Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-12
BOBBY IS FAVORED
| BYLUCK IN DRAW
Voigt's Brilliant 143 Wins
MedaI-AII Washington AS
pirants Eliminated.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.
BRAE BURN COUNTRY CLUB, Bos-
ton. Mass. September 12.-It looks as
if the golfing fates or the luck of the
draw or what have you. all seem to
turn to the direction of Bob Jones, the
reigning emperor of amateur golf.
Bob is in what should be soft spot
today as the first and second rounds
of match play in the thirty-second
edition of the national amateur cham
pionship move through their thrills
and sorrows, and even though the young
lawyer from Atlanta isn't overly keen
for 18-hole match play rounds. he
through the opposition that will face
him today.
Nor is he in the tough half of the
draw for the pairings are top heavy,
unless the lads in the back room con-
slider Ouimet. Johnston and Knepper
championship possibilities. Ouimet fades
toward the third day. Knepper never
has been a championship possibility
and Johnston doesn't seem to last.
But up in the top half of the draw
there are such tough lads as Won
Elm. conceded No. 2; George Voigt.
who won the medal yesterday with the
amazingly low total of 143; Tommy
Perkins, the British amateur champion
Chick Evans and Jess Sweetser.
That bunch is not crowd to trifle
with, and again the lad from Atlanta.
had gotten the break. If he met one
of these in the abbreviated pair of 49,
hole matches that constitute the cham
pionship menu today, his crown might
be knocked off. Instead he draws j.
| Walcott Brown. from down New Jersey
way, in the first round, and then should
meet the veteran Ray Gorton of Brae
Burn in the second round. The skids
are apparently we'll creased for another
Jones march to the semi-final at least.
BY that time the Atlanta lad should
have gotten his game into high gear.
1t certainly has not been hitting on all
eight so far.
Voigt the Star Thus Far.
George Voigt is the star of this cham
pionship so far The ex-holder of the
Middle Atlantic title and present Dis
| trict champion, who is a member of the
Bannockburn Club, yesterday swung his
usually impeccable game to greater
| heights than he ever has reached in
winning the qualifying medal with an
| other marvellous round. For Voigt added
70 to his II of the previous day to
nose out Harrison r. Johnston of ST.
Paul by one stroke. George has failed
to qualify in two championships over
the last two years. Some said it was
because a whispering campaign was
aimed at MIN. That was bunk, of
course, for he failed because he didn't
plav we'll enough.
But up here in staid old Boston. the
! insidiouS voices of the whispering bril-
| gade. or whatever the trouble was,
didn't seem to function, for George led
the first day and never was headed.
His machine-like game never functioncd
more perfectly than it did yesterday to
click off 70 after trying on the
first hole, and he ended in spectacular
fashion by canning 20-footer for a
birdie at the eighteenth. That birdie
was just the margin by which he beat
lad nearly holed his putt for 3 also
Voigt and Johnston Monday were tied
at II for the lead. And when Voigt
started with on the first hole it
looked as If Johnston might be the
medaliSt. for here Voigt hooked to a
trap. put his second in a water hazard,
Clipped on the green after taking a
penalty stroke and got down in two
puts He partially atoned FOR his mis-
take by getting birdie 4 at the long
fifth. and although he dropped shot
to par at the ninth. was out in 81
Coming back. however. Voigt was i'm
peccability itself, for he started with a
birdie at the tenth. got another birdie
4 at the long fifteenth. went one over
on the seventeenth and sank a 90
footer for birdie at the home hole.
Had Voigt's bali kicked naturally
toward the hole at the seventeenth. he
might have tied the record for the ma
tional amateur championship qualifying
round, held jointly by D. Clarke Cork
ran and Bob Jones. But his ball kicked
away from the hole and he took a 4
on this par hole. Corkran won the
medal with 142 in 1924 and Jones tied
this mark last year at Minikahda.
Unknown Five Years Ago.
! Voigt's victory is more or less a golf
epic. For five years ago this lad was not
known at all outside of Washington and
only little known in the city in which
he grew to manhood. In those days he
was Government clerk. repairing type
writer's in the Treasury Department at
small salary and playing golf before
and after office hours. He had been a
caddie on the old course. of the Column
bia Country Club, but gave up the game
when Columbia moved over to Chevy
Chase, to take it up again in 1921, when
the first real public course was opened
in Washington at East Potomac Park
Here he worked and shaved over his
game. reaching the peak of local public
| links golf
In 1925 he became a member of Ban
nockburn, and then started a winning
streak that has continued uninterrupted
! IN the nreSpnt time He has UOr cOy,oc
thing like "a tournaments with but one
defeat. and that came last Spring at
| the hands of George Dawson. His rise
to national prominence speaks volumes
for his asSiduity and will to win and
likewise the character of golf around
Washington, for he was tempered in the
| fire of competition around the Capital
! before moving out to larger fields Voigt
now is employed by New York bond
house. and is said to be doing we'll.
Not one of the entrants from clubs
about Washington made the grade in
the medal round. Harry Pitt had the
| best chance. but ran into a piece of
the toughest kind of luck on the last
hole. Voigt and Maurice McCarthy
have played lots of golf around WASH
ington. but neither is entered from a
Washington club.
Even though Harry Pitt was far wide
OF qualifying in the final tally of the
score. the margin by which he failed
was little wider than a gnat's eyelash.
For had his ball found a favorable lie
on the bank of ditch alongside the
eighteenth fairway the chances are
the Middle Atlantic champion from the
Manor Club would have crashed
through with the he needed on the
home hole to tie at 157 with seven
others hos