Evening star., 1923-10-30
LEO DIEGEL LEADS FIELD
OF EIGHTEEN AMATEURS
AND PROS IN D. C.

Bettering MS morning score by nine
strokes, Leo Diegel. professional
of eighteen amateur and professional
golfers in the first days play of the
District open championship at the
Columbia Country Club yesterday
Walter r: Tuckerman. the District
amateur champion, finished in second
place at the end of the first day
with card Of 160, three shots be-
hind Diegel. while Dave Thomson.
professional at the Washington Golf
and Country Club, and Roland r..
Mackenzie. star amateur Of Colum-
bia. tied for third place with 161.
Chris j. Dunphy of Columbia, for
mer District amateur champion;
Darcy Bannagan, Columbia profess
sional. and Robert T. Barnett, pro
at 1872, while Fred Mcleod, the CO.
lumbia pro. was in fifth place, six
shots behind Diegei. in a tie with
Miller b. StevinSon, one Of the CO.
lumbia clubs crack amateurs The
other contestants were strung out
well below these leaders and with
practically no chance to finish in the
money.
Brilliant In Afternoon.
Where Diegel was mediocre yes-
terday morning, he was brilliant yes
a
fine IA to his SO of the morning round
to catch and pass Dunphy, who had
LED In the morning with a card of II.
Dtegel looked like a very ordinary
golfer up to the seventh hole in the
afternoon. but from that point on he
went like a real champion. He
pitched his second shot into a bunker
at the seventh and holed a putt for
Then he started after par with a
VenPeAnCR tno
holes in each, holing an eight-foot
putt for 3 at the ninth, and nearly
holing on the tenth. where he had
put put a 100 foot putt for his g.; His mid
OF tho cup and curled away A
couple of bad puts on the twelfth
and thirteenth failed to stop the
crack homebred. and nearly sinking
hnofher an fneshdd DirdIe die, at the eighteenth,
Tuckerman was steady all through
the day to finish with 81-79 for $50.
Stevinson had a fine chance to catch
hole and had to be content with fifth
place. Roland r. Mackenzie dropped
q shot each on the seventeenth and
eighteenth or he might have been
within easy distance of the flying
The second best round of the day
was credited to DARCY Bannagan.
the red-thatched assistant pro at
noon round Of IS. with mines Of ss
each, and today was only Ave shots
behind Diegel, while David Thorn
son Of the Washington Golf and
Country Club followed a mediocre "a
In the morning with fine Til the
afternoon to tie for third place.
Dunphy. with a u in the morning.
had an IS in the afternoon, and ended
s shots behind the leader. -.
Columbia was a very long golf
course yesterday. with tho tee plates
on the back edges of every tee. The
long hitters were in their glory yes
terday, for some OF the carries were
far beyond the ability Of the average
golfer.
The summaries:
Leo Diegel, Friendship. 83-74-157;
Walter r. Tuckerman, Chevy Chase.
S1-71160; Roland r. MACKENZIE, CO.
lumbia, S1-80-161; David Thomson.
Washington Golf and Country Club, "a
-77-161; G.. J. Dunphy.. Columbia, IL
sS-1ss; Robert T. Barnet, Chevy
Columbia, s2-s1-1s3: M. B. Stevin.
son, Columbia, 79-s4-163; A. B.
Thorne, Town and Country Club,
84--85-169; A. R. Mackenzie, Column
bia. 86-84-170; Guy NJ Standifer,
Colum bia, S6-84-170; Ralph Beach,
unattached, S6-S7-173; Peter Jack
son, Indian Spring, ss-87-175; Tom
Moore. Indian Spring. S9-87-176:
Karl F. KeIlerman, Columbia, s5-s1
J. D. Tucker, unattached. 91-96-187
Pairings for today were rearranged,
and Diegel is playing with Roland
Mackenzie, while Fred Mcleod is
playing with A. r. Mackenzie. Tuck.
orman u playing with BlFn1tt