Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

NI July 10.-Scoring his first
major tournament win
two days after he had celebrated
his nineteenth birthday, j. Monro
Hunter, jr., the fine playing son
Of the professional at the Indian
Spring Golf Club Of Washington,
today outsteadied Billy Howell of
Richmond to win the first flight
in the invitation golf tournament
of the Maryland Country Club.
Victor over the Maryland State
titleholder in the second round
of the tourney and over the vet
eran Albert r. Mackenzie in the
semi-final round today, Hunter
continued the same steady game
in the final which had carried
him there, and outsteadied the
brilliant young holder OF the Mid
die Atlantic championship to win
by 4 and 2.
Hunter had conquered hook from
the tee which had bothered him on the
first two rounds of the tourney ana IN
the final was driving far and straight:
Howell, on the other hand, played go!f
that was mediocre by comparison with
that he had shown In earlier rounds.
The Richmond youngster, himself only
10 years of age, put three tee shots out
of bounds, although only one OF them
cost him the hole and his short game,
which is usually the best part OF his
golf, let him down badly in spots where
he needed to tighten up. On two OF
the three occasions he was out of
bounds, he holed birdie with his sec
ond ball and secured a half IN par.
Finishes with 70.
The final between two fine young
sters, both capable Of sustained flights
of golf brilliancy, found q Hunter
whose usually infrequent mistakes were
even fewer than usual. Even though
he went one over par on both the
eighth and ninth holes, he was out IN
80, and finished the round with q card
of 70. Had Howell been at the crest
of his game he might not have beaten
this score over the burned-out course OF
the club, where tee shots frequently
Travelled as much as 500 yards. Hunter
staged o game uphill fight to win from
Mackenzie in the semi-f1nal, for the
Indian Spring lad was down at
the turn. He then proceeded to win
i've holes In q row, and then came TO
the eighteenth all square. Here Mac
Kenzie f1uffed his approach shot and
Hunter was on the green In 2 and down
in puts to win with q par 4.
Harry q. Pitt, long-driving star Of
the Manor Club, whom many had IA
vored to win the tourney, went to the
nineteenth hole with Billy Howell in
the other semi-flnal to push his tee shot
out of bounds and lose the match
through this misplay.
In the final round, Hunter broke into
faA
fourth holes, when Hunter found traps.
AT the fifth, Howell duplicated his
stunt of the first hole, driving his first
tee shot out Of bounds and securing an
actual birdie with his second ball to
halve the hole in par. Hunter won the
sixth to go 3 UP when Howell missed
5-foot putt. They halved the next
the lengthy tenth to win. But Hunter
came right back to win the eleventh, and
they halved the dog-leg Twelfth In par
As. Howell drove out of bounds again
at the short thirteenth, and lost the
hole, to become down with to go.
The Richmond youngster got back a
hole at the fourteenth by holing a 20
foot putt for a birdie 3. Both missed
holeable puts for IS at the fifteenth,
where Howell drove 800 yards and
Hunter was only few yards behind
him, and they halved in As.
Howell Overplays Green.
Dormie 8 up Hunter played the six
tenth In regulation fashion, crashing
out fine tee shot and pitching his
second to the green, while Howell over
played the green with his second.
Howell tried to hole the chip and over
ran the hole, missing the return putt
and conceding Hunter a shorter putt
and the match.