Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-29
STEVENSON, BR|NKE
HIS FINAL VICTIMS
Triumph Over Strong Field at
Baltimore Gains High
Rank for D. C. Champ.
BY w. r. McCALLUM,

~ AL 1MOftE, Mu., May 3d.
- For the second successive
J year Harry G. Pitt, long
hitting star of the Manor
Club, is the winner of the invita-
ton tournament of the Baltimore
Country Club, played over the
Five Farms course, where the ma
tional amateur championship
tourney will be contested next
September.
Twice going to the nineteenth hole
on the final day and winning both his
matches by obtaining par As on this
hole, Pitt defeated Miller B. Stevenson
of Columbia in the semi-final anc
Chris j. Brinke of Philadelphia today
in the final round to win the Mary
land Cup and become the victor in tbs
finest tourney that has ever beer
staged in the Middle Atlantic section
ranking golfers of the Nation started
in the Baltimore County Club affair
and Pitt proved once again his right
to rank with the top-fight golfers OF
the East.
Harry SnOWS courage.
Two down to Brinke at the turn in
the final, Pitt came back with great
burst of speed to square the contest at
the thirteenth and become dormie 2 up
only to run into a streak of indifferent
golf that enabled Brinke to square with
a par on the eighteenth hole. But
the fighting spirit and determination
that has won for the Manor Club star
so many tournaments around Washing
ton in recent years enabled him to
come through for his second extra hole
victory of the day. He poled out a
lengthy tee shot at the extra hole
against Brinke, stuck an iron second
on the green and holed a 5-footer for
the winning T. after Brinke had miser-
ably played a chip shot third and
missed his bid for 4 by wide mar
gin.
Pitt came from behind to win in the
semi-final from STEVENSON also, for the
ultimate victor went into the last three
holes l down to the fighting Columbia
star A half stymie at the sixteenth
thwarted Stevinson's chance for half
and he missed a 6-footer for a half in
3 at the seventeenth. But STEVENSON,
fighting back like the game golfer he
is, annexed the eighteenth and they
went to the nineteenth, where Pitt was
home in 2 and got winning 4. while
STEVENSON found the rough from the
tee and missed 15-footer for the
half
Loses First Three Holes.
Pitt lost the first three holes to
Brinke, who is a former Michigan
State amateur champion; halved the
next two and won the long sixth with
a par when Brinke overshot the
green in 3. The Manor star played a
great shot over a group Of trees to
win the seventh with a par 4, but
after halving the eighth he dropped
the ninth to turn 2 down, getting out
in 40 to SO for Brinke.
The District title holder won the
tenth, halved the eleventh and got a
fine half on the twelfth by holing a
doWn-hill seven-footer after finding q
bunker with his second shot. He won
the short thirteenth to square the match
when Brinke was trapped from the tee.
Pitt should have won the long four
teenth to take the lead, but he missed
q side hill three-footer, and the hole
was halved in skies. He won the fif-
teenth, however, when Brinke, after a
great shot from the woods, three putted
the green. Harry sank a curling Is
footer for birdie 3 at the sixteenth to
become dornlie up.
Long Putt Delays Defeat.
But with both men short Of the green
at the iron shot seventeenth, Brinke
pitched up to within feet, and when
Pitt missed 10-footer for g. the tall
Philadelphia calmly rolled in the putt
to win the hole. The eighteenth was
miSplayed by both. Pitt sliced to the
trees guarding the right side OF the fair
way, and finally reached the green in 3.
Brinke hit a perfect tee shot. pitched
short of the green by 90 yards, barely
reached the edge of the green in 3, and
then, with courage born of desperation,
ralnmed in 30-foot putt for to win
the hole and square the match.
The extra hole was all Pitt, for Brinke
was short in 2, while Pitt was on the
putting surface with his second Brinke
again made a weak chip to the edge of
the green, plainly showing the condi-
ton of his nerves, and Pitt rolled in a
fve-footer to win the hole and the
match
Max R. Marston, former national
champion, fell before Pitt in the second
round. Roland Mackenzie, one of the
Nations outstanding stars, was beaten
by Brlnke, and j. Wood Platt, one of
the finest golfers in the East, was licked
by STEVENSON. For Pitt to come out
on top in such a field as that which
started in the Baltimore tourney is a
signal triumph. The Manor Club star
may go far in the national champion
ship next Fall.
Here are the cards of the final match .