Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-14
HARRY SHOOTS Il
= TO TAKE LAURELS
Horton Smith Brilliant in
! Exhibition, but He and
DiegeI Lose.


IA broken another course record.
4 A On any, course but that Of the
Manor Club Harry might not
have had the same incentive to do
bit Of record-busting of his own, but
It hardly would have been chubby to
have the Manor Club record held by
an outsider even when that outsider
happened to be the king pin of all the
local amateurs-the popular Miller B.
STEVENSON Of Columbia.
On May 10 last "Stevie" played in
an exhibition match at Manor with
Harry Pitt as a partner, against Fred
Mcleod and AL Treder. The amateurs
trimmed the pros, and in doing 1t Stew
inson set q course record of 70. That
mark stood " ! q few days ago when
Harry Pitt, probably Stevinson's most
serious rival for top ranking locally
stepped out, entirely unheralded, and
uncorked a form fitting II, which set
the former mid-Atlantic title holder up
as the record holder for bis home club
and thereby brought back to the Manor
Club a temporarily furnished record.
Not that the ~ made by STEVENSON
was a bit furnished, for he made 1t in
q rain, and on q day when the course
was very slow. But all clubs like to
feel that their own men are best over
their own course, and Manor, with
man like Harry Pitt, had q right to
feel that something was a bit askew
when another amateur held the record.
So Cooking AIRY" who now has be-
come Straight driving Harry" thanks
to the kind ministrations Of G. I.
Putnam of Columbia, now Is the holder
of the course record at Manor. He
did 1t with SO and IS, and, may we
add, with due humbleness, that II is
quite q score at Manor. The fellows
who have played that first nine, with
its tree-lined fairways, know 1t Is, and
the last nine, even though 1t Is wide
open, Is no mans cinch.
incidentally, Manor came near hav-
ing to leave that title in Stevinson'S
hands. Harry Pitt went down to the
old home Of Ed Baxter in North Caro-
lima last week and was thrown out OF
the boat while on q fishing trip. Bax-
ter said he had to struggle to get him
back, because 1t was a hot day and
Pitt liked the water so well.
Horton Smiths first visit to Wash
hgton was a complete success. From
the time the tall, slim Missourian I'M
linhered his frame at the Indian
Spring Club yesterday to the moment,
Dave Shay put him on a New York
train early today the Joplin marvel
had grand and glorious day.
Probably the best part Of the day to
him, and certainly to the 600-odd per-
sons who saw him perform, was the
sterling II he registered over the long
and hard layout of the Indian Spring
Club yesterday, to outplay the other
three professionals, who teamed in an
exhibition match for the benefit OF
Bobby McWatt, ailing Richmond pro-
fessional. Before the match started
the four professionals had an under
standing that the contest was merely
q best ball affair, but Horton must not
have heard their remarks. Anyhow,
he putted out on all the holes and
scored IL for the course, which is
exactly par.
But Notwithstanding the uncannily
accurate and Jones.Eke golf of the
Missouri star and French open title
holder he and his partner, Leo D1egel,
were not good enough to win. They
were trounced, and soundly trounced,
by the best ball combination OF j.
Monro Hunter of Indian Spring and
Glenn S. Spencer of the Maryland
like well oiled machinery, these two
sargantuan hitters, for the first time
in their acquaintanceship, went out
without the sole thought of one out
hitting the other, and with this thought
firmly implanted. they played inspired
golf.
II Hunter failed, Spencer was there.
And If the Baltimore siege gun faltered,
his partner was in there, putting for
the birdie or the par The result was
that they shot a best ball of IS for the
something few people can claim to have
done, and incidentally taking the
measure Of Smith and Diegel by )
and 2.
There was no doubt about the merit
of the victory of Hunter and Spencer,
even though many folks thought they
couldn't do It, They teamed together
admirably and on the whole they
could not have played better best
ball game than they showed yesterday.
Two Great Shots.
Out of the medley of great golf shots,
contributed by all of the quartet, and
the outstanding steadiness OF Horton
Smith, two great shots stand out. one
of them came from the mashie niblick
of Monro Hunter and the other came
from the we'll lofted spoon OF Diegel.
On the fourth hole Hunter had pushed
his tee shot far to the right, behind one
of those spruce trees that fringe the
right side of the fairway. He had to
get the ball up quickly and had to hold
the green. So well did he play 1t that
he laid 1t less than foot from the hole.
The putt was conceded, and the flrst
birdie of the match was scored.
That shot enabled Hunter and Spen-
Ger to 20 into q lead for the first time,
q lead that was wiped out when Diegel
nearly drove to the eighth green-385
yards away-to win the hole with q
birdie 3. They were square going to the
ninth and they halved that and the
tenth in par. But then Spencer. who
had not figured in any holes with the
exception Of the first, second and sew
ertf, decided 1t was about time to get
in the game. A 25-foot putt ratified
Off his aluminium putter against the
bottom Of the tin for q birdie 3, and
Hunter and Spencer were up. From
then on there was nothing to 1t but
Hunter and Spencer.
But before we pass on we must say q
word about the prod1gious tee shot
Spencer ilncorked on that eleventh hole
It measures 3S5 yards-and 1t wasn't
measured with a rubber tape. Spencer
hit a ball that finally stopped rolling 10
yards short Of the trap in front OF the
green. That crack must have been 500
yards. Hunter got back Of one at the
seventh, knocking 1t 800 yards.
Then Hunter holed 3 20-footer for
half at the twelfth. and won the
CnlrteenLn VIII EpioAe D. P.tUeHns e.,s
home lads 2 up. The short fourteenth
was halved In par IS. and Spencer wor
the fifteenth with q birdie 4. That lefi
the home defenders dormie 3 up, and
they quickly closed the gap at the Ions
sixteenth, where Spencer again rammec
in q putt for q birdie 4 after getting In
a bunker with his second shot.
Here Diegel played the other out
standing shot OF the match. His te'
shot was pulled to the edge OF thu
rough. Knowing he had to get on thu