Evening star., 1941-05-05
Two Junior Crowns,
Sectional, Senior
Honors al Stake
Invitation Tournament
At East Potomac Will
Open Tomorrow

Bill Barr. who is Mr.. Secretary to
q big sector of golf around Wash
ington, has sent out announcements
of four tournaments to be staged by
the two associations with which he
is connected Barr has served
around 20 years as secretary of the
District Golf Association. and now
Is in the middle of his second term
ss secretary of the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association.
First of the quartet of Journeys
Is the junior championship of the
city. won last year by Bill Cassidy
of Argyle. Bill will defend his title
practically on his doorstep. for the
affair is scheduled for Indian Spring
over the 36-hole route June 25. The
Middle Atlantic Junior champion
ship will be played at Woodmont
July 8. This year the District junior
tourney has been broadened to in
clude all lads up to 81 years of age.
For years it was nothing much but
a boys tourney, with the age set
at 1S.
Major event of the Middle At
lantic Association. and one OF the
high spots of the competitive year
will be the 37th competition for the
championship Of this entire sector,
slated for the famed Cascades
course of Hot Springs. Va, June II,
l3, ID and IS Spencer Overton is
cast in the role of defending champ,
and can win again.
Running concurrently with the as
sociation championship will be a
new tourney for the senior title OF
the M. A. G. A. This years event
will be the first for the William
Wade Hinshaw trophy.
East Potomac Is Host.
Tourney golf is looking up. Entries
closed yesterday at East Potomac
Park for the first invitation affair
of the public links boys, to be Jointly
staged by the East Potomac and
Anacostia Golf Clubs. The tourney
will open tomorrow morning at East
Potomac.
Invitations are in the hands of
all the top amateurs of the city for
the 31st Chevy Chase Club tourney
for the Taft and Sherman trophies.
The affair, to be played over the
meticulously groomed course near
Chevy Chase Circle, will run for
three days starting May IA, and
marks the high spot of the early
season in mems golf around Wash
ington. Entries will close May 9
with the club Golf Committee.
Pro golfers will gather today
at Burning Tree to play In the first
of a series of Journeys scheduled
for member of the Middle Atlantic
P. c. A. Each pro is to be limited
to one partner from his own club,
and handicaps will not be used.
Tomorrow the Middle Atlantic As
Eociation of Greenkeepers will
gather at Manor to play in their
annual tourney for the DR.. John
Monteith Trophy, with a dinner to
follow the golf event.
Examine Public Links Operation.
A special House Committee will
delve deeply into links operations
n the public parks in a series OF
hearings beginning tomorrow at 10
am. Present at the hearings to be
held in Room 345. Old House Office
Building, will be S. G. Leoff1er, con-
cessionnaire for all the public golf
courses in the city, and F. Walter
Hoover Of the Welfare and Recrea-
tional Association. A complete and
thorough inquiry into golf opera
tions in the parks is promised. Let's
hope it comes true, with the ulti-
mate outcome improved golf facill-
ties for a city that is decade
behind the times in golf.
The tip is out that the boys are
taking up their belts for an in
ouiry that will rake over all the
public golf course operations for
the past 20 years.
Leo and Marie Walper will fly to
Montgomery. Ala. tomorrow to at
tend a wedding. Is 1t a coincidence
that National Amateur Champion
Dick Chapman Is at Montgomery?
Leo's throat operation was COM
plete success. and the big boy who
won the Middle Atlantic P. G. A.
championship In 1887 and 1888, Is
playing golf again.