Evening star., 1927-05-11
MAIDEN LEADING
IN GOLF TOURNEY
Turns In Score of 73 in Quail
flying Round at Chevy
Chase Club.

Returning a score of 73, four over
par, Mai Earl L. Maiden Of the Army
War College, champion golfer of the
Army, led a field of early starters in
the qualifying round of the Chevy
Chase Clubs Spring golf tournament
today.
Mai. Maiden, playing without his
own putter, negotiated the first nine
in 81, and was back in 36 for his
total of 10. Frank *. Roesch OF the
Washington Golf and Country Club,
junior champion of the District, was
around in II to finish second to
Maiden among the early starters.
Only one other score under so was
turned in UP to early afternoon, Il.
NJ. Gray of Toronto registering 10.
Other Cards Turned In.
Other scores follow: w. Fl. First
brook, Toronto, So; j. f. Brawner.
Columbia, SO: II. S. Reid. Toronto.
"a; j. Fl. Firstbrook. Toronto, "a; a.
f. Rammey, Chevy Chase, IS; Henry
D. Nicholson, Washington. So; {. A.
Fuller. Chevy Chase, SO; John Brit
ton. Chevy Chase, 81; Maj. j. A. Nc
Andrews, War College. So; Frank +.
Reeside, Chevy Chase, 81: MorVen
Thompson, Chevy Chase, SO; j. L.
Proctor, Toronto, 93.
More than 120 of the leading golfers
of Washington and few players from
out-of-town started.
Much of the interest among Wash
ington golfers centered about the work
of George j. Noigt, holder of the IDS
trict and Middle Atlantic titles, who
added the North and South amateur
and Mason and Dixon amateur cham
pionships to his collection during a
successful Winter and early Spring
campaign. Voigt won the Chevy
Chase event last year, downing Earl
McAleer on the last green of the final
round. He also won the qualification
round with recOrd-shattering mark
of 50, setting new amateur record
for the course that still stands.
Outstanding Player.
Voigt is the outstanding player of
the group of we'll known golfers who
started in the one-day qualifying
round today, but the entry list in
cluded two men who have won big
Journeys about the Capital this year
in the persons of Miller B. Stevinson
of Columbia. winner of the Town and
Country Club event, and A. l.. Hough-
ton of Manor, victor in the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club tourney
last week. In addition to this trio,
such prominent golfers as Walter r.
Tuckerman and G. A. Fuller of Chevy
Chase. Guy M. Standifer and Donald
Woodward of Columbia, Earl McAleer
and Harry G.. Pitt of Manor and Page
Hufty of the Congressional, started in
the competition.
The tourney is notable because of
the handicap restriction alone, for no
guest with a handicap of more than Ia
can enter the event. This in itself
reduces the field and assures high
class competition.
Bond and Savage Withdraw.
Two of the prominent entrants from
out of town. H. Lennox Bond, Sd. and
f. A. Savage. jr., of Baltimore, have
withdrawn their names, but several
other local players have added their
names TO the starting list since entries
closed Monday night.
Match-play rounds will continue
through Friday. with the final round
for the historic Presidents cup, the
first flight trophy, carded for Friday
afternoon. Four flights were to
qualify today over a Chevy Chase
course in perfect condition. groomed
for the last three months for this
event. and a course which has never
been in better shape for a ma jor tour
nament.