Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
HOME CLUB'SSTAR
VICTOR BY 3 AND z
Wins Second Invitation Event
in Four Years Despite
an Injured Finger.
By w. r. McCALLUM.
YOT often does the home club
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N star annex a golf tournament
VI OF his own club. This Is almost
/ traditional in the game of golf.
for Notwithstanding familiarity
with the home course the leading play
ers of any club frequently are dropped
out in the match play rounds of big
event.
But John C. shorey, the clever little
shot maker of Bannockburn, who is
universally accepted as being the best
player at the Glen Echo Club, knocked
tradition for cooked hat yesterday,
and stepped out to win the invitation
event Of his own club, outplaying Page
Hufty of, Congressional in the final
round of the Bannockburn Fall event
by and 2.
Reaching the final by and l
victory over John Thacker of Bannock-
burn while Hufty was forced to go 19
holes to down Comdr. William S. Pop
ham of Annapolis, Shorey early in the
match gave evidence of the skill and
familiarity with the course that was
to give him his second decision in the
Bannockburn tourney in four years. In
1925 he defeated George j. Voight in
the final, running down a 35-foot putt
over the eighteenth green to encompass
the downfall Of the former Washington
star.
Yesterday he quickly served notice
that he was not to be trif1ed with, for
he uncorked a crashing tee shot at
the first hole that reached the green
300 yards away-and holed out for a
winning birdie 3. He also won the
third hole to become up before the
fighting Hufty decided to take matters
in hand. and winning the fourth hole
with par 4, squared the match with
a birdie 8 at the fifth.
At this point of the final 1t appeared
that Shorey had shot his bolt, for he
had shanked a mashie shot at the
fourth and took three puts on the
fifth green. An injured finger on the
left hand did not help his game. par
ticularly his iron shots. for he said he
iinched from applying the proper punch
to the irons.
Three in Row for Shorey.
After the sixth was halved Shorey
won three holes in row, annexing the
seventh when Hufty had an unplayable
lie behind a rock, the eighth with the
aid of stymie, and the ninth after
Hufty's apparently well hit shot,
trickled over the edge Of the green.
Three up at the turn, Shorey ap-
peared almost certain to win the tenth,
but here Hufty's run-up shot hit a
depression in the fairway and stopped
almost dead. He did well to get a half
in 6. At the short eleventh Shorey's
pitch shot hit short of the ditch in
front Of the green and bounced mer-
rily over onto the putting surface.
where he was able to obtain half in
par IS.
Shorey became up at the twelfth,
where Hufty took three puts, but the
Bannockburn lad dropped the short
fourteenth, hitting q tree with his tee
shot and pitching his second shot into
the ditch, finally conceding Hufty the
hole. At this point Shorey stood up
and the fourteenth was halved in par
Is. But Hufty had a four-foot putt
missed his bid for 3, and again
Shorey's ball stymied that of Hufty.
The Congressional lad was unable to
| play his ball around that of the Ban.
| nockburn ace and win with 8.
Dormie 3 up Shorey holed three
| foot putt on the sixteenth green to
bring the contest to an end. At the
close of the match Shorey had par
for n.
Hufty Pressed by POpham.
Shorey had comparatively little trou-
| BILE winning the semi-final from John
Thacker, but Hufty was one down with
one to play to Condr. Popha1. At the
eighteenth Popham obligingly topped
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match with a par 4. At the extra
hole Hufty hit a low hook which
brought up pin high at the left of the
green, but Popham hit perfect tee
shot. Unfortunately his ball kept right
on running and, missing the pin by
| inches, it ran far over the green. His
,, second shot was badly hit and his third
shot was over the green. With Hufty
| lying dead in three shots, Popham pick
ed up his bali and conceded the hole
and match.
The cards of the final round. with
par for the course follow: