Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-21


mn Washington Golf and Country
Club is considerably excited
over the happenings scheduled
for next Sunday, when Maurice j. Nc
Carthy, the metropolitan champion, and
Frank <. Roesch, former Washington
club champion, will attempt to subdue
the ambitions of Dave Thomson, the
club professional and Henry d. Nichol-
son, the club title holder.
Mccarthy and Roesch two weeks ago
issued a broad challeneg to meet any
two amateurs about Washington or
professional. and amateur from the same
club. Their challenge went broadcast,
but was intercepted before it had gone
out of Virginia.
Most of the regulars" at the Vir-
ginia club are down on the line with
their wagers, with the current odds OF
Is to 10 favoring Mccarthy and Roesch.
McCarthy's phenomenal hitting and his
steady golf of this Spring, together with
the fact that he is the holder Of the
course record, gives his team the edge
in the odds. Little Dave Thomson Is
playing better golf than even before
this year and is as deadly as ever with
his putting, which Is the mainstay OF
the game of the Washington Scot.
S. E. Golden of Washington now Is
the record holder for long puts at the
washington club. He had been short on
a couple of important approach puts
in a match yesterday afternoon and
when he put his second shot on the
sixteenth green, his partner whispered
to him, BE up, Gene, the hole won't
move toward YOU" So Golden hit his
approach putt lusty swat, and the
ball gained speed as 1t Travelled past
the hole until it went over the edge OF
the green and rolled down the hill out
of bounds past the seventeenth tee. Now
Golden declares he didn't strike that
ball hard. Anyhow, he says, Il was up
to the hole"
Capt. Watson B. Miller was to pre-
sent prizes won In the Phyllis Keller
Miller Memorial tourney this afternoon
at the Washington Golf and Country
Club. after the close of the competl-
ton which started early today with
nearly two-Score entrants in the handi-
cap event. All the leading golfers OF
the city were entered in the tourney.
which is held at Washington each year
to honor the memory OF the late Secre-
tary of the District Golf Association.
Mrs. Yelverton e. Booker won the
tourney last year.
Registering a best ball of 10, Mel
Shorey, East Potomac Park profess
sional, and his amateur brother, John,
downed Harry q. Pitt, Manor Club
amateur, and AL Treder, Manor pro-
fessional, in a match at the Manor
Club yesterday, winning by up. John
Shorey shot 70 for the low ball OF
the quartet.
Most of the Washington professionals
were in Baltimore today playing IN an
amateur-pro tourney at the Rolling
Road Country Club of Gainesville, spon-
sored by the Middle Atlantic Profess
sional Golfers Association.
More than three score golfers COM
peted in the selective handicap tour
ney at the Argyle Country Club yester-
day. in which 10 prizes were awarded
as follows: H. G. Columbus, 83-12-71;
Ed McAleer, 85-14-71; G. c. Stevens,
97-25-72; j. w. Medley, 95-21-74:
Humphrey Cissel, 92-18-74; John
Reardon, S7-l3-74; Frank zu6er'
rs; H. j. Gallagher, 98-22-76; F. G.
Butler, 90-l4-76.
Schoolboy golfers of the high schools
of the Capital are to compete tomor-
row at East Potomac Park in S6-hole
medal play event for the interscholastic
championship. The tourney will start
at 8 am. for the title won last year by
Francis Horton of Central High School.
Leopold 4 Freudberg and David L.
Stern tied for first place In class A In
the handicap tourney played yesterday
at Woodmont, Freudberg registering
87-21-66, while Stern had 96-30-66.