Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-13

score. and should be good enough
10 win any amateur golf match
~ particularly over such a hare
course 10 score on as that of The
Washington Golf and Country Club
Yet Rudolph r Hsrrell of Washing
ton registered 20 Wednesday and was
Just three down to Frank X. RoeSch
the club champion,
Just at the time Harren got hot
RoeSch got hotter and the slim
young chap who is one of the outstand-
ing golfers about the city cracked out
q SO. one under the par Of 70 for the
difficult Virginia layout Frank was
out in SIS and back in 50, the first time
he has broken 20 this year. The score,
however, is three strokes above the
course record OF &c held by Maurice j.
Mccarthy.
Several times within the past few
weeks RoeSch has been flirting with
scores below TO- He has turned III sew
eral cards around that mark, and nu-
merouS scores below rs. Heartened by
the power and accuracy Of his game
this year. the youngSter hopes TO have
his entry in the national amateur
championship accepted for the title tilt
in September. and intends TO go after
low scores in order that his handicap
may be brought down to the limit of
three adopted by the United States Golf
Association as one Of the requirements
for entry.
Roesch learned his game on the
course of the old KirkSide Golf Club.
which is now partially covered by real
estate development. He joined the
Washington Golf and Country Club
three years ago and has won the club
title for the past two years. In 1926
when George Voigt was at the height
of his local winning streak RoeSch
stopped him in the Columbia tourney,
winning the match 3 and 2 to hand
Noigt one Of the two defeats he Sus
tanned that year. John c. Shorey adj
nliniStered q defeat TO Voigt later in
the year. but the former Bannockhurn
star has not been defeated since that
time in a match play event in which
he has qualified.
So II Roeschs entry in the amateur
Championship is accepted. washington
will have six or seven men in the simon
pure title chase. for Roland R. Mac
kenzie and Miller B. STEVENSON are al
ready eligible: Harry G. Pitt and John
c. Shorey have been recommended for
eligibility. and probably A. L. Hough-
ton and Page Hufty will again attempt
to make the grade.
Members Of the Bannockhurn Golf
Club are competing during July and
August in two ringer Journeys for men
and women. The man players have
been divided into three classes, Glass
A having handicaps from scratch TO IA;
Class B with handicaps between Il and
Il, and Class all those with handi-
caps over 81. The woman members
are competing in ringer event with
out handicaps. The 72-hole medal
play event for the Tom Moore cup at
Bannockburn ends July %.
Two months ago S. E. Godden's golf
clubs were stolen from the rear seat of
his automobile And Golden, who ad-
mitted he couldn't use them anyway.
decided If some one liked them better
than he did. he should give up golf for
a while. He did. and his associates at
the Washington Golf and Country
Club missed him.
The other day we found him at Ban
nockburn, playing a round Of golf with
three business friends. He was enthu-
siastic about golf. and now believes he
will take it up again. He has been
presented with a new kit Of iron clubs
which he proclaims the best in the
land. and has found them so much to
his liking that he tied a few days ago
for first place in a blind DOGGY tourney
at Marion, Ohio, with score Of Sc.
Barred from competing in the exhi-
bition match at the Town and Country
Club Saturday by an accident to his
hand which resulted from too intimate
acquaintanceship with the business end
Of an oscillating electric fan, Fred Nc
Leod, diminutive Columbia professional,
will referee the exhibition match at
Indian Spring on Sunday in which j.
Monro Hunter and George Difenbaugh
will oppose the English duo of Archie
Compston and Aubrey Boomer.
Fred attempted to shut of an electric
fan and got his hand mixed up with
the blades, with the result that deep
cash was cut in the deShy part of it.
Five stitches were necessary to close
the wound. With such a painful in
Jury he is unable TO play golf, and Bob
Barnett OF Chevy Chase has been sub
stituted as a partner for Arthur b.
Thorn in the exhibition match at the
Town and Country Club Saturday after.
noon against Tommy and Sandy Ar
mour Of Congressional.
Barnett and Thorn have played fire.
cuently together and should make
strong pair against the ArmourS.
Hunters diligent practice with the
iron clubs in advance Of the forthcom-
ing exhibition is having results, Tor the
Indian Spring professional, whose irOr
play has been of form all Spring, Is
sticking them close 10 the pin. He mas
been practicing with his irons at least
three hours a day for several days. III
an attempt u straighten out the KINKS
Of his iron play this year. Dinenoaugf
has been a help in the Strengthening
out process, for Hunter Is man WIFE
sn open mind, and holds tnat am
u,ayer may fall into faults which car
hardly be detected by himself. but car
be found by some one else who knoWi
the golf swing
George Won Elm recently won tn
championship Of the Detroit distrlct
and III winning the tourney found IN
involuntary aid Of stray Boston null
dog AZ Won Elm putted on the nintf
green In the final round the dog RAJ
across the green and pushed the pal
with It's nose, moving the PeIet 81
inches nearer the cup Won Elm piaye'
his putt from where the ball hal
stopped, claiming that the moving o
the bali by the dog was simply ''ruI
q the green"
Many in the gallery thought the bal
should have been replaced but Won
Elm stuck N his point and vas sus
tanned by the committee IN charge
Section ] u rule II says that II a bal
81 motion be- DETECTED DY an agenc
outside the match it shall be piaye
from where II lies.