Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14
~ NE Of the Queerest Chevy
Chase tournaments I have
seen in recent years" The

NE Of the Queerest Chevy
~" Chase tournaments I have
seen in recent years" The
speaker was q veteran
golfer, who used to play in tourna-
ments, is familiar with the scores
which should be made and knows what
this business of qualifying in an invi-
tation tournament about Washington is
all about.
Here we have men like Miller Stevin-
son and Warren Corkran failing to
qualify. Men like Ashmead Fuller and
George Lyon failing to make the grade.
Look at that first flight. 1t does look
queer without STEVENSON and Corkran
in it. And most of the names are new
to first flight golf in this tournament"
Just what it was that shot the scores
up so high in the two-day qualifying
round of the Chevy Chase event no one
can definitely say. Probably it was the
combination of long tees and a very
slow course, but certainly the qualify
ing scores have not been so high in q
Chevy Chase event in many years
When card of rs wins the qualifying
medal at Chevy Chase, that is a real
event. for it is customary for one or
more Of the sharpshooters who enter
the tourney to get down around 70 or 10.
And Tommy Bones, the southpaw star
OF Columbia, who won the medal with
rs, will always remember the brassie
shot on the third hole that really start
ed him on the squirt Of golf that en-
abled him to lead the field. Tommy
had made a poor tee shot barely out Of
the rough. He stepped up with a
brassie and socked that ball dead on a
line for the distant pin-275 yards
away. So truly hit was the shot and
so we'll judged as to distance that the
ball came to rest only 10 inches from
the pin, and instead of going over par
on the hole he bagged a birdie 3.
Inc elements conspired to shoot the
scores away up. The tee plates were
well back and the soggy course made
more than few feet of roll an i'm
possibility. And perhaps the new ball
had something to do with it. No one
reached the ninth green from the tee
245 yards away. And no man reached
the sixth green in two shots The
eighth--ordinarily fairly easy par s.
became a very hard in the wet going
and holes like the fourteenth and
f1fteenth were transformed from fairly
easy tours to hard fours. Bones win
ming total was just one stroke in front
OF the IT'S registered by Maj Earl L.
Maiden and Everett Eynon, both of
Columbia.
For many years it has taken scores
OF 80 and better to qualify for the first
flight at Chevy Chase, but yesterday
scores of 81 played off for the last two
places, and scores of "a were drawn
into the fifth flight.
Bones met Harry G. Pitt of Manor
in the first round, with one of the best
matches of the tournament promised
between this pair. In the top half of
the draw the outstanding golfers are
Bones. Pitt and Jimmy Herman of
Washington, while in the bottom half
such players as Mai Earl L. Maiden
and j. Monro Hunter stand out. The
first two match play rounds today will
bring the tourney to its Semi-final phase
tomorrow morning with Pitt again an
outstanding favorite to win the event
for the fourth time in a row.
Max r. Marston, Philadelphia star
amateur. who held the national cham
pionship in 1928. notified the committee
early in the day that he could not play.