Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
Maj. Bradley Proves His Pluck,
But Loses Tight Links Battle

TIME bat cracked smartly, driving
the horsehide In high arc over
second base. The ball appeared
| i destined to drop between second
base and the deep-playing GEN.
ter fielder.
With the crack of the willow the tall
awkward appearing fielder leaped into
action. He nearly overran the ball and
in pulling up shortly sat down suddenly
The bail fell into his outstretched
| glove.
Meanwhile runner was rounding
third base The outf1elder had no time
to arise from a sitting posture. From
| a spot many feet back of second base
he flung that ball squarely into the
catcher'S mitt and the runner was out.
"A game guy" yelled the West Point
supporters, What a catch! AND what
throw!"
/ The chorus of commentator for the
feat of the outfielder was unanimous
/ The scene was the diamond far up the
! Hudson at West Point and the man
/ who made the catch and the great
| thrown was Cadet o. N. Bradley Team
mates and the man who saw that per-
| Torrance still relate tales Of the game
ness of this loose jointed Army man.
! Yesterday that same man. grown to
!
outclassed by his opponent and fighting
against superior skill and golf ability,
| battled with such telling effect that he
carried the defending title holder to the
| thirty fifth green in the final round OF
| the Army golf championship al the
| Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country
Club. To one who saw them play. 1t
was plain that Lieut.. E. A. Baldwin Of
the I'd Corps Area was the better golfer.
1 lHk NV-rf0 h 4 n
| irons and apparently better putter.
Baldwin would have won his second
consecutive Army championship by a
half dozen holes had he been pitted
against man with less iron in his
soul than Maj. Bradley of Fort Ben
ming. Ga. But the Infantry never
quits.
Bradley Carries On.
Mud and high water may hold them
back. but they dig in and keep fighting.
So did Bradley. Outdriven from nearly
every tee, the erstwhile West Point
outfielder fought back with all the
pertinacity of the Army mule. At one time
he seemed certain to catch his power
full opponent, and then was beaten back
before the battling skill of better
golfer and younger man; He might
have won but for an extraordinarily
tenth green, where his ball, plainly
destined to overrun the green, struck
the flagstaff and lay near enough to
the hole to give him putt at birdie.
Bradley's plucky fight brought no
discredit to Baldwin. The harder
Bradley fought. the harder Baldwin
fought back, even when he lost two
holes in row from the ninth to see
his three-hole margin cut dwon to one.
iS q lin11t0nQnf from
the I'd Corps Area, with headquarters
at Governors Island. Bradley Is
Regular Army major, stationed at the
Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.
Both men are powerful hitters, and
good putters. Baldwin won the title
last year in the tournament at Chevy
Chase. Both shot IT'S over the first
round with Baldwin leading by single
hole. But Bradley took three puts on
the fourth and eighth to reach the
ninth down. He scored IS on both
the ninth and tenth to cut Baldwin'S
margin to a single hole. But Baldwin
won the eleventh with a birdie 3, and
got half at the thirteenth by laying
a pitch shot nearly dead from the
woods. He then drove to the edge
of the fourteenth green and won this
335-yard hole with birdie 8, putting
him 2 up.
Pitch Shot Hits Pin.
Bradley's bid for birdie hit the
cup on the fifteenth and stayed out.
And on the sixteenth Baldwin'S pitch
shot struck the pin and left him with
a putt for birdie, instead of over
running the green. Dormie up.
Baldwin put his ball on the green at
the short seventeenth, and Bradley
put his ball inside that of his opponent.
Bradley made gallant bid for his
putt, but the ball curved to the left
at the last instant and stayed out,
giving Baldwin the match by, and 1.
The consolation final was won by
Capt. j. T. Menzie of Fort Riley,
Kans., who defeated Maj. e. S. Hughes
of Washington, 4 and 8. Maj. Hughes
lost his ball on the fifteenth hole, to
lose the deciding hole to Menzie.
Harry G. Pitt of the Manor Club is
the second ranking amateur in the DIS
trict of Columbia. Declining to play
off a tie for aAcOnd Mace with Frank