Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-15
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NTILL possessors Of record OF
more than a dozen exhibition
matches about Washington with
~ out defeat, j. Monro Hunter
and George Diffenbaugh, the
"big and little poison" combination OF
Indian Spring, are looking forward to
another victory next Sunday, when
they again meet the men they van
pushed yesterday in match at the
Washington Golf and Country Club.
Maurice j. Mccarthy, the intercol-
legiate champion, and w. r. McCallum
Of Washington, hope to turn the tables
on the famed Indian Spring duo In a
return match next Sunday, although
the task will be more difficult one on
the course OF the Indian Spring Club,
which Hunter and Diffenbaugh know
as cowboy knows his home range.
Meanwhile George ]. Voigt. North
and South amateur champion, and Ed
die Held, former transmisSissippi and
public links title holder, Snlarting under
a crushing defeat administered to them
yesterday by John @. Shorey, junior
Pitt, midatlantic amateur title holder,
wereN playing at Burning Tree today,
hoping to get back the touch for grass
greens, which was their downfall yes
terday.
Voigt and Held were downed almost
single handed by the splendid golf OF
young Shorey, who registered "a over
the rugged Bannockburn course on a
day when the atmosphere was heavy
and the turf so slow that the ball stop
ped where 1t hit.
The New York combination had just
come to Washington from Pinehurst.
where the shots to the greens are en-
tirely different from those to greens
about the Capital, and they lacked the
touch of proper play to grass greens,
losing to Shorey and Pitt by and 4.
Hunter and Diffenbaugh won from
Mccarthy and McCallum by 2 and l,
although they were dormie up play
ing the fifteenth hole.
With Voigt and Held at Burning Tree
today was John Dawson, travelling rep
resentative of a golf manufacturing
house. who is one of the Nations most
prominent amateur golfers. Dawson
also played the Bannockburn course
yesterday.
The match at washington with the
Indian Spring professionals paired
against the amateurs Of the local club
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quartet, scoring q IS to lead the four
players. Hunter had rs, while Nc
Carthy was II and McCallum rs. None
Of the four played good golf. for Diff
fenbaugh won the third and fourth
holes in par to go into a lead the
professionals never relinQuished. They
also won the seventh hole with a par
4, but Mccarthy won the ninth with
par 3, and the professionals turned
UP.
Hunter ran down a 30-foot putt on
the eleventh green for the only birdie
of the match to win the hole and he
also won the twelfth hole with a par
4. From this point all the holes through
the fourteenth were halved. But Nc
Carthy registered on the fifteenth
to win, and McCallum annexed the six
tenth, leaving the Indian Spring duo
dormie up. The seventeenth hole
was halved in SIS, and the match was
over. The return match next Sunday
will start at 2 o'clock.
Shorey was the star of the match
at BanYiockburn, playing the first nine
in IS, with he and Pitt turning up
on Voigt and Held. The latter pair
apparently were unable to negotiate the
heavy green's at Bannockburn. and had
AOoe etAI VOuNAA pICClACo dllO pulto.
Shorey won the second hole with a
birdie and the third with a par
4, while Voigt and Held won only the
hole on the outward journey when Held
sank 4-foot putt for birdie 2 at the
eighth. Pitt Clipped into the cup on
the tenth for birdie to win the
hole, and Shorey won the match with a
par on the fourteenth. Both matches
had fair sized galleries considering the
overcast day and heavy turf.
Two golf tournaments are scheduled
for tomorrow. The first event Of the
year for the Women's District Golf
Association will be played at Bannock-
burn. when neary twol-score woman
players from clubs about the Capital
will gather for miniature tournament.
In the afternoon members of the
Clinico-Pathological Society of Wash
ington are to compete in an 18-hole
medal play blind DOGGY event at the
Chevy Chase Club.
Morris Simon, winner of the initial