Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
Extensive Golf Card Occupies Chevy Chase Club Seniors

drive from the back tees, while the
seniors will use the usual tees and re-
ceiye their full senior association handi-
| cap. Seniors are requested to be at
the first tee ready to play, at 1870 pm.
THOSE perennial rivals of score OF
l. grim battles of the links-Harry G.
Pitt and Miller B. Stevinson-of
Manor and Columbia, respectively, were
in opposite halves of the draw as the
initial match play rounds in the Spring
invitation tournament of the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club got under
way today over the testing course of the
club out in Virginia
Whenever STEVENSON and Pitt play in
golf tournament, it is always inter
esting to see whether they are in OPP
poSite halves of the draw, for while it
is by no means certain that they will
both go through to the final round, the
prospect of another final between this
pair always holds out alluring posi-
bilities for some real golf.
Harry Pitt, who get into the first
fight on q play-off for the last two
places last night. met DR.. Thomas D.
Webb of Washington in the first round
of the tourney today, while STEVENSON
leader of the qualifying round for a
time. InaSmuch as Webb finished sec
ond in the qualifying round with a fine
score of rs, it may be seen that Harry
Pitt has no easy Job on his hands.
Walter r. McCallum, who won the
qualifying round with a card Of 10, was
opposed to Thomas S. Pitt, the fne
swinging player from Argyle, in the
opening round of the tourney. McCallum
picked up four brides in winning the
medal round yesterday, and as matter
of fact might have scored several strokes
lower than his winning 70.
His main mistake came at the short
eleventh hole, which was played into
the teeth of high wind yesterday. His
mashie tee shot carried into the trap
behind the pin and attempting to putt
the ball out, 1t struck the overhang1ng
bank and remained in the trap. He got
S on this par 3 hole, followed with
three puts on the twelfth green for
5, and with the aid of two brides on the
fifteenth and sixteenth holes stood on
the seventeenth tee needing a brace OF
par Is for a II.
His tee shot at the seventeenth came
to rest on a stone and he pulled the
second shot to the left of the green for
5. Reaching the eighteenth green
in two shots, he took three puts for
another S and a card of 10. His score
read 35-38-73. Just in front of Nc
Callun was DR.. WebD, out IN SO ana
coming strong over the last nine until
he hit the fifteenth hole, where his
second shot hit tree and he took a
6. one over par. He had 4 on the
eighteenth for a IA, but took 5.
light players tied at 81 for two
II places in the first flight, but only
four were present when the time
came for the play-off. Those who
started were w. j. Cox Of Beaver Dam,
Harry G. Pitt of Manor, w. G. Evans
of Columbia, and DR.. J. B. Billiard OF
Richmond. Cox knocked his first tee
shot out of bounds and holed lengthy
putt for 4, while Pitt took an iron
and poled long one down the middle.
Evans, on the green in two, missed a
three-foot putt for a 4, which would
have enabled him to go on, while DR..
Billiard missed 15-footer for 4. Thus
Cox and Pitt, who nearly holed bird
3, got in on the play-off. Those who
were not present at play-of time were
j. Monro Hunter, jr.; Norman j. Hall.
D. E. Atherton and Maj. E. A. Noyes.
Judged by the scores yesterday, the
new ball, If played in wind like that
which swept the Washington course
during both of the qualifying days, is
not going to help the scoring of the
amateur golfers about Washington.
Last year, with the old ball, 70 was the
last score to make the first flight, while
this year two Bis got in. The course