Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02

n r EVER before in the history OF
the royal and ancient game in
vi and near the District of CO.
4 lunbia has competitive golf
been SO dominated by one
man as 1t was dominated during the
year just ended. Reaching the crest
of a game that for years has given
promise of becoming the outstanding
product of golf skill around Wash
inEton, George j. Voigt. playing
from the Bannockburn Golf Club,
crushed all opponents under the re
lentless accuracy and power of a
great golf game. winning six OF the
eight amateur tournaments in which
he played at clubs near Washington.
In only two local tournaments was
defeat his portion and, oddly enough,
one came on his own course in the
final of the Bannockburn tournament
late in September when the youthtui
John c. Shorey ran1nned down
30-foot putt on the final hole to defeat
Voigt.
By virtue of his accomplishments
with driver and mashie Voigt is easily
the outstanding golfer about wash
ington this year, With a record even
more impressive than the splendid
total of victories rolled up in 1925 by
Roland r. Mackenzie. when the Co
lumbia youth won five big tourna-
ments. Voigt's only disappointment
and it was big one for the Bannock-
burn star and his well wishers-was
his failure to qualify in the United
states Golf Association amateur
championship at Baltusrol. He fail.
ed to qualify by three shots, failing
where Miller b. STEVENSON and Mac
Kenzie of Columbia made the grade.
His lapse in the amateur champion
ship, however, was more than bal
anced by the impressive record he
had over the remainder Of the sea
son, especially as many of the ac-
knowledged stars of the game have
failed to qualify in their first crack
at the amateur title.
Miss Write Leads Women.
Miss Dorothy White, 22-year-old
star of the washington Golf and
Country Club, is the outstanding golf
er of the year among the women
solely by virtue of her victory In the
womens District championship, for
her margin over Mrs. j. Marvin
Haynes of Columbia is a slim one and
perhaps does not exist at all, for Miss
White did not play in the larger
tegt--the woinen's Middle Atlantic
rsinnerup in the tourney.
The pair dominated the larger
tournaments. winning several OF the
one-day affairs staged by the Won
ems District Golf Association and
pfoving themselves the superiors of
the rest of the field In the larger af-
fairs. Miss White now is in Europe
on q short vacation. In addition to
winning the wcmens District title
she also annexed The Evening Star
tfophy--a 36.hole handicap medal play
tourney.
> High spots I'm a season of campaign
ing by Voigt. which carried him into
nearby Maryland, to Ear Harbor In
the Summer and back to Washington
In the FAN. were his impressive VIC
tories in the Middle Atlantic and Dis
trict Championships, his spectacular
showing In the Mid-Atlantic Profes-
sfonal Golfers Association tourna-
raent and his consistent and brilliant
scoring In all the tournaments in
which he played
Outstanding is his record in the
Chevy Chase tournament, where he
won the qualifying round with a rec
ord-breaking card of SO and scored a.
40 in the final round against Earl
McAleer.
Another bright spot on the Voigt
record were his twin victories within
a week over Roland MacKenzie--the
outstanding star Of 1925--ir1< July.
Tpigt first engaged Mackenzie. who
had just returned from the Upen
Championship after a trip abroad
with the Walker Cup team, at Sher-
wood Forest, overwhelming his young
opponent by and 4. The following
saturday they met in the semi final
Of the MARYLAND Country Club tour
ney. with Voigt again turning the