Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-11
Lewis Gets Golf Ace, but, Sad
To Say, He Was Playing Alone

Roger Peacock. the junior champion OF
Washington, who halls from Indian
| Spring.
Urban used to be known as great
| bowler. In late years he has almost
abandoned the alley sport for golf and,
although he has been playing only three
wears, with the natural aptitude some
men have for handling a ball in any
| sport, he has improved about so per
cent faster than the average mortal.
| The other day he shot 81 on course A
| at Rock Creek Park to beat Al Price, the
Rock Creek pro, and yesterday he went
| out to Columbia and shot fine II,
many strokes better than golfers who
have played five times as long. And at
that Urban wasted several shots on the
| last few holes.
Asher will long remember the Co
| lumbia qualifying round because of the
remarkable last nine holes he played
| to score a 80 and go into second place
| in the first day of play, only one shot
behind the splendid II registered by
Peacock. Asher, who is Fred Mcleod S
| star pupil and a student of the game If
| ever there was one, got real hot" COM
| ing home, after an indifferent 40 for
| the first nine and picking up three
brides en- route, shot the last nine holes
| in 80 to tie the amateur record for that
distance.
Some years back Leo Diegel shot the
last nine in 20 strokes to win a hatful
! of money from Guy Standifer, and three
or four years ago w. Carlton Evans
went wild with his putter over that last
nine to score a 80, but Asher's score
will stand as the finest piece of golf
! that has been uncorked over that nine
in the rigorous test of medal play And
particularly because he had taken 40
| over the first nine, three putting the
first green for a and missing a short
! one on the fourth.
Roger Peacock'S score was one of the
finest bits of golf that has been un-
corked about Washington in a long
time. The youngster played f1awleSs
golf on the first nine, with the eXcep-
/ ton of the sixth hole, where he took
5, compensating with birdie on the
eighth Coming home he took on the
par twelfth, but scored birdie
on the seventeenth to make up for this
mistake.
Fourteen scores of 70 and better were
! turned in yesterday, and it seems, con-
Sidering the class of the field which
was listed to start today, that Column
bias experience of last year is to be
! duplicated It will be remembered that
scores of II played off for places in
the first flight last year and that IS
was the last qualifying score in the last
flight. Eight men turned in scores oil
| II or better yesterday, and it is quite
possible that the IT'S will not be in
when night falls today.
The probable winner of the women's
District golf championship for 1880 was
likely to be decided today at the Wash
ingtcn Golf and Country Club in the
meeting of Mrs. Dorothy White Nicol-
son, the defending title holder, and Mrs
j. Marvin Haynes, runner-up for the
championship last year. Mrs. Nicolsor
and Mrs. Haynes are generally regarded
as two of the three strongest golfers
about the Capital, and they were drawn
together in the second round of the
title chase today. Both won their first
round matches handily Yesterday
Two extra-hole matches featured the