Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-11
CARDS OF D. c. GOLFERS
TITLE TOURNAMENT

petition has made the youngster a bit
blase. Perhaps 1t is the attack of grip
which caused his withdrawal from the
Newport tournament, although he told
us he never felt better than he feels
now. Perhaps it is something else. But
1t is sure that Roland never played
worse than he played yesterday to score
pair of 44's for an SO.
Roland had no less than nine three
putt green on the rounds, his tee shots
were all over the lot, his chipping was
poor. and all in all ne was just good
golfer with an off day. He took three
puts on the first two green's and got
a very fine 6 at the long fourth hole,
where he put his ball out of bounds for
a two-stroke penalty and played his fifth
shot from a vicious bunker Another
bad tee shot came at the tricky sew
enth, and he struggled out in "A. Turn
ing for home he started playing his
shots through the green better, but took
three puts each OH five of the first
seven greens. He missed the green at
the 255-yard seventeenth and finished
with 5.
Strangely enough, too, Roland was
putting with wooden putter, the very
club that Tommy Armour swears by
and which he claims has made him a
good putter. No matter what the i'm
plement. they wouldn't drop for Roland
yesterday.
Pitt Drives With Spoon.
Harry Pitt. frightened by the narrow
fairways of the first nine, and a hook
he has been fighting to master for a
week, drove with spoon, and succeeded
in getting out in 38, Notwithstanding
three puts or the ninth green He put
his second in a trap at the thirteenth
to take a 6 at this par affair and took
three puts on the seventeenth. His
70, if he adds like figure to it today,
gives him a good chance to qualify, and
he also should do we'll in match play.
If he makes the grade today, he will
have done very well, for this is his first
experience IN big-time golf.
Houghten three-putted four greens
and finished with on the eighteenth,
but had no complaint to make of his 80.
He is confident of doing better today
and hopes to better his score by at least
four shots. He hooked to the woods at
the eighteenth and was just able to
pitch out.
Reid Digges of Bannockburn, playing
in his first championship, was well sat-
isfled with his SO, Notwithstanding three
missed short puts and penalty stroke
incurred on the tenth green. where his
ball turned over after he had taken his
stance to putt. He also hopes to better
his score today.
Hufty Stages Comeback.
Hufty deserves great credit for his
valiant comeback to secure an 81 after
such discouraging start. The Con-
greSSional lad pushed his tee shot at the
first hole in to the woods for a CHASTITY
z, and even with that behind him. got
out in 20. He took a brace of skies on
the thirteenth and fourteenth. where tee
shots went wrong. but came back in Al,
even though he finished with pair of
SIS, where par reads and 4. If he can
manage to keep away from the sevens
TODAY, he may get in.
Miller StevinSon's 81 is the direct
result of brace Of Is on the tenth and
eleventh holes, both caused by missed
tee shots. He was out in a fine SO, and
saw visions of a rs or 76 until he blew
his tee shots on two holes. He was in
the woods at the tenth, and took a 6 at
this par { hole. A at the sixteenth
wasn't so good, but he finished 8, 4.
Golf has surely turned into a COM
mercial game. We never believed We
would see such sight as detectives
from national agency wandering
around a golf course during a cham
pionship checking up on every one who
didn't happen to show an admission
ticket. That is exactly what took place
at Brae Burn yesterday. In fact, we
saw w. L. Hope, member of the
British Walker Cup team, taken rather
severely to task because he didn't hap
pen to have his contestants badge on
the coat he was wearing at the time
Explanations by Thomas P. Perkins
the British amateur champion. didn't
appear to help. for the Burns men took
his name down just the same. And
the venture Of the detectives didn't sit
so well with others.