Evening star., 1932-01-29
FIGURES IN MAKING
BOTH LINKS MARKS.
D. C. Champion Hits So for
Unofficial Record, Ties
Official With II.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

7 TARRY G. PITT is the golfing
II boss of Manor Club. The
L L genial golfer, who holds
the District amateur cham
pionShip and is the top-liner of
amateur play around Washing
ton by virtue of his 1881 record,
not only holds the unofficial rec
ord for the Manor Club course
and the club championship, but
also is the co-holder of the official
amateur record.
Where other knights Of the driver
and mashie have been unable to equal
par over this tough layout where the
wooded stretches of the first nine are
sprinkled with lost golf balls and the
last nine challenges the long hitter
with its great reaches, Pitt not only
has shattered par by three strokes on
one occasion, but twice has beaten the
mythically perfect figure.
Four years back on a day in May
Miller STEVENSON and Fred Mcleod OF
Columbia COllaborated with Pitt and
Al Tredor. Manor Club pro. to open
the then new first nine Of the Manor
Club, completing the big l8-hole lay
out of the NorbeCk institution. The
word biz" is used because prior to
the opening of the woods nine, the
club had one fine nine of champion
ship length and a short or inside
nine of 2420 yards, which is consider
ably short of championship distance.
That day Stevinson slugged his way
around a slow course in u strokes TO
set what then was new record for
the Manor Club layout.
Pitt Ties OfiiaI Mark
The following year Manor held an
invitation event to mark the formal
tournament opening of the new lay
out, and in the Sodden qualification
round, undeterred by slow course and
a high wind, Comdr. j. B. Pollard of
Annapolis, an old University of Vir-
ginia foot ball player, not only tied
Stevinson's mark, but set an official
record for the layout with a mark of
70, one above the par Of II. Last year
Pitt tied that official record with a
38-34-72 in the medal play round OF
the invitation tournament.
But in the years that intervened the
long-hitting District champion def
nitely and finally set the seal on his
mastery of the Manor Club layout with
a ! ace of scores below TO. One day
a year and half ago Pitt blaZed his
way around his home layout in 68
strokes to set mark which stands to-
DAY as the unofficial record for the
course. Pitt hoIed all his puts ON
that day, but the record cannot be
claimed as the official medal record
for the course because it was not made
in competition.
AS the holder of the unofficial rec
ord possessor of at least two scores
below 70 and co-holder Of the official
record, Harry Pitt certainly is the boss
OF golfers at Manor.
He also is the only man who ever has
broken 10 on the layout, although many
of the leading golfers of the Middle
Atlantic sector have played the course.
Pitt has broken 70 twice, first with his
68 and next with &C.
Treder Hits Two 7Os.
Al Treder. the club pro, has had a
brace of 7Os, but that sub-7O score so
lar has eluded him. Eddie Stevens, the
young Montgomery County lad who is
Al TTeder's aide in the golf shop, had
a grand chance one day to break that 10
mark, but he blew it when he had only
three parS to make for a SO. At the
sixteenth tee Stevens needed 4, 3, 4 for
a 68, but he took 5 on the par 4 six
teenth and finished by three-putting the
eighteenth for a and card of 10.
Last year, in the final round of the
Manor Club tourney. Pitt looked at
lot of fine golf at the hands of Bradley
H. Burroughs of Rock Creek Park when
the public links luminary and District
municipal champion played l6 holes in
one above even fourS to win the final
Only the other day Pitt shot 73 in
match with DermOt and Maurice Nee
and Treder. Maurice Nee, by the way
has played the Manor Club course in
H. sure sign that one day soon he is
going to cause a lot of trouble in the
invitation tournaments held hereabOut.
One day last year big Monro Hunter
and little George Diffenbaugh, Indian
Spring pros. blazed their way around
the Manor Club course with a best ball
of "a to win a sweepstakes tourney
staged by the Middle Atlantic pros, but
neither of them played out when the
other man had scored par or birdie
and neither was below 10 individually.
Just now the greens force at Manor
is preparing for the heavy program of
remodeling the first nine on which Dave
Thomson and his associates embarked
last December. The first nine is to be
heightened by some 300 yards during
the coming season, chiefly by adding
distance to the fifth and sixth holes
Meanwhile the greens force is busy re-
sodding and building up all the tees on
the last nine, preparing for the expected
heavy golf season to come.