Evening star., 1942-05-17
Gas X Cards 10 Make
N. D.s Very Popular
Members Of Clubs
Most Golfers Won't Have
Fuel for CosuoI Trips
To Fur-Out Courses
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Getting to the club became the
major business of thousands Of golf
ers around Washington today as the
first week end under the new gaso-
line-rationing schedule found men
who heretofore have been in the
habit of jumping in the buzz-buggy
and free-wheeling few miles think
ing seriously about using bus and
streetcar lines for future trips to
the links.
There's no question that the clubs
most Of them located well out in
the country-will be very hard hit
for golfers are geared to unlimited
use of automobiles and such use is
out, probably for a long time.
But the real meat in the gasless
coconut won't hit the golfers until
next week for most of them had
enough gas in the tank today to get
to the club. BY next week they'll be
running on rationed gas and they'll
have to think more about how to
use IT to the best advantage. It's
as If the country clubs were picked
out as special objects of rationing,
which isn't true, of course. They
simply happen to be geared to pri-
vate automobile transportation and
nothing can be done about it except
by pooling gas and using public
transportation facilities.
Doctors viii Be Popular.
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angles to this gas business, too. Doc
tors. for example. usually take
Wednesday or Thursday afternoon
of for golf. Every club around
town has its quota of doctors who
play golf. The medicos are going to
find themselves popular gents and
a seat in the buzz-buegy of a saw
bones is going to be at a premium,
for the doctors get x cards, or un-
limited gasoline.
Some OF the members of Congress
are In the same boat; those who
registered for x cards. If you know
a Congressman-golfer, you might
cultivate the acquaintance, for they
need exercise outdoors as a relief
from the stint of doing odd Jobs for
constituents.
It's the first time in many wears
that golfers have been unable to
hop in the family car and free
wheel to the club 1t certainly is
going to cut down the volume of
golf. but 1t won't have much effect.
Almost all the clubs have public
transportation lines running by their
doors or close enough.
All the country clubs around town
are prospering nowadays, with full
membership lists in almost every
instance. They'll probably stay that
way, but the mere job of getting to
the club Is going to be a major
headache
Leon Henderson, In case you
didn't know, used to hack his way
around the Washington Golf and
Country Club course Henderson
played the layout in about IS, with
a husky swing that was as apt as
not to sock the ball into a patch of
woods or $50 yards down the
middle. He hasn't time for golf
now.
New Plans for Stamp Sales.
The august United States Golf
Association, committed to a policy
OF furthering the war effort by con-
tributions through golf, comes up
today with couple of good sug-
gestionS for sale of war stamps.
Fred Snite. president of Elmhurst
Country Club of Chicago. suggests
through the U. S. G. A. that each
club designate one trap on its
course as the U. S. o. trap. ANY
man knocking ball into that trap
would buy War stamp and an
other stamp for each shot played in
the trap. Snite is the father of
the courageous youngster who has
lived In an iron lung for several
years.
Harry A. Nash, well-known golf
writer and broadcaster, gets credit
through the u S. G. A. for sug-
gesting that every time a golfer
starts round he should buy War
stamp. In this way they would
purchase between $4,000 900 and
s15,000000 worth of stamps every
year, Nash claims, If golf approx
mates its l94l volume.