Mccarthy, a rugged man to nudge
out of any golf tournament and one
OF the fine competitors of all time
around the Capital; Bannockburn,
George Molloy (there will be a new
champ at Bannockburn, for Molloy
has left the club; Army Navy,
Ralph Bogart, who has won twice in
a row and who seems to be the best
golfer in the club by brassie shot
or two; Kenwood, Don Miller.
Don faces a genuine scrap for his
title, for Kenwood has a flock of
good golfers. any one of whom may
bump of the champ. Not the least
of them is C. Henry Cohen, recent
winner of the Board of Governors
Trophy.
Chevy Chase remains the only
local club which decides its title
tourney by the medal play method.
The reason goes back long way,
to the original deed of the cham
pionship cup by F. Oden Horstmann.
one of the better golfers of three
decades ago. At that time Horst
mann decided the championship
should be decided by medal play,
and so it is today. 1t is a good
method (some claim it is best, but
most of the clubs prefer the man
to-man system of match play, which
is traditionally amateur as opposed
to the professional method of medal
play.
Feminine Journeys in October.
Feminine club titles usually are
decided around Washington during
the first week in October. Years
ago the women set aside that week
for their club title events. That
happens to be good custom, al
though it has a dozen champion
ships going at the same time. The
only exception so far this year is
Indian Spring, where the women's
title tourney now is in progress.
Washington Junior Chamber of
Commerce linkSmen are looking
around for tougher opponents to
meet on the golf course. They swept
their contest with Baltimore Junior
Chamber men yesterday at Colum-
bia, winning 8 points while losing
only one. In the top encounter Don