Evening star., 1932-09-09
GOES TO TOURNEY
| AS DISTRICT CHAMP
His 299 Score Is Second Best
in History of Event-Pitt
10 Strokes Back.
BY WALTER R. McCALLUM.


~ YER at the Five Farms
course of the Baltimore
~ Country Club today, trying
out his shots for the big
gest golf test he ever has faced,
is a slim, dark-haired lad, his hair
blowing about his brow, booming
lengthy tee shots down the fair
ways over which the national
amateur championship will be
played next week.
The lad filled with new confidence In
his golfing ability, is Roger Peacock of
Indian Spring, new holder of the Dis
trict amateur golf championship, pos
SCISSOR of the finest winning score in the
event since George Voigt relinQuiShed
the local amateur around back in 1928.
Roger won the local simon pure title
yesterday with a total of 299 for the
72-hole competition at Chevy Chase.
He did not set an all-time record, as
he might have done had he continued
the streak he set over the first two
rounds of the title chase, but he did
eclipse all winning marks since Voigt
first won the title in 1926.
j ID OGER faces the national amateur
N for the first time with a major
crown tucked in his belt-the first
he ever has won since the days when
as a kid golfer more than a decade ago,
( he dreamed of winning them. He will
be one of the brightest hopes of Wash
1ngton in the national if he shows any,
where near the golf he displayed in
winning the District title.
~ Id
. opening tee shot from the first tee at
Chevy Chase on Wednesday young Pea
] cock led in the District title chase. He
! opened with 70, added a 73 to it, then
. shot rs in the third round and with
the title safely tucked away behind
12-stroke lead, he had his only bad
( streak of the tournaments "A over
that tough first nine at Chevy Chase.
But he could afford it then, for with
such lead only super-gof on the part
of Harry Pitt or John Shorey could
have caught the Indian Spring young
ster.
Roger is just past his majority. He
was 81 years Of age on April l this year,
He will captain the Duke University
golf team in intercollegiate matches in
the South next Winter. He won the
championship by 10 shots, the largest
winning margin in modern golf history,
reversing the positions of Pitt and him.
self in the title chase at Burning Tree
last year. There he battled down the
final round with Pitt to lose by five
strokes.
CEVEN strokes to the good after the
~ first two rounds, Roger tucked the
title away on ice with a rs over the
third round. Harry Pitt was struggling
to keep his usually straight tee shots
in the fairway. His putting gone awry,
forced to try impossible recovery shots,
the former champion finished second
to Peacock with total of 309
Late in the afternoon Martin F. Nc
Carthy of Beaver Dam came in to sink
an 8-foot putt on the last green for
total of 312 to nose out John c. Shorey
for third place Shorey, who halls from
the Manor Club, and has been potent
threat in other championships, finished
fourth with 313.
There was not much to the cham
pionship after that third round of rs
shot by Peacock In many ways it was
the most lusterless in many years.
MAURICE NEE, the young junior
4V1 champion. who will win some day,
finished fifth with total of 3i6,
leaving wide gap between himself and
William E. Shannon Of Columbia, in
sixth place with 321. Eddie Rice Of
Washington was seventh with 1923. Here
are the summaries:
--29s; Harry G. Pitt, Manor, l54-78-77-
800; Martin F. Mccarthy. Beaver Dam lSs-
siDsS-Si5; Maurice % Nee. Manor, I5s-75-
82-3l6; Billy shannon; Columbia ls1-Sd-
SIS Tom M e Beishe' S$Irldhf indian Spring; i6s
--s6-s1-330: Fred Hitz, Chevy Chase; l5Sm
86-S6-330: John c. Holzberg Columbia, I65
Capt Melvin i Fislds5 sehnett A5%H Go2
gFessSPfa gre cofambS is$sss GsFf9SE s. Foa
Ter. Washington. l6S-9oms6..344; Burke Ed
aarf Ha4mon 4n15an k4aye sprlRs 1fslso8ss5 Gspt &
James Notestein. Army-Navy. So-S5-Ss-
363: l. A. Reeves. Congressional. 187-s6ael
-364; N. P. Patterson, Beaver Dam, 1872
eo-364; C. A. Slater. jr.. Columbia. l79-94-
Ssl-364.
.TRANCIS OUIMET Of Boston, national
i amateur champion, flew to Balti-
more yesterday by airplane with
Jess Guilford and Linde Fowler, ana
played the Five Farms course in 70 IN
his first practice round for the national
amateur championship. All the big
guns now are at Baltimore, trying out
their shots for the simon pure title
chase which opens on Monday and con-
tinues through Saturday. Most Of the
washington qualifiers are at Five Farms
today practicing.
nIYIE IEhGIIF CHIFF