Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

4 L oil BannOCkDufn adueu tIlc
Columbia Country Club invi-
tation tournament to his notable list
of victories yesterday, downing Guy
NJ. Standifer of Columbia, and 2, in
the final round.
Noigt was the same impeccahle per-
former who has now accounted for
four major tournaments about Wash
ington and Baltimore this year-the
same imperturbable iceberg who made
few mistakes and when he became
human and made mistakes rectified
them Fly some golfing deed of magic
to snatch a half or win out of ap-
parently certain disaster.
He won the tournament from a
Standifer, who was a little short. of the
par-clinging performer of previous
tournament rounds, Standlfer who
missed two short puts, but chung to
Eoigt with grimness, hoping for the
break that never came.
Pars First Nine.
For voigt romped over the first nine |
holes in s. strokes, exactly par, and |
was two up. He made just two errors !
on the last nine. Only one of them |
cost him hole--a half toppled spade |
shot at the fourteenth. and he |
snatched a half after missing his Sec |
ond shot at the eleventh. where Stan.
QlIeF DlcW HIS SEOTIGSt putt OIL The
round--a two footer. Only one Ques |
ton remained in the minds of the
members of the gallery who left the |
Lindhergh celebration downtown to
see Foigt win another golf tourna- |
ment-"Who can beat him."
And there was no answer, for it |
seems certain no one in the local anna
teur field can take his mec sure if he |
continues in the same scoring vein
he has enjoyed for stretch of several
months. Voigt went at his work yes.
terday in the same assured fashion of
other tournament finals, played with
the deadly accuracy and punch that |
has placed him in the top rank of |
American amateurs oreF the last six
months.
Standifer Errs Often.
But Standifer, notwithstanding the
f1awless game of FOigt, might have
won the tournament had he not made
so many mistakes. Even so, that is
what makes Noigt the great golfer he
undoubtedly is. He let's the other
fellow make the mistakes while he
plows along scoring par after par
with the regularity of machine.
Voigt won his way to the final by
defeating w. Carlton Evans of Column
bia, and =, while Standifer was
downing Miller b. STEVENSON, in an
upset that was unusual because of
the size of the winning margin.
Standifer won by and 4.
Standifer who is leaving today for
the Pacific Coast, had been playing
such dazzling golf that every one ex-
pected him to give Voigt a close run
in the final round. And but fer a
self-laid stymie at the third and
missed puts at the eleventh ana
Ia |, a
thing, for up to the green he was
Voigt's equal, except on one or two
holes.
VOigt Wins First Hole.
Standifer dropped the first hole of
the match through hooked tee shot
that found the rough and left him too
much to do with his second, while
Voigt played a high niblick shot over
"a tree to the green and won with a 4.
Voigt nearly secured a birdie at
the second, but the hole was halved i'm
4 when ten-footer failed to drop.
Standifer lost the third when he
stymied himself after over-running his
15-foot bid for a g. but the Columbia |
player annexed the short fourth when
Voigt made one of his three mistakes
of the round-a pulled iron shot that
went over and far to the left of the
green.
They halved the long fifth in spec.
tacular birdie 4s, both men sinking
puts of more than eight feet. Voigt
annexed the long sixth when Standi-
fer's second shot, played from a hang
ing lie, found bunker 140 yards from
the green. Standifer got a lucky half
at the seventh. where he pushed his
tee shot into the rough and his half
topped second shot ran through a
bunker. He finally holed a seven.
footer for 4. They halved the short
eighth in par 3s and played the ninth
in mastery fashion to haIve in par
4s, boths men chipping from off the
green TO within four feet of the cup.
Noigt was out in 35 to 3S for Standi-
fer and was UP.
Standifer Misses Chances.
standifer should never have
dropped the tenth, but he took three
to get down from the ton edge of r
the green and lost to voigt's mar d
And the Columbia man should have
won the eleventh, for here Voigt
made his second mistake of the
round, pushing his tee shot to a
bunker and fiubbing his second to
barely get out Of the hazard, He
played to the green. however, and
Standifer, on in 2, hit the cup with
bis approach putt, leaving him a 2
1ooter to win, which he missed
standifer lost the twelfth when he
missed 4-footer for a half, the bali
hanging half in the cup. They
halved the thirteenth in Is, Voigt
Overlapping the cup and Standifer
running down the hill short of the
hole.
Voigt made his third and final mis-
take OF the day at the fourteenth,
where he half topped an attempted
high pitch to the green and lost to
Standifer's par 4. This left Voigt
up and to go and they halved |
the Fifteenth in par as. Standifer
put his tee shot at the short six
teenth on the bank of the ditch at
the right side of the green and
pitched up over the hole. Voigt in
the meantime had played to the
green and ran his putt up dead.
Standifer missed his try for and
conceded Voigt his putt, to give the
Bannockburn player his winning 4
and 2 margin. |
Voigt had pair Of as left for a |
~ at the conclusion of the match.
Fourth Big Victory.
VOigt now has won the Chevy
Chase, Baltimore, Indian Spring and |
Columbia tournaments since his re-
turn from his Winter campaign. in
the South and bids fair to win all |
the local events unless his game !.
suddenly leaves him.
Yesterdays victory over Standifer |
was the fourth time he has beaten
the Columbia player this year. In |
The Columbia event his qualifying f,
round Of Is was his worst score. |
Two rounds of 20 came on Friday. /
Yesterday morning he had two As /
left for a 70 and in the afternoon /
he had two As left for a ~.
1t seems as If it would take better |
than par to trounce the performer |
from Bannockburn.
Scores of the final round follow: