Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1931, Page 45

STRANGE COURSES NEEDED FOR TEST Maryland State Association Hit by Critics for Its Low Allowances. BY WALTER B. McCALLUM. OW that the Maryland State it Golf Association has, as| the boys say, “stuck its neck out” by issuing a Jhandicap list of amateur golfers onnected with clubs affiliated with the association, the critics are getting busy attempting to shoot the handicap list full of hcles, leveling their artillery at the ratings of the asscciation and generally secking to find out why so many men connected with Maryland clubs have been given | such low handicaps. Speaking generally, it is our view | that the handicaps of the State as-| sociation are too low, and to go a step further, that the handicaps of many of-the members of clubs around Washington are too low. Such men as Leroy Sasscer, Dr. Larry Otell, Alex napp, and ‘Frank Roesch all are fine golfers. So are John Shorey, Miller B. Stevinson and Harry Pitt. But can any of them play consistently to & | handicap of one stroke? We do not think so. It seems,that there are such things as courtesy handicaps, given to some players because they have had veral low Tounds, which are not a true indication of their resl game. If there is one man around Washington | who plays closer to his true handicap | than any other we believe Miller | Stevinson 4s that man. And Stevinson is rated at scratch at Columbia. He lays fairly close to scratch golf at lumbia, where the par of the course is 170, and Stevinson has the bulge over most of the others because he saves all his score cards and can pro- duce them at any time. AT we are getting at is that when any golf organization attempts to produce .a list of handicap ratings bas>d on Scores made over the competitor's home course, they are more than apt to be very misleading. Miny y their own golf course very ut are out at sea on a course ‘which they do not know so thoroughly. ‘The scores made in the invitation strange course. ‘Which is one reason we believe hand. are Kidwell is the new chairman oimrth;’oolr Committee of the Indian Spring Golf Club. Kidwell has been chosen to head the Golf Committee to succeed George W. McCarter, who has held the post of Golf Committee chair- man for the past two years, The new chatrman will Handle the details of the forthcoming invitation tourney of the club, to be held the third week in May. Byrlm Simpich has been retained as chairman of the Greens Committee and Fred Walen has been reappointed to the chairmanship of the House Committee. James V. Brownell, who also is captain of the golf team, heads the Member- ship Commit end W. N. Jackson is chairman of the Entertainment Com- r visiting golf profes- sional hes learned of the skill and abllity of Fred McLeod in a gale of wind. Jack White, professional at the Stockbridge Club of Stockbridge. Mass., has been visiting in Washington for a few days and plaved yesterdav at Co- Iumbia with Fred McLeod. The little “doctor ” es some of his friends cal him. knocked the ball around the Co- | lumbia layout in 72 strokes, despite a high wind snd Jow temperature. p'ay- inz with White, Norman Frost and Fred Tov . One_of ‘the, high spots of the game was Frosi’s birdie 3 on the eleventh hole, where PFrost stuk a full brrssie shot into the teeth of the wind thres feet from the hole and holed the putt. McLeod was back in 3 strokes, which is one better than the correct par_ for nine nowadays, with the eleventh hole rated as » par 5 into-the wind and the seventeenth s par 3, played from the lower tee to a temporary green. It won't be long before most of the professionals are playing Wwith steel- shafted irons, according to A. B. Thorn, pro at the Woodmont Country Club, who was one of the first of the local mentors to go to steel. Freddie McLeod has been playing with a set of stes shafted irons for several weeks and is playing as well as ke ever did. Thorn says while some of the pros have gone to steel in all their clubs. Bob Barneit of Cheyy Chase is one of those who do not believe in steel end declares that | sooner or Jater those pros who have gone to steel will come back to hickory hafts. the average of the player's best scores and par be taken as his true handicap, we then come into the realm of courtesy handicapping. 'HE whole business of handicapping this year is inextricably bound up with the new qualifying system to be used for the national amateur championship by the United States Golf Association. This is the s:ctional qualification system, and it is now cer- tain that some time next Summer either Columbia or Five Farms will be chosen for the sectional qualifying tests in this section. The handicap limit for players eligible to compete in the sec- tional test is 3 strokes, and naturally BY R. D. THOMAS. LL the pennant talk in the Dis- [\ trict League has bren about the King Pin, Temple and Hyattsville teams, but what bout Rendezvous? Tad Howard's team Js in fourth place, but it has one strong dvantage over the others. It has lost five fewer games than Temple and King G u this standing: % 27 26 w. . 42 . 40 . 3 21 . 36 22 Rendezvous has three postponed matches to roll, and they come at a me when the team is atingle with am- bition. They caught up on one post- 'ment last nigat when they waite- ished the Blicks. The other delayed pattles will be with Cornell's Lunch, | eyer Davis and King Pin. It's & cinch that Mag Wood, Carroll | Daly, Al Fischer, Al Work, Red Morgan nd Jack Whalen will win a large por- on of the nine games and with their present frame of mind would surprise nobody by taking all. In that event they would be in the center of the pen- nant strife. THE Rendezvous bowlers have in | abundance a quality the champion | King Pins seem to be losing—spirit. | Perhaps the champlons have become | slightly cailous to victory. At any rate, they're not clicking. n Wolsten- holme seems to have lost interest almost completely, at the worst time poesibe for his team. OF Al Work. counted out annually | topnote carries on just the same and of late has been a great an- noyance to District League foemen. His Bowling Tonight RENDEZVOUS. District League-—Rendezvous vs. Heeht Co. LUCKY STRIKE. | come & wre » | ered that soon will be released to its THE EVENING ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, 'D. PROS CARRY GAME 10 NANY NATIONS Jaunts by U. S. Links Stars Do Much to Plant Sport in Foreign Lands. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. \HICAGO, March 13.—“Some day, and I expect it.to be within my lifetime, there will be a half dozen coun- tries competing in the Ryder Cup matches instead of just the United | States and Great Britain,” de- clares Charles Hall, president of the Professional Gclfers’ Associa- tion, Hall had come up.from Birmingham and Jack Mackie from New York to| mest with Alex Pirle and Albert Gates in a discussion of P. G. A. affairs and the awarding of the annual association championship. ‘Whenever you get several profession- als together the conversation always will drift to the playing end of the game and eventually to Bob Jones, for whom every veteran pro has a sincere regard. ~ Game Spreading Fast. “You have little idea of the growth of golf throughout the world,” contin- ued Hall. “We make much of its de- velopment and popularity here in the United States, but it is relatively the same the world over. The export of golf equipment to Japan and Argentina is tremendous and an accurate barometer as to the growth of the sport. In Japan it is becoming tremendously popular and it is one game that does not handicap the Japanese because of his size. “Golf also is enjoyed in Germany, Sweden and Italy,” sald Hall, “although we do not realize it so much, because the continental countries obtain most of their equipment from Great Britain. But within 10 years or so all of those countries and perhaps others will have developed enough good players to be interested in competing for the Ryder Cup, and there is no reason why they cannot be admitted to the international competition.” Right or wrong in his conjectures, Hall has an idea. Pros’ Tours Help. The tours of Walter Hagen, Joe Kirk- | wood, Bob. Cruickshank and Bill Mehl- | horn through the Orient has done much | to stimulate golf in the Far East and | their hegiras were followed by an in- creased demand for golf equipment .in Japan and other countries. Just as Vardon, Ray and other Brit- ons were the apostles of golf in Amer= ica, so are the professionals of the United States now the game into new ¥ ‘The value of motion pictures as an instructive medium in golf then was Eosadon of high-speed pictures of 'ardon, Jones and Miss Joyce Weth- members. Jack Mackie summarized the subject very well with the remark that “It is impossible to film courage.” May Change Competition. ‘The P. G. A. Committee likely will make & slight change in the competition e the two vacant places on the United States Ryder Cup team that plays Great Britain in Columbus June 26 and 27. Fourteen professionals are eligible for the competition, but instead of having the entire group play 72 holes, a certain number of high scorers will drop out at the end rounds and the others will then finish the remaining 36 holes. recent 412 set was one of the finest of and timely. The other night he shot 20 boxes without a mark, but four less than Hyattsville.| tainly ENE ARCHER, a member of the Columbia staff, fears all the luck has gone out of his life, at least for a spell. In a recent match with Jack Whalen and Lon Krauss, Gene rolled a game of 142 and Whalen shot 143, He started another string with a doubleheader strike ard the outlook was rosy until Krauss made a triple, Prancis Stan, who wrote a lot of bowling this Winter, but lately has be. estling “‘ex; " has been taught a bag of tricks by Joe Turner's growl-and-grimace experts and been Capital League—Meyer Davis vs. | Domdera & Co. ¥8. Goldsmitn & ng Co. vs. J Sieine: ¥ Jiahn va. Bisiems Wi Vo, 3. "Limon. Baivatore B srown. ARCADIA. ullding Contractors’ Lea lm&lfl Art Marbie, '0“&0 . 1V, Columbia Band & [Butcher ludson Doughert; &' West vs. dohn P. Evans, Lake George A Fuller No: 3, A. W. Lee vs. Ty Asbestos, F. T. MeDermott ve. Chiaties . ; HYATTSVILLE ARCADE. Georges League. Section 1— s, Buburban Motor o8 \—Lapiap Ince Georses Lo CITY POST OFFICE. City Post Office League—Incepradents v, failing, Parcel Post vs. Local 140. ROCKVILLE. ockville League—Chevrolet vs. Pire De- ment. MOUNT RAINIER. Regularly wear. Mount Rainer %fié’;fl A—Riverdale onfectionery vs. s BPitiaburan mhlc department. He applied a f White Peather chin lock on Gus Chinn who retaliated with a choke and double-choke. Now Stan will stick to “reporting” with the typewriter. The King Pin and Meyer Davis teams represent Meyer Davis pin plants, but have no family affection. Last night the Davis quint, with Hokie Smith leading the attack, won three games from the King Pins and dropped them to third place. Hokle shot 410. C., "FRIDAY, MARCH - 13,7 1931. \GETS BIG GOLF TOURNEY Virginia Beach Will Be Scene of Women’s Southern Event. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., March 13.— Announcement has been made that the twentieth annual tournament of the Women's Southern Golf Association will be held at Virginia Beach, Va. the week of June 8. ‘The_ announcement has come from | Mrs. Willard P. Sullivan of Suffolk, Va., secretary and treasurer of the or- ganization. The Cavalier Hotel will be official headquarters for the tournament. RADIO TUBES Most All Numbers 27¢ PHILMORE CRYSTAL RADIO 99¢ RECORD SWIMMER ILL Helene Madison Has “Flu,” but Is Not Considered in Danges. SEATTLE, March 13 (#).—The holder of more swimming records than any other woman in the world, Helenc Madi- son, was in a hospital here today suffer- ing from an influenza attack. She was running a slight temperature, but was not considered in danger. 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They won the championship, 3 and 2, but it was Willie and his course- acorchin{ nihe-hole 30, six under pat, who took the spotlight for the vietory over Gene Sarazen and Johnny Farrell. MacFarlane and Cox took first money of $750 each and a quarter share of approximately $1,500 gate receipts at their 18-hole play-off match. The losers gained $500 each and equal share of the gate. MacFarlane copped a four-hole lead as ‘he made the turn of the 18-hole play-cff amid a shower of birdies and an_eagle 3 at the seventh. The Winter golfing caravan left to- day for the Biltmore course at Cor: Gables, where a pro-amateur match play tournament bridges the one-day play-off and TALK TIRE PAINT CHOICE OF COLORS $1 29zal Quarts, 35c Hslf Gal., 65¢ “OLYMPIC” D.’C. 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