Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-12
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.


N 70 doubling Thomas can rise this
year to challenge the suprem-
acy in local golf circles Of the
long shifting Harry G. Pitt OF
the Manor Club. Winner CT the Bal
timore Country Club, Columbia and
Indian Spring events earlier in the
season, the Manor Club ace set the
final seal OF class on his season yes
terday winning the District amateur
championship over the course OF the
Burning Tree Club with 72-hole
score Of 302. This was five strokes in
front OF Roger Peacock, the young
holder Of the junior title from Argyle,
who made a gallant effort to snatch
the senior crown from Pitt.
Blazing his way over the sun
Scorched fairways Of the classic course
out near Bethesda. Pitt stroked the
ball around the 72-hole test for an
average Of 1914 to the round, which is
considerable golf for layout OF the
length of Burning Tree, and stamped
him without any shadow of doubt as
the king pin of the amateur golfers of
the Capital for this year.
Outdistancing his field from the start
OF the 72-hole test, Pitt opened with
IA on Thursday morning, following with
II to lead over the first day OF play
with a 36-hole total of ISL. He shot
identical rounds of IA and II yesterday
for total Of 302, two strokes above
the winning 800 of last year, set by
Frank K. Roesch of Washington.
Young Peacock hung on grimly
throughout the final day Of the cham
pionship. stroking the ball smoothly
when Pitt seemed to slip. only to fall
back far in the rear as Pitt played the
last nine holes in So strokes to win
the title by shots. At the close of the
third round, Pitt had a four-stroke
lead over Peacock. with a 54-hole total
of 225 against 229 for the Argylite.
Pitt shot the third round in "a, against
IS for Peacock Starting in the after
noon, Pitt lost a shot at the first hole.
another at the fourth and still another
at the fifth, leaving Peacock only a
shot behind
At this point Pitt had played five
holes in over par. But he laid
great brassie shot to the green at the
sixth and got back a stroke with
par 4, only to lose it again to a par
by Peacock at the seventh, where
Pitt hooked his tee shot to the woods
The Manorite sank a 40-foot putt for
deuce at the short eighth and again
was up. Then began a series Of
halved holes, beginning at the ninth
and running through the fourteenth.
On the fifteenth green Pitt sank a To-
| foot putt for birdie which left him
3 strokes to the good with three holes
| to go. Peacock putted the sixteenth
green after getting home in shots, and
Pitt retained his margin. They halved
the seventeenth in IS and Peacock took
a on the eighteenth for 7S, while
Pitt knocked In for IT,
The main battle lay between these
two, with the others hopelessly out OF
the title chase. John c. Shorey, 9
strokes back at the end Of the first
day, shot rs in the third round and
was II strokes back Of Pitt. He fin
ished in just that position for third
place with total of 313, IL strokes back
OF the leader. w. Byrn Curtiss, Indian
Spring Southpaw, won fourth place with
a total Of 316. Fifth place went to
M. P. Nolan. Congressional star, with
total Of BIT.
A DETERMINED effort is to be
"A made by the District of Column
bta Golf Association. speaking for
most OF the clubs around Washington
and Baltimore, to secure the sectional
qualifying round for the national anna
teur championship next year at a club
in Maryland near Washington.
Columbia has rendered its course for
the sectional qualification round, which
Is one-day event, and the District
Golf Association announced today
through President D. L. Thompson
that petition is to be sent to the
United States Golf Association request
ing transfer of the sectional qualifi-
cation rounds for the national amateur
to Washington club instead Of a
Richmond golf organization.
Richmond has had a virtual mo-
nopoly on the sectional qualification
rounds for both the open and amateur
championships for several years. Prior
to the advent of the sectional qualih-
cation system for the amateur, similar
trials have been held for the open at
Richmond clubs for several years past.
Now many Washington golfers hold
that lnasmuch as Washington is In the