Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22
BY WALTER r. McCALLuM.

Il season about washington. Al
though he has failed to dom
mate the tournament spectrum as di
George ]. Voight during 1926 and 1922
Pitt is the only man in the Simon-pur
brigade who has been good enough q
win two tournaments about the Cap
ital this year. Indeed, Pitt and a. L
Houghton, the two Manor Club cru
saders in the amateur ranks. have beef
the outstanding figures in amateur sol
since Maurice J. Mccarthy left Wash
ington for New York.
With a tee shot stretched out by Il
yards, making him the longest amateur
hitter about the Capital. Pitt early gavt
evidenve that he was to be formid
able contestant in tournaments arounc
Washington when he registered u
over a slow course TO annex the quail
fying medal in the Town and Country
Club tourney. He did not win the event
but he gave sufficient evidence to fore
cast the fine showing he made in the
Chevy Chase tourney the following
week.
Pitt won the Chevy Chase event anc
last month annexed the championship
tourney of the Middle Atlantic Coll
Association. The Manor Club team
which included Pitt and Houghton, wor
the team championship of the Middle
Atlantic body. Although Houghton was
the victor in the Town and Country
Club event, he was unable to reach
the final round in other invitation
tournaments.
Here is the way the tournaments
about Washington have been won this
Spring:
washington Golf and Country Club
won hy Maurice J. Mccarthy.
Town and Country Club, won by A.
L. Houghtcn
Chevy Chase Club. won by Harry G
Pitt.
Indian Spring Golf Club, won by
Page Hufty.
Columbia Country Club, won by
Miller B. STEVENSON.
Middle Atlantic Golf Association
championship, won by Harry @. Pitt.
Houghton. STEVENSON. Second.
Houghton and STEVENSON should rank
second. although Houghton won the
qualifying round in two tournaments
Stevenson. however, was runner-up to
Pitt in the Chevy Chase event, where
the Manorite registered an approximate
20 to defeat the Columbia star.
Last year George Voigt played In
i've big tournaments about Washington,
winning them all in impressive FASH
fully defend the Middle Atlantic title,
which he had also won the previous
year. Pitt has not been able to dupii-
cate this winning streak. but by his
twin victories IN the Chevy Chase
event and the Middle Atlantic Golf AS
ISOLATION Championship he has estab-
liShed himself as the premier golfer of
the Spring season about the Capital.
Tommy Armouris tricky new wooden
putter, an exact duplicate of the club
which S. NJ Newton of Burning Tree
brought back with him from Scotland
has placed the congressional profes.
Elonal IN the ranks OF the truly great
putters. Never q tine putter before
Tommy has such confidence in the new
club that he is holing them from al
corners of the green. The club has q
concave face, so designed because its
makers claim no matter where the ball
is struck ON the face, 1t win run true to
the line. and Tommy has been doing
great execution with 1t. A Chicago
manufacturing firm borrowed Newton's
putter to make duplicates Of 1t for sale,
from Scotland.
Prefaeing the tourney announcement
with the statement that conflicting
claims as 70 golfing ability among the
tenants Of the National Press Building
are to be settled once and for all. the
management of the building today an
held at the Bannockburn Golf Club,
August 3.
The MANAGEMENT Of the building, :
the announcement said, has noted
with alarm the growth among its ten
ants Of an insidious spirit of discon-
tent and Questioning relating 10
the comparative merits Of the numerous
golfers who have their ofaces in Thu
building.
ITO check this possible serious con.
trCversy at its source, the building man.
agenlent has decided that only the mos
radical measures win be SUFFICIENT. and
therefore announces its first annua
tournament at the Bannockburn Col
Club on August 3. To serve as an en-.
during monument to the settlement o.
the controversy, the building manage
nlent Is providing trophy cup, which
will be engraved with the name Of thu
winner Of the tournament dow groS.
score for 10 holes1 and viii be perma
nentiy enshrined In the main lobby o.
the building"
All sorts Of prizes have been donate;
for the tourney. Including the following
Low gross score, low net score, Low
gross, first nine; low net, first nine; lov
gross. second nine; low net. second nine
most pars on 10 holes: most brides OF
10 holes: highest scores on four holes
70 be decided by the committee N,
player viii be awarded more than on
prize. All golfers having offces In d
employed IN the National Press Building
and all members Of the Press Club ar
invited 10 enter the tourney.
Committees have been announced a
follows: Handicap, @. w. McCarter, 2
w. Perkins. Walter B. vogeI Arrange
ments and prizes. c. B. Dies Jardins, L
3. Campbell, John w. Townsend, w
n Smith, Paul Wooton, Harvey s
Cobb, George 6choeneman. Informa
ton, James u. Preston. George r
Holmes Kirk Miller. Walter McCallum
Henry l. West, Francis Cronan, Rod
ney Thomas.
Close scrutiny of the qualifications 0
the contestants in the national amateu
championship is forecast by the deci
slon Of the championship committee I,
accept entries for the simon pure It'll
chase only from golfers who have goo'
tournament records For the first tim
in nearly = decade the committee ma
not accepted the recommendation o
the Middle Atlantic Golf Association
without question, although in previou
years the recommendation Of the sec
ttonal body-always cof1seryatiye--hs
been accepted. This year the commit
tee has ruled that Harry @. Pitt, tn
Middle Atlantic champion. and John {
Shorey, rtinner-up, viii have 10 sub
Hs.t their tournament records for entr
IN the national amateur, just as wi
scores of other players. who have nc
won big sectional events In additio
70 these men, Reid w. Dlggee If Ban
Hockburn, A. L. Houghton Of Mano
Frank X Roesch Of Washington an
Page Hufty Of Congressional. hope I
enter the tourney. All these will hay
10 submit tournament records
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