Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-06

fairly good ones will win
any 72-hole medal play
championship" We've heard
that old professional axiom many times
and has almost proved certainty.
Frank K. Roesch, slender, silent star
of the washington Golf and Country
Club, is the king of the amateurs of the
District today because he had one great
round of golf, and three fairly good
jaunts in the 72-hole medal play cham
pionship at the Burning Tree Club yes
terday when Roesch tapped in three
inch putt for on the eighteenth hole.
That gave him a total of 300 strokes
for the four rounds, which is an average
of rs and spells considerable golf over
such tough layout.
That three-lnch putt also spelled the
death knell of the hopes of John G.
Shorey of Bannockburn, for the Glen
Echo star, even with Roesch at the
ffty-fourth hole faded on the first 10 of
the final round to go to the eleventh
hole with a f1ve-stroke deficit facing
him. Then, coming with a rush over
the last six holes, was within inches
of nipping Roesch. Indeed, had Shorey's
20-foot putt for a 3 gone down on the
last hole the two lads from Washing
ton and Bannockburn might be playing
off tie for the championship today.
Miller B. STEVENSON of Columbia, title
holder for the past two years, saw the
finish and was among the first to con-
graduate the successor to the throne he
vacated when he withdrew at the close
of the first day.
Stevinsons idea, also, it was to get
from Frank Roesch the ball with which
the Washington lad won the cham
pionship. That ball will be raffisd off
at Columbia on September 16, when
Bobby Jones plays there in an eXhi-
bition match. and the money raised
will go to Bobb McWatt.
Roesch's great round was that Sec
ond of the 72-hole title chase, when he
went around in 10 strokes to set a
new amateur course record. His other
three rounds were ordinary affairs, for
he started with a 70 and ended with
brace of 76s.
Bill Di Este, cross-handed Argyle star,
finished third with 800.
Bill won the putting and chewing
championship, for he pulled and
chewed 30 cigars through the four
rounds of the tournament. Bill has
contraption on the end of his putter
which reaches down in the hole like a
claw and picks out the ball. and with
his ever-present cigar tucked away in
the northeast corner or his grim set
lips ne made a picturesque figure.
Everett Eynon of Columbia finished
fourth with 305, despite a burly Z he
amassed on the fifteenth hole of the
final round, at which point he was
tied with Shorey and only strokes
back of Roesch. That cost him
third place.
Roesch shot 148 for the first two
rounds, with Shorey scoring $50. They
were paired together for the final twin
rounds, along with Dr.~L. S. Otell of
Indian Spring, who shot 36-hole total
of 1888 After the third round, which
Shorey shot in "A and Roesch in 76,
the Bannockburn lad and the Wash
ington youngster were deadlocked at
224, and were so far in front of the ball
ance Of the field that it was certain the
struggle for the title lay between them.
Roesch picked up two strokes on the
first hole of the final round with a
birdie 3 against Shorey's goods, for
the Bannockburn player had to hole a
lengthy putt after being bunkered
Shorey picked up a stroke at the sec
ond, which he played in a birdie 4
against for Roesch. They halved the
next four holes, and Roesch added an
other stroke to his lead at the seventh,
where Shorey overplayed the green for
a buzZard 5.
Roesch picked up another stroke with
a birdie at the ninth to get out in 81
to 40 for Shorey, and then gained two
more by sinking a 35-foot putt for an
eagle at the tenth, where Shorey took
a s.