Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
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EVERETT EYNoN,> the male star In

EVERETT EYNON,> the male star IN
~ drama that brought two club
championships to the Eynon family
at the Columbia Country Club last
year, may not be able to defend his
championship this year. The womens
| title chase, won last year by Mrs. Ever
EFT Eynon, will be played next week.
Everett, who defeated Tommy Bones
in the final round of the mems event
last year, saw his hopes for another
| club title crash yesterday as stroke
after stroke skidded away from him in
the qualification round and unless the
scores made today in the second half
OF the medal round are higher than
expected the young champion will be
on the sidel1nes watching q couple of
other gents play for his title. At the
close OF play yesterday there were
eight men with scores below "a. while
Eynon took IS for his round. II eight
more beat IS today the champion will
be out, for he must qualify In his own
class or not at all.
tommy Bones Southpawed his Way
around the lengthy course in 70 strokes.
which was good enough to lead that
part OF the field which played yester-
day. and probably is good enough to win
the qualification medal Bones got out
in 38 and back in 35 for his 10. Only
2 strokes back Of Bones came Karl F
| Kellerman. jr., the lanky young man
who used to play fine golf at Bannock-
| burn and Columbia. and now is working
! In New York. Kellerman is taking his
vacation while playing golf in the Co
lumbia championship. He played the
first nine yesterday in 40 strokes and
then. With the aid Of an eagle 8 at the
fYr0lfkh It'll
seventeenth, came home in IS for a rs,
which assures him Of place In the
| first fight.
Col. r. P. Parrot led the qualifiers IN
the second flight, whose handicaps
range from 8 to IL, with a card of N.
I. E. Shoemaker led those in the third
flight, with score of 80, while Col. r.
P. Palmer headed the fourth flight
qualifiers. In the fifth flight, C. W.
Gosnell led with 81, while in the sixth
the leader was Frank Govern with 90.
MRS. NORMAN B. FROST, wife OF
W the we'll known Columbia golfer.
holed brasSie shot for an eagle
| deuce on the fourth hole at Congress
! Sional yesterday, playing in a match
with Mrs. William S. Corby, Mrs. H. r.
Quinter and Mrs. Charles Osborne. She
later holed birdie on the sixth hole.
Can a good golfer put a ball out of
bounds on par 4 hole and still secure
birdie 3? He can, as Karl F. Keller
man proved the other day at Columbia.
Kellerman hit his first tee shot SO far
and straight that he carried over the
seventeenth green and the ball went out
OF bounds in the railroad track behind
the putting surface. Teeing up another
ball, he hit his second on the green
and ran down the putt for the birdie 8,
an actual eagle 2.
Comdr. Charles B. Hatch Is the latest
Columbia golfer to make a hole in one.
He scored an ace on the 165-yard thir-
tenth hole, playing a four-bal match
with Bynum E. Hinton, Abner e. Fer
glson and George M Ferris.
Willie Dunt, professional and green
keeper at Sherwood Forest, won the
recent tournament of the Middle Allan
tic Greenkeepers' Association at Five
Farms with a card Of $3.50. In
second place was Dick Scott, with
87.6-Sl. and Bob Scott was third
with 89-6-s3.