Evening star., 1942-05-15
Golf for Army Relief
Fund Gets Support
OF War Office
Mccarthy Put in Charge
Of Promotion; Stor Cup
Meet Entries Close

Ray Mccarthy, who for years has
been doing an outstanding job as
sports promoter for Florida's East
Coast, specializing in big golf tour
naments, Is in town in connection
with plans for raising several mil
lion dollars for Army Emergency Re-
lief. Ray is working with Army au-
thorities on plans to raise part of
the money through sports. One Of
the features of the sports program
will be baseball game between the
Mats and the Yankees.
Ray hopes golf can contribute
quite chunk Of coin to Army Emer-
gency Relief by staging tournaments
with funds to go to the worthy
cause. I'VE have before us the pur-
pose OF providing immediate finan-
cial relief for widows and relatives
Of men Of the Army who lose their
lives" said affable Ray. Sometimes
there Is lengthy lapse between the
time death or sickness strikes, and
the relatives may be in a financial
trouble. 1t is to bridge this gap that
we are asking Americans to contrib
ute to the Army Emergency Relief.
McCarthy's headquarters are at the
War Department and the organiza-
ton has the support Of the Army, in
every sense of the word, Ray says.
Mccarthy isn't optimistic about
the Florida links schedule next win
ter or the pro tourney slate. Prob
ably most Of the topnotchers will be
in the service by next winter, and
with transportation problems as they
are, it's doubtful if there will be a
winter schedule as we have known
it in past years"
Star Event Entries Close Today.
Entries closed today for the Glass
A tourney for The Evening Star
trophies, to be held Tuesday at Ken
wood. The Class A event is open
to women with handicaps of 18 or
less. Glass B players, with handi-
caps over 18, will compete a week
from today at Kenwood. Entries
in this class close Monday. Major
prizes will be in War bonds, to be
awarded by The Evening Star. with
other prizes to be donated by the
Women's District Golf Association.
Ed Dudley, president of the Pro-
fessional Golfers Association, was at
his Philadelphia home today with a
promise to come back to the Capital
for more golf. Ed has been invited
to attend the Middle Atlantic P. G..
A. meeting at Baltimore June l. and
probably will speak at that gather
ing. He played a couple of rounds
of golf during two-day visit to the
Capital.
Only the possibility of a second
place tie was at stake today as the
Schoolboys resumed their matches at
four courses. Roosevelt, which has
won the Dawes Cup, met Western
at Washington.
Main interest centered in the Ana
costia-Tech match at Army Navy,
and the Wilson Central match at
Woodmont. Wilson has lost two
matches. while Anacostia has lost
three. The latter team figures Will
son will lose to Roosevelt again next
week. and if Anacostia wins its re-
naming matches, Anacostia and
Wilson will tie for second place.
Women May Use Winter Rules.
A radical change in handicapping
for members of the Womens District
Golf Association was announced to-
day by Mrs Walter L. Weible. prexy
Of the organization. Women now
may use scores made on courses
using winter rules for handicaps,
Mrs. Weible announced.
Previously only scores made under
summer rules could be used for ham
dicap purposes. The change has
been made necessary, Mrs. Weible
said, because many courses still are
using winter rules in the middle of
spring, long after summer rules gen.
orally are in effect. The fairwayS
have been slow to become grass COW
cred this year by reason OF lack
of rain,