Evening star., 1932-08-02
COURSE TOO FAST
NOW TO Be A TEST
Amateur Trials and District
Title Play Slated There
in Near Future.

r UNLESS rain and plenty of 1t
falls before mid-AuguSt
~ the 81 hopefuls who play
in the sectional qualifica-
n ton rounds for the amateur
championship at Chevy Chase on
August 16 are going to find the
going fairly easy. The same
applies to the District champion
ship, which will be decided at
Chevy Chase early in September.
The fine golf course of the Chevy
Chase Club one of the longest around
Washington, needs rain badly, if some
phenomenal scores. born of fast fair
ways, are not to be turned in during
those sectional qualification rounds.
Like those at most of the other clubs
around Washington, the fairways at
Chevy Chase could stand rain-and
plenty OF it. 1t isn't in the book for
even the longest hitters to get home on
the sixth hole at Chevy Chase with a
drive and a mashie, nor to play the
second hole with drive and a short
pitch.
But that's what some Of the boys are
doing these days, with those fast fair
ways With the wind behind him,
Harry Pitt was over the pin at the sixth
Yesterday with drive and a mashie
niblick shot In the Spring, when fair
ways are slow, this hole requires two
mighty pokes to reach the green-two
wooden shots from the clubs of even
the biggest hitter.
DAM today proved a help, but there
N still is need for a lot more rain
to slow up the course. Many OF
the entrants in the forthcoming tests
were happy at the news that there are
81 entrants in the sectional rounds.
Miller Stevinson of Columbia is hope
full that The Championship Committee
of the U. S. G. A, realizing that the
championship itself will be staged in
this section, may 60 beyond normal
and allot as many as IS places to the
sectional test at Chevy Chase.
In any case. he believes there will
be a dozen places. With the sectional
rounds only fortnight off a good many
of the contestants from Washington
are practicing over the course, trying
out their shots and seeking ways to
whip that tough par of SO.
Conjecture as to the top figure to get
III IQOSI OF -DSll6NIlg
that a brace of 76s for total of 152,
and possibly pair of IT'S for total of
154, will make the grade in the qualif1-
cation round. Tommy Bones of Column
bia, one of the qualifiers last year. be-
lieveS a pair of 78S for a total of 1856
will qualify. 1t all depends on how
many places are allotted to this section
by the Championship Committee and on
how fast the course is at the time OF
the qualification rounds.
Roland Mackenzie of Columbia. one
OF the outstanding entrants from WASH
ington and an almost certain uualifier,
may not be able to play. Roland has
been i'll for week or more. and has
been in bed for several days with sinus
trouble. He hopes the ailment will be
cleared Up shortly SO he may be able
to practice in advance of the sectional
rounds. but during the past week he has
not been able to play more than a few
holes
In addition to the 81 entered at
Chevy Chase two more washington
golfers will seek to qualify on August l6
in other sections. Charles M Mackall
who developed his game at Chevy
Chase and Washington, is entered in
i the qualification tests at Cleveland, and
Richard Lunn of Burning Tree and
WCAAN'J OAAe@Ab Will pay III VIC HNdlAAg-
ping round at Boston.
a MOTHER evidence that Al Hough-
b<1 ton,- Kenwood professional, is in
line for some bigtime performances
IN golf came yesterday at Bedford
Springs, Pa, where Houghton won sec
ond money IN the Bedford Springs open
tourney with a 36-hole total of 143
Houghton shot scores Of SO and IA to
finish second to Vincent E!dred, Penn
sylvania open title holder
Houghton led with an opening round
of SO and had a one-stroke lead going
into the thirty-second hole, only to run
into flock Of three putt green's His
last round was IA. Mel Shorey Of
East Potomac Park finished a shot out
of the money with $50 Martin F. Nc
Carthy of Beaver Dam scored 158 and
George E. Tew Of Kenwood scored 100.
TWO and possibly three players from
l. Chevy Chase are planning to COM
pete in the Philadelphia open tour
ney next week Gene Larkin and Al
Burton Of the Chevy Chase golf shop
are going to play in the tourney and
probably Bob Barnett will also compete
Barnett never has won the Philadelphia
open. although he has won the Phila-
delphia professional tourney in past
years.
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