Evening star., 1941-02-02
Several New Events
To Be Approved at
SoIons' Confab
Dr.. Stewart New Chief;
George Miller Loses
Finger in Mishup
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Kenwood Golf and Country Club
which up to this year has been neg
lected by the local links solons when
big time tournaments were being
passed out, will get the District
amateur championship this year
The assignment is scheduled to be
o. KID tomorrow night when the
fathers of local golf affairs gather
for their annual confab, elect slate
of officers and approve few tour
naments around the Capital, billed
as strictly District Golf Association
sponsored events.
Up to this year the feminine golf
ers alone had chosen Kenwood for
their championships. The men
have not assigned KenWood a big
tourney, although Kenwood itself
for three years staged the biggest
pro event held in Washington since
the National Open, when the River
road club staged a series of So
called National Capital Open cham
pionshipS. The last one of these
was held in 1884, and unless some
one does something about it Bobby
Cruickshank, the victor in that last
tourney, still is entitled to call him ,
self National Capital Open champ"
Incoming President on Coast.
DR.. Paul M. Stewart of Columbia,
now first vice president of the Dis
trict Golf Association, is to be ele-
vated to the presidency tomorl Uw
night when the links solons gather
at the University Club at 8 o'clock.
But DR.. Stewart, who is golf chair
man at Columbia, will not make a
pretty little speech and take over
the gavel from DR.. R. A Keilty, the
retiring president. Dr.. Stewart is
somewhere on the Pacific Coast, en-
gagged in an inspection tour of Public
Health Service stations in that area.
He is an assistant surgeon general
of the United States Public Health
Service.
Other Journeys to be assigned are
the mixed fourSome affair, now a
fixture on the local calendar, and
the junior championship. But COM
ing up undoubtedly will be an at
tempt to revive the District senior
championship. Some friends of the
late Henry Litchfield West, beloved
golf writer of the '20s, are planning
to put up a cup for the senior cham
pionship bearing the name of Henry
West. It's a good move and one
that should go through, for few men
have been so prominent in golf and
golf affairs as Henry.
The association. as a matter of
course, will o. K. dates already
chosen for the Chevy Chase invita-
ton affair on May 13, IA, Is and Is,
and the Bannockburn best-ball
event June 6, 7 and g. These are
the only invitation affairs sched-
uled, although there's more than a
rumor that another local club, long
out of the tournament field, may
re-enter this year.
George Miller Loses Finger.
George F. Miller, crack Columbia
amateur, may have a hard time get
ting back into the winning groove
this year. George was fooling
around with buzz-saw yeah,
that's right a few days ago and
got his fingers mixed up in the ma
chinery. Result: George is minus
the third finger of his left hand
and couple other digits are pretty
badly damaged. George was semi
finalist in the Maryland amateur
championship last year and has
been a good golfer for quite a
stretch. The accident may set him
back. or was the pro wrong who
said golf is a left-handed game?
Wonder what's happened to Leo
Walper? Leo wrote guardedly from
Miami several weeks ago that he
would have an announcement to
make regarding himself, but he
hasn't come through with it. If
he intended to tell the world he has
a winter job the time is getting
short. Meanwhile, Leo is around
the Biltmore, doing all right.
Witty Cox and Jocko Miller, the
exurberant Congressional pair, are
happy about the whole thing; the
latter being their new golf set
up in the expansive Congressional
gym. Witty is equipped to give
lessons and to hold practice sessions
in the indoor net, while Jocko will
take on all champs at table
tennis. OF, course, he doesn't want
ringers like Ken Lafferty, who said
he couldn't play the game and then
took a five-spot from rotund Jocko
Cox is planning big golf affair
for spring, centering around an in
door show in the gym, to be fol-
lowed by an outdoor exhibition the
next day. He hopes to put it on
in April.
Dodson Also Wins Argument.
Arguments do not come up often
In top flight golf, but Leonard bod
son and Ben Hogan got into one in
the playof of a California tourney
They were level at the seventeenth
and Hogan, as he had right to do
lifted his ball around casual water
on the putting green. Dodson
claimed he had gained a foot or SC
and appealed to the referee. That
gent measured the distance and
found Hogan had gone forward
about a foot. Benny didn't like il
and three-putted to lose the play
off.