Evening star., 1941-06-08
Amateur, Senior Aces
To Seek Titles on
Cascades Links
Baltimore Also to Draw
Fine Maryland Meet
Field on June 10
Rv MATTER McCALLUM.

Biggest mems championship links
tournament of the year comes up
this week at Hot Springs, Va, where
more than half hundred WASH
ington amateurs will try to lift the
Middle Atlantic amateur and senior
titles from a field composed of the
best divot lifters in the territory
between North Carolina and Penn
sylvania.
The next fortnight looms as big
one for the male golfers, forced out
OF the headlines so far by the
women, as they battle at Hot
Springs for the Mid-Atlantic and
&C Baltimore the week of June 16
for the Maryland State amateur
crown
For 81 years the Middle Atlantic
championship has been the big show
Of golf among the simon pures in
this sector. 1t will be again when
they take over the famed Cascades
course at Hot Springs, starting next
Thursday, for a four-day shotmak-
Ing jamboree. Defending champion
will be seriousfaced Spencer Over
ton of the Rolling Road Club of
Baltimore. But Overton, to win
again. will face serious menace
from Washington, for the best in
golf around the Capital plan TO go
to Hot Springs.
NJ. Parker Nolan, the big boy from
Congressional. will be the defending
champ in the Maryland State cham
plonship at Baltimores Suburban
Club, starting June 90
Seniors After New Cup.
Engraved on the bulging belly of
the big Middle Atlantic trophy are
the names of some good linksmen.
Roland Mackenzie, Billy Howell,
George Voigt, Harry Pitt, Levi Yoder,
Otto Greiner, Walter Tuckerman
and many others whose names have
been bywords in golf in past years.
nave won the championship.
This year, in addition to the anna
teur title, senior members of clubs
within the association territory will
compete for a new cup, the senior
championship trophy, presented to
the association by William Wade
Hlnshaw, well known Columbia
golfer.
Inc TWO tournaments will run con-
currently. Entries for both events
will close with Secretary Bill Barr
at Hot Springs Tuesday at 2 pm.
The seniors will qualify Thursday in
Nights OF eight, with three match
rounds scheduled. ending Sunday.
Competitors for the other title may
qualify either Wednesday or Thurs
day, with match rounds starting
Friday, also ending SUNDAY.
The courses at Hot Springs will
be open to tournament competitors
without greens fee charges June 8.
9, 10 and II. The Cascades course
Is known over the East as one of
the better tests of golf.
p. G. A. Test June IS.
Pro golfers will play for three
places in the national P. G.. A.
tourney, in sectional qualification
rounds to be staged Monday, June Is.
over the Lakeside Country Club
course at Richmond, Va. Entries will
be taken by Bobby Cruickshank at
the Country Club of Virginia.
Jerry Weible. daughter of the
president of the Womens District
Golf Association, will play in the
vomen's national intercollegiate
championship at Columbus, Ohio.
late this month. Jerry is a student
at American University.
Public links golfers contributed
about S125 to send Cliff Spencer to
the National Open. Concessionnaire
S. G. Loeffler kicked in with another
contribution.
JoCkO Miller, Caddie master at Con-
gressional, is in for a chunk of
trouble. Two years ago. when Mrs.
Leo Walper won the District Women's
championship, Jocko says he licked
her in match at Bradley Hills.
Thereafter he claimed the women's
District title. Now the boys at Con-
gressional are backing Mrs. Myron
Davy to lick Jocko And Jocko is
taking all bets.
HoughtOn Shifts Tourney.
al I1OuSllJOll, OuIlldIIlellb CIldlI-
man for the Washington affairs held
by the Middle Atlantic P. G.. A., has
changed tomorroWs tournament
from Congressional to Indian Spring.
1t will be an amateur-pro affair,
each pro to have three amateur
partners. One partner will play
from scratch, while the other two
will have handicaps.
The Department of Agriculture
links tourney, scheduled last Wednes-
day at Beaver Dam, was post
poned because of rain until next
Wednesday.
That was a very swell yarn by
Gene Sarazen and Tiger" Murray
in the Sateve Post, on the Open
championship. Gene knows more
about the Open championship jit-
ters than any man playing in the
big tournaments nowadays. He's had
'em, like every one else, who plays
In the tourney.