Evening star., 1942-03-29
Busy Workers Aided
By War Saving Time;
Voigt Will Play
Chevy Chase Invitation
Event Out for First
Time in 81 Years
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Dy w AL i En- NlCSALL OVAs
Par for the course may not be as
high as last year when 36 teams
entered the chase for the Federal
Golf Association team champion
by The Star, but the affair will 60
on this year as usual. President
Paul Carey of the Government
linksmen hopes by the latter part
of this week to have a complete
lineup of teams in the match-play
tournament scheduled to open the
third week in April and wind up in
mid-June The tourney will be the
fifth consecutive match-play affair
sponsored by The Star, and run
under the banner of the Federal
Golf Association.
Wartime conditions undoubtedly
will handicap us in many ways"
said Carey. But we plan to go on
just the same From every quarter
We have assurance that agencies
plan to enter teams, including the
War Department, which is pretty
busy nowadays. The golfers will be
aided by War-saving time and will
be able in June to leave their offices
at $50 and play 18 holes
Expects at Least 30 Teams.
Carey expects a minimum of 80
teams in the coming tourney and the
list may run higher. Last year 36
teams entered, in two classes. Titles
were won in class A by Government
Printing Office and in class B by
Patent Office. The latter team has
been split up by removal of much
of the Patent Office personnel to
Richmond and probably Patent Of
fee will not enter a team this year.
Treasury Department, which had
two teams last year, promises to
come up this year with a single
outfit and one which undoubtedly
will be in the thick of the scrap
from the drop of the hat. Carey,
new prexy of the Government golf
ers, succeeding Charles P. Redick,
plays on the Treasury team, and
gleefully points to the entry OF
George j. Voigt, former nationally
ranked links star, in the coming
tourney as a factor which may toss
Treasury to the top of the heap.
Voigt also will be an outstanding
entry in the individual champion
ship affair for the Government title
In the tournament due to be played
at the Prince Georges Club in June.
Now accepting entries for the
match-play tournament Carey may
be reached at District 5700, branch
606.
Chevy Chase Tourney Out.
Thirty-one consecutive years of
competition, and now the Chevy
Chase Club invitation tourney for
the Taft and Sherman Trophies is
out-for the duration of the war.
Local lnksmen for three decades
have looked to the Chevy Chase
affair as the high spot of the in
vitation tournament season, which
it was. Played over one of the best
golf courses in the land at a time
of year when all golfers wanted
action, the tournament drew the
best, and always produced the finest
competition But it is out now, and
won't be resumed until after Hitler,
Eirohito & Co., have been whipped.
Wonder what the Chevy Chase
Club will do about the Japanese
Cup tourney long feature OF the
golf club schedule? japanese Am
bassador Matsudaira presented the
trophy to the club. And what will
Kenwood do about it's Japanese Cup
tourney this year, for the cup pre-
sented eight years ago by Hirosi
Saito?
Although Chevy Chase and Ban
nockburn have abandoned their
events, the championship links
affairs of the several organiza-
tions in this territory will go on.
And not the least of the affairs
coming up this spring will be Sec
tional qualifying rounds for the
Hale America" open championship,
the final rounds to be played in
Chicago in July. Preliminary sec
tional rounds are scheduled at Ban
nockburn Monday, April q, to be
run by the District Golf Association
and a second preliminary will be
staged later, at another local club.
Full details of this event soon will
be made public by the United States
Golf Association, which scheduled
the Hale America" open soon after
storm of public criticism greeted
cancellation of all major champion
ship Journeys.
Women Announce Schedule.
Tomorrow at Kenwood the women
golfers of Washington will announce
a 15-event schedule. including nearly
all the affairs which have been held
in previous years. The District
championship will go to Chevy Chase
and other Journeys will be awarded
to 18-hole courses which are on or
near established bus and streetcar
lines. So has the tire and gasoline
situation affected local golf.
Georgetown's varsity golf team will
face its first big local test Friday,
April 10, at Bannockburn when the
Tony Sylvester-coached Hoyas clash
with Fordham. Sylvester, following
the habit of most athletic coaches.
goes sour puss on the chance of his
team to win, declaring Fordham has
a strong outfit which may lick
Georgetown. But the Hoyas will
win.