The Washington times., 1930-05-09
TWO.DAY PLAY.
WILL START
MONDAY
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

BY GEORGE A. SlMPSON
Women golfers of the Dis
trict are today practicing over
the Indian Spring course ir
preparation for the Evening
Star 36-hole medal play com
petition Monday and Tuesday
Eighteen holes are scheduled
each day.
This is one of the major golf
events of the local season for
women and it is expected that
a field of over so will take part
Entries will be accepted uu
until starting time Monday
morning. The first player will
probably tee off at A. M.
WOOdmOnt Club members
are hopeful that Max Weyl,
their leading bet, will con.
tinue his exceptional work
in the current WOOdmont
tournament. WeyI jOlted the
talent by diSpatching Harry
6. Pitt, MAJOR gem, and
5, in the first round yes
terday and reached the
semifinalS by putting out
Charlie Cole, of Indian
Spring, 2 and 1, in the after
noon.
Against Pitt, Weyl took only
IL puts on the first nine and
had six one-putt greens. He
toured the first trip in 81 to
Pitts SO, being 2 up on the
Manorite. Weyl then captured
four holes in one over As to
end the match.
Johnny Shorey, BannockburnS 5
pride, entered the semifinals by
disposing of Page Hufty, of Con
greSsional, and Roger Peacock,
the 19-year-old medalist from IN
dian Spring, in 12-hole matches.
Shorey won when Hufty laid
half-stymie on the nineteenth and
conceded the match after his at
tempted curling putt struck
Shorey's ball. Against Peacock
at the nineteenth, Shorey drove
into the right-hand trap by
green, but pitched out to within
five feet of the cup and ran down
his putt for birdie 3.
c. B. Murphy, club champion
of Congressional, was carried by
Charles R. Morrow, of Indian
Spring, to the nineteenth hole
before he came out on top. Muir
ply was four up on his foe in
the first five holes, but a birdie 3
at the seventh started him off.
He won the eighth and ninth to
go one down.
J. MOnrO Hunter, jr., of In
dian Spring, engaged a fel-
low member, ]. William Har- -
vey, jr., in the second round
and finished in front by a
6.tO-5 margin. Harvey, though
taking the first hole with
birdie 3. was four down at
the turn. Hunter turned in
a medal of 35 for the first
nine.
Chips of the tourney. Harry
Pitt is "overgolfed" Max Weyl,
a fine player, hits a long ball
and puts we'll but plays only on
Sundays. :. S h ould enter other
tournaments to prove his class
MARTIN McInerney using a
midiron, was hole high on 5th
green from back tee on qualify
ing day. ). tbs said Max Weyl
can't come from behind. he was
one down to Charlie Cole at
the turn and won out, 2 and i i
Roger Peacock played a great
shot from the rough at the 5th
.Dolph Atherton laid one from
the fairway dead to the pin on
the same hole w 90 d m ON t |
matched players into brackets in
stead of pairing according to
qualifying scores. cars in park
ing area by the fifth green were
endangered by hooked drives.
a topped tee shot at the 10Th ex-
plains Hufty's loss to Shorey. >.
Bill PendergaSt, Bannockburn's
Little Big Man" seeking shelter
from the roistering sun. .Volney
Burnett negotiated the first nine
in IS blows against J. E. Voll
and was over par for IA holes
=. Johnny Shorey dropped in a
30-foot putt for a birdie at the
5th in his match against Pea
cock. Bill Harvey canned a putt
60 similar length at the 3rd
against Hunter. C. F.. Boyer
putted and Clipped superbly to
put the skidS to Maury Fitzger-
aid. golf is coming to a point
here that threatens the Shorey-
Pitt-Hufty-StevinSon monopoly. ..
strange last year to find Pitt and
Hufty in the first flight consola-
lions of Columbia's tourney, but
to think this pair met such fate
again in the Woodmont event
:. and Woodmont didn't have the
creamy field that competed at
Columbia, either. &E