Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-30
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III thing like 200 golfers have en-
tered q competition for tro-
ply, put up by a Washington
store, which is to start tomorrow and
end August 4. The tourney is blind
handicap affair, at 10 holes medal play,
and is open to all golfers, regardless
of club Affiliations.
Each entrant will be given q sealed
envelope before he starts, in which will
be contained the handicap under which
he will play. The handicap will not
be known until he finishes his round.
It may be that one of the leading
players at Rock Greek will draw q
handicap of Is, which Is the maximum,
the knees of the gods. Luck seems to
be the main factor in the tourney.
"That,s hot golf on a hot day" The
speaker was Monro Hunter, the tall
professional at Indian Spring, who sat
on the sidelineS yesterday at his own
course and watched Tsalph Beach and
Arthur B. Thorn burn up the Indian
Spring course to win the two places
awarded to the Middle Atlantic section
in the qualifying round of the Profess
sional Golfers Association champion
ship.
Beach, who learned the game as a
caddie at the Washington Golf and
Country Club and now is the profess
sional at the Suburban Club of Bal
timore, contributed the finest bit OF
golf ever witnessed about the Capital,
playing the 36 holes in the blister1ng
heat in q total of 1876 strokes, which is
six better than par. His rounds were
SO and 81, and in the last round he
missed 12-foot putt on the hnal green
to tie the professional record for the
course, held by Hunter. His 81 tied
the amateur record, made by Miller
STEVENSON in 1927 and tied last year by
George j. Voigt.
for the double circuit of the lengthy
layout. His rounds were 70 and SO, and
about the only difference between his
game and that of Beach was ThornS
finish on the last three holes, both
morning and afternoon. In the morn
ing Thorn finished with two IS, where
par would have given him 70, and IN
the afternoon he finished s, 4. 4, where
the par OF 5, 8, would have given
him q 81.
This pair finished down in front of
"a professional stars of the Midatlantic
section, including Roland Hancock,
Glenn Spencer, the big hitter OF Bal
timore.
Beach's score is far and away the
best ever recorded in 36-hole test In
this part of the country. TWO years ago
Tommy Armour. Congressional ace;
playing in a similar qualifying round
over the same course, scored brace OF
7Os, which some thought was somewhat
That Indian Spring course stretches
out to more than $500 yards from the
back tees, which did not mean so much
yesterday, with baked fairways. But
SO and 81 on any mans course Is moth
ing short of miracle golf.
Beach adopted q unique method
something some of the other boys for
cot to try. He knocked the ball far
and straight on the shortest line from
tee to green and simply knocked 1t In
the hole without any fuss and feathers.
The situation at the end of the first
round stood like this: Beach and
Warner Mather were tied for the lead
at SO, with Bob Barnett and George
Diffenbaugh bracketed at 70, while Bill
Carson of East Potomac Park, Hancock
of Lynchburg and Thorn of Woodmont
were at 70. Glenn Spencer and Al
Houghton had "A.
In the afternoon Beach, Mather and
Diffenbaugh went out in a threesome,
after Fred Mcleod withdrew, and the
struggle seemed TO lay among them for
the two places. But Thorn had some
thing to say about this.
Beach picked up an eagle 3 on the
lengthy seventh hole TO get out in 80.
Diffenbaugh had the same score and
SO did Thorn. Mather, who went
through an operation for Q neck ahcess
few days ago, faded out at the elev-
enth and thirteenth, where he was
trapped, and Beach kept steadily on,
knocking over par after par and get
ting an occasional birdie.
At the twenty-seventh hole, Beach
was 102, Mather and Diffenbaugh were
105. and Thorn was 106. And Diffen-
baugh, who looked like q sure thing to
qualify, wilted at the short fourteenth,
where he finally got on the green in
four shots and took a s. That and
the tee shot he put out of bounds at
the sixteenth finished him, leaving the
track wide open for Thorn. And even
though the Woodmont pro took 6
at the long sixteenth, which he three
putted, and q 4 at the seventeenth,
Diffenbaugh had left too much Of a
gap.
Beach came to the eighteenth, is
minutes after Thorn had finished,
needing q for q Sc. He made Q bold
bid for his 12-footer, but 1t hit the cup
and stayed out.
Here are the scores:
Ralph Beach (Suburban), ee-eT-l3o
Arthur B. Thorn (Woodmont), 7S-es-
George Dinenbaugh undian Spring, IA