Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE


- Capital seems anxious to go to
Baltimore next Monday to play
in the 36-hole sweepstakes
tournament which will be held over
the course of the Maryland Country
Club. Even though they will have 10
get I'D at the freakish hour Of Z O'Clock
or earlier in order to reach the course
in time to play, nearly all the pro-
fessionals have declared their mten-
ton to compete in the tourney.
Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase has de-
cided to pass up the Baltimore tour
ney for q tourney in Philadelphia,
which he won several years ago, but
the balance Of the local pros are to
take an early run over to Baltimore.
They must get up early, for Baltimore
has daylight saving time and O'Clock
here is 10 o'clock over there.
Big golf tournaments bring out some
freak shots and generally trot out some
unusual golf shots. The Chevy Chase
tournament, which comes to a close
this afternoon, has done its share
For example, the ninth hole Is par
3 affair of Isl yards from the middle
of the back tee, where the, tee plates
are placed at tournament time. 1t Is
very hard 3 and about 10 times
more difficult deuce. The green Is large;
but trouble abounds all around 1t, and
the ball must be struck absolutely on
the line to reach the green. Yesterday
we saw Comdr. c. T. Lynes Of Wash
ington knock his tee shot within 6 feet
of the pin for what looked like q sure
win from Paul Y. Anderson OF Column
bia. And rust to show how freaklsh
this golf game is, Anderson holed a 20
foot putt for a and LyneS missed his
winning putt for the deuce.
In the afternoon Miller B. STEVENSON
poled out q tee shot that ended only
four feet from the pin. STEVENSON
ordinarily never misses four foot putt,
but he blew that one.
At the same hole in the morning
round we saw one Of those shots you
read about, but seldom see. G. Ashmead
Fuller pulled the shot, in q tight spot,
where the win of q single hole doomed
like a mountain to the Chevy Chase
player. He was playing Harry G. Pitt
of Manor, and Pitts putt for his 8
stopped on the lip of the cup, laying
Fuller a complete stymie. Fuller's ball
was only a foot away, and there seemed
no way to get in the hole but to loft
over the ball of Pitt. He studied the
shot carefully, and then played one of
those things you seldom see. Striking
his ball firmly. with oyerspin, he hit
Pitts ball so hard that he knocked 1t
two feet away and his own ball rolled
on the line truly into the cup. As they
walked up the eighteenth after Pitt
had beaten Fuller, 3 and 2, Pitt said,
Il may have beaten Ashmead, but he
still is the billiard champion
Then there was Felix Early of Indian
Spring, playing the long third hole in a
winning par 4, although his ball never
was on the fairway and never stopped
on the putting green until it reached
the bottom of the cup. That trick 4
was painful to Comdr. C. B. Hatch of
Columbia, for it won the hole. Early
hooked his tee shot into bunker, put
his second into a bunker near the green,
knocked his third shot over the green
and holed a short pitch for the par 4.
But the palm for overtime golf goes
to Bill Jones of Congressional, who
played total Of A holes and took two
whippings in doing it. Jones never was
down to B. r. English Of Indian Spring
until English rolled in the putt that
won on the twenty-fifth green. In the
afternoon Jones and A. S. w. Frailey
of Chevy Chase went to the nineteenth
hole, where the Congressional man
again took 1t on the chin.
The tournament was down to the
final round, with the probability that a
repetition of the last two years would
again be seen, for Harry @. Pitt, winner
twice In q row, and Miller B. STEVENSON,
runner-up to Pitt both times, are IN OPP
poSite halves of the draw.
A tall lad named w. p. Youngs, who
was o member Of the Princeton soli
team, and who knocked the ball around
Chevy Chase yesterday In 70 and 70
was one Of the other semi-finalists,
while the long-hitting Everett Eynon.
much improved golfer, was the other
Pitt was favored to beat Youngs, ano
STEVENSON, who usually beats Eg1on In
matches at Columbia, was the favor1te
70 win from his clubmate.
John c. shorey, one of the three
Washington entrants in the Baltimore
Country Club tourney, tied yesterday
for the qualifying medal with Ernest
Caldwell, a public links golfer Of Bal
timore. and j. Wood Plat, Philadelphia
star. The tie will be played OF Sun
day. unless all three are eliminated
and can play off earlier. l.. s. Julien
of Columbia registered o o. in the
medal round, while Charles r. Allen
Of Confessional scored 104.
Shorey met Alex Knapp Of Baltimore
In the FIRST round of the tourney today
Knapp won the event last year. T
Phillip Perkins, former British amateur
champion, tied at 81 for one Of the
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