Evening star., 1928-12-23

by the Skill OF one individual
i whose links feats so far outshone
those of his rivals that in reality
there was little competition.
Back in 1923 there was Chris j.
Dunphy Then came Roland r. Mac
Kenzie, and close on his heels came
George j. Voigt. These men dominated
the competitive golf picture around the
Capital during their years of supremacy
to the almost complete eclipse Of other
competitors.
But during the year fast drawing to
e close no such condition existed. No
single competitor stood out head and
shoulders above the balance of the
pack, and at no time did 1t appear that
an invincible golfer such as was George
j. Voigt last year had risen to COM
plete dominance of the competitive pic
ture locally.
For q time this year it appeared that
Harry G. Pitt Of Manor would rise to
the post of undisputed leader of anna
teur golf about Washington. But Pitt
failed In several tests, after winning
the Chevy Chase tourney and the
championship of the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association. Then came Miller B.
Stevinson of Columbia to win the Co
1umbia tourney and later to capture the
District championship, as we'll as the
championship of his own club. And In
the background, although he was not
the winner of any important event, was
the figure of A. L. Houghton, late Of
the Manor Club, who contrived to win
one of the tournaments and annex the
qualifying round at two more, later ty-
ing with Stevinson for the District
title, only to lose on the play-oH.
These three men won more big events
than any others. but there was at no
time this year the overshadowir1g per-
Torrance which George Voigt contrib.
uted last year and the year before and
Roland Mackenzie showed in 1928.
New Woman Luminary.
In women's golf there came to the
forefront new luminary. to move up
nearly on a par with the retgning en-
press of golf, Dorothy White OF the
washington Golf ,and Country Club.
Miss White, it is true, won the won1en's
championship of the District for the
third consecutive year. but she was de-
feated in her bid for a third victory
in The Evening Star Cup event, which
went to Winifred Faunce of Manor, a
much-improved golfer and one who bids
fair to press Miss White for leading
laurelS next year Neither Miss White
nor Miss Faunce attended the women'S
Middle Atlantic title chase, so their
prowess cannot be measured against
Miss Virginia HolZderber of Baltimore,
who won the tourney played at Vir-
ginia Beach.
Activity among the professionals
around Washington was marked during
the year by the setting OF an unbeliev-
ably low mark of SO strokes for the
course of the Congressional Country
Club and the advent Of an indicated
best ball team at Indian Spring, where
j. Monro Hunter and George Dtfen-
baush have gone through a season OF
frequent matches without defeat at the
hands of q local combination.
The amateur season started with a
victory for A. L. Houghton, who won
the Town and Country Club event from
Richard Wilson of Georgetown Univer-
sity. In this event Harry Pitt won the
medal with mark of II. The Wash
ington Golf and Country Club tourney,
which came. next, went to Maurice j.
Mccarthy of Georgetown, who later
won the national intercollegiate tourney
as a member of the Washington Club.
Then the amateurs went over to Indian
Spring, where Page Hufty of Congress
sional went through to his first big local
tournament win.
The Chevy Chase tourney found Nc
Carthy the medalist, only to go down
who registered 90 to beat him. Pitt
triumphed over Miller Stevinson in the
final by one-sided margin. Then came
the Columbia event, in which STEVENSON
turned the tables on Pitt, downing him
in the sixteenth green in the final
round. Five men tied for the qualifying
medal In this tourney at 76, with
Houghton winning the play-off.
Pitt Takes Midatlantic.
. Pitt ran down a 35-foot putt on the
nineteenth green to defeat John G.
Ehorey of Bannockburn for the Middle
Atlantic championship at Congressional
after q match in which the lead see
sawed between them. The medal went
TO Reid w Digges of Bannockburn.
Then came the national open cham
pionship, to which went Tommy Ar
fnour Of Congressional in defense of
his title; his brother Alex, and j. Mon
70 Hunter of Indian Spring. Tommy
Armour, putting very poorly, and in
poor physical condition, finished 18th
in this championship, while his brother
and Hunter did not qualify for the last
days play. The tourney went to John
Farrell, who tied with Bob Jones and
wen by one stroke in 36-hole playoH.
The next event of consequence was