Evening star., 1941-04-06
Par-Smashing Party
Promised by Pros
AT Top Of Game
surozen, Heofner, Smith,
Thomson Among Stors
In Greet Links Lot
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Finest links show of the early
season (and probably the best of the
year around Washington will come
off Thursday at Chevy Chase Club
Two former open champions. and
group of the top men of American
golf will play that afternoon for the
benefit of British war relief.
While some changes may be made
before the match Thursday, the men
already signed up to play, according
to Allan Burton committee chair
man, are:
Gene SaraZen, national open
champion of 1922 and 1882; Fred
Mcleod, national open champion of
1908; Clayton Heafner, one of the
top stars of the current crop of
pros: Jimmy Thomson, longest hit
ter in the world Horton Smith,
third in the 1910 open Champion
ship and a star for more than
decade: Jim Ferrier, Australian
open and amateur champion; Witty
Cox, long one of the top golfers of
the land; Bob Barnett, Chevy Chase
pro; Allan Burton, Army Navy
Country Club pro, and Amateur
George Dawson of Chicago, Al
Houghton, District Open champion,
and Cliff Spencer, Maryland Open
king.
Par-Beating Show Looms.
Given good weather for the show,
this busting party may bring
out crowd of three or four thou
sand people. Tickets are on sale at
all the local golf courses at a dollar.
The show has been arranged by
cooperating Scottish societies. AL
though the affair will be an eXhi-
bition strictly with no title of any
kind at stake, it will produce golf
worth seeing for any mans dollar.
Five of the participating pros will
have Just come off the winter tour
and are keen as mustard. The
others have been whetting their
golf by steady conditioning play.
Here are the pairings, as an
nounced by the committee:
lis pm.-Clayton Heafner,
Linville, N. c., and Jimmy Thom-
son, Chicopee, Mass, VS.. Bob
Barnett, Chevy Chase, and Al
Houghton, Beaver Dam.
1:3O-Horton Smith, Chicago,
and Amateur George Dawson,
Chicago, VS.. Jim Ferrier, Chicago,
and Allan Burton, Army Navy.
1:45-Fred Mcleod, Columbia,
and Witty Cox, Congressional,
VS.. Gene Sarazen, Brookf1eld
Center, Conn, and Cliff Spencer,
East Potomac Park.
Bobby Cruickshank advised the
committee he would not be able to
play, since his Florida club does not
close until April II. Amateur Will
fred Wehrle is not certain to appear.
II he does, place will be made for
him. Galleries will be in charge of
Chevy Chase members, and ma
jority of the players will stay at the
Chevy Chase Club.
Stars Come From Augusta.
All the pros with the exception Of
Heafner have played around WASH
ington in past years. Heafner is a
big blond gent who hits the ball a
long way. Dawson and Wehrle
have not shown around the Capital,
but Dawson was a semi-finalist in
the 1910 amateur championship
and Wehrle, with Sam Sneed as
partner, won the recent st. Angus
tine amateur pro tourney. The
amateurs are close to the top OF the
simon pure heap although neither
has won a national title.
BY any standard of comparison,
the show shapes up as one OF the
BEST ever held on Washington
course. Half a dozen of the players
will have come from the Augusta
national tournament, played on one
of the better courses. But as STU
dents of golf and critics of courses,
they'll still have treat ahead
when they play Chevy Chase. That
well groomed course, around $500
yards long, with a par of SO, will be
a little chunk of heaven to men who
have played the winter circuit, with
some courses not in the best OF
shape.
Had Sam Snead, Ralph Guldahl
and Ben Hogan been able to come
to Washington for the match 1t
would be tops as a golf show.
But as it stands, the show will be
one of the best and should draw