Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-13

Calamity Jane, Bobby's putter. carr
through for him at this juncture. Ec
holed the down-hill 8-footer and they
were square going to the home hole.
Bobby looked to us as II he attempt
ed to sock one mile on the eighteenth.
He pushed it and faded down into
dry water ditch, from which he could
not possibly play toward the hole.
Gorton stood there needing only a fine
tee shot to topple the crown from the
emperor's head. Doubtless Gorton
seldom misses a tee shot on that hole,
for he has played 1t countless times
But he went deep with his driver, and
the ball vanished far over ciump OF
trees into deep woods.
Ball Behind WoodpiIe.
For a while 1t looked as II it couldn't
be found, but finally Gorton located 1t
behind a colossal woodpile. In a spot
where he couldn't do other than chip
out in the fairway. This he did End
played three before Bobby just knocked
his second shot out on the fairNs+'-
parallel to the ditch where his dri-c
ended. Bobby then stood up and knot'--
ed fine iron shot on the greon. 90
feet above the pin. and Gorton pc -;
the. odd IL feet past. Bobby played his
approach putt, his fourth shot. down
to within foot of the hole, leaving
Gorton a partial stymie to negotiate
over curling. tortuouS stretch Of green.
Gorton smiled in his pleasant fashion.
stepped up and sank the putt. They
were still square.
The nineteenth was anti-climactic,
for Gorton pushed his tee shot far into
the woods, dubbed one, played far past
the pin and then nearly sank his bid for
4, while Jones calmly flung a niblick
shot to the green and nonchalantly ran
down q foot putt for . 4. The king Is
still king, but by what narrow marginl
Keeler Is still with us, but he'll never
be the same. You see, Keeler Is get
ting on in life and his heart, strained
by watching Bobby for decade and o
half. is going to pop some day. if his
courage lasts. He swears he will ,lc:-er
come to another championship. BIT IL
he stops, who will write tho, fas";nct-
ing Winter golf yerr7. Bobov sllo"'d
rio something about it. Easy victories
by the emperor might help.
Sweetser started BY laying a spade
shot within six feet of the hole against
Voigt, but the cool District title hold
er sank a 15-footer for his g. and
Sweetser missed. Voigt won the second
by. holing a, chip shot from the edge
Of the green. Voigt. literally gave Sweet
ser the fourth and fifth by bad tee shots.
for at the fourth he hit two out of
bounds and found q bunker at the
fifth. They split the short sixth In par,
and Voigt took the lead at the seventh,
when Sweetser hooked to the woods.
Voigt was l, up at the turn and they
halved the tenth in birdie 4S Voigt
played one of the finest iron shots
| we've ever seen at the eleventh. laying
1t within four feet Of the pin and hoIing
the puttsfDr AhiS second consecutive
birdie tos become 2 up. He picked the
short twelfth when Sweetser was trap
ped from the tee, but dropped the
thirteenth to birdie by the former
title holder They split the long fifteenth
in SIS, but Sweetser. whose tee shots had
been troubling him all day, put one In
tho rough at the fifteenth and lost the
hole to q by Voigt. That left the
Dutchman, as Voigt is called. dormie
5 up, and the end came quickly on the
sixteenth. which they halved in Is.
II Voigt isn't already nationally es-
tabliShed by his victory in the medal
round Tuesday. that win over Sweetser
should place him in the select. Tom
my Perkins, meanwhile. was eliminating
Yates, who showed nowhere near the
burst Of speed. he had against Won Elm.
and Dawson was treating Eustace
Storey In very inhoSpitable fashion by
downing the Britisher, 6 and 4. Beck was
l down and to 60 to Somerville, but
pulled the match out by winning the
last two holes from the Canadian cham
pion.