Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-17

~ Washington is to have a large
representation in the national
open golf championship, which
will be played over the course of the
Interlachen Country Club of Mime
apolis July 1912, inclusive.
With Roland r. Mackenzie and
George j. Voight, Capital amateurs,
already eligible for the competition by
reason of their inclusion on the United
States Walker Cup team, three local
professionals joined them in the sec
tional qualifying tests yesterday and
| all will go to Minneapolis shortly after
| the first of July to prepare for the title
chase. The three pros who qualified all
| found the Lakeside Country Club course
| of Richmond, Va, to their liking and
made the grade in a small field, where
! four other Washington mentors who es-
Sayed the task of qualifying at Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh failed to top
! the heights.
| Those who qualified at Richmond are
| A. L. Houghton of the Harper Country
| Club, until two years ago one of WASH
| ingtons leading amateurs: Arthur B.
| Thorn, pro at the Woodmont Country
| Club of Bethesda, Md, and Mel Shorey,
pro at the East Potomac Park public
golf course. Houghton topped the field
with a scintillating total of 143 for the
double circuit of the tricky layout to
win undiSputed possession of first place.
Thorn shot a fine II in the morning
round and added a IS over the after
noon stretch for a total of 149, while
Shorey, who had registered an indiffer-
ent 70 over the opening round. went
wild in the afternoon to score 70-the
lowest score of the day. There were
only three places open to the % players
who eSsayed the task of qualifying at
Lakeside, and the Washington pros got
them all.
Those who failed to qualify at Lake
side were Fred Mcleod, veteran pro of
the Columbia Country Club. who shot
76-75 for Isl; George Diffenbaugh of
Indian Spring, with 82-74-156 WAL
ter w. Cunningham of Burning Tree.
with twin 80s, and Al Treder of the
Manor Club, who shot 80-81-16l.
Bob Barnett and Gene Larkin of
of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps
Country Club, all failed to make the
grade over the course of the Spring
haven Club, at Wallingford, Pa. Barnett
registered 74-7S-152, while Larkin
was 77-76-153 and McKimmie regis
tered 79-77-156. Ralph Beach. former
pro at Burning Tree, now connected
with a Baltimore club, was one of the
qualif1ers at Philadelphia.
In field which included Roland
Hancock, the Lynchburg pro, who was
national open of 1928, the Washington
pros outshone their brother mentors
and turned back their challenge in such
convincing fashion that there could be
no doubt of their right to represent this
district in the open championship.
Poor putting kept Mcleod out of a
chance to get in the title chase. The
putting of the little Columbia mentor
has been off all year, and it kept him
from scoring low over the Lakeside lay
out yesterday. Otherwise his game was
perfection itself.
Outside of Houghton's brilliant per-
Torrance, the fireworks of the day at
Richmond were produced by Shorey
who staged a brilliant comeback in the
afternoon to qualify. Shorey went over
par on three holes in the afternoon
but picked up four brides and paired
the remaining 10 holes for his card of
70, playing the seventeenth and eight
zenith holes in consecutive brides TO
win place. Thorn dropped 15-foot
putt on the thirty-Sixth green for the
birdie that put him in.
Houghton picked up no fewer than
nine brides during the So holes, driv-
ing like an inspired golfer and putting
beautifully. Shorey's 70 in the after
noon came through unerring accuracy
and steady stroking of the oall on the
putting greens. Although Thorn's put
ter behaved in unsteady fashion in the
afternoon, his morning round of II had
given him such a leeway that he could
make a few mistakes and still qualify
George g. Perkins, president of the
Senior Golf Association Of the Chevy
Chase Club has presented a prize to be
played for by the seniors at match play,
with the first round to begin on Thurs
day, with the following pairings:
+ N. SOuthEate VS. Admiral NJ. NJ. Taylor,
senjsmin s. Minor vs.. Senator r He j. wash
Gen r; II. Allen VS.. Col: Edward CLIFFORD,
Som Walter f Peser vs. vs. d eo V f pfsS.
GEN wd rTsTa r. Keefer vs.. 2. H Lotus, g.
MOrFo% VS. VS. " Ma g. br Al 9i1li' H. CD B.
Champion We. w +. Ham. Gen. NJ M. Pat.
sandsy R R n 4 4aec Ad GaD chester "
Maratt VS. CO.. joseph Whssfep A 4T
R sf' f. Con. Senator sa %rldn sssts
Brown Miller vs. 9. Philips H aii Pr Pulto On
Lewis vs. Victor Kaufman, P. S. Ridsdaie
Gen. h ? Mccain. John c. I let's ns. ? NJ
savage. Or. whitman Cross VS.. L. o. Cam
eron. C. l.. Frailey VS.. Gen C. @. Treat
The seniors are to hold a putting
contest during the week, beginning
Thursday, June 10, and will play In a
tombstone tourney on July 4.
Billy Howell, winner Of the mid
Atlantic title and the Columbia tourney,
and Dick Wilson. one of the best of
the Georgetown University golfers, were
playing today in the qualifying round
OF the Southern amateur championship
at Sedgeheld, Greensboro, N. C.
Winners of the blind DOGGY COMPETE
ton at Bannockburn. on Sunday were
e o. Hanson, s7-1s-69; T. P. Hay-
den, 9l-22-69; ]. M. Mccarthy, 90
Follow Through
On the Chip Shot
BY SOL METZGER.
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