Evening star., 1942-09-02
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To Famed -Four
September 20
Annex Nine National
Opens Among Them:
Match q Natural
BY WALTER McCALLUM,

ny WAL EN- MCCALL UNI.
Four nationally famed linksmen-
| present or past holders of the COW
eted National Open championship
will play in an exhibition match the
afternoon of September 20 at the
Columbia Country Club to aid in
raising funds for war relief.
The lineup will be: Craig Wood,
OF Mamaroneck, N. Y, resigning Ma
tional Open champion, and Charles
tChick Evans of Chicago against
Capt. Robert Tyre Jones, jr., United
States Army Air Corps, and Fred
Mcleod, Columbia Country Club
professional.
The match will start at 2 pm. and
the admission charge will be $1.25,
with all money raised to be dis
tributed through various war relief
agencies. A gallery of several thou
sand is expected to watch the four
famous linksmen play the Columbia
course, scene of the 1921 National
Open championship, in which all but
Wood competed.
1t will be the outstanding match
OF a season around Washington
which has been lacking in the big
exhibition affairs of other years, and
possibly will be followed by another
match at different course starring
other nationally known profession
ais, also for war relief purposes.
Suggested by Evans.
The match stems from sugges-
ton made by Chick Evans, first man
IN golf history to win the National
Open and amateur titles. Chick, one
OF the most popular figures ever to
sting tee shot down the groove.
won both crowns in 1916, and also
won the national amateur title in
1920, in addition to winning the
Western Amateur seven times, and
the Western Open twice.
Chick wrote Fred Mcleod sug-
gesting the match, and Jones' now
stationed on Long Island, and Wood,
an ardent booster for all war
efforts, quickly fell in line. Jones
has played Columbia many times
since his initial appearance in the
1921 open, when he walloped three
balls over the fence at the fifth hole
for a bulky 9 on the par 5 hole.
Evans also is familiar with the
layout.
Craig Wood, the Blond Bomber,
who won the 1941 National Open
championship at Fort Worth, Tex,
and is the holdover champion this
year. never has played an exhibition
match around Washington. He is
a close friend of Witty Cox, Con-
gressional pro, and is we'll known
to many Washingtonians, but he
has not played here. Craig is one
OF the most popular men ever to
will the National Open, and has
been booster for all war benefit
matches. He has played in many
such affairs.
Pros Donating Services.
The pros are giving their serv-
ices without charge, quite de-
parture from the usual peacetime
routine. An Open champions usual
price for an exhibition match has
been around 5000
In charge of the affair will be
DR.. Paul M. Stewart, Columbia golf
chairman, and his committee mem
bers. Luther C. Steward, jr., has
been designated gallery chairman.
Tickets will be placed on sale at
all the country club golf shops and
in sport goods stores.
The match will pit two Open
champions of the pre-Jones era
against each other, and Jones, the
great wizard of the game from 1928
through 1880, against the reigning
Open champion. Between them the
four men have won nine National
Open championships. Jones, nat
urally, leads the list, with four
United States Open and two Brit
lSh Open crowns. Wood is the pres
ent United States titleholder. Evans
won the United States crown in
1916, and Freddie Mcleod, beloved
Columbia pro, the granddaddy of
the quartet at go years of age, won
the United States National Open
crown in 1908. Mcleod also won
the United States senior pro cham
pionship in 1888
Match Is Golf Natural.
The match is a golf natural in
every sense of the word. Two of the
contestants, Mcleod and Evans,
played in similar match at Co.
lumbia June Is, 1918, for the Red
Cross, with Jock Hutchison and
Jim Barnes the other players. That
day. "a years ago. Chick, notoriously
an indifferent putter, rolled in
50-footer across the home green to
square the 36-hole engagement.
That could happen to any one,
grlnned the affable Evans.
Meanwhile plans are in the max
ing for still another exhibition
match starring four more nationally
famed professional golfers to raise
donations of clubs and balls for dis
trlbutlon by the United Service Or
CARNATIONS to men in the service
Plans for this match are in the max
ing with negotiations going on with
Fred Corcpran. tournament bureau
manager for the Professional Golf
ers' Association of America.
The Columbia Country Club.
which has staged many exhibition
matches OF this nature, will be
thoroughly organized for the Sep
tember 20 contest. Members of the
club will serve on the gallery and
grounds committees and tickets will
be sold on the grounds in addition
to the other outlets.
Washington had a slim entry in
the Maryland senior championship
today at Baltimores Green Spring
Valley Club. Certain entrants were
DR.. R. A. Keilty, John F. McCarron
and DR.. Noah Pomeroy, all of Con-
gressional, In addition, w. j. Peters
of Manor hoped to be able to make
the trip.