Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
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tourney finds the second round In the
event well under way. with the follow
ing results in the second round: Feth-
dAfeated Knott, 2 and 1; Emeish de-
feated skinner. 2 and /: Parke de-
feated Cummings, l up. They also
have bye tournaments for the losers
in the first round. In the first Of
these Edwards won the final from
Johnston, and in the second Bearce
defeated Emeigh, Q and 8.
Harry Graham, manager at ROCK
Creek, and Al Price, the professional,
took B. H. Burrows, the municipal
champion, and Leon Nussbaum out to
Beaver Dam a week ago and Price
holed a 40-foot putt on the eighteenth
green for birdie to square the match.
OF course, that resulted in challenges
being flung about, and so the four
played again last week at Rock Greek.
Graham and Price had field day at
the expense of Burrows and Nussbaum,
whom they beat by and 4. Burrows
and NusSbaum thought 1t was an acct
dent and took them on the following
day, with the same result.
Out at the Washington Golf and
Country Club quite q friendly rivalry
has sprung up between Arthur Sinclair
and Leo G. Lloyd, two Of the long
handicap members of the club, who
play about as evenly as any two men
ever have played. First Lloyd scores
one-hole victory and then Sinclair
comes in with last-hole win. But
the other day Lloyd got real "hot" on
the first nine, and with q 8 and two Is
in. hts card got out in 46. He was
then z up on Sinclair, although the lat
ter thought he was but up. Sinclair
though he was l down coming to the
eighteenth and he put two fine shots
together to reach the green in 2 and
win the hole and, as he thought, square
the match. He was all chuckles as he
came in, telling how he had been z
down with 8 to play and had squared.
But Lloyd thought there might have
been q mistake somewhere and he
looked over the score card again. Sin
clair's face dropped a mile or 80 when
he found that he had forgotten Lloyd's
birdie 3 on the thirteenth hole, and in
stead of being square he was l down.
The two have played ali Summer to-
gether and, according to them, there
are not three holes difference over some
40 rounds.
Tony Sylvester. the pro at Bannock-
burn, Is one who has not conceded the
club championship to
John c. Shorey, who apparently stands
out in the contest for the club title,
which Is drawing to close. Sylvester
claims that John T. Mccarthy, II he
gets past Norman j. Hall in the lower
bracket, will be tough man for Shorey
to beat. w. Fred Byrne, the chairman
of the Club Golf Committee, also points
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trim. Mccarthy, Byrne says, took up
the game only two or three years ago
and has developed very efficient style
of his own, which keeps his scores be-
tween IS and 80 most Of the time.
Shorey won the club invitation tourney
last September and Is favorite to win
the title. He beat william L. Fender
CAST, the defending champion, in the
second round of the tourney.
Acting at the request of the Woman'S
Golf Committee of the Indian Spring
Club, the Woman's District Golf Asso-
citation has scheduled o match and
medal play tourney for Indian Spring
tomorrow morning, which Is expected
to attract half hundred entries. The
tourney played last Monday at Chevy
Chase was the last scheduled event for
the association year, but Indian Spring
the event tomorrow, and 1t
win be played. Entrants are requested
to be ready for play at the first tee at
$50 o'clock.
Most Of the assistant professionals
about the Capital are planning to play
In the assistants championship Of the
Midatlantic section, to be held at Rod
gers Forge next Thursday, at 80 holes
medal play. Lawrence Wisner Of the
Baltimore Suburban Club holds the IT,
tie. Brick" Wood, the caddie master
and assistant at Washington, who won
the tourney two years ago, has an
his retirement" from compe-
tition. Brick, you know, won the event
and the money prize that went with it.
But instead of spending the money, he
bought himself q medal to commemo-
rate his victory.
A few months ago he lost the medal,
and now he has neither money nor
medal to show for his win. Outstand-
ing among the assistant pros around
are George Diffenbaugh of
Indian Spring, Gene Larkin of Chevy
Chase and Billy Malloy of Columbia.
Larkin won the Maryland State open
last year, and Malloy was tied for sec
years Maryland State, but faded over
the last round.
Next Sunday the Woodmont Country
Club will stage q tournament to be
known as the champion of champions
open only to winners of
club championships and invitation tour
neys about Washington in 1880. Quite
a good field Of golfers viii be eligible for
this event, but 1t seems TO be rather an
anti-climax. If this tournament Is
made an annual affair, what does the
District amateur championship mean2
the champion of cham
pions" tournament Is to be played over
the 16-hole route, which Is an ineon-
elusive way to name q champion OF
But If Woodmont wants to get a
group of good golfers out next Sunday
to play the course, more power to them.
1t won't mean anything, one way or an
other, 80 far as determining the best
golfers around Washington Is con-
cerned.
And next Sunday, also. the Bright
wood Caddies' Championship will be
played at the Indian Spring Golf Club,
with George j. Voight, one Of the rank
ing stars of the country, as the top
liner in the event. At least two of the
men who would otherwise play at
Woodmont, will play at Indian Spring,
for Harry G. Pitt and George r. Miller
will play in the "ex-caddies" tourney.
Miller Is the Manor Club champion,
and Pitt won the Chevy Chase tourney,
thereby becoming eligible for the
Woodmont tourney.
The ex-caddies' tournament u an
18-hole handicap tournament, which
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