Evening star., 1942-01-11
Maryland Links Body
Aims 10 Garry Out
Usual Schedule
Mid-AtIontic, District
Organizations Expect
To Hold Title PIoy
By WALTER McCALLUM.

men around town will be made at
the winter series of golf association
annual meetings to start this week
and to continue into early Febru-
ary. -Four association meetings are
scheduled within the next three
weeks, three Of them during the next
seven days. Two important gath
erings of the golf solons are to be
held this week.
Here is the golf association meet
ing schedule:
January 16, Maryland State Golf
Association annual meeting, Bal
timore Country Club, 7 pm.
January IT, Middle Atlantic Golf
Association annual meeting, Uni
versity Club, pm.
January 19, Women's District
Golf Association. first Executive
Committee meeting, Kenwood Club,
2pm.
February 3, District Golf Asso-
ciation annual meeting, University
Club, 8 pm.
In addition to these meetings the
greenkeepers of this section will
gather at the University Of Mary
land January 26 and q for the
third short course in greenkeeping
technique, sponsored by the uni
versity.
Maryland to Hold Meets.
Before all the organization meet
ings will be the question of whether
TO carry on their usual schedules,
to curtail them for various reasons
or to eliminate them entirely. The
solons at present seem disposed to
carry on their golf events through
out 1912, with possible rearrange-
ment Of schedules made necessary
by the fact that many people will
not be willing to take long automo-
bile trips when they won't be able
TO get tire replacements.
The sensible way to handle this
contingency would be to arrange
the usual schedules, but not to ex-
pect large out-of-town groups OF
entries. Golfers are going to be
willing to travel a few miles to play
In tournaments, but they won't be
willing to make several round trips
Of 100 miles or more every month
for a whack at dinky little prizes.
The Maryland State Golf Asso-
citation, by vote of its Executive
Committee, will stage its usual 1912
schedule. The District association
also will go forward, according to
present plans, with its three or
four affairs, with a probability that
several one-day Journeys also will
Be staged.
New Officers Lined Up.
The Middle Atlantic Golf Asso-
citation undoubtedly will hold its
1912 championship, as scheduled,
at Manor Country Club.
Harry G.. Pitt will become preSi-
dent of the Mid-Atlantic and DR..
A. Thomas Utz will become president
Of the District Golf Association. The
Maryland State Golf Association,
which proclaimed last year that DR..
r. A. Keilty of Congressional would
become 1912 president of that organ
iZation, has nominated Edgar A.
Lucas of Baltimore for that post,
retaining DR.. Keilty as first vice
president.
The Middle Atlantic Professional
Golfers Association will not hold its
first meeting of the year until April,
but Witty Cox, preXy of the Sec
tional pro body, says they plan to
60 through with curtailed sched-
ule, eliminating some of the big out
of-town tournaments and asking the
boys to arrange their own affairs
under P. G. A. auspices.
Bradley Hills Course Long.
Tommy Doerer, golf manager at
Bradley Hills. has measured the
whole course and says it will play,
when opened in the spring, 6,572
yards In length. That is quite a
chunk of golf course. as Doerer
measured it from the middle of the
tees to the middle of the green's It
can be heightened by moving back
the Tee markers.
Washington Golf and Country
Club players will have a new 18th
green ready for use in April. Dave
Thomson. pro and greenkeeper, has
built new green 20 yards to the
right Of the old green, to be opened
in the spring. The hole is a single
shotter, and will play around $50
yards from the middle tees.
Eddie Stevens, Manor Country
Club assistant pro, has been called
back into uniform and will report
January 21. Eddie served several
months in the Chemical Warfare
Service at Edgewood Arsenal. Md.
His brother Claggett, who has been
with Bob Barnett at Indian Greek,
Miami Beach, has gone to Boca
Ration, where Tommy Armour is
the pro.
Wood Has Hip Ailment.
That much publicized back in
jury Of Craig Wood, the National
Open champ, was not a sacra lilac
condition, according to Ralph
AioNI' oloOkIyn neWSpaperman, who |
stopped here last week on his way
South to interview Craig. It seems
that Wood had hip joint trouble,
instead Of sacra lilac trouble. ac- |
cording to frost.
Congressional Country Club mem
bers will compete in their usual
club Journeys this year, but under
q schedule calling for prizes in De-
tense bonds and stamps. The club |
Golf Committee has recommended |
that prize payoffs be made in this
which Is sure to be O. K.
With the membership. The Womens
District Golf Association also is |
planning to give Defense fund saw
1ngs as prizes.
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