Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

VUST a little too late for Eastel
miracles from tall hats, Charles
r. Allen of Congressional dis
covered yesterday that Dummies
have their place on golf courses ano
that a ball off the line may become a
plaything at the Woodmont Country
Club 1t happened at the eighth mole
a mar 8. which makes up in toughness
what it lacks in length.
Allen hit a fine mashie shot, which
landed on the green and bounceo HeI-
rily over the carpet and over the low
mounds at the back. AS he walked 10
his ball. bemoaning the oVerstrons
shot he noticed a rustling in the TALL
Grass where his ball had stopped AND
saw three baby rabbits at work. Searcn-
ing for his pellet, he found that one OF
the family of Dummies had decldeo tne
ball was a good spot on which 10 lake
a nap. There was the rabbit, curieo up
about Aliens ball. 49,
Waving his mashie violently In the
air. and "shooing' in vigorous fashion,
Allen finally convinced the rabbit tnat
discretion was the better part OF Valor'
and the bunny stuck his little Wnlte
fiag in the air and vanished. Alien
then proceeded to hole out in 4.
Another funny thing happened at
that short hole. John C. Shorey OF
Bannockburn and Page Hufty OF Con-
gressional were all square at the
Seventeenth in their first round match
in the tourney yesterday, when Shorey'
with the honor, proceeded to dump MS
ball in the trap short Of the green.
"I looked at my caddie and ne looked
at me-" Shorey said. And then looked
at him again. He was crying. Big
tears were running down his cheeks as
he looked at my ball reposlng In the
sand trap"
Shorey's caddie hardly was of the
type that would cry because OF a bad
shot. The lad is a big, husky, colored
how. who has something OF a reputa-
ton as a scrapper. He 1t was who
vanuuished a group of colored lads in
battle royal at the Congressional
few weeks ago. And yet Shorey says
he cried when he saw his ball IN the
bunker.
Shorey holed 10-foot putt to halve
the eighteenth and went to the nine.
tenth to win from Hufty when he laid
the Congressional lad dead stymie,
thus winning the first OF two extra-hole
matches, which brought him to the
semi-final. Shorey met Clarence B.
Murphy, the Congressional champion,
in one semi-final today.
In the other bracket that consistent
veteran of the game and popular home
club star, Max Weyl. opposed j. Monro
Hunter, son of the Indian Spring pro-
fessional. Three of the semi-finalists
are new to the final day of major golf
tournaments about Washington. Shorey
is the only one who has figured in final
rounds before.
Through no fault of the club the
matches yesterday we're late in starting.
It is very difficult to play a match play
tournament of four flights on a nine
hole golf course, and 1t was O'Clock
last night before the last match ended.
Incidentally, it was the extra-hole con-
test in which Murphy -outlasted Charles
r. Morrow of Indian Spring to win on
the nineteenth.
Just a few moments before Shorey
and Roger Peacock of Indian Spring.
who won the qualifying round. also had
gone to the nineteenth, where Shorey
put his tee shot in bunker guarding
the green. Then the Bannockburn lad,
with his back to the wall, Clipped out
z feet from the cup and sank the putt
for the winning birdie 8.