The Washington times., 1930-07-02
TED BURROWS
LEADSMUNY
GOLFERS
BY JUNO KINERK

Dy JOENO N4INEhn
A butcher, an iceman, an an.
tique dealer and an office worker
such is the democracy of golf,
for it calls players from every
walk of life-will represent Wash
ington next month in the ma
tional public links golf champion.
ship at Jacksonville, Fla, as the
result of the 70 holes of cham
pionship play over the East Po-
tomac and Rock Creek courses.
Bradley H. CTed Burrows, the
butcher, showed the way to the
large field of competitors by
turning in a nobby 296 score for
the two days, play. Burrows was
only one stroke over par for his
final So holes yesterday over East
Potomac, adding rounds of 73 and
"a to his 149 aggregate of Mon
day, which was the leading total
for the first half of play.
The other three members of
the team had scores from 800
to 311, Louis Fuchs, the office
worker, being next in line to
Burrows with 800, having
added rounds of rs and ~ to
his Mondays 152 score. Rob-
ert Burton, the antique stu
dent, finished with 3O5, and
Sam Parks wound up fourth
with 311.
All of the players were sub
iected to play during a heavy
downpour, the majority being re-
quired to play at least nine holes
in the driving rain. But even
this handicap didn't discourage
nor affect the games of the four
winners, who wrapped their shafts
with handkerchiefs or towels and
sloughed and trudged right on
through to the finish in ducky
! fashion.
Of the four qualifiers for the
team Sam Parks spent the most
anxious moments Of all. He fin
ished his play at East Potomac
at o'clock and hurried out to
Rock Greek to see what the boys
there were scoring, for his 3ll
had him on the rocky edge. Bur
rows, of course, was secure in his
position, but he. too, journeyed to
Rock Creek to await the finish
there
Parks was not surprised at the
scores posted by Fuchs and Bur
ton, but it made his position just
! that much more precarious. And
when Johnny Jewett. who fin
ished second Monday with $50.
posted rounds of 80 and 83 Parks
drew his first sigh of relief.
But there were two or
three players still out who
had chances of diSplacing him
and from the reports drifting
in from the course either WeS-
lev Billings or Jack DOwney
had a chance to better his
score.
Billings was the first to finish
and he needed a birdie three on
the eighteenth to tie Parks. He
was on the carpet in two but had
Is footer staring him in the
face. Billings sighted his putt
and then hit the ball dead for
the cup. His aim was true but
he rstroked it too firmly and after
hitting the back of the cup in
stead of dropping it had too
much speed and carried on four
feet farther. He then missed his
return and was down in 5, which
gave him 313 total.
Jack Downey, fighting desper-
ately on his final 18, gave Parks
some more anxious moments
despite the fact that his 81, total
was 239, five strokes more than
Parks had at this stage. But the
best Downey could do on his final
round was IA, just two strokes
too many, and he finished in a
! tie with Billings for fifth place
with 3l3.
One of the tragedies of the
play was the failure of young
Johnny JeWett to earn a place
on the team. The youngster,
who is still recuperating from the
effects of serious illness, found
his downfall in wildness off the
! tees.
Whenever slice would
hurt him, he sliced; when
ever a hook would do the
damage, he hooked. And
wiIdness at Rock Greek is
fatal, with its forbidding
woods and other hazards
equally as depressing.
Besides the remarkable steadi.
ness of Burrows playing during
the entire tournament, the slight
Bob Burton turned in the most
outstanding play of the tourney
by turning in rs card for his
finad round despite the fact that
he had two near calamitious S's.
And anybody who can shoot q
rs with two 8's on his card is
really playing golf.
Oddly enough this years team
will have two players from each,
Rock Creek and East Potomac,
Burrows and Parks frequenting
the former course and Fuchs and
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