Evening star., 1942-04-09
Top Line-ups Of 1941
In Stars Tourney
Gain Strength
,1S Holes Of Ploy Ater
Work Made Possible
By War Saving Time
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

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Burning the midnight oil in a
successful attempt to achieve order
out of seeming chaos among the
Government agencies which have
entered the match-play golf cham
pionship, sponsored for the fifth
consecutive year by The Evening
Star, Paul Carey, prexy of the Fed
eral linksmen, came up today with
a prediction that this years scrap
for the match play team is due to
be the hottest on record Reasons
for this are manifold, Carey says.
Among them are the facts that
several of the top teams have
been strengthened; the loop may
be limited to u teams in each
class, with six in each of four
sections, thus COMPRISING the best
material into fewer teams, and that
Glass B, with Patent Office, 1941
champions, out of the list this year,
is sure to see a closer race.
Swamped With Entries.
Right now Carey is swamped with
entries in the tourney. He has IL
definite entries in Glass A and six
with a question mark after them,
the question mark representing
doubt as to whether the agencies in
volved can get together sufficient
links strength to make a showing
He also has nine definite entries in
Glass A, with three more probable.
Aim of the president of the Fed
eral Golf Association, who also
will act as director of The Star
tourney, is to hold the teams in
each class down to u, although he
admits he may not be able to do
this because so many teams, some
of them new outfits, are clamoring
for action. This would, he says, split
each class into two sections with
six teams in each section, and would
make possible shorter playoff than
the three match round robin affair
heretofore held at the end of the
season.
Carey wants the schedule to start
around the end of April and run
through May and part of June, with
the entire tourney to be completed
by the end of June. This year Treas
ury, which had two teams entered
in 1941, will have only one, but this
one will be formidable outfit, and
might loom as the one to lick.
In George Voigt alone Treasury
has a club swinger who can account
for flock of winning points. George
won everything in sight when he
played amateur golf around Wash
ington IA years ago and he still
packs as much punch as any simon
pure we have seen anywhere. In
addition to Voigt the following have
been nominated for the Treasury
team: Bernie Hallock, E. M. Schafer
and John R. Miller.
War To Have Strong Team.
War Department will come up
with another strong outfit, COM
posed of Jock Olmstead, the Indian
Spring star; COL Kenneth Buchan-
an, Kenneth M. Skaggs, long-hit-
ting R. F. Alexander, and 1t. A. E.
Voigt. Nor will Government Printing
Office, champs in 1941 and 1889,
lack punch. They'll still have that
potent bunch of men who so con-
vincingly grabbed the crown last
year in the playoffs at Burning Tree.
It's well balanced outfit, that team
composed of Joe Balestri, AL Schnei-
der, Bill Lawrence and Clarence E.
Putting) Purdy, and without ques-
ton they'll be in the scrap right
down to the final putt
Best part of the coming tourney
is that with war saving time the
men can put in full day at the
office and still play 18 holes. Those
May and June days will be long in
hours of sunlight, and they can play
until around $50.
Carey expects to have the match
play schedule ready within a week,
for publication shortly before the
opening match. Carev has been
advised that Cliff Spencer, former
Beaver Dam and East Potomac
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Yard and may be eligible to play
in the match play series and also in
Government medal play tourney.
If Cliff enters these affairs as a
representative of the Navy Yard or
another branch of Navy all alone
he can account for flock of points.
Outside of George Voigt there isn't
h0r,ratitor
along as fast over any golf course as
Spencer.
Nor is there any question about
the pro angle in the Federal golf
tourney. Long ago the powers that
be in Government golf set down as
a guiding principle that pro could
play in their Journeys. Jack Harris,
present individual Government
champion, is golf pro-
SchoOlboys Play Tomorrow.
Ten schoolboy links teams will
move into action again tomorrow in
a resumption of the matches for
the Dawes Trophy among the public
high schools and the met" title
among the high and prep schools in
and out of Washington. Here is
tomorrow's schedule: Coolidge VS.
Tech at Kenwood, Roosevelt VS..
Anacostia at Congressional, Western
VS.. Central at Bannockburn, Bethes-
da VS.. Dewitt at Woodmont, Gonzaga
VS.. St. Adams at Washington.
Mrs. B. L. Braun and Mrs. j. Y
York tied with net AIS in the open
ing tourney of the year for Army
Navy Country Club feminine golfers
Mrs. Carter Magruder, tournament
chairman of the Women's District
Golf Association, was third with net
43. Tied for fourth were Mrs. A. c.
Olney, Mrs. W. A. Macintosh and
Mrs. r. T. Schlossberg with net AS
Women of the service club have
transferred their club events from
Eridou to IXyaIpocdou ond oil r,ri1oc