Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-11

TT begins to look like Page Hufty
year, insofar as this business OF
tournament golf is concerned.
A The SPLENDID young SHOEMAKER
from Congressional, who has won
his own club championship for the last
three years. has resumed where he left
of last year and has stepped into the
winning groove again. Yesterday he
scored his first major victory OF the
current golf hysteria by winning the
Town and Country Club tournament,
defeating in the final John G. Shorey
Of Bannockburr1, 4 and 3, in FL holes.
Shorey had the match in the bag on
the second extra hole, after Narrowly
missing short putt on the nineteenth
that would have given him the victory:
A putt of less than four feet stood
between Shorey and his second victory
in the Town and Country Club tourney
in three years. And as his bid for o.
winning four on the twentieth extra
hole slid by the edge of the cup he must
have realized that he wouldn't get
chance like that again.
A much improved Hufty won the
tournament by a margin no bigger than
q gnat's eyelaSh. And in waning 1t IS
plain to be seen that Page, even though
mechanically he is far better golfer
than he was last year, has yet to realize
good as a win. For he took a wooden
club on the fifteenth hole when an iron
would have done as we'll and q lengthy
mutt enabled Shorey to win the hole
after Hufty had missed shot In the
yielding sand furnished by Sam Leidy.
Hufty outgolfed Harry G. Pitt, the
nidatlantic amateur title holder, to go
into the final against Shorey who mao
downed j. J. Lynch OF Argyle IN
ding dong battle.
Gets Big Lead.
And then Hufty started out against
Shorey by winning three OF the flrst
six holes. The index to what might
have followed came on the 23O-yard
fifth. where Hufty poked q wooden club
shot within 10 feet of the hole and
knocked the ball in for birdie z.
Then at the long sixth he laid MD
lick shot we'll inside Of Shoreys splen-
did effort and holed the putt to win
with another birdie. His third consecu-
tive birdie came at the 300-yard sew
enth. where Hufty holed l5-footer Tor
a 3. and the Congressional lad was up.
But an end had to come to this string
of brides, and it came on the short
eighth, where Hufty exploded from the
sand within feet of the hole and blew
the putt for the half. Shorey also won
the ninLn WITH a par H "AACh AAAASS
missed a 4-footer.
Hufty looked like certain winner
when he won the first and fourth TO
become 4 up, with to play. But the
6reworks were to come. First, Shorey
holed one of 20 feet on the fourteenth
and then Hufty foled a 10-footer for
a half in 3. Then Hufty, playing to
get home in 2 at the fifteenth and nm
ish the match, put one In the ounkel
and lost the hole to a par 5. He blew
a Scooter at the sixteenth to finish the
match, and Shorey took heart: Shorey
knocked in a 25-footer at the Shor'
seventeenth to win, with birdie 2
with Hufty's ball hanging on the liz
of the cup. That left Hufty needing
a half to win on the eighteenth and
he missed his putt for the 4, while
Shorey holed a 4footer to square.
Shorey Misses Chance.
60 they went on to the nineteenth
u was halved in As, although Shorey
nearly blew q 2-footer. And Shorey:
big chance came at the twentieth
where he laid a niblick pitch fee
from the hole, while Hufty's like wa!
10 feet short.
But John blew it, and as he did s.
Tire smile of a good sportsman over
spread his face. Perhaps he knew tina
putt was his last chance. Anyhow