Evening star., 1941-04-18
Barnett, Cruickshank
Likely Choices for
D. {. and Virginia
Peacock Smushes Par
To Win Tourney of
Golf CLUB BOWERS
By WALTER McCALLUM.

First general meeting of the year
for the Middle Atlantic Professional
Golfers Association will be held to-
night at Beaver Dam, where Prexy
Witty Cox will announce the ap-
pointment of vice presidents for the
Washington Maryland and Virginia
areas.
Cox will be presiding over his first
meeting of the sectional body and 1t
shouldn't be too tough for the
Brooklyn fusilier. He used to do
the same thing at meetings of the
Long Island IN. " P. G. A, The
talk is that he did it with consider
able skill and that he steered that
organization through some perilous
territory.
Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase prob
ably will be appointed vice president
for Washington and Bobby Cruick-
shank undoubtedly will become the
vice president for Virginia, but
there has been no indication as to
the vice presidency for Maryland.
The P. G. A. championship will be
discussed and Witty will bring up
the three or four big Journeys
planned for the pros during 1941.
Witty Is All Business.
There will be no golf tourney pre-
ceding the meeting. Cox doesn't
believe in mixing golf with business.
So the boys, instead of playing golf
and then settling down to business,
will have business the sole business
of the evening. That business, of
course, is promoting the welfare of
pro golf and golf in general in this
area, an item at which Cox is an old
hand.
Roger Peacock's Game Hot.
Manor Country Club gets the
annual Washington Baltimore anna
teur team match this year. accord
ing to the club links schedule en-
nounced today by Golf Chairman
Harry G. Pitt. A list of Journeys to
start early in May and ending late
in September was announced for
the big club near Norbeck. Here is
the schedule:
May 4, Dodgwood Blossom tourney: Is.
mixed Scotch foursome; 30 and 81, match
play against par tournament; driving and
putting contests; ,,s..-
for uns daD golf aas eam " jaae aaeeF
in seven classes. continuing through the
month. with the final round July 8; June
July s9An T. nine o lowest est holes of IS womens
dag tourney and driving contests for men
and women: 10; MARYLAND State pro ANA
y-zfO nNah N1n
.vent; -. Baltimore Washington amateur
eam match; 80. Town and Country men,
oers' team match.
Journey: 3l-September l, Presidents Cup
tourney and womens medal play and
SEPTEMBER 14-2s club championship
.our1 ament for the title now held By
Bridegroom Roger Peacock is
going to have a hot hand on the
golf course this year if you can
judge by the way he is getting
started. Roger, what with his re-
cent wedding, hasn't had much
time for golf, but the Peacock gent
hasn't lost his game All Roger did
at the tournament of the Country
Club Bowling League at Manor
was to cuff out a neat and alto
gether gaudy SO, which happens
to be one below par for the course.
Roger was in front by long way
when the boys totaled up their
strokes and sat down to the usual
bowling windup dinner. Five shots
back was blond Everett johnson
Of Beaver Dam with "a. while
Chick Heimer of Beaver Dam and
Lou Harrison of Indian Spring
we're next with rs.
Big Entry in Women's Tourney.
With entries closing this after
noon for the initial feminine tour
ney of the year-the affair for the
Miller Memorial Trophy next Mon
day at Washington-an entry list
Of more than 125 was forecast. This
would make the affair one of the
biggest in years.
Pairings, in twoSomes, will be
made this afternoon, with the first
pair due to leave the elevated first
tee at Washington at $3.50 Monday.
Next scheduled event on the fem
mine tournament program will be
the Keefer Cup tourney at Chevy
Chase, April % and %. Entries for
this one will close April Is at l
o.m., with Mrs. w. j. Flather, 1r,
at Emerson 0246.