Evening star., 1931-12-14
PITT TO SEEK GOLF
| CROWN IN FLORIDA
Manor Club Ace Will Play
in Championship Event
at st. Augustine.
vARRY G. PITT, Manor Club ace

Y ARRY u. PITT, Manor Club ace
- and holder of the District of
Columbia amateur golf cham
pionship. plans to start his 1882
golf campaign early Believing in an
early start to round his game into form
for the Spring tournaments around
Washington, Harry will maze his initial
trip into Florida late in January to play
in the national championship of club
champions at ST. Augustine the first
week in February.
So far as is known, Pitt is the only
club champion about the Capital who
will journey to st. Augustine to play
for the Travis Trophy in the tourney
which was inaugurated four years age
as fine publicity stunt for ST. Augustine
and real chance to name champion
of club champions.
T. Phillip Perkins, the transplanted
former British amateur champion, whc
now is making his hcme in the United
States, is the present holder of the title
but we have a hunch if Pitt goes tc
st. Augustine with enough golf under
his belt really to get his game going he
will give Phillip quite a run for his
money in defense of his title When
he really gets started Harry Pitt is q
great golfer.
The tourney will be played from
February to and after that Pitt MAY
journey up and down the East Coast
playing bit of golf as he goes. Pitt
plans next year to play in as many
major tournaments as possible and
hopes to wind up his campaign with
competition in the United States
amateur championship at Baltimore
This tourney will be played over the
Five Farms course, where Harry opened
his 1881 campaign by winning in i'm
pressive fashion over one of the best
fiel6s ever gathered for the Baltimore
Country Club invitation event.
4'1 vote tonight on six candidates for
the Board of Governors, five OF
whom are to be elected for a three-year
term. A nominating committee COM
posed of H. L. Simcoe, chairman; W. H
Callahan, E. L. Morris, A. c. Hulligan
and w. w. Dean has submitted the fol-
lowing list of candidates: Alvin w
Hall, G. M. Quirk, w. A. Roberts, Harry
A. Seran and D. L. Thomson. Winship
1. Green has been placed in nomina
tion by another group of club members,
consisting of A. L. Landvoigt. L. H.
Brown, A. B. Alley, Harry G.. Pitt, Irwin
T. Donohoe and Dwight N. Burnham.
The five receiving the largest num-
ber of votes will win the election. After
this election the board will meet to bal
lot on club officers. Present officers of
Manor Club are Ray F. Garrity, presi-
dent; Frank Birgfeld, vice president;
Stanley D. Willis, secretary, and George
M. Quirk, treasurer. Quirk, Roberts
and Thomson are at present members
Of the board
j. r. Pattison registered a gross of
81 through the rain Yesterday in the
blind bogey event held each Sunday at
Manor, and, with a handicap of 18
strokes, won the tourney with net of
70. B. G. Hartig was second, with a
net Of 78, while w. D. Gamble, c. G.
Storm and w. w. Smith tied for third,
with II.
j; Munro Hunter, the big pro at
indian Spring, picked up three brides
IN the snort space of six holes over his
home course yesterday to play the first
nine in SO strokes.
He was knocking the ball so far that
Notwithstanding the heavy air and the
slow course, Re reached the green at
the par seventh with drive and a
No. iron and nearly holed the putt
for an eagle 8.
His spoon shot at the ninth left him
an 8-footer for duece, but the ball
failed to drop Missed puts on the last
nine cost him SO for the nine and a
card Of II, which is just par for the
layout. He was playing with D: M
Ferry and Harry K. B. Davis.
From the fifth. tee Hunter pushed
his shot over into the seventh fair
way. and from that spot he played a
mashie shot to within S feet of the
hole over a bunker at the edge of the
green. The putt for birdie failed to
drop, but he picked up a bird at the
short sixth and another bird at the