Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-24
ROLAND GETS 70 FOR l55,
A SHOT BACK OF Won ELM
Noigt, Ranking Second of Local Players, Fails TO
Qualify With l59-Standifer Takes l6l; Hufty,
163; STEVENSON and Houghton, l66


three puts.
After that he couldn't afford to
waste shot, for the scores were COM
ing in SO low il looked doubtful that
sc would qualify. and he promptly
took at the tricky seventeenth.
where his pitch shot tricllled over the
back of the green, and he skied his
tee shot at the eighteenth to a bunker
! needing a to be sure to qualify, He
got out n few yards and laid high
nihlick shot IL feet past the hole. Fred
Mcleod advised him to go up and
ram ii in" and he did just that.
There never was a doubt about the
bail dropping. And Roland was in, on
the ragged edge. to be sure. but still
| in. Roland played the last three holes
even worse than he did on Monday.
| With those six holes in par he would
| have finished third in the qualifying
| round. for no one could touch the
| amazing score shot by Bob Jones. SUI
perman of the links if there ever was
one.
Noigt's failure to qualify was nothing
short of tragedy. Hailed before the
championship as one of the real dark
| horses, winner of nine straight tourna-
ments during the Winter and Spring,
| the object of close scrutiny by the
United States Golf Association as to
| his amateur standing and until q few
DAYS ago under ban in his home
| town. he was n sad failure in the
| major league amateur Tournament.
| Perhaps it can be traced back TO the
| incident on the sixth hole on Monday
when his ball was struck by his
partners ball. And perhaps George
| just felt that need for phenomenal
| scoring bearing down on him.
| impeCcable performer he has shown
! himself TO be around Washington. His
| tee shots were not the usual far
ranging, bulletlike affairs that have
| thrilled Capital galleries. Instead he
usually played his second shot from
the rough. Seven of his ii wood shots
| from the tee found the high grass.
And that Is asking just bit too much
of any man, unless he is a supergolfer
from the wire grass that fringes Min
| ikahda' s fairways.
To add to the intricacy of an already
desperate situation, Georges putter.
which let him down on Monday, again
failed him yesterday. But even at
that, given two pars on the eighth
hole and he would have qualified.
Twice he played it and twice he OBJ
tanned a 5-a total of 4 over par
for two shots at this 232-yard par 3
hole. Here yesterday he played
short of the green and took three
puts for a s, getting out in 80. and
on the ragged edge as he we'll knew.
He hooked to the woods at the tenth
and took another 5, one over par.
\ good 3 followed at the short
eleventh. where his tee shot was short
of the green, and he got par at
the twelfth. But he missed a 10
= g, L;,-It 4 i.fa
got a good par 5 at the fourteenth
and then needed four As to score 157,
He hooked another tee shot to bunk
er at the fifteenth and took a 5,
hooked his second at the sixteenth far
wide of the green for another and
| then was virtually out of the race.
Nothing but an eagle and a birdie
would get him in. He got a at the
seventeenth, barely missing 3, and
again barely missed 3 at the eight
zenith, where a 10-footer brushed by
the lip of the cup, and he was out
quite definitely out-and Voigt knew
| it.
Face Registers Disappointment.
disappointment was written on his
face as he saw the shots he needed so
badly scatter themselves all over the
last nine and his second chance to
qualify in the championship fade away.
He missed by three shots this year.
lust as he did at Baltusrol last year,
when he was three shots back of the
tie for last place. But another year
| is coming and in the meantime George
| is hacking away big league experience.
| He should qualify next year, and II
he does he'll give the best of them
| tussle.
Neither Houghton of Manor, Stevin-
son of Columbia or Hufty of Con-
eressional ever had chance after
the first day. Houghton, running into
a Z and an on the thirteenth and
fourteenth yesterday, took an "a for
total of 166.
| STEVENSON, playing the short holes
in great fashion, but running into
trouble on the longer affairs, scored
| another SO for the same total OF 1866
| STEVENSON had two birdie rs on the
| first nine, but finished s, 4, 6, for
| 40. A Z crept into his card at the
thirteenth and 6 at the sixteenth
| and he was out.
! Hufty, starting with 6 at the first
| hole, finished the first nine in Al
where he needed at least a 81, and
was definitely out of it. Two IS on
the twelfth and seventeenth. finished
the Congressional lad, who negotiated
the last nine in AZ for an SO and a
1853 total.