Evening star., 1942-07-05
Treasury Tackles FBI,
WPA Battles Aggies
In Final Matches
Women's CBS Tourney,
N, A, Junior, Maryland
Event Scheduled
BY WALTER McCALLUM

Dy WALLER hCIALLUIW.
Government linksmen come to the
end of the long championship trail
Friday at Kenwood and Indian
Spring when the four top teams OF
the Federal departments face each
other with titles at stake. The
twin final rounds in two classes will
wind up the fifth Federal match
play championship sponsored by
The Star. The tourney started late
in April and has just been concluded
IN the preliminary stages leading
up the playoff.
Major interest Centers around the
class A final, where a successor to
Government Printing Office will be
crowned Government match team
champion. Finalists are Treasury
a team which has sprouted fire.
works from the opening match this
year. and Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation, an outfit which has shown
great strength through ability this
year to gather its top men for the
matches.
These men, not available in other
years because of out-of-town as
signments, have catapulted FBI to
the top in section 2 of class A.
Mainstays of the FBI have been
stalwart Tommy Webb, former Co.
lumbia champion; slender Billy
Shea, who won the Middle Atlantic
and District championships in 1888,
and Harold Hair, 194l Washington
Golf and Country Club champ.
Treasury Has Crack Team.
But in meeting Treasury, the FBI
l,ine links trouble. Treasury, one
of Uncle Sans largest depart
ments, has gathered group of
sharpshooting linksmen sure to
rank as one of the great teams OF
all time in The Star tourney.
Topped by Bernie Hallock, the
tall Individual Government champ,
the Treasury team includes such
star linksmen as George j. Voigt, a
few years ago the leading amateur
around town: John R. Miller, for
mer Federal individual champ; E.
Maine Shafer and Dick Jennings,
the battering Texas lad who won
the public links championship last
year.
The match at Kenwood, with the
Federal title hanging in the bal
ance, should be red hot. Anything
can happen, although FBI has been
weakened by the illness of Charley
Beall, one of it's top men.
In class B, the inalists, sched-
uled to play at Indian Spring, are
Works Progress Administration,
newcomer to the championship list
and Agriculture, long favorite to
win in any class.
Big Week for Golf.
One of COLTS busy weeks comes
up this week, with three Journeys
scheduled in addition to the Fed
eral playoffs. Tuesday small field
will compete at Congressional in a
36-hole tourney for the Middle At
lantic junior title, won last year by
Eddie Johnston of Baltimore. We'd
nesday another of those mixed
Scotch foursome affairs will be
staged by the Maryland State Golf
Association at Chevy Chase. This
one undoubtedly will draw field of
100 or more. Friday the feminine
golfers around town will compete at
Washington in the Columbia Broad
casting System tourney.
Three local clubs have entered the
national ringer championship, to
run during July and August
throughout the country with the
Peter Dawson Trophy at stake for
the man with the lowest ringer score
during the SO days of the tourney
Entered in the affairs are members
of Congressional, Kenwood and
Manor. At the latter club, Lee Rit-
ter has gotten away to hot start
with hole in one on the 150-yard
eighth, although the statisticians
working on the ringer tourney figure
out the odds against an ace are
nearly 10000 to /.