Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Barrett, Fuchs, Robertson Make
District Municipal Golf Team

THERE was entered in the quail.
flying round for the national
public links championship tour
ney at East Potomac Park
Yesterday a giant of a man who
stands exactly feet tall, and VINO was
a possible qualifier for the washington
team until he ran into peck of troyble
over the third nine holes. The man Is
W. K Wimsatt, giant who overtors
his fellow golfers by many inches, ana
who weighs well over the 200 pound
mark.
Win1satt scored a 70 for his first round
at East Potomac yesterday, but the heat
got to him over the second round ana
he was unable to keep up the pace.
While the scores made at East
Potomac Park and Rock Creek Park
yesterday in the SO hole tests to de-
termine the personnel fthe four-men
team to represent the Capltal In the
national tourney were higher than those
made in other years, there were very
cogent reasons for them.
In the first place a sitting heat beat
down from overhead, slightly tempered
by breeze at East Potomac Park, but
unalleviated at Rock Creek Park, where
most of the play is between rows OF
trees which cut off the breeze. The
putting greens at both courses were OF
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impossible to pitch to them.
Fuchs Sinks Long Pstt.
At East Potomac Park, James B.
Robertson, a clerk in the City Post
Office. was the first man to qualify,
turning in a card of 77-79-156. Louis
Fuchs, who used to be messenger boy
for The Star, and now is employed by
a building association as a bookkeeper,
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one with a chance to tie RobertSon'S
mark, after Ralph Bonnie and Robert
Burton, two of the early leaders had
failed over the last 10 holes and turned
in cards of 159 and 1911, respectively.
Fuchs came to the last hole with a to
tie Robertson, and even though he
topped his tee shot, he holed 20-foot
putt for q birdie to tie at 1855.
Walter Barrett, who used to play at
the Argyle Country Club, led the feld
for 81 holes at Rock Greek Park, and
a 43 for SO hole total of $50 made
UP of two 75s. Barrett scored rs over
the morning round and was out in 80 in
the afternoon.
Joseph F. Phelan and B. H. Burrows
came in late in the afternoon with
scores of 1873 to tie for the last place
at Rock Greek Park. They were to play
OH UI1e Tie LIllS dlGGEnOOU.
With four men to qualify from the
Capital-two from each public course
the expense of only two of the quartet
are definitely guaranteed to the ma
tional tourney at st. Louis. S. G. Leoff-
ler concessionnaire of the public course,
has guaranteed to pay the expenses of
two Of the contestants, which will run
about $135 each. The expenses of the
other two must be raised in some other
To-, II DY-nc 1o1
public link committeeman for the
United States Golf Association, is hope
full the money may be raised to send
the entire team of four men to st.
Louis. The Harding cup is played for
annually by four-man teams represent
ing each city which sends delegates to
the public links championship.
Most of the contestants at both
courses complained of the hard-putting
greens, to which 1t was almost i'm
possible to pitch the ball. Particularly
at East Potomac Park was this true,
for at this course the greens are built
with a hump in the middle in order
that they may be played to from two
directions After the ball got over this
hump it was very hard to stop.
Francis Horton Picks UP.
Bonnie and Fuchs we're tied with 76s
for the lead at East Potomac In the
morning round. Behind them came
Robertson with II, Burton with 70 and
w. c. Lawrence, Harry Ktdder and
Wimsatt with 79s. One by one they all
blew, largely over the first nine OF the
final round, until Robertson came IN
with a 10 and total of 1855. That
left Fuchs the only man out who could
tie and the youngster rose to the oc-
casion by holding the tieing putt on
the last green. Francis Horton, the
interscholastic title-holder, was one OF
the many who picked up his ball.
Barrett, who is brick mason and
lives at Silver Spring, Md, was in the
lead all the way at Rock Greek Park
He had his bad moments over the last
nine, however, when 1t appeared he
might be beaten But Phelan and
Burrows also had their troubles and his
total of $50 stood up. Phelan missed
a 6-foot putt on the final green to win
the place with a total of 152.
Down at East Potomac several OF
the competitors played their tee shots
from the grass on the sides OF the tees