Evening star., 1928-05-01

A y mgton Coli and Country Club
Will present the prizes IN the
invitation tourney of the club, which
starts tomorrow over the rolling layout
OF the Virginia organization.
Moore will make the presentation of
prizes between 4:30 and o'clock Fri
day afternoon, the day of the final
round.
Chairman Paxton Of the golf COM
mittee announced today that In the in
terest of speeding up play in the quail
Tying round tomorrow. the middle tees
instead of the back tees will be used.
Later in the tourney. when the match
play rounds are under way, the rear
tees will be put In use. Paxton fears
that delay will result from use of the
rear tees in the way of lost balls.
field of 2l0 players will start in
the medal round tomorrow. with the
last pair scheduled to get under way
at $50 o'clock in the afternoon. The
first pair will start at 7;25 tomorrow
morning.
Paxton urges all the entrants be at
the first tee, ready to play at their
assigned time, or the qualifying round
may be delayed.
No special ground rules are to be in
force during the tournament, as Winter
rules were suspended by order of the
green's committee last Saturday. The
amended United States Golf Associa-
ton rules which provide loss of one
stroke only for ball out of bounds lost
ball and unplayable ball, will eb in force
during the tourney. The rear tee on
the eleventh, which converts the hole
from a niblick shot into a No. 8 iron
shot, win not be used.
George J. voigt Is now convinced that
scintillating play to the green is not
all that is necessary to win golf
matches. and so, on his return from
New York, IN day or so. he will devote
himself TO serious practice with @ put
the annual serial. entitled "Voigt VS..
Shorey," losing special 38-hole match
on the last hole at Rock Greek Park to
Mel Shorey. professional golfer at East
Potomac Park.
The morning round of 1S holes. played
on courses D and F at East Potomac
Park. found the contestants all even.
Then they journeyed over TO the wood
ed hills of Rock Greek Park. where
Shorey. outshone by Voigt from the tee
and through the fairway. proceeded to
give the North and South titleholder a
putting lesson. Voigt was dormie
down. and won the sixteenth and sew
enteenth. but he missed an S-foot putt
on the final hole to square the match,
after laying his spade mashie shot at
the edge OF the green and chipping up
short
Voigt defeated Shorey by a decisive
margin in an l8-hole match played last
year at East Potomac Park.
Evenly matched yesterday over the
first round. Voigt missed a putt OF less
than a foot and half on the fifteenth
hole In the morning round and they
finished square. A bite of lunch hadn't
q three-footer at the first hole Mt Rock
Greek Park to win, dropping the short
third to give Shorey one-hole lead.
Then Voigt took three TO get down
from the edge OF the green at the fourth
and was 2 down. He won the sixth
and turned I down.
But Shorey annexed the short second
on B course and lost the third. but
won the fourth TO again become up.
When he won the long fifteenth the end
was In sight. But voigt was not yet
finished. He annexed the down-hill
sixteenth with q par 4 and won the
short seventeenth with to for
Shorey.
with voigt dormie down, both
men hit fine tee shots at the last hole.
Voigt's spade niashie was just short OF
the edge OF the green, while Shorey
pulled his shot TO the left. Voigt chipped
UP eight feet short and missed the putt,
and Shorey. also down In 5, halved the
hole to win.
Here are the cards:
Morning round--D and eot,rsns East