Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-11
MEDAL TEST SEEN
AS TOO STRENUOUS
Pitt Leading in 1881 Event
With ISL as Play Goss
Into Last Stages.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.


M golf championship completed
" v this afternoon at the course
Of the Burning Tree Club,
there is apparent among the older
golfe.s who play in the local simon
pure tile chase a swing toward re-
sumption Of the match play method.
After viewing the forty-odd starters
ous there at Burning Tree yesterday.
plcyirg under a blazing sun. and the
abbreviated field which started today
on tie final grind, many Of the old
times in gS,f around Washington
op.ned that thcy wee just as we'll
p'ccsed thay did not play. They con-
tend that medal play as a qualifying
test is all right. bit that - holes OF
medal play for the District champion
ship is too strenuous a test for ANA
tours.
One veteran expressed it this way
to-day: In a medal play tournament
YOU have to worry and keep on worry
ing about every shot right to the finish.
il may be a good test for pros. but for
amateurs it is a little too strenuous. In
match play. If you lose a hole you can
pick uD your ball and forget it. but II
you pick up your ball in medal play.
you are ont of the tournament. Medal
play is too constant a strain. too pun
ishing a business in this heat.
The last time the District champion
ship was decided at match pay was
back in 1920, when Robert l.. Finken-
stacdt Of Columbia defeated a player
then unknown to even local fame. The
runnsr-up vas Miller B. STEVENSON. who
has since won enough tournaments to
have his name engraved on most of the
major trophies around Washington
Winner OF the championship in 1928
and 1929, STEVENSON was one of the
casualties yesterday, for he, along With
several others withdrew.
The championship must be played at
medal play. according to the constitu-
ton of the District Golf Association.
but this constitution may be changed
at any time.
Holly Stover who is an important
man in golf at Burning Tree, believes
tne+ only the winner and runrer-Uo in
each club championship Ground Wash
inGton should be permitted to pay in
the District title event.
s the tournament passed into its
~ final phase today Harry G. Pitt,
~ TIE Manor Club star. whose
record this year far surpssses
that Of any other amateur golfer around
W9sh:netOn. was n a comfortable spot.
three strokes in front Of his nearest
competitor with two rounds to go. Pitt
shot scores Of "a and II yesterday for
a total Of 1911 Three strokes back OF
him at l54 was Roger Peacock. the
brilliant young styl!st from Argyle, who
followed fine IS on the opening
round with a mediocre 10 in the second.
A stroke behind Peacock was M. Park
or Moan, the Big Sluoger from Con-
grosc!onal. who cpened with 10 and
after Getting cut in ~ in the afternoon
proceeded 10 burn up the last nine for
a o. total OF 76 for the round and
grid total OF 155.
w. Eyvn CurtisS the Indian Spring
sout2paT, was newt. with 1855 COM
po~ci of q PAR of 7a', ana J. Monro
Hur.-r. III, ESQ Of Irdian Spring,
added q - to his g. CT the opening
round for e frs. ca" total Of 15T.
John C. Shorcy, VIII NJ msnv folks
IA c"7d TO WIN this year, was virtually
OFT CT the Championship today, nine
strokes behird Pitt. with 100
Pitt got himself out CT let Of bad
spots Yesterday to remain i'll front In
the championship For example, he
tecnth hole and then whaled an iron
shot to the green. nearly holing
birdie g. He holed l5footer for
par at the next. At the seventeenth
in the afternoon he needsd a pair of
As for rs but he was bunkered at
the seventeenth green. wasted stroke
in the sand and ho'ed cut in 6.
Peacock vas 10 closer 70 the lead as
the bows squared aw2v for the final
da- of the cmp.onship because he
too. brace Of 6s en- the eighteenth
hoe OF tie tito chaee He finished
with a fo" 2 Is in tho morning and
thin. with q 70: II in the after
nooo. he rcc,:ed to the woods and
frel'2 h-'od or! in raH fo2en.
Nolan pi~ke1 I'D four brides on his
tr.1 over the last nine holes. went
or~r ia" on two holes and finished
wiz . g.
joe; B.9gs. TIE Argyle star, who
is s'Gv'lv recovering from serious burns
suf RED to n,9athr aga. ?id a brasSie
shot rtoEt alongside the hole at the
lon rinth and hoIed the putt for an
eaoln g.
Conjecture among the contestants
TO-DAY placed the winning score at BOP,
which would be just twice the first cay
total of Harry Pitt. the leader over
the first day. Last year Frank Roesch
Won the title with p. 72-hole score of
800. but scoring conditions were better
then.
The club championship tourney OF
the Congressional Country Club is 70
be held October Z. 8 and 9. which
conflicts with the championship tourney
Of the Columbia Country Cub and
causes Tommy Bones some distress
Bones Is a member Of both clubs, end
w7s runner-up in the Columbia title
event last year. He j0king'v ac"u--s
thu Congressional schodu1" n'ellers Of
h-.n9 afraid he will win the Concree
s!onel tile by allowing the d"tcs for
tile two tile events t. conflict.
TIP FOR FISHERMEN.
HARPERS FERRY. W Va Sentem-