Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-26

with.a finally that spelled hnisl1 to
CcSscs Noiet has enjoyed IN the ,nvit
All square coming Ia the last mole,
a ma shie shot of 1870 yards. Shorey
laid his ball on the green. while Noigt
who had PLAYED short Of the green.
Clipped up three feet past the hole
A betting man would have given big
odds on an extra hole match. but
the 1S-year-old Argyle player stepped
up and struck his putt boldly and
firmly. II hit the back of the tin
with an audible thud. hoped up six
inches in the air and settled back in
the cup for the winning mragin OF
I up.
All that had gone before. that had
seen the usually impeCcable Noigt
struggling against his own errors and
against the brilliant golf of his youth
full opponent was but prelude to
the dramatic eighteenth which gave
to Shorey his second big tournament
in two wears. The Young Argyle
plaver won the Town and Country
club tourney in the Spring of 1925.
All through the first nine Noigt was
pIa inly struggling against his own
errors ana the fiawless golf Of
Youngster who made mistakes but
backed them up with brilliant recov-
cries Two down going to the seventh
because of brace of missed three
footers at the fifth and sixth. Voigt
rapper n 30-footer against the back
of the cup at the long seventh to win.
his only long putt of the day'and an
neXed the short eighth when Shorey
pulled his pitch shot far tn the left.
BY all the gods of golf Noigt should
have won the ninth. for here ShOrey
pulled his ball into the woods. was
short with a second shot and pitched
mn 10 feet short, while NOigt hit
fine tee shot and laid n cut ma SHE
shot six feet from the pin. But the
voungster holed 10-footer for 4
and Noigt missed his try for 2.
And al the short t"nth again Shorev
slipped in long one, boiling 25
foOter for deuce. while Weight
missed a Six-fOOter for a half after
a brilliant pitch TO the pin. The
eleventh was a comedy of errors. for
both finalists were i'm the ditch from
the tee and halved the par 3 hole i'm :.
At the twelfth Weight again blew a
short one, n three-footer slipping by
the cup to put him again down.
The twin titleholder won the short
thirteenth with par 2. when Shorey
failed to lay chip shot dead and an
neXed the long fourteenth. when
.ShoreY hooked bra sSie second and
took 6 to Voight's par 3. With the
match AL square "A half stymie robbed
Shorey of chance to go into the lead
at the short fifteenth. for he reached
the green and Voiet's half hit ma SHE
shot failed to get home. They halved
in 4 and split the sixteenth i'm 3 with
Shorey boiling good six-footer for
the half when EOight missed his try
for a deuce from 90 feet. They halved
the seventeenth when Voight's bold
bid for birdie 3 slipped by the edge
of the cup.
His Second Deuce.
Then they went the eighteenth all
square with the stage set for the
dramatic finish that found the youth
full Shorey boiling a bold bid for his 9,
the second long putt he had holed for
deuce
Weight has been beaten in local
tournaments hut twice previously this
year. in the Columbia event by Fra nix
X. Roesch and in the congressiona
tourney by Harry G. Pitt. He won
the Bannockburn tourney in 1924 and
1879. and won the qualifying round
last year, tieing again this year wit h
Albert r. Mackenzie At n. The tie
Will be played off one week from to-
day at 2 o'clock.
Shorey, who learned his game on
the public links at East Potoma 9
Park, is solely product of the
municipal course. He has sound
and bold game and as he again
proved yesterday. is ma gnificent
putter. The rattle of his long puts
against the back of the tin must have
beaten SOmber tattoo in the ears
of the imperturba bile Eoight
Shorey won his way to the final
| round by beating Albert r. MacKen
zie on the seventeenth green of "
| semi final in which Mackenzie was
M all through the first nine
| holes. Noigt easily took the measure
! of J. w. Calfee of the Washington
! Golf and Country Club by ) and 4 in
| the other semi-final.
! The tournament which concluded
yesterday was the most slIccesSfu
and best contested Bannockburn has
ever held, and great credit is due the
offlclais of the club for the efficient
manner in which it was handled.