Evening star., 1932-09-13


~ ALTIMORE, Md, September
X 13.-With only single
IL exception, the Washington
entrants in the national
amateur golf championship can
be counted out of the title chase
as the tournament moves out of
the medal play phase toward the
match play rounds today.
Victims of the bogey of medal
play, seven of the eight entrants
in this thirty sixth national simon
pure title chase struggled almost
without hope against a forelorn
chance today to enter the match
play rounds, which start tomorrow
over the Five Farms course of the
Baltimore Country Club.
The only Capital entrant with more
than an outside chance of making the
grade for the match play rounds is
Maurice Nee, 17-year-old District of
Columbia junior champion from the
Manor Club. The others-Harry Pitt
Miller STEVENSON. Martin Mccarthy
Franklin Parks and even Roger Pea
cock, the District titleholder from In
dian Spring, and John F. Brawner
from Columbia, are as definitely out
of the championship as If they had
nit ha
NEE, the only one with real chance
~ to qualify, must duplicate his
opening round of rs if he is to
make the grade in his first national
Billy Dettweiller. jr., the amazing IA
year-old lad from Manor, must do
better than his 78 of yesterday If he
is to qualify and all the others must
shoot some where around par if they
would enter the match play rounds.
Stevinson and Mccarthy are out. There
isn't even the haunting ghost of a
chance for them, with their opening
rounds of IS behind them. 1t would
take something like 66s today to qualify
them, and no one yet has been able
to play the Five Farms course in any,
thing like sc. Roger Peacock and John
Brawner need miracle rounds today to
add to their 79s Of yesterday to score
the 153 which the experts say will
qualify.
Billy Dettweiller also needs to blast
the cover off golf ball if he is to
qualify in his first championship.
an 88 behind him yesterday is as de-
flnitely out of the championship as if
he had driven 10 balls out of bounds.
THIS sums up the attempt Of eight
L of Washington's best amateur links
stars to qualify for the current
title chase The same situation also
applies to Francis Ouimet, bespectacled
Boston veteran, who won the title at
Chicago last year None of the Capital
entrants has better than an outside
chance with the single exception Of
young Nee.
Harry Pitts SO came after the Manor
champion had played the first five holes
in even par and apparently was on his
way to good round. From that point
on he found no fewer than IL traps,
and with trio of 3putt green's on the
last nine his total was boosted to 83.
Roger Peacock, youthful Washington
title holder, complained Of nothing but
inability to knock in the 3 and foot
puts. He started with three 3-putt
greens in a row to get cut in 40 and
came back in 80 with two more 3-putt
greens and total inability to knock in
the decisive shot puts.
Lad Maurice Nee putted even pass
i i ably well on those keen putting
surfaces at Five Farms his score
would have been much lower than the
rs he turned in to lead the Washing
ton contingent over the first qualify
ing round yesterday. The Manor Club
youngster missed a half-dozen puts
from to 10 feet by not more than the
width of a ball. but he finished by hol-
Ing 7-footer for birdie on the last
hole.
John F. Brawner. jr., of Columbia
was out in 81, the same as Nee, but over
the last nine he missed enough puts to
run his total for the inward string up
10 AZ and score of 79 for the round
Miller STEVENSON breezed through the
first six holes l above par, but for the
next five holes he was II over par A
ball out of bounds at the par ninth
cost him 5. and on the par 4
eleventh following 6 on the par 4
tenth erased the Columbia veteran from
the championship. Martin F. Mccarthy
OF Beaver Dam had four IS and Z
in his card of 86, mostly made up of
wild second shots, to tie with Stevin-
son for the second highest opening
round of the Washington entrants.
ERANKLIN PARKS blames his SO
i largely on the which he amassed
on the par 5 fourteenth hole
There the slim Congressional young
ster was trapped all the way from tee
to green and wound up by 3-putting.
Young Dettweiller was a real sensa-
ton yesterday. Booming his tee shots
down the middle and laying his ap-
proaches dead to the pin, the young
Manorite played the course in 39-39-
78. Two IS at the fourteenth and f1f-
teenth ruined his chance for a real
score He was bunkered at both holes
Young Nee had no particular trouble
anywhere along the lengthy reaches Of
the Five Farms layout. He missed his
mashie second shot on the sixteenth
hole after 3-putting the fifteenth for q
5. but finished with a birdie en- the
eighteenth for rs. 1t appears today
that the top figure to qualify for the
match-play rounds will be 153. the low.
est score in any recent amateur cham
pionship. There were 46 cards of 7t
and better turned in over the first
round yesterday.