Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1929, Page 85

" It’s Business Before Golf for Johnston CHAMPION PLAYS NO MORE THAN AVERAGE LINKSMAN Three Rounds a Week After Working Hours Jimmy’s Usual Schedule—Goes in for Many Sports. Learn Short Game First, His Advice. BY CHANDLER FORMAN. business life is no deterrent to championship golf, in the MINN’EAPOLIS, Minn., September 28.—An active professional or opinion of Harrison R. Johnston, St. Paul investment broker, who now wears the national amateur crown so gracefully. “Jimmy” Johnston’s golfing many niblick wielders who nurse a championship class themselves. career holds inspiration for the secret ambition to clamber into the Johnston spends no more time on the links than does the aver- age golf devotee. He never has flitted about the country playing in tournaments the year round. Jimmy’s season starts about the middle of April, when the grass begins to sprout on Minnesota’s fairways, and continues until the middle of September, when the duck season gets under way. Dur- ing the Winter he practices only occasionally at the indoor schools. After the hunting season Jimmy shifts his sports activities to squash racquets, trapshooting, tobogganning and skating. He is an ardent follower of all forms of Winter sports. During the short Minnesota golf sea- son Johnston plays an average of three times a week and practices a little two or three of the other days. Virtually all his week-day golf is played in the afternoon, after the stock market closes at 1:30 pm, St. Paul time. Jimmy Gives Some Tips. Here is Jimmy's advice to golfers who aspire to better things: “Yearn the short game first. The mashie (Jimmy’s favorite implement) is the club I would recommend for learn- ing the fundamentals of golf. Develop a smooth, orthodox swing, compact and yet as relaxed as possible. Copy the style of some leading professional or amateur. The rest will come with per- sistence and practice—lots of practice.” Johnston believes the average golfer gc.us up much of the pleasure to be ad from the game because he spends round, but he was put out by Jesse Guilford in the quarter-finals He quali- fled in 1922 but lost in the second round. He has failed to qu in only one at- tempt at the national amateur. In 1927 he lost to Bobby Jones in the third round. Last year he was elimi- nated by Phillips Finlay in a hard match, “after losing the qualifying medal to George Voigt by one stroke. In 1927 at Oakmont, Jimmy led the fleld for the first two_days of play in the national open. He is & mem- ber of the executive committee of the United States Golf Association, with Bobby Jones as the only other repre- sentative of the playing stars. He has dominated the Minnesota amateur fleld for years, winning the State amateur title seven consecutive years and the open twice, losing in & play-off this year. He has a charming wife and two children, Harrison R, jr, 5% years ’osld.alnd Janette, 3% years old. He 33. Johnston is & member of five Twin Cities golf clubs—White Bear, Somer- set and Town and Country Clubs of St. Paul and Minikahda and Inter- lachen of Minneapolis. He was made & life honorary member of Minikahda this Fall. He also belongs to the Uni- versity Club, Minnesota Club, Athletic glul; and several shooting clubs of St. aul. (Copyright, 1929, by North Amerlcan News- r Alliance.) too much time playing and too little on the practice grounds. “The golfer who aspires to a first- class game should be willing to sacri- fice a share of his golfing leisure and some immediate pleasure for practice,” the new champion said. “I always have gotten almost as much pleasure out of practicing as in playing. Surely, the player who is unhappy about his game would bring back much of the joy by correcting some of his faults with practice.” Jimmy also mentioned the importance of taking advantage of professional in- struction, especially for the beginner. In enumerating the factors that en- ter into the winning of a champion- ship, Johnston emphasized the element ;7! l::onfldel'lce and the part played by uc! . “‘Confidence, based on the knowledge that you have mastered your clubs, is essential in successful tournament golf,” the 8t. Paul Star said. “Of course, that confidence increases as you gain ex- perience in coping with new situations as they present themselves in matches. Courage is Important. “Then, too, courage or the will to win is all essential when you are up against it in a match. With the odds seemingly overwhelming, sometimes a courageous shot will put you back in the game. (Perhaps Jimmy was think- ing of that eighteenth hole at Pebble Beach in his finals match with Willing, ‘when he stood ankle deep in the Pacific Ocean and made one of the most am: ing recovery shots in the annals competitive golf). “Of course, you have to be lucky to win a championship,” he went on. “In any tournament nowadays, particularly in the national amateur, there are so many fine golfers that luck plays an important part. For you to win, every department of your game must be go- ing well every day of a week of tough matches. “You have to be driving well, playing your irons well and rumm well, or you surely will be eliminated along the way. Then, too, you have to be feeling absolutely fit. It is a lucky situation for any golfer, expert as he may be, to combine all of these things for one week’s play. Even if you win one or two matches when you are not playing your best, luck is ‘a factor, for your opponent must be playing badly to allow you to win.” Master of Push Shot. Johnston is one of the greatest iron players in the game.” He is & master of the “push shots” approach, the most difficult shot to control. 'Jimmy usually lays them dead from within 150 yards of the pin. Johnston not only is a master golfer, but he is one of the finest sportsmen in golf, as attested by the shower of tributes he drew from other stars and golf writers when he won the title. Jimmy's personal charm is such that ‘he captivates the galleries. He is near- 1y 6 feet tall and weighs about 170, He has light hair, blue eyes and a smile that charms. He is soft spoken, mod- est and has a delightful sense of humor. He dresses conservatively, but smartly, and- is partial to grays and greens. It is to Johnston's enthusiastic par- ticipation in nearly every. branch of athletics that one must attribute part of his success in golf. He is a natural athlete and he takes to other forms of athletics as naturally as he picked :1”6 & smooth golf swing while still a Jimmy played foot ball, starred as a base ball pitcher, swam 50 yards in 26% seconds as a member of a prep school team, captained the hockey team at St. Paul's Academy and played later Hotchkiss School. He was a clever amiateur boxer and went in for skiing, trapshooting, tobogganning and sailing during his school days. He and two brothers salled a class B boat for 15 years in the annual regattas of the Inland Lakes Yachting Association. Johnston’s golf career started when he was 12. He caddled for his father at the Lafayette Club and was fasci- nated by the game, Otis George, then professional at the club, recognized the lad’s natural aptitude for the game, taught him the fundamentals and played with him often. Jimmy's father opposed his playing golf to the exclusion of other sports, but the boy developed a sound-game, and in 1916, at 20 years of age, the future national champion was a fin- ished golfer. That year he won the qualifying medal in the State amateur tournament and went to the semi- finals. Then the war came along and Jimmy assigned to an offi- later serving with distinetion overseas and, of course, hav- ing little chance for golf. After the armistice he was taken ill with influ- enza. During his convalescence at Nice | 1a; he got back on the golf links again. He entered the A. E. F. tournament and carried off quall honors. Later he won the interallfed officers’ champion- ship in a tournament at Monte Carlo. Johnston's first championship ‘was won in 1924, when he accomplished one of the most -mulnsenn es in the history of golf to defeat Albert Seckel in the finals of the Western amateur at Hinsdale, Il On the last round the St. Paul star found himself 4 down with five holes to play, a seem- ingly hopeless situation. But when the match was over Jimmy had won the title by virtue of four miraculous birdies and & par on the last five holes. Jimmy played in his first national amateur pionship in 1921 in St. Puuu. He defeated Francis Ouimet on d a D. C, TENNIS STARS 10 SEEK TROPHIES Secretary of State Offers Rewards for Wardman Park Winners. ASHINGTON'S topnotch racket wielders in both the feminine and masculine ranks will contend for the Secretary of State Stimson challenge trophies in the first annual wardman Park Fall invitation tennis tournament, beginning Tuesday after- noon on the Wardman Park Hotel courts. Announcement that the Secretary of State had offered these cups—to be won twice in succession fér permanent pos- session—adds an extra note of color to an event which should bring forth some first class tennis. Clarence Charest, fresh from winning the national veterans’ championship, will head the list of men and will get some stiff competition from Tom Man- gan. Robert Considine, Dooly Mitchell and some 40 others. Frances Krucoff, thrice crowned women's singles champion, will lead off for the ladies. Fourteen invitations have been accepted to date by the fair racketers, including acceptances from Phoebe Moorhead, Josephine Dunham and Mrs. Ruth Martinez, who with Miss Krucoff will make up the seeded contingent in the draw. Charest, Mangan, Considine and Mitchell will be the favorites in the men’s event. Initial play will be held Tuesday. Women will start Thursday morning. On Thursday a special treat will be given the gallery in the appesrance of Gregory Mangan, Georgetown Univer- sity ace, in an exhibition match with ‘This is scheduled for 3 o’clock. The draw will be made today at noon at _the tennis house. Players whose acceptances have been received by the committee include the e Doty Mitehel. - Mifto er Baum, Wil ;m' juchanan, %g Callan, Phil_Daegnan, yle, Richard Edge, Hal co Charest, Thoma B 4 Baker, W. pored, Jurgel, Fo N. Garduer, Moscoe G pard, k Shore, imon, lin m, turtevant, Frank Taylor, D! les, Sidney Willoughby, llan. ve, Byarets a1 . T azier, Mary Det- , Esther Jolley, Ryan, Helen Sinclair, Jennie Turnbull, s and Mrs. George Vest. e Mary Marion We Approximately 200 coaches and M'th school players in Florida attended the eight-day foo tball coaching course offered free by the department of athletics of the University of Florida. HAT would you think if you were laid six stymies of the kind impossible to negotiate in nine holes? u would think that fate had dealt an unkind blow, wouldn’t you. For no golfer, no matter how good_he is, can lay an intentional stymie. If he could do so intentionally, he could put the ball in the hole. = Yet that is exactly what happened to Maj. O. H. Saunders in_the sime-final round of the Army golf championship last week at the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country Club. Pla) against Maj. O. N. Bradley, Saunders was confronted with no fewer than six stymies over a nine- hole stretch. Bradley had no inten- tion of laying them, but the things were there just the same. An all of them were of the kind that takes @ pitched ball to negotiate. Lieut. C. A. of the 1st Crowley Corps Ares, had a great chance to set a new course record for the service club layout last Thursday. He played the first seventeen holes yout in 68 strokes and stood on the eighteenth tee a 4 for a 72. The best previous mark by an amateur golfer is the 75 made recently by Maj. Earl L. Naiden. But Crowley knocked his tee shot into the woods which allel the falrway and holed out he had used a 76 instead of for he hoped. The eighteenth hole at | the service club is a real par 4 of 435 yards, but plays nearer 460, because it is all uphill and the fatrway 18 fairly ting the officers sta- Navy ‘Department and the Naval Academy the Army, Navy and Marine Corps "é‘ifii course in the rubber match of series of three games between these r | tive, scores THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 29, 1929—PART 5. ROESCH SHOOTS 76 Washington Club Champ Off to Excellent Start in Defense of Title. TARTING in defense of his cham- K. Roesch shot | on S I W Club, to lead the qualifiers who elected to play in the medal round on Satur- day instead of Sunday. The qualify- ing round will end today. Other lead- ing scores follow: Erwin P. Hair, 82; P. W. Calfee, 82; O. C. Murray, 85; Ralph 8. Fowler, 86; Comdr. C. T. Lynes, 89. At the same time members are qualifying today for two other trophies, those in a ial division for men with handicaps from 12 to 17 and those over 18. James G. C. Corcoran, who is getting himself quite a reputation as a pinch putter, had no use for his putter on the 300-yard fifth hole at Washington the other day in a game with Charles B. Stewart. Which is by way of saying that “Jimmy” holed his niblick pitch for an eagle deuce. His drive was not 80 good, either, ending behind a cedar tree in the rough at the left. But from that point the courageous Corcoran pitched the ball into the cup. ’ n For many months Clyde B. Asher has | ., been the king pin low scorer in Rotary Club golf tournaments. But ldst Fri- day Asher met his match at Congres- sional in a set-to between Kiwanian golfers and their brethren of the Rotary Club. Asher finished in a tie for third in the low gross competition between the two clubs, and was a member of the losing team, for the Rotarians were able to garner but 5 points to 22 for the Kiwanians. Dr. E. R. Tilley, who is a star golfer at Indian Spring, won the low gross prize with a card of 80, while H. T. Graves was second with 84. ‘Those who tied with Asher at 85 were L. W. Laudick of Rotary and Garrett of Kiwanis. . C. D. German, C. H. Pardoe and R. J. Wise of Kiwanis were all tied at 73 for low net. Gilbert Hahn will match shots with Fulton Brylawski in one semi-final match in the Town and Country Club championship this morning, while Max Wey], the defending title holder, is scheduled to meet Ralph Goldsmith in the other. Indian Spring golfers will play the second and semi-final rounds of thelr club chlmpichshig2 today, while the second round of the Manor Club event also is to be concluded today. —_— e SCHEDULE ADOPTED BY HOCKEY LEAGUE By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 28—The club owners of the National Hockey League, the “big league” of professiol hockey, in semi-annual session tod: adopted the 1929-30 schedule and proved a series of changes in the ing rules designed to speed up the game and produce freer scoring. The season will open November 14, with the following games scheduled Montreal Canadians at Ottawa, New York Rangers vs, Maroons at Montreal, Boston at Detroit, Chicago at Toronto. The New York Americans will open in Ottawa November 16 and Pittsburgh will start at home against the Maroons on the same date. The old off-side rule was changed to read as follows: “The ice shall be divided into three sections known as the defending zone, the neutral zone and the attacking zone. It is permitted to pass the pugk forward by one player to another of the same side in each of these three zones, but it shall not be permitted to pass the puck by & player from one zone to a player of the same side in any other zone unless the player taking the pass crosses the zone line behind the puck.” to Cit; be be. will CHI SIGMA NET TITLE TO BE DECIDED TODAY Chi 8igma sorority tennis honors will be at stake today in the concluding matches of the first annual singles tournament, which opened yesterday afternoon on the Rock Creek Park courts, Eloise Topley, X1 Chapter representa- f a8 6—0, 6—0 victory over Dorothy Colliflower of Lambda_yester- ', | day to enter the semi-finals. Virginia Boyd of Iota was leading Marie Mc- Cn{hmn of Beta, 4—1 in the deciding x| set of & marathon match when dark- ness called a halt. Play will be re- sumed this morning at 11 o'clock at this point. At the same hour this mo , Irene O'Hanlon of Zetas Chapter Harrlet Kimball of Gamma for semi- final place. All of the matches will be played on the Rock Creek Park courts. This afternoon the winners of the morning ‘matches and Miss Topley will battle for the crown. A draw will be made to decide who of the trio of sur- v:.vofl the bye in the afternoon’s play. STRAIGHT OFF. THE TEE officers, The Annapolis men beat the Navy Department golférs during the Summer at Sherwood Forest and a few weeks later the Navy Department of- 3un reversed the vz:culan at Chevy I Seversky to Return Home for Dinner After Competing at Manor Club—Course in Fine Shape for Event Starting Wednesday. enthusiastic golfer, the same day. OR the first time in the history of local golf a tournament is to have in it a flylng competitor, who, in addition to being an is an aviator and airplane constructor, and will fly here %o play golf and fly back to New York for dinner The man is Alexander P. de Seversky of the De SBeversky Aero take part in the tournament. De Seversky will fly a plane from ‘Garden y, Long lsland, to the Manor Club, and will land on the club airdrome near the fifteenth green. He then will play in the qualifying round, and will hop after his round of golf for where he has an engagement for din- ner that evening. Ray F. Carrity, chairman of the Manor Club golf com- mittee, hands us the yarn about De Seversky, with the notation that it may. o Garden City, the hard-working of considerable interest as showing the extent to which aviation aids golf, and even makes it possible to leave Ne: York, play a round of golf, and be back the metropolis in time for dinner. ‘We want our club to be in the best possible shape for the tournament and ‘we want it to be a real test of gol Garrity says. many people take part in the event “We want to have we can, because we want them to know the Manor Club, its facilities and its members. We are now building three additional traps which will be com- pleted for the qualifying rounds of the tournament. The first trap is at the left of the fourteenth green, which will a desirable addition to this hole. It 1 stop the players who really use their heads from playing through the adjacent fairway and approaching to the green f | ning, October 4, ai to mak 1 N B from the left, where there is no trouble for them. The hole, as laid out, should be played on the drive to the right, and then to the center of the green, which makes it difficult. Of course, it will be a lot more difficult with this new trap in place, The other two traps will be on the sixteenth. The first of these will be about 200 yards from the tee to the left to catch all the hooks which are that long. The other trap will be to the right of the green to catch sliced approach shots. With the addition of these two raps on this hole, it will make it a very difficult one and a very interesting one. I “Some months ago, we put two new traps in at the seventh. one to the right to catch the slices and one on the left D ‘3; Corporation of New York and he will be one of the competitors in the Manor Club tournament, which starts on Wednesday. is a Russian of noble birth, an aviator during the war, who lost his leg in aerial combat over the German lines, and has since become a golf enthusiast, notwithstanding his He is a personal friend of Robert H. | %0 ‘Young, vice president of the Manor Club, and has been invited by Young De Seversky physical handicap. catch the hooks. This is & par 3 hole and by reason of the position of these traps, it becomes necessary for one who cannot drive the green to keep the ball absolutely -mlgfl. down the middle, otherwise he is in trouble. “As you know, we are going to have & dinner for our guests on Priday eve- the club. We pro- one of the finest eld in Wash- ington for some time. With this thought in mind, we are doing our best to some of the finest speakers for the occasion. At the pres- ent time, we are in touch with Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, Senator Tydings of Maryland, Senator Walsh of Massa- chusetts, who was recently elected an honorary member of our club, and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. It is quite possible, that, owing to prior engagements we will not be able to get all these speakers, but we have every reason to believe that some of them will be present. E. Brooke Lee, speaker of the House of Delegates of Maryland, will be one of the speakers. Our president, Stanley D. Willis, will be toastmaster. “This dinner is for all of the partici- pants at the tournament, and we hope a goodly number will be present. Our members who do not take part in the golf affair will be accorded the privi- lege of the dinner and their applications will be honored in the order in which they are received. As you know, J. Webb Manning has do- nated s very handsome trophy to be played for annually in our invitation tournament. A replica of this cup will be given to the winner each year, and the original will be on display our clubhouse.” So, we are to gather from what Gar- rity says, that the Manor Club it to out- do itself in this quite vital matter of handling a golf tournament. Certainly, if club spirt and the will to do the right thing mean anything, the Manor Club affair will set & new high mark for the local clubs to shoot at. Entries for the event close tomorrow night with the golf committee and the pairings will be announced in the newspapers of Tuesday. it this OT since 1927, when George Voigt won the District amateur championship at the Indian Spring Club for the second con- secutive time, has such low | scoring been seen in the simon-pure title chase about Washington as was witnessed last week in the champion- ship at Congressional. Registering consistent rounds of 74, 75, 74 and 78 for a total of 301, Miller B. Stevinson of Columbia, a veteran who seems to improve as the years slip by, averaged a stroke over even 755 for the par 73 iayout in nearby Maryland, and thereby fonship pays considerable dividends for steadiness. Stevinson had his rough spots, where the specter of loss of confidence reared its ugly head and threatened to toss him lightly out of the title chase. For example, on the opening round, where the scoring was so spectacular, Stevin- son start with a brace of 6's, against a par of 5, 4. Did he wilt and curl up at this juncture? He did not. He kept on plugging away in characteristic Ste- vinson fashion, and his pluck and skill were rewarded with a splendid 74, in & spot where a lesser man might have gone far up toward the 80 mark. And again, on the final round of the cham- plonship, where Harry Pitt was press- ing him closely, Stevinson took a 7 on the lengthy tenth hole, where & 5 was just good golf. Again he refused to curl up, and, steadying himself for the stretch drive, he came back to par fig- ures with a 3 on the eleventh hole. That Stevinson was the leading golfer of Washington in last week's cham- pionship cannot be denied. Steadiness counts more than brilliance, for Stevin- son did not break 74 in the champion- ship. Pitt had a 72, Roesch did the same score, and Shorey had a 73 in the opening round. Yet Stevinson ‘tended right to his knitting, pounding out 74s and 75s with monotonous regu- larity. Over the final round he knew exactly what Pitt was doing, for the Manor Club ace was playing in front of him, and Stevinson was kept ad- vised as to Pitt's progress. And that Stevinson must take top rank as the best golfer about Wash- ington this year is equally true. To be sure, Pitt beat him in the final of the Chevy Chase tournament, and Pitt also won the Indian Spring event. But Stevinson ddld“ ::tu play “m"édfi," Spring, and al lqrs agree that the 72-hole test is the supreme test of golf. To score four rounds over such a test- course as Congressional, with an average stroke worse than 758 is 8 real howing of consistency. Voigt's 291 at Indian Spring in 1927 is the or that stands out better than Stevinson this year. A very unusual incident occurred on uLe ninth green of the final round, when Pitt was pressing Stevinson y break of the game mark t of closely, and — of th Members of the Washington Golf and Country Club were playing today in the qualifying round for the club cham- plonship and the Birney Cup, which is to players with handicaps from 12 to 17, inclusive. Frank K. Roescl will defend his club title, if he qualifies, ang there isn’t much doubt that he will. | ha y is the last day of play for the ringer cup competition, wg!nh has been in progress throughout the St mer at Washington, and in which Ralph S. Fowler is tied with Erwin P. Hair for first place, both with totals |with of 56. T, ‘Talbot T. Speer, chairman of the golf committee of the Annapolis Roads Club, has appointed the following to serve with him on the committee which will have charge of the two-medal play tournament A‘: t, being arranged for tions are ub"oflm at the club and in h | Pitt hole. Pitt was playing, holed his ball, gi\ u?wummd putt at the hole. and ei ball ap] to be in the middle of the hole until it got within 6 inches of the cup, then veered sharply off to the right and hung on the edge, the ball over the edge of the hole. tt walked up to play his next stroke, when McCallum, who had seen that the ball was moving, called to Pitt, “Oh, Harry, look at the airplane,” and pointed up to the sky where an air- his plane in tt looked up at the looked, the ball fell in icident golf states hut rule apol imilar rule next stroke without appreci delay. Perhaps it saved Pitt a stroke, with and perhaps not. In any event, it was 4 one of fiup'::lnu that occasionally arise in the game and to relate. proved again that. aithough vouth, may | Da ave its brilliant spots, a 72-hole cham- | ¢ Steadiness Decides in Golf, z Victory of Stevinson Shows some years ago at Chevy Chase when | Stevinson was playing John Daley in the final round. Daley’s putt on the fifteenth hung on the very lip of the cup, for the half which would have been obtained had the ball dropped. Stevinson then had a 3-foot putt to win the hole with a 4. Stepping quickly up to his ball, he holed it and with the same stroke of the club, knocked Daley’s ball away, conceding him a 5. Stevinson was perfectly within his rights in conceding Daley his 5 after Stevinson’s ball was in the hole, and | had he hesitated in the concession | lz‘y‘l ball might have dropped in for | e 4. Let Hands, Wrists And Arms Do Work ' BY SOL METZGER. When Tom McNamars, twice | runner-up in the United States open, | was teaching golf he used to make | his pupils swing the club without moving their bodies. In short Tom ‘works on the principle that the golf stroke is a throw through the ball of the clubhead.. This is ac- complished by hands, wrists and arms alone. Most of us into difficulties in stroking the because we are you slowly and try the good sound stunt winy ‘the dfi‘; driving. 8end for it in care of this per and inclose a stamped, ad- 3?-.4 envelope. (Copyright, 1920.) HELEN HICKS LIFTS CANADIAN OPEN TITLE By the Associated Press, ANCASTER, Ont., Seplember 38— Helen Hicks, stocky little player from Hewlett, N. ¥, who represents the In- wood Country Club, todsy won the ot S IS, INQUALIFG LAY T0BID FOR EVENT . S. G. A. Will Be Asked to Bring Tourney Here in 1931 or 1932. . Ten years have elapsed since Washington has been the venue of a natlonal golf title tilt, and overtures are being made in Detroit now to bring the wom- en's national to the Columbia Country Club two years hence, with Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of Columbia acting as spokesman for the club. Mrs. Haynes left Washington for De- troit last Thursday to play in the wom- en’s national over the course of the Oakland Hills Country Club. She took with her the promise that the club will -ufe the womenis championship in 1931 it the United States Golf Asso- clation sees fit to award the event to Columbia. ~The tourney already has been awarded for next year, but so far as is now known, the scene of the 1931 championship has not been decided. Mrs. Haynes intends to bring the claims of Columbia to the attention of the U. B. G. A. officials and is hope- ful that the championship may be awarded to Columbia in 1931, and if not in that year in 1932. Inasmuch as the champlonship rotates between the East and the West and is being held in the West this year and the East next year, it is possible the officials of the golf governing body may defer Columbia’s bid to 1932, which would be a particularly appropriate year for a national titular event in Washing- ton since it is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Geerge Washington and the city named after the first Presi- \HE women's national golf cham- fonship may come to Washing- | 0! dent will be the scene of a great bi-|T., Wo centennial celebration. ‘Wemen’s Golf Develops. Not since 1921 when the national open was won by Jim Barnes at Co- lumbia has Washington seen & big na- tional championship. The women’s na- tional was held at the Chevy Chase Harley of Fall River, Mass. But that was back in the dark ages of golf. In the last decade the women's event twice has gone to a course south of Wash- ington, having been played last year in Virginia Hot Springs and in 1922 at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Mrs, Haynes sald before she left if any as. surance was given that the champion- ship might be played at Columbia in 1931 or 1932 any date in the Fall of the year would be acceptable to the club. She pointed out that the Colum- bla course is in its best condition in May, June and late September and October. The women's national usually is played late in September or early in October, about three weeks after the :m‘l‘;s r‘m'nnteur championship has been ecided. Women's golf in and about Washing- n has gone to greater heights this year than ever before, Part of the newly found enthusiasm can be traced to the driving power and fine organization achieved by Mrs. William S. Corby and her assoclates in the Women's District Golf Assoclation. And part can be traced wh the inln;relsins number of women who are playing golf, and good golf. Women's golf about the Capital is becoming a big factor on the sport cal- endar. What better consummation could there be to the present enthusiasm for the game than the holding of the wom- :‘n's x;nllunnl here two or three years ence? Halloween Cup Play On. Senfor golfers of the Chevy Chase Club were to start match play today for the Halloween Cup, donated to the as- sociation by a Washington jewelry firm, with dthe following pairings for the first round: Admiral M, M. Taylor (4) vs. . Mason (scratch), Gen. R. H. (scratch) vs. Hugh M. Southgate (6), ‘Gen. Charles G. Treat (3) vs. William H. Tavioe (15), P. 8. Ridsdale (scratch) vs. Walter G. Peter (4), Gen, Frank R. Keefer (10) v. G. B. Christian, jr. (10), Capt. Chester Wells (I vs. H. D. Crampton (11), E. 3. Talcott (1) vs_ Gen. John A. Hull (I1), Maj. H. L. Rice (7) vs. Charles V. Wheeler (11); 4 Frailey (9) 'va. Arlon V. Cushman_(13), Dr. G. Brown Miller (8) vs. Harry A. Gillis (1), Gen. D. C. Shanks (12)_vs. Benjamin Miller {6, F. M. Savage (20) vs. Col. Jo Wheeler' (13), Gen, H. P. L. Marlatt (i1). Gen. W. Ve Fulton Lewls (35), E. 8. am F. Ham (1), W. C. Mendenhall 9 vs. L. 0. Cameron (9, Admiral R. H. Stanford (1) vs. W. G. Brantley (13). G. | : I s. ‘Col. C. B. Di (i2), Whitman Cross (13) vs. Ben § Mino, » Admiral W. H. Standley (4) va. | C. Phillips' Hill (12), Dr. J. H. Bryan (18) v&. E. H. Loftus (1. H. L.'Rust (8, vs. Ad- | miral R H. Jackson (i6). Gen. Harry Ras- | lor (5) ‘vs. . O. Wagenhorst (1), Col. E Clifford (10) ‘vs. Carl Keierstein ' (14), W. C..Ravenal (14) vs. Jokn C. Letts (11). This tourney will end the organized senior golf activities for the year. “The | Dr. Willlam H. Allen Columbia Seeks Women’s National 'STANDARDS NETMEN TAKE GX CHAMPIONS ‘The Standards team, champlon of the Suburban Tennis League, will engage ‘Treasury, Departmental League title- holder, this afternoon on the Rock Creek courts at 2 o'clock as play in the annual inter-league team net champion- ships continues. The winner will engage Henry Park, Public Parks League stand- ard bearer, next Sunday in the final match. The championships are spon- sored by the Washington Tennis As- sociation. In opening matches yesterday Stand- ards eliminated = the Capital City League representative, comprising mem- bers of the Edgewood and Woodridge Clubs, 4 to 3, and Monument racketers cleaned up with the Bankers League entry, made up of Metropolitan and Merchants players, Standards were offered stubborn op- position by the Capital City netment, l!:xt the Monument team had easy sail- g Summaries: Public Parks Leacue, Singles—Staubley ( lan. 60, 6-2: W Callan, 61, 64 W feated Winsiead. 6—1. 6-0. ubles—Staubley and Garnett (P. P.) de- feated K. Callan and H. Callan, 68, 6--0. 7-5: Love and Wallenstein (P. P.) defeated Winstead u 6-1. 6 3 Bankers' Lea; d_Burch. 6-1. 6—4; Gould and dge (P. P.) defeated H._Smith and Rosaty. 60, 6-1; Silva an1 Welsh (P. P.) defeated Seay and ‘Shanks, 62, Suburban League. 1 Bingles—Judd 8 &S Hubins (6. 65 acieated ub: 6. ; Robbins (C. C.) defeated Hub- bard, 64, 63 v Doubles——Judd and Thomas (S.)_ defeated 5 . 6-3. 6-3; Cragoe us C, —3: Nicholas and Kranauer (C. C.) defeat- ed Burch and Brown, 6—4, 7—9, 6—4. DICK STRIKES OIL. One of base ball's veteran perform- !ers, Dick Hoblitzell, who managed and played first fer Charlotte the past sea- son, is back in West Virginia looking over some of the family estate where oil recently was struck. bers for their courtesy and their gen- erous. interest,” an announcement said. “We desire to express a greatful ap- preciation of the unfailing support and 4 | co-operation which has been given us.” The committee in charge of the senior golf_affairs, is composed of Gen. David C. Shanks, U. S. A., retired, chairman; Dr. G. Brown Miller, and Admiral R, H. Club in 1908 and was won by Katherine | committee desires to thank our mem- | Jackson. . \ OF of a cigar is the smoking . How it smokes . . . Wm. Penn smokes with Long Ash . . . 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