Evening star., 1942-11-20
Buy Stamp for Each
Round, Suggested
For Next Year
D. G. Links Associations
So Far Have Turned In
$500 in Sovinqs
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

ny VAA4En MCCALLUM.
Colt around Washington has done
q fairly good job OF helping to pro-
vide the sinews of war by selling
War bonds and stamps, although it
will probably do better next year If
there is any competitive golf. Re-
ports to the United States Golf
Association, which has asked that
all links associations compile statis-
tics on aid in the war effort will
show that something around ST.
500 has been spent this year by the
golf associations alone in purchase
OF stamps and bonds. Toss in the
purchase of the same by the in
dividual clubs and you'll have
fairly impressive figure. And add
to the total the $4,000 raised by
the benefit exhibition match at Co.
1umbia last month and it will be
better.
Here IS the way the money has
been raised by the associations op-
grating In this territory: Spent by
the Women's District Golf Asocia-
eon, about $1,100; by the Maryland
State Golf Association and the Mid
die Atlantic PGA, 81 ,366.5O, of which
t712 was contributed by Washington
tournaments; raised by the Dis
trict Golf Ass ;ation in it's buy
stamp" tourns. hts held on five
Sundays this yec--, about $500.
Complete Rer, Not In.
Complete reports ON the Is
member clubs of the L.@trict asso-
citation are not yet in. Two have
reported total sales of $50 and $40,
which isn't much and indicates the
total won't reach the minimum goal
Of $1,000 estimated last winter as the
goal of the District association. But
there was little genuine effort at all
by the clubs to put over this buy a
stamp" drive, and toward the end
Of the season it languished when it
might have been pushed to the
limit. The stake was little enough.
Each player was asked to buy a
war stamp, little more than the
price of bottle of beer.
The women golfers this year gave
prizes almost exclusively in stamps
and bonds. There were some mer-
chandise prizes but they totalled
only a small proportion in cost of
the total in stamps and bonds. On
the whole they did a good job in
contributing to the sale of the
sineWs of war.
Prizes given out by the Maryland
association and the PGA ranged
from $120 to $l85 for the amateur
pro Journeys. The pros took their
prizes in cash, but the amateurs
were rewarded in stamps and bonds, |
as they should have been. Ken
wood had the biggest such tourney
OF the year, an affair in which $185 !!
was distributed. To the total raised |
by the Maryland State Golf Asso-
citation, according to Vice President |
Keilty, should be added about 81 900,
the amount raised in State tour
neys outside of the amateur-pro af-
fairs, such as the amateur and |
women's championship and other
events.
Secretary Barr expects to have
final figures on the District associa-
ton Journeys within a few days, and
hopes the sale may go over the $500
mark
Should Buy Stamp a Round.
Next year, if tournaments are
held, the solons could do better
job of selling stamps by making
purchase OF stamp a condition of |
playing in the links affairs. Each
competitor should be required to
buy at least one 25-cent stamp in
addition to his entry fee-pros and |
amateurs alike.
In addition every Sunday should |
be designated War stamp day when
every man leaving the first tee at
every private club would buy a
stamp. Then at the end of the year
q real contribution would be made
by golf. It's little enough, tax OF
Is cents round. And any man who
can afford to play golf should be
glad to pay 1t, particularly when he
keeps the stamp.
If man plays SO rounds of golf
year, which is we'll above the
average, he will have bought only
$3.50 worth of stamps, which is
little enough to him as an Individual
But multiply those individuals by
many thousands and you'd have
real contribution. Add the money
raised in tournaments and it would
total quite piece of money. Golf
should be able to justify its place
in the athletic scheme of things by
aiding in big way in this war. 1t
can and should be done next year.
The details can easily be worked
out. Each pro could sell stamps