Evening star., 1929-10-12
COLUMBIA TOURNEY
BRINGS FIREWORKS
CornWeII Shoots Ace to Beat
Trains Two-FrizzeII
Wins the Medal.

w YHAT would you think If you
n stuck wooden club shot
wv right up alongside the pin
at a tough 225-yard hole?
S You would be entitled to a
faint suspicion you might win that hole,
and feel bit better as you completed
a possible win of the match in an i'm
portant contest, wouldn't you?
But what would you think If your
opponent, not a bit disturbed by such
a fine shot, which looked like a sure
deuce on this same tough par affair,
swung his shoulders into brassie shot
that holed out for an ace? That is ex-
actly what happened on the fourth hole
at Columbia yesterday, where Comdr. II.
G. Train knocked his tee shot within
feet of the hole and walked away from
the tee, comforting himself with the
probability that he might win the hole.
Up stepped H. King Cornwell Of the
happy smile and kindly disposition and,
not a bit daunted by the fine shot made
by the naval officer, not only put his
holed the doggone thing for an ace.
Gets Stymie on Tenth.
But all was not yet over with Corn
well. That ace must have stirred him
up, for after putting his second shot in
the big trap in front Of the seventh
green, he almost holed his niblick shot
from the sand and actually won the
hole with a 4, even though Trains sec
ond shot was on the green. And that
wasn't all. To make the day glorious
dream of October for Cornwell, he ne
gotiated stymie on the tenth hole, ex-
tricating himself from position where
1t seemed certain he would lose the
hole.
And w. Carlton Evans had no fewer
than four stymies within the short
space Of 20 holes, with each one costing
him the hole. And a player took four
puts on that seventh green to halve a
hole he should have won by two strokes.
I'VE withhold the name in PITY. And
Lou Laudick found that trees offer no
obstacles to well hit shots, for he played
two Of them through trees at the second
and fourth holes in his match with
Everett Eynon. And Paul j. Frizzell.
who won the medal with a fine rs,
blasted his way through two matches
to reach the seni-flnal.
All these things happened in that first
day Of match play In. the Columbia
Country Club championship, q day of
golf which brought Miller B. Stevinson,
Paul j. Frizzen, Clyde B. Asher and j.
B. Murphy to the semi-final round.
What hectic day 1t was, with Ipsets
galore scattered through all the matches.
Some one complained to George p.
James, chairman Of the Columbia golf
committee, that there were not enough
prizes to go round. And there were not
by Just half the field. For 96 players
qualified in the six flights and there were
43 prizes. They extended down to the
beaten eight, the beaten four and the
beaten twoS. The only ones who act
ually lost out were those who lost all
their matches, and that wasn't sched-
uled to happen until this afternoon.
For the champion there is the Mclean
trophy, and the other trophies were do
mated as follows: Second flight. e.
Baines; third flight, ]. e. Shoemaker;
fourth flight, Herbert T. Shannon; NTH
fight. board Of governors; sixth flight.
Karl w. Corby in memory Of Charles
I. Corby.
Meanwhile a small field Of entrants
out at Congressional were having the
time Of their lives rolling up fam
taStically high scores in the qualifying
round OF the club championship, which
found Page Hufty, the defending title
holder, registering an inglorious 80 to
lead In the medal round. To some
people 30 would be o fine score and
especially over such hard course as
Congressional. But to Page it was
nothing more nor less than pain In
the neck. For the Congressional title
holder was out in 81. Over that last
nine holes he had no fewer than i've
S-putt green's and one 4-putt affair. In
other words Hufty had seven too many
puts, not counting his performance on
the short sixteenth, where he put his
tee shot in q. trap and got never
theleSS. Hufty took 43 for that last
nine holes, three putting the tenth,
eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth
and seventeenth and taking four puts
on the thirteenth, when it seemed that
the apex of all trouble had been
reached. He was on the tenth In three
shots and took 6, on the eleventh in
one shot and got good 4, on the
twelfth in three shots and took 6,
but why 60 on with the story. It's
just too awful to relate. Anyhow, Hufty
led the field and Parker Nolan was
three strokes back Of him with SO. The
cards turned in were so few that there
were not quite enough to make I'D two
full flights, so the other starters had
their troubles, too. And they are out
there battling through the match play
rounds today. Hufty should successfully
defend his championship, for on the
strength Of yesterdays scores, no man
in the field can come close to the Con-
gressional sharpshooter.