Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-05

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Standifer Plays in Downpour.
Standfer, the District champion,
yesterday, playing with B. F. Nudge.
jr, of Chicago, was out in the worst
of the downpour and incurred sew
eral penalty strokes due to the water
in hazards and soggy fairways -,
Standifier topped his tee shot at the
long first hole, was in the rough
short of the green and wound up
with discouraging 6. At the fifth
his club slipped from his hands and
he took another 6. while at the
eighth, a two-Shot affair OF $50 yards'
Standifer was in bunker on mis-
for lifting and took Z. A at the
ninth put him out in As, with no
chance TO qualify.
He played the tenth well, nearly
getting 8 at this hard hole over
a green covered with water. At the
eleventh. the longest hole on the
course, Standifer's third shot was
buried in a bunker and he finally
reached the green in s, getting
down in s. He had another tragic
hole at the twelfth, Where ne was
bunkered from the tee, dropped
out of water in the hazard, pitched
or the green and then took three
puts for 8.
Short of the green at the seven.
teenth in 2. after a par bs at me he
seventeenth in and finished with
s ON the eighteenth for OF 80
and total of 81. He had an "a
Saturday.
Bra.sie Falls Whitlatch.
Whitlatch. District champion In 1870,
was around in Sc yesterday. He had an
81 Saturday. Whitlatch had story o,
half missed braSSie shots under played
in the heavy going and Of puts that
trimmed the cup, but would not stay
down. He was playing good goii. put
was not getting the breaks even IN the
slightest degree. ..
were getting home in 2, through the
driving rain was followed by three puts
on the second for another 8 and an
underplayed second, the thlrd resuil'hs
in still another. Whitlatch got :
ON the fourth, on the hfth, ana
his pitch shot to the sixth hit on the
edge of the green and rolled back INTO
a tran from which he trimmed his CHIP
shot and again trimmed the putt Tor
a four.
at the eighth, due to a pushed sec
ond shot and three puts. and >
on the ninth for a total of AZ on the
first nine.
A on the tenth. where he nearly
at the long eleventh. where ne
topped his tee shot. He took puts
on the short twelfth in a torrential
shower, and on the next, Wnere ms
second shot kicked into a trap. HIS
second shot to the fourteenth was
seain underplayed, and he took
g. followed by 8 on the short SIX
teenth. His putt for a at the sew
enteenth struck the cup and again
stayed out. while he half missed ms
second shot at the eighteenth. was on
in and barely again missed o. ZOE
an in total of A.
Dunphy Comes Close.
Dunphy had an SO yesterday. ADDED
to his 81 of Saturday, just three shots
the driving rain, started him OF
wrong, but he did not have any more
serious trouble until the fifteenth hole
where, after a good tee shot, ne un-
derplayed his mashie shot and was
trapped short of the green taxing
s.
He missed a five-foot putt for 4
at the seventeenth. and trimmed the
cup for another 4 at the eighteenth.
Dunphy left tonight for Canada on
q shooting trip.
Guilford, Old Man Phlegmattc him
self, did not even crack a smile when
he sank a 10-inch putt for mis- caro-
of TO- He should be ranked on ms
performance as among the greatest
2 reputation as one of the longest
drivers, and the intermediate shots
don't count for much when a man can
drive and putt as Guilford did yes
terday. Jesse played the major part
of his round in the same rain that
demoralized the shorter hitters. ana
he gave the huge gallery which FOL.
lowed him a smile as his putt for 3
at the long seventeenth dropped In
the bottom of the cup. That was the
only time Jesse unloosened his face.
Perhaps he will do better for the gal
lery Saturday. If he plays every round
as well as he did yesterday. Jesse
took just twenty-eight' puts in his
record romp.
If the driving rain bothered the
husky Rostonian he did not show 1t.
Just imagine his card. Seven threes
over one Of the stiffest courses in the
country. playing. in the teeth of
sleety driving rainstorm just OF the
bay, tinged with the chill Of the New
foundland icebergs.
There are but three one-shot holes
on this course, yet Jesse was getting
such prodigious distance Off the tee
and putting so beautifully that it