Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-29
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

- VERY year the vanguard Of
- crop of youngsters spring up on
the golf courses about Washing
IL ton to play a small part in the
big tournaments and make
mark that Is usually borne out by tne
promise of future years. Strangely
enough. this year the two lads who nave
outShone the balance of the strictly
new-comers TO tournament competition
are both southpaws.
Tommy Bones Of Columbia and Byrn
Curtiss of Indian Spring are the two
in question and both are unorthodox
golfers in that they obtain unusually
fine results with left-hand swing in
stead of the usual right-handed affair.
They stand out among the years crop
of young players as the best the season
has produced, for Frank Roesch, Harry
| Pitt, Page Hufty and few others are
comparatively seasoned veterans and
made their mark in other years.
Bones and CurtisS. however have Just
pushed their heads up above the ordi-
nary run of golfers to modest place
in the local golflng sun II they keep
on with the pace they have been set
| ting this modest place may blossom out
! In a place OF leadership, even though
| the odds are enormously against them
| because of their unorthodox method of
swinging for golf history does not record
| any outstanding champions who swing
| from the left side.
| Just now. however. they are good
! enough to give many of the established
| stars an uncomfortable rub and there
| isn't any doubt that they are going
| somewhere in golf if they maintain the
| pace they have set this year. Curtiss
recently won the Junior championship
of the Indian Spring Club, while Bones
! greatest feat this year was his progress
| to the Scmi-flnal of the Columbia
tourney.
They will both play in the District
Junior championship for the Mac
Kenzie sap next week at Indian Spring
and be a are entered in the Namandji
Nindj event for the Reeves Cup at
Indian Spring September 10.
Not long ago Cy Cummings Of
Columbia finished with brace of IS
at Columbia to win a golf match that
appeared lost. We've just found one
| that eclipSes the record of the tall
| sycamore from Montgomery County.
For Chick Evans Of Columbia is still
talking about the finish Clyde B. Asher
slipped over on him n few DAYS ago
II seems that Evans was up and 3 to
go on Asher, and appeared to have the
| match in the bag Until suddenly
Asher decided that the match was over
but IN his favor--and finished with
three brides in row to sink Evans on
the eighteenth green. Asher finished
z. 8, against par of 3. 4, to win
all three OF the holes. Evans says none
OF the brides was freaIish. either.
AChHr
tenth, laying his pitch shot l8 inches
| past the pin. His putt for on the
seventeenth was only two feet in length
and he holed a four ooter for a 3 on
the eighteenth. That is what we would
call consistently good iron play, for all
the pitch shots are difficult And they
came under pressure It's Just one Of
those habits Asher has. He don't travel
around to the big championships to
miss the lessons they teach.
hut here's one we claim would be
hard to beat Everett Eynon of Column
bia had two deuces in a row on the
sixteenth and seventeenth at Columbia
He holed good putt for the birdie 2
at the short sixteenth and then drove
on the seventeenth green from the
lower tee, to sink his putt for deuce.
Considerable conjecture is going the
rounds Of the local clubs as to how
many men among the six Washington
entrants in the national amateur cham
pionship will qualify for the match
play rounds. Most of the guesses
place the number of local qualitiers at
not more than two And the fore
casters think the Capital will be lucky
II 1t places two men in the match play
for the title. Mackenzie and Stevin-
son are old campaigners Both have
qualified before and they won't get
that Tightening Of the throat before
they start that hurts so many young
sters with games good enough to make
the grade.
Hufty and Houehton have each had
two bids at the championship and have
failed TO qualify Pitt and Diggcs on
the other nand, never have played IN
the championship And the pressure
will be heavy on them for golf history
shows 1t to be unusual for any man
no matter how good---to qualify on his
first nftnpaHf TT thou con tnr,,St hnci,