Evening star., 1948-04-28
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but this years field is one of the
+ best. in years. The PGA met It's
obligations in players, but some
thing still has to be done about
the dates Most Of the astern events
have priority on dates over Wash
ington because they are long-estab-
liShed tournaments. and thus it may
be a real problem to satisfy every
body next year.
Tournament committee members
had until tonight to take out rain
insurance for Saturday and Sum
day, the last two days Of the tour
nament and the days the sponsors
hope to get back most of their $12,-
500 prize money, the 81 500 for to-
days clinic and about $4,000 in ex-
penses.
PGA Tournament Bureau Chair
man George Schneiter, who arrived
here yesterday after leading the
Nation in qualifying for the Ma
tional PGA in Salt Lake City on
Monday, was mighty disappointed
over the weather outlook after lin
ing up the best field In his tenure
of office.
IT'S very seldom that we get
Hogan, Demaret, Mangrum and
Locke in the same tournament, )"
Schneiter said, "in fact we didn't
promise Hogan, he came on his own.
In addition you have Worsham, Fer
rier and most of the leading money
winners. It's the greatest Held YOU
could hope for" -
An unexpected arrival yesterday
was the National Amateur champion,
Skee Riegel of Upper Darby, Pa It
will be one of the first meetings OF
the season for Riegel and Frank
Stranahan, who is making this his
last stop before playing in the Brit
ish Amateur. Stranahan was a
f1nalist in England last year.
Pairings made by Schneiter and
his committee disclose dream
threesome" of Hogan, Worsham and
Mangrum for lao tomorrow and
1921 on Friday. Demaret, Ed Fur
gol and Chandler Harper play at
1:12 tomorrow and 1908 Friday with
Ferrier Locke and Cary Middlecoff
at 2:36 and 1927 the first two days.
First nationally known player off
the tee tomorrow will be George
Fazio. the eX-Canadian Open cham
pion, in a threesome with Stranahan
and KY Laffoon.
Hamilton Represents PC Club.
NOTES-Bob Hamilton, the 1914
PGA titlist, will represent Prince
Georges on the tournament circuit
through May l. 1949. Hamilton will
carry the clubs name and will line
up a field for next years event. . =.
Gov. Lane of Maryland will make
the presentation Sunday afternoon,
about 5 o'clock :. Skip Alexander,
who tied for second last year, ar
rived late last night and begged
out of the clinic as he wanted to
play a full afternoon practice round
today. Charlie Kimmell, the fell
low who makes those beautiful num-
bers on the scoreboard faster than
the average persons handwriting,
checked in with his multicolored
pencils. Spec Hammond, the
PGA's representative last year, is
on hand representing a golf firm.
The PGA estimates that 81 per
cent of the spectators at tourna-
ment are golfers and that the other
13 per cent will be golfers soon after
the pros leave town. Schneiter
said there is no possible chance
that Locke will be admitted to the
PGA championship. AS member
of the South African PGA he is
eligible to join the National but
has not done so, Schneiter said.
The PGA ruling is that visitors
from, foreign countries" may COM
pete. but Locke no longer is re-
garded as a visitor . Unless the
rain makes local rules necessary be-
cause of water in the fairways
summer rules will be played
| throughout.