The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-07-30
LEADS
WTHSUB PAR
1876 TOTAL
By JUNO KINERK

~ 1890
Playing in Shara-like heat that
fried all the energy out of such
well-known stars as Fred Mcleod.
Roland Hancock, Sandy Armour
and others, Ralph Beach, Subur-
ban Club pro in Baltimore, played
the kind Of golf every man
dreams about to capture first
place for the P. G.. A. tourna-
ment in the Middle Atlantic
qualifying test at Indian Spring.
Ralph, who learned his golf in
washington while a caddie at the
washington Golf and County
Club, and later served at the
Chevy Chase and Burning Tree
clubs here, turned in two sensa-
tional rounds, adding fine 81
afternoon round to his SO morn
ing score for a 1875 total, one OF
the lowest competitive marks ever
made for 36 holes. Par for the
course is II, so Beach's grand
total was six strokes below per-
feet figures.
Little less sensational than
Beach'S achievement was
that of Arthur b. ThOrn's,
The popular WOdmOnt pro
put on the gamest kind Of q
driving finish to cinch' the
other place from this section.
Out in the morning in 70,
Thorn fought his way to a bril-
liant SO in the afternoon for a
142 score, four strokes better than
George Diffenbaugh and War
ner Mather, who finished in Q
tie for third.
Beacl1's card revealed that he
was over par figures on only three
holes, requiring five on the third
in the morning and the same on
the tenth in the afternoon. Par
on each is four. He also took q
four on the par three seventeenth.
Against these SlipupS Beach had
seven brides and one eagle on his
card, playing his approaches with
deadly precision and putting ex-
ceptionally steady and well.
The tees were all but showed
back in the next county, so in
stead of getting his score on q
6,577-yard course, as the card in
dictated, Beach compiled his rec
ord-breaking total over a course
measuring close to $500 yards. If
there was any weakness in Beach'S
playing it was with his tee shots.
His tendency to hook got him into
the rough occasionally, but he was
always able to recover splendidly.
Thorn played well i'm both
rounds except for the four :
/ finishing holes in the morn
! ing round. Out In 80, he re-
quired five on each of the
last four holes, which gave
him q 40 for the incoming
journey and q IS card. In
the afternoon he repeated q
80 for the outgoing nine and
had two brides coming in for
SO to offset the two holes
where he was one over par.
Every tourney has its tragedies
as well as its surprises. And the
cases of Warner Mather and
George Diffenbaugh illustrate this
point. Mather was co-leader with
Beach in morning. bagging three
brides in the last four holes to
catch Ralph. Diffenbaugh had u
and was tied for third with Bob
Barnett.
In the afternoon both Diffen-
baugh and Mather played with
Beach. Neither George Eor War
ner are well men. Mather was
| just up out Of sick bed, having
had an infected throat operated
upon a few days ago, while little
George had tender foot from
a spike bruise which prevented
his pivoting properly.
Diffenbaugh struck right to
Beach'S Scorching pace for the
first nine, getting a S3 to tie
Ralph, while Warmers score for
this nine was SO. Thus he and
Diffenbaugh were all square at
the end of q. After just missing
brides on the tenth and eleventh
with trimmed puts and pars on
the next two. Georges jinx four
tenth bobbed UP and hit him
squarely between the eyes. On
this he required a buzzard six.
With it went his hopes.
The heat and his ebbing
strength meanwhile Slapped
Mather's energy and his fire.
quent visits to the traps cost
him strokes here and there.
Mather and George each
ended the home nine in Al
where in the. morning the
former had a "a and Diffen-
baugh . SO.
Players out at Rock Greek are
anticipating pleasant weekend
golf tourney. in which they VIII
play in a blind handicap event
of Is holes. Handicaps are to
royro f,nnvo Ef0 IA and the