Evening star., 1928-05-23
G.. u. STUDENT SETS PACE
in INDIAN SPRING EVENT
Late Finisher Tops First Day Qualifying Field by
Two Strokes-C0x Holes Mashie Iron for
Ace on l6O-Yard Fourteenth.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

IF the lid flies off today at Indian
Spring. in the last half of the two
day qualifying round as 1t did yes
4 terday over the first half of the
medal round, when nearly 100
golfers slugged their way over Indian
Springs rugged reaches, there won't be
any thing left in the golfing category to
chronicle.
Great flocks of brides were downed
at least one eagle was scored, one player
had six one-putt greens on one nine,
another had five IS on one nine and
last, but far from least, another played
the perfect golf shot. a hole In one
from the tee.
Little was left to the golf imagina-
ton after yesterdays hectic first day,
yet some flve-score players are strug-
Cling today with John MacCormack's S
fearsome rough and Dick WatSon's
equally rugged traps. One of them may
clip shot or two off the leading score
of rs, turned In just before sundown
yesterday by young Chick Beger OF
Georgetown, who learned his golf up
at Shackamaxon. where Bobby Cruick-
shank used to hold forth.
But the chances are not so good, for
only four players out of the stellar field
which started yesterday broke 80. And
many of those figured to shatter the
80 mark.
Slips on Last Nine.
Young Beger, freshman at George
town, and the same lad who carried
Albert Mackenzie to the nineteenth
hole in the Washington tournament,
went out late in the afternoon with
Dick Wilson and Mark Flanagan-fel-
low students at the Hilltop-and. by dint
OF holding flock of puts on the first
nine, got out In &c. He had two three
putt green's on the second nine, but
managed to stagger home in 80 for his
rs, where several men rated better golf
ers did we'll to get 40.
A little earlier Joseph A. Cox of
Argyle stood up on the fourteenth hole
with a mashie iron in his hand and
proceeded to hole the ball in one stroke
on this 160-yard affair. AS Sam Mosby
would say, "The pardon came too late, "
for by that time Cox had used up so
many strokes the ace didn't make much
difference. He finished with an SO.
A few holes in front of him was NJ.
E. Hughes of Argyle, a stockily built
person who clouts the golf ball no mean
distance. Hughes connected with a pair
of wooden club shots so effectively that
his second shot rolled over the edge
of the hole at the 450-yard par s
seventh and left him but an 8-inch
tap for his eagle 3. This Is the same
hole where Harry @. Pitt had taken
three puts from feet 10 minutes
before, for score shattering 6.
Tom Pitt Shines.
Tom Pitt of Argyle stole the act from,
his big brother yesterday. for the slim
golfer romped home over the difficult
last nine in SO strokes. bagging three
brides en- route. and equaling par for
the distance. His last shot. played with
putter from the edge Of the eighteenth
green. fully 40 feet from the pin. went
in the cup for birdie 3, his NTH 3
Of the nine.
Then along came Chick Beger. slap
ping a wooden club shot within 10 feet
OF the hole at the 225-yard ninth and
holing the putt for birdie 2. A few
moments before @. r. Boyer OF Manor
had done the same stunt. but 1t didn't
help him much. His score was l04, just
the same
Beger played grand golf to lead the
field TO the wire over the first day. Here