Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22


ward in a bigger and better
way during 1929. with prac-
~ ttcally the same figures domi-
mating the game who stood out
during the previous year. Unlike 1928,
however, when Miller B. STEVENSON OF
Columbia and Harry G. Pitt of Manor
were so closely bracketed in the records
as to allow no division of their accom-
plishments to place one in front OF the
other, STEVENSON is ranked the leader OF
the amateur game for 1929 by virtue OF
his steady tournament record.
Although Pitt won two tournaments,
and both were major events, STEVENSON
annexed three big affairs, and added to
the luster Of his achievements by also
taking. for the second consecutive time,
his own club championship. And the
Columbia championship almost has the
stature of an invitation tourney, for no
other club about Washington has so
many fine golfers In its ranks.
A new star arose in the fleld Of wo-
mems golf to take first rank from the
District champion of three years stand
ing by virtue of her victories in two
major events during the year. This
was Mrs. John N. Hodges, wife Of
ranking ofiicer in the Engineer Corps Of
the Army. BY the steadineSs and bril-
lance Of her game, Mrs. Hodges, with
two major victories, takes the place Of
Mrs. Dorothy White Nicolson as the top
ranking golfer Of the District Of Column
bia, even though Mrs. Nicolson retained
her District title at the expense Of Mrs.
]. Marvin Haynes.
STEVENSON Again d. C. Champ.
STEVENSON takes top ranking by virtue
Of his victories In the Congressional and
Manor Club events. and by his out
standing feat Of winning the District
amateur title for the second consecutive
time. Pitt, who was his chief rival last
year and again this year, beat him in
the Chevy Chase tourney final, and also
won the Indian Spring tournament the
following week. but that ended his win
ming career, for he was beaten in his
own club championship after setting
record Of SO for the revamped course
Of the Manor Club, and witnessed Ste
vinSon win In the Manor Club invitation
tourney.
Other tournament winners among the
men during the year included Frank
K. Roesch, who won the Washington
Golf and Country Club event; John C.
Shorey, winner Of the Bannockburn in
vitation tourney, and Page Hufty, VIC
tor In the Town and County (now the
Woodmont) Club event. The Columbia
tourney went TO q tranSplanted Wash
ingtonian In the person Of Robert l..
Finkenstadt Of Chicago. who came here
to spend few days with his parents.
and won the tourney Of the club over
than q decade ago.
Washington had no representatives In
the national amateur championship, al
though two washington boys who
learned the game In the Capital, were
outstanding figures Of the simon pure
title chase. Roland r. Mackenzie and
George J. Voight, both Of whom are
washington products in Q golf way,
qualified In the national amateur, and
It Is entirely possible that Weight might
have won the championship had he
gone by Harrison r. Johnston in the
semi-fnal. He carried Johnston to the
thirty-ninth hole before Succumhing.
Roland Mackenzie was beaten in the
second round. Because the tourney was
held In California, many Of those who
otherwise would have played did not
consider the expenditure of the time
and money essential for the trip to be
worth while.
M. A. Title to BaltimOrean.
The biggest Of the major events of
the season locally went to a Baltimo-
rean when the steady veteran, 3. War
rem Corkran of Baltimore, won the
championship tourney Of the Middle At
lantic Golf Association from a fellow
Beltimorean, r. NJ. Savage. Washing
ton failed to place q man among the
four semi 1nalists, for Pitt, playing in
defense Of his title, dropped out in the
second round.
One of the finest golf matches ever
seen anywhere came to the final round
Of the womenis championship of the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association. In
this tourney Mrs. Hodges played in
spired golf over the first IL holes. to
stand on the twelfth tee 6 up with to
60 on Mrs. Nicolson. But at this point
the District champion braced and whit
tied away at Mrs. Hodges lead until
she stood on the eighteenth tee down.
She hooded q 20-foot putt to win the
hole with o par 4, and went to the
nineteenth. where Mrs. Hodges won the
match and the title by holding q chip
shot out Of q bunker.
Maurice J. Mccarthy, o member Of
the Washington Golf and Country Club
and q student at Georgetown Univer-
sity, lost his intercollegiate title, but
gained q bigger one In its place, win
ming the metropolitan amateur cham
pionship.
One Of the features of the year was
a beneflt match played at Indian
Spring, which included Lou Diegel. the
p. @. A. champion, and Horton Smith,
holder Of the French open and many
other titles.
Two clubs-Manor and Beaver Dam
opened up new layouts of nine holes
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