Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12

7 LARRY G. PITT Of Manor, one
- of Washington's outstanding
golfers and q man who rates
to qualify in any golfing COM
pany, today Is wondering what this golf
thing Is all about. A few days ago
Harry had the world by the tail with
a down hill pull or so he thought, as
he contemplated the scintillating So he
registered over the Columbia Country
Club in practice for the tourney which
entered its final stages today. And to-
day the long hitter from the Manor
Club is standing on the side lines Won
dering why q man can shoot SO one
day and two days later, take 81 strokes.
Not that Harry mourns his failure to
qualify at Columbia, for the Manorite
has cultivated an unusual philosophic
attitude toward this exaSperating game
But he still Is in somewhat Of daze,
trying to figure out why that wide dis
parity between scores at time when
scores and scores alone counted.
Only last Monday Pitt blazed his way
around the Manor course in 6S, scoring
fourteen As and four IS for q mark
which few amateurs have ever made.
right on Monday, things were all wrong
in the qualifying round Of the tourney.
On the other hand, the day was q
Roman holiday by w. Carlton Evans,
rotund, smiling Columbia amateur. who
occasionally runs wild with his putter
and picked yesterday as the day to do
1t. Evans had the qualifying medal all
tied up in the bag and delivered need
ing only brace of tours on the last
two holes for TO- which would have
beaten Roger Peacock's II, registered on
the previous day, by stroke. Playing
such fine golf as Evans had shown over
the previous 10 holes there was every
prospect that he might pick up q birdie
at the seventeenth and with four at
the eighteenth get around in SO. At
the top of the hill at the seventeenth at
Columbia there Is a shallow trap, with
q high bank sticking out above 1t.
Evans pitched ball caught the top Of
this bank, only q few inches short Of
perfection, and dropped back in the
trap. He took five and needed a four
on the eighteenth to tie the young In
dian Spring star. He pushed his second
shot into the shallow trap at the right
OF the eighteenth green as the gallery
groaned in sympathy, but the ball found
clean uphill lie. From this spot Evans
putted the ball out of the trap to with
in yard Of the hole and nonchalantly
sank the tieing putt. The tie probably
will be played of Saturday or Sunday.
Just as happened last year. the scor-
ing in the medal round of the Columbia
tourney was exceptionally low. 1t took
76 or better to get in the first flight,
only two 78S got in the first fight in a
flve-man playoff. Among those losing on
the playof was the veteran Albert r.
Mackenzie of Columbia The first flight
Is true crcSs-Section of the best there
{e fN1 u
the country, barring the failure of
Harry Pitt to make the grade. Seldom
has better first flight been seen In any
tournament, and all the matches should
be good All the 85s got in the tour
nament, but no score higher than IS
qualified, which was Just as 1t was last
year. when it took IS to make the NTH
fight
The competition among the senior
golfers Of the Chevy Chase Club for the
Morven Thompson Memorial Cup has
progressed to the third round in many
of the brackets. Here are the second
round results in the handicap tourney:
Peter. i up; H. NJ. southsate defeated Ad-
miral w. H.. STANDBY. 4 and 8; E. M. Tai
BY default; Col Ed Clifford defeated I'd AdZ
feated w. C. Mendenhali III BY default G'' Cen e
NJ M. Patrick defeated G. Y. WorthinEton,
2 up.
A missed 10-inch putt on the sloping
surface of the eighteenth green at the
Washington Golf and Country Club cost
Mrs. J. M. Haynes OF Columbia
chance to beat Dorothy White Nicol-
son yesterday in the second round of
the District woman's championship. At
the seventeenth tee it appeared that
Mrs. Nicolson, playing in defense of
her title, had the match we'll in hand,
but Mrs. Haynes. won the seventeenth
with a par and then knocked out two
lengthy wooden club shots that nearly
reached the green. She had q 10-inch