Evening star., 1928-06-07
Par Golf Shattered
SANDY ARMOUR TRAVELS
NINE HOLES In 20 SHOTS
Has Seven Is at Congressional in Making Score That
Is Seven Under Regulation Figures-Roesch,
Houghton Lead at Columbia.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

lsCfSTcSSiOll1A are making klS
golf game look silly these fine
Il Spring DAYS First 1t was Tom
my Sprucing up for the defense
Of his national open championship
with a great card of IS strokes for the
long md difficult course of the Con-
sresSional Country Club, And now its
mis- elder brother, Sandy, who raised
Tom from a wee tot back in Scotland
taught him all the golf he knows. and
has seen the pupil SurpasS the master
in the skill acquired in multitude of
Championships.
Not a great many people know about
it but Sandy Armour was ranked back
in the old days of Scotland as Tommy S
peer In this exasperatine and intriguing
game Of golf. My, yes; Sandy whose
proper name Is Alex. had lower handl-
Qep than his more famous brother nj
the several clubs at which the pair
played around Edinburgh And 20 show
that there is still a kick in the old nlltt
and q wallop in the game Of the elder
Armour. he breeze6 back over the
lengthy stretches of Congressional 5 last
nine Just the other day in 20 strokes.
Think of Ii. 90 strokes for nine
which measures 2.032 yards and has a
par of 36i Sandy had seven IS in
that astounding nine holes he played
with SilaS NJ Newton Of New York ana
Washington as q partner against j.
Raymond McCarl. controller general o.
the United States and Tommy Armour
And Tommy wasn't SO bad. either. Tor
he had an in" nine of SO strokes for
total score of 20. But Sandy got out in
80. and when you add 50 and % to-
eethsr it makes something like 81.
Sounds fantastic but that's the fact.
Seven SIS in nine holes-six in row
and his putt for a deuce at the last hole
hung on the very lip Of the cup and
wouldn't drop II you don't believe
Sandy did some tall and fancy shooting
look at the distances on such holes as
the twelfth. where Sandy secured his
second $50 yards from tee to green.
And such fine holes as the fourteenth
and fifteenth 374 and 3T5 yards, re-
spectiveIy, with their hilltop greens and
general difficulty. Sandy's tempera-
mental nutter, Spark Plug" was hit
ting or al six that afternoon, for such
great golf is not done without equally
great putting.
Here is the score for the nine, with
par for the last half:
Par. ....... 3 5 3 4 4 3 1 4-36
Arrnour.... 1 3 3 3 3 3 3-2s
Roland 4. Mackenzie will leave
Washington Friday for Philadelphia,
where be viii play on Sunday with
walter Hagen as partner against
Tommy Armour and another opponent
as vet unnamed Roland viii stay in
the Quaker City over Monday TO play
in the Philadelphia district qualifying
Tolnd for the open championship at
the Philadelphia Cricket Club, located
al FloE1rtoTu, Pa
Since Roland has entered the bond
business ur6eT the tutelsge OF such an
aec0mpsiShed master as Oscar C0olican,
erstwl1flr chairman Of the golf commit
fee at Congressional the Columbia lad
gets Mfiie time for golf. Indeed. he is
lucky 10 get out late in the afternoon
for nine holes. but he usually finds his
nentng Fred Mcleod, waiting for him.
So together they 60. over Columnia's
rolling fairways. working together TO
bslrniSa un the game that Columbia
homes wsis hiring the amateur champion
ship 70 Washington one day.
Most of the professionals who will
compete in the qualifying rounds Mon
DAY for tf1e open championship plan 20
leave washington Friday night. The
bulk Df the Washington players viii go
TO Pittsburgh
Even money bets were laid early to-
6av that the scores of rs made yester-
day in the first qualifying day Of the
Columbia tourney by Frank K. Roesch
Of Washington and 4. L. Houghton Of
Manor. would not be eclipsed by any
golfers Of the strong field which started
this morning At Columbia in the last
half of the model round Tom Sasscer
Of the MARYLAND Country Club, twice
cfzm0ion ~ the Middle Atlantic Coli
Association. VINO was an entrant, has
notified Tire committee that he viii be
unable 70 play and has scratched his
entry
In his El1ce however, there are such
golfers az Miller g. StevinBon, Albert
z Mackenzie ard w Carton Evans
af Columbia Gordon Wood and Fred
Mackav OF Richmond. ard Page Hufty
of c01grea.onal. The field today lacks
nothing of class. and there may be one
or two who VIII have the necessary
golf 70 crack The leading scores Of rs
made yesterday by Roesch and Hongh-
ton
Roesch seems 20 like Columbia. any
way We remember two years ago he
stack up against George Voigt when
that aorfhY was in the midst 0f his
great winning streak Anc Frank stop
pe6 him colc, winning, II we remember