Evening star., 1929-10-28

w YHAT would you think if you
~ had battled your opponent
wv to draw for 35 holes of a
36-hole final round for q
club championship, and then.
Just as you were preparing to sock that
ball a mile and grab winning birdie.
you topped your ball into an impossible
lie in ditch and lost the match and
the championship? And particularly If
shot on the hole before which enabled
you to get half on a hole that seemed
irretrtevably lost.
All those things happened to Leo F.
Pass yesterday in the final of the club
championship at Bannockburn, which
was won by Leo's little playmate and
scrappy golfer, William l.. (BilD
PendergaSt. Bill won the championship
four years ago and for one reason or
another each time the championship
tourney was played in the intervening
years Bill was out of the city. Fore
seeing the possibility of the same thing
occurring this year, Bill looked up the
calendar early in the year, and arrang-
ed that he would be in town when the
title chase was scheduled. He figured
well, for yesterday he won the title
after one of the most dogged fights in
the history of golf at Bannockburn.
And what a scrap it was. Bill and
Leo were all even at the seventeenth
hole In the first round. Bill won the
eighteenth to become / up at the turn
They had medal scores Of 70 and n
And they were all even at the twenty
seventh again, both playing fine golf
and fighting. They halved the long
tenth in par, and Pendergast won the
short eleventh with par 3, and they
split the long twelfth in par. Fighting
hard to get even, Leo won the short
thirteenth with par when Pender-
CASTS ball found the ditch. They
split the difficult fourteenth, and
Pendergast dropped the short fifteenth
when he lost his ball in the woods al
the right. And Leo, not to be outdone
in courtesy, lost his ball at the left on
the long sixteenth and the match was
square again.
At the seventeenth 1t looked as II
Pendergast was to become dormie up
for he put his ball on the green from
the tee while Leo's tee shot was in the
ditch. But Leo played great shot
after taking a penalty stroke, a shot
that nearly holed out for q 3, and Bill
took three puts and they halved the
hole in fourS.
Then. came that eighteenth, where
Leo tried to pole one mile and possibly
get o winning birdie. Instead Of meet
ing the ball on the nose he topped it
and the sphere rolled into the ditch. He
played out the string, but the best he
could get was q s and Bill won the hole
with par 4.
Pendergast won the championship In
1925 and Pass won 1t in 1925 and 1927.
Last year w. J.. Strobel annexed the
title, and this year Pendergast won 1t
again, tying with Pass for the honor of
having won 1t twice.
Another match, almost as good as
that in the first flight, came in the
third flight, where Larry w. Moore
ended the first 1S holes on Saturday
8 down to c. M Brown. But Moore
was far from beaten even with this
tmpost. Yesterday, on the final 1S
holes he turned right around and
grabbed back z OF those holes
from Brown, but here his squirt ended
He was trimmed by a and 2 margin
The class B flight was won by j. o.
Rhyme, who defeated G. c. Billiard by
3 and 2.
The first round of match play In
the competition for the Siamese Cup
at the Chevy Chase Club Is scheduled
to start today with the following
pairingS:
C.. A. Fuller (s> vs. H. NJ. southsate tle).
90, w. G. Brantiey, jr. Gi) W.. MAI. J. II
Ainemon l0; Gen. Charles o. treat ilO W.
Walter G. Dunlop Isl, D, D. I. McoreW
tls) VS.. DR.. William B. Mason do), Harrison