The Washington times., 1930-09-02
STRONG FIELD.
! SEEKS TITLE
TODAY

T.
Today ushers in the busiest
week Ii golf in washington in
many q moon. The District
ju1ior amateur championship at
36 holes medal play Is being de.
cided over the washington Coli
and Country Club course today
with Roger Peacock, the defend
ing champion, the favorite to
Withstand the assault Of classy
field, while Thursday and Friday
the District amateur champion
ship Of "a holes medal play will
be decided over the Burning Tree
course.
Both Of these events are strictly
class tournaments and one wasted
shot may be fatal. OF course,
the youngsters playing today viii
find this truer than will be the
case in the other tourney, be-
cause In 72 holes one has twice
as many opportunities to make
lp for d bad hole.
j. Monro Hunter, jr., and w.
Byrne Curtiss, Of Indian Spring;
Tommy Bones, of Congressional,
and Tommy Webb. Chick Evans,
ir., Eddie Rice and Jimmy Drain,
OF the host club, are the lads
whom Peacock, the young Argyle
star, will have to stand off today
to successfully defend his diadem.
AZ for the District amateur,
II it looks like a wide open
j tourney this year. The COM
petitiOn is bound to be keen
all the way through and
there promises to be many a
clubhouse discussion starting
with 'sif I had done this, and,
TT hadn't done that, I
would have won this event in
stead Of sO-and-s0." That's
the way IL goes, you know.
with Labor Days holiday
tournaments behind them, prize
inners are still, receiving their
ratulations today for their
. chievements. Every course held
:ome special holiday events.
N. r. Patterson was the win
,,er of the Presidents Cup tourna-
l.,ent at Beaver Dam. His gross
core Of 50 with a handicap OF
gave him a net 64, which
,ade him an easy winner. j. L.
= ownson, Forrest Thompson, E.
: strong and Charming Davis
ID for second with net 7Os.
w. r. Henderson captured the
,ltting prize by dropping a 90
coter and H. A. Neff won second
ace by taking two puts from
'.e same distance. Forrest
aompson's 275-yard smash won
he driving event from w. T.
henderson with q 26O-yard effort
nd Larry s. Day with a 25O-yard
i've. M. r. McCarthy'S approach
ON $50 yards 6 feet from the
IN won that event. w. T. Hen
!. rerson was second, 8 feet away,
md Les Allen was third, 10 feet
rom the pin. Mrs. II. N. SWartz
Won both the handicap event and
he approaching contest for
Youaen. Mrs. II. B. Shipley won
ne driving contest and Mrs. H.
I. Stone was first in the putting
vent.
IN the miniature. tournament
lt Indian Spring George Gist
was the winner Of the first flight,
defeating DR.. Larry O'TeI, up:
w. v. Vogel won the second
flight from Harold Graves, 4 and
8; w. w. CurtisS won the third
flight from Homer S. Pope, ] up
In II holes; Luther Pearson won
the fourth flight from L. A.
Spies, up, and Bobby Brown
ell, the 12-year-old star, won the
fifth flight.
The Presidents Cup was
4 the feature event at Manor.
Il re was decided over 36 holes
4 medal play and E. L. Nor.
ris was the winner with
eEf rounds Of SO and So, which,
with . gross handicap Of AZ,
gave him q net 1876. It.
Il DOnOhue was the runner-up
With q net 1877. He had
II cards Of 81 and 80 and Al
4 handicap. M. b. Shaw with
Il 00.06-4O-138 was third and
Dave L. Thomson won the
low gross prize with 15S.
The blind bogey event at Ma
nor was won by Donohue with
"a net 70, the latter representing
the lucky number. D. T. Nimro
sIWas second with a net 10. The
ndriving contest was won by w.
III. Peters with q 234 average Tor
two drives. w. w. Dean was
second with a 224 average. The
quitting contest was won by Rob
lert EIird with 35 taps on 18
greens. Mrs. S. p. Harrison,
with 81 puts, won q similar con-
test for women. Mrs. .. M: