Evening star., 1924-06-15

WITH the DTanQ OF SOl1 ne showed Vt
Throughout the final round the 6
man showed to reach the ultimate
70 when he beat Tuckerman on tn
not have availed against Roland NJ
other players in the first fight.
Tuckerman was far off the fine
game he showed in the morning to
win his way to the final. Out in IS,
and three down he had two As left
for an 81 when the match ended.
Tuckerman quite consistently out
drove Voigt all the way through
the final, but the iron shots of the
public links champion and his work
around the green's far outshone the
ragged work of the District amateur
title-holder. Tuckerman played all
the short holes, with the exception
, of the fourth, badly, although his tee
shots with the wooden clubs were
straight and far. Through the fair
way he was NOT the equal of Voigt.
whose long iron shots, although they
lacked the sting and punch for which
the public champion is noted, were
straight and far enough.
Both players made plenty of mis-
takes-mlStakeS that would have
cost them holes against a man play
ing fine golf. but Eogt proved the
down at crucial points in the match.
Three down going to the twelfth,
Tuckerman won that hole and il
looked as if the District champion
might stage a comeback after Voigt
had taken three puts to give Tucker
man half at the short thirteenth.
but Tuck kerman missed an eight-foot
putt for 3 at the fourteenth and
missed a five-footer at the fifteenth
for half. while Voig was down
n 4
= was halved and the match was over.
Voigt Has F1ne Record.
Regarded for the past three years
as one of the leading golfers about
Washington, Voigt has been knock
ing at the door for dozen tourna-
ments. He went to the semi-final at
Indian Spring this spring, where
Chris Dunphy put him away on the
last green. He was runner-up in the
District championship, won by Dun
ply in 1922, and always has done well
in amateur tournaments hereabouts.
Voigt, who is a clerk IN the Treas
ury Department and who gets but
little time to play goltr has won the
municipal title for the last Two years.
He will represent Washington in the
national public links championship TO
start a week hence at Dayton, Ohio.
Tuckerman won the District cham
pionship at Chevy Chase last year by
a shot from Dunphy. He is men,
Der of the Chevy Chase Club, but reg
istered in the Columbia tournament
from the Burning Tree Club, OF which
he is founder and charter member.
Known as one OF the most consistent
of golfers, Tuckerman repeatedly
missed shots through the fairway yes
terday that he should have executed
with ease. He was off his game, and
far off, and that is the whole story
of the final, for had he been right and
Voigt also right the match would
have been very close, with victory
hinging on a putt or two. The pair.
judged by their record. were appar-
emily evenly matched, for Voigt also
played fine game to win from no
land r. Mackenzie in the morning,
while Tuckerman was winning easily
from McCaflum.
z First Hole Is Halved.
Both men missed their second shots
to the first hole after good tee shots
we'll down the fairway, with Vofgt
thirty yards above the green and
Tuckerman far down to the left.
Tuckerman overpitched the green and
ran down to a ten-foot putt for half
in 3. At the second hole Voigt got
a good half. for here Tuckerman, on
the green in two shots. took three
puts, with Voigt's second shot over
the D2nk at the lett eOSt.
Voigt broke into the lead at the
third hole with a par 4, when Tucker
man, from a lie at the left edge of
the fairway that did not look bad.
hit the ball but couple of feet and
reached the green in four shots.
Tuckerman laying fine chip shot
from the edge of the green along
side the hole.
The fifth was a nightmare. Well
down the middle from the. tee both
men missed their second shot, send
ing them into the big bunker that
stretches like a forbidding chasm
across the fairway. Tuckerman got
out of the bunker in four and was
down near the green, while Voigts
third shot was well down the fair
way across the hazard and he pitched
short of the green in four. Tucker
man played his fifth shot too fine and
reached the green in six. Folgt
Clipped up ten feet short and won the
hole 7-S, when Tuckerman missed a
twelve-footer They halved the sixth
in S, Tuckerman missing four-foot
putt for after fine pitch to the
holeside.
Stymie Aids Tuckerman.
Although Voigt overpitched the
seventh green, he got half in when
Tuckerman missed his tifteen-foot try
for 8. A stymie at the short eighth
player reaching the green from the tee,
and Noigt won the ninth to become 3
up when Tuckerman again missed MS
second shot from the middle OF the fair
way and overpitched the green, while
Noigt played fine chip shot dead to
the hole for his 4. In the rough from
the tee Voigt got a good half at the
tenth, laying his third shot on the green
from $50 yards back, with Tuckerman
again missing holable putt to win.
The eleventh was halved in 5, al
though Voigt was bunkered on his sec
end shot. and Tuckerman got q hoie
back at the twelfth, when the munich
pal links player was short of the green
in and took 6.
On the green from the tee Voigt took
three puts at the short thirteenth, CIV
ing Tuckerman. who was in the rough
at the left, a half in 4. They halved
the fourteenth in 4, where Tuckerman
PLAYED one of the best shots Of the
match, a midiron second to within eight
feet and missed the putt for a 3, where
he had obtained in the morning.
Break That Ended Match.
Then came the break that definitely
gave the match to Voigt, for Tucker
man. alongside the green at the nfteenth
i'm Q shots, while Voigt was on in the
like, fooled a shot up the bank and
missed a five-footer for possible ha!r
when Voigt was short with MS appIoacn
putt. Although Tuckerman pushed MS
iron shot to the short thirteenth, he
got only a half in e, while Voigt, on the
green from the tee, ran up dead ana
halved the hole to win the match,
and 2.
The golf in the final round was
ragged and spotty, not at all like
The brilliant and steady game which
brought both men through the semi
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