Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

- CHOOLBOY golfers of the public
high schools of Washington are
to compete on April % for the
interscholaStic individual golf
championship, now held by Francis
Horton of Central High School. They
will play In a 36-hole medal play event
at East Potomac Park, starting at 9
am, for the biggest individual prize in
interscholastic golf about washington.
Horton Is q favorite to defend his
championship, inasmuch as class de-
fciencies have made many Of his
formidable rivals ineligible to play.
Among the other Central lads expected
to press him closely for the champion
ship are Ralph Graves and Earl kindly.
both Of whom are members OF the Cen.
trail team. j. Munro Hunter, Jr., Is not
in school this year. If Tommy Webb OF
Western plays in the tournament he
will be installed as one of the ranking
favorites. The interhigh school compe-
tition for the Dawes Trophy, emblematlc
of the high school team championship,
Is to start later In the month. A Sched-
lie now is being drawn up, with matches
to be played Saturdays throughout the
Spring.
The challenge of Maurice j. Nc
Carthy and Frank K. RoeSch OF WASH
ington to meet any amateur pair or any
amateur and pro from club about
the Capital in golf match. did not re-
main long ignored. It has been &C
cepted by Henry D. Nicholson, cham
| try Club, and Dave Thomson, the club
pro. The match will be played in about
a fortnight. Meanwhile another prom
inent pair of amateurs are considering
taking q crack at the metropolitan
title holder and the former Washington
club champ.
Women golfers of the Capital are to
compete next Monday in the COMPETE
ton for the Phyllis Keller Miller Me-
mortal trophy, a tourney established
last year In memory of the late secre-
tary of the Women's District Golf Asso-
citation. The tourney is an 18-nole
medal play handicap event, open to
members of all clubs afhliated with the
Women'S association. It will be played
at the Washington Golf and Country
Club, starting at 9:l5 am.
j. Monro Hunter and George Diffen-
baugh, Indian Spring professionals,
won their first exhibition match of the
season yesterday at the Belle Haven
Country Club of Alexandria, downing
Miller B. STEVENSON and w. r. Mccall
lum, local amateurs, by and mar
gin. The best ball of the winners was
72, while that of the losers was 76.
Hunter drove hole high at the twelfth
hole, BAL yards from the tee, and nearly
drove the fourteenth green, $50 yards
away. The professionals were up at
the turn and maintained that margin
to the fifteenth, where StevinSon's putt
to carry the match further hung on the
lip Of the cup and refused to drop.
Only two Of the scores Of golfers who
competed in the "circle" tourney held
yesterday at the Indian Spring Club
were successful in stopping their tee
shots within the circles drawn on the
fairways at varying distances from the
tees. They were George A. Pralle, who
put his ball in q circle 260 yards from
the tee on the fifteenth hole, and Law
renee Hill, who put his ball in a circle
at the thirteenth hole. e. P. Morrow
won the handicap event with a card of
92-23-60. In the runner-up position
was DR.. A. T. Utz, who had S5-24-7l.
-Four players tied at net u for third