Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29
SOME NEW NAMES
DUE IN HEADLINES
Llnksmen Still in School Pre-
pairing to Gust Old Heads
in Journeys.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

Ia WAAAGR Aes lACNhk6OMs
- VEN while the tournaments about
- Washington still are being donni-
mated by the same group Of men
who have been at the top for
four or five years back, group of
youngsters are preparing to move in
and take their places, and 1t may not
be many years hence when these self
same youngsters will usurp the head
lines now dominated by Pitt and Ste
vinson, Peacock and Shorey. The late
ter two still are youngsters, but they
do not seem to be capable of breaking
through and winning. The youngsters
whose names now are scarcely heard
may be able to shatter the supremacy
of the old guard. While Harry Pitt can
hardly be called an old timer in golf,
he is veteran in point Of tournament
experience, for the Manor Club ace has
been winning golf tournaments about
Washington for five years.
Miller B. STEVENSON, the District
champion, has been q tournament win
ner for eight or nine years, and in
that time has accounted for all the
golf events about the Capital through
q fine golf game and the well known
STEVENSON determination to win. The
only event that has eluded him Is the
mid-Atlantic title, which he might
nave WON 1OuE years dBO az. WacAiALlS-
ton had he been bit steadier on the
last four holes.
Several In High School.
Roger Peacock of Indian Spring and
John Shorey of Bannockburn are good
enough, as youngsters go, to win any
golf event, but they have not come
through in the major tournaments.
Shorey has won the Bannockburn tour
new and the Woodmont event, and has
been runner-up at Chevy Chase, while
Peacock has won the junior title, has
been runner-up at Congressional and
has won several qualifying rounds.
But there is a younger group OF golf-
ers who two or three years hence may
be able to crash through where Pea
cock and Shorey, Byrn Curtiss, Frank
Roesch and Charlie Cole apparently
have been unable to stave on the at
tack of the older guard. Columbia has
several promising youngsters not yet
out of high school who may be able TO
make the grade where the boys four
or I'VE years their senior have not been
able to do so. Out at the big club near
Chevy Chase Lake Fred Mcleod has
under his tuelage a couple OF young
sters who may develop into lads OF the
caliber of Roland Mackenzie II they
are allowed free rein to develop their
golf.
IneY are William OIldI1IlOI1 LlAC 1t
year-old son of President Herbert 7.
Shannon of the Columbia Country CLUB.
The younger Shannon already gives his
dad a real run, and has trounced him
several times. Good golf seems to run
with the officers of the Columbia Club,
for Clyde B. Asher, vice president OF the
club, has 16-year-old youngster-Billy
Asher-who has come along in good
fashion under the watchful eyes OF NC
nd civ 0lltCtTlnn1nR
his daddy, who is the same man whose
game has improved so much this year.
John Owens Of Columbia Is in col
iege, and Is a youngster to be reckoned
with in any company, while Jack Powell,
O 19-year-old big hitter OF the golf
ball, can make it hot for any man IN
any company however fast.
Three at Washington.
Over at Washington Tommy Webb,
son of DR.. T. D. Webb, seems about
ready to cash in on the promise OF two
years ago, while Jimmie Drain, the son
of Ralph A. Drain, has come back from
same fine golf game that promised two
years ago to become one of the best
around Washington. Charles Evans, jr.,
nameSake of the famous Chick" OF
Chicago, isn't quite so good with the
irons as the affable veteran from the
shores of Lake Michigan, but he is good
enough to win. Just the other day
he played the first nine at Washington
q. 80 strokes, which Is nothing less
2tan four strokes under par. And re-
Verting again to Columbia, lad named
Junior Dodge seems about ready to
crash through, as a score of 81 on the
first nine recently, would seem to show.
Out at Congressional Luther Steward,
jr., has come back from the University
of Virginia with fine golf game which
may give Page Hufty and Clarence
Murphy some trouble, and at Rock
Greek Park fine youngster Is coming
along in the person of Addison Love-
less, a protege of AL Houghton, pro at
the Harper Country Club. In this lot
there may be Roland Mackenzie.
For Roland, long before he was out of
high school, was winning tournaments
about Washington and already was pre-
pairing for the triumphS that came to
him about the time he entered college.
Usually If a youngster is not good
age, he is not apt to be big winner.
Perhaps some Of these youngsters of
high school age and less may come
along and be tournament winners. It
Is in the tournaments that skill is de-
veloped, and only in the fierce fire of
competition Is that soaring test of nerve
and courage engendered. The lad who
can see long iron shot from the clubs
OF his opponent soar up and drop on
the green and then match 1t with one
equally as good, or better, Is the one
to watch.