Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
ANNEXES TOURNEY
At BANNOCKDURN
Extra Hole Is Played in Driv-
ina Rain-Stott Defeats
Hird on 21St.

- RASPING his opportunity
when his opponents near
~ par play slackened for a
moment, John c. Shorey
won the invitation tournament Of
the Bannockburn Golf Club yes
.terday for the second consecutive
/. year, defeating Martin F. Nc
Carthy of Beaver Dam on the
Nineteenth hole of as thrilling a
final golf tourney round as has
! been seen around Washington in
many months.
AS Shorey holed 2-foot putt on the
eighteenth green to square the match
after Mccarthy had missed a 15-foot
putt for a par 4, thunderstorm OIL
near-cloudburst dimensions broke over
the course of the Bannockburn Club
which has been without appreciate
rain for more than 10 weeks.
The finalists played the nineteenth
hole in a driving transform, wnlcL,
Thoroughly soaked them long before
they hit their tee shots to the nine
tesnth. and ploughing through the rain,
which Law in miniature lakes all over
the marched fairways and putting
green. Shorey got the ball down In TWO
. nuts TO win the hole and the matcn
with a par 4, when Mccarthy, chipping
over the small lakes that formed the
surfsce of the putting green, took 5
to get down from rs feet away.
Shorey's victory was typical eE-
ample of the uphill plugging, Tor wnlcn
the young Bannockburn star Is noteo'
Down all the way from the slxth NOE;
excent for one hole where he squared
the match. Shorey kept plugging along
AGAINST Mccarthy, and jumped into ms
1onc-delayed opportunity to square the
match on the eighteenth, where NC
Carthy underplayed his second snot 10
fhe Green. to lose the hole to par
NV Shorey. The Bannockburn lad won
the tourney last year, defeating rage
Hufty of Congressional in the nnaI.
ONLY a week ago he finished second III
the District amateur championship, los
ing to Frank K. Bosch OF washington
by single stroke.
Beat Pitt, and 5.
Shorey entered the final by sur
nrisinalv large margin Of victory over
Harry G. Pitt, Manor Club ace, whom
he heat. and 5. In this match the
ultimate winner was / below par Tor
the Is holes played. Mccarthy won
from william p. Di Este TO enter ms
first tournament final, beating the
handed expert from Argyle py
3 and 2.
the final round, winning the second
hole with a birdie and the third when
McCarthy's second shot went wild from
the woods. But the fighting Beaver
Dam player came back to win the
fourth. with par 4: the sixth, with a
birdie after an iron shot that left
him only four feet from the cup, and
the seventh. with a buzzard 5, where
Shorey visited the woods. A hall at
the ninth left Mccarthy up. They
halved the tenth in par SIS and Shorey
got a lucky half at the eleventh, where
he Clipped out of the ditch onto the
green, and Mccarthy took three puts.
Shorey won the twelfth with birdie 4,
holinga 15-foot putt, but Mccarthy
won the short thirteenth when Shorey
failed to get clip shot dead and
took f.
They halved the holes through the
seventeenth, leaving Mccarthy l up
and ! to go playing the final hole.
Here both men hit fine tee shots, far
QUIZ ulOO tiAC NdAA1y b@AoMs gtNN 6ASNAs bAe
the Beaver Dam star hit his second
snot weakly and was short with his
chip, while Shorey, sensing the break,
played magnificent second shot which
left him reasonable putt for a 3. He
did not need 1t, however, winning the
hole with par 4. The thunderstorm
broke as they left the green and they
left the tee at the nineteenth in a
drenching downpour Each hit good
tee shot and both were on the green
in two shots. But Shorey proved the
better "mudder." as Mccarthy took
3 to get down through the water, which
lay over the green like sheet, and the
home club star got down a three foot
putt for winning 4.
rsarde If the 6naJiefe folIou.