Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-08-16

leaves his racket and hits far base
line. Split second means plenty IN
first flight tennis. Bobby Jones was
that way back in the days when he was
wiping out course record after record
always striving for perfection Tar be-
yond the range of most humans.
So is Billy Howell the Richmond
youth who is the first Vlrglnlan TO
make the Walker Cup team. Billy mas
played many rounds of golf Tar below
par but to hear him tell it he never has
played perfect round. Coli such as
that kid shoots would leave your aver
age PLAYER gasping for breath, stag
eered at the precision and accurancy OF
this young sharp-shooter from the VIZ
ginia capital.
DUT it leaves Billy cold. He is always
ID striving for the unattainable-the
perfect round that never has been
played by any man. Some day he may
play the perfect round of golf but II he
does he will probably find something
wrong with one of his shots. A putt
that hung on the lip Of the cup here
a pulled iron shot there: somewhere
along the route Billy will ind spot
where he could have improved his
mark.
So it was with that round of 68 Billy
shot in practice the other day. Stick
ing high flying iron shots within putting
range of the pin, and putting for a
birdie on every hole OF the course but
one, Billy still was not satisfied with
his game. He went around that tough
Chevy Chase course in one better than
par and still he saw half dozen spots
where he could have improved it.
II never have seen such accurate iron
Shots" said Reggie LOTUS, the Chevy
Chase lad with whom Billy played. II
he had been holing all those eight and
1O-footers he would have been around
in about g." Billy himself was not at
all satisfied. II simply couldn't get
those puts to drop" he said. A re-
capitulation of his score shows that the
Richmond kid had seven puts of less
than 10 feet for brides. Not one Of
them dropped. He got down only one
lengthy putt-a 20-footer on the eight
zenith, which enabled him to crack par
by shot.
TT was an uncanny exhibition of shot
L making, but even more than that 1t
bespoke the great athlete. For your
great competitor never is satisfled-no
matter how many records he can oreak.
Somewhere off in the haze of the future
he visualizes the perfect performance.
And until he gets it he won't be salts
fed
Billy is due to report at the Country
Club at Brookine, Mass, on August 70
to practice for the Walker Cup matches
to be held September l and 2. I'm
very anxious to see the British play,
saws Howell. And I hope can play
we'll enough to make a good showing:
Not much doubt of the latter II his
performances around washington are
any criterion of what he will DO.
PERFECT weather greeted the en-
trants as the first threesome teeo
off at Chevy Chase today. A 1asl
course on which most OF the boys nave
been scoring away down IN the low
70s. promised phenomenally low scores
Most of the boys figure it will take 100
or 1877 to get in, while some OF tnen-
notably Billy Howell-flgure 1t Will TAKE
154 to make the grade. ..oa
The practice rounds yesterday CLOSED
with a pair of remarkable performances
on the part of Harry Pitt OF Manor
and Gene Larkin, assistant pro al
Chew Chase. Pitt, playing in four
hall match with Walter McCallum as
mariner. against Billy Howell and
Rainh S. Fowler, scored SO, finishing
with a brace of IS when two As Woulo
have given him a 81. Howell had ~
Gene Larkin, stroking the ball win tne
Uizardrv of a Jones, tied his own pest
nreyious mark for the course WIN 7
dazzling IS, four under par. Gene
round was all the more remarkaplt
since he failed to secure par IS on tlit
fourth and tenth holes. He plcKed up
enough brides, however, TO onset Ille sH
mistakes. Gene was out IN So ana paw
in 80. Pitt was out in "a ana pach IL
IS. Here are the two cares:
Out Par Sc
1a-kin-3 a q 3 5 3-3e
80 4 4 1896
pitt-3 4 4 8 4 5-35-o:
,arkinA 4 4 4 4 3-32.6:
The lowest mark ever recorded a.
Chevy Chase is "a MADE Two year
ago bv Bob Barnett. Larkln mao pre-
viously scored 65. Scores down In til'
low 7Os we're numerous as the poy'
sharpened up their strokes for the strug
Ole today. Donald McPhail and Erni'
Caldwell Of Baltimore scored II ana rs
parker Nolan of Congressional holeo !
~ and Chandler Harper Of Portsmouth
hnled another 10. It's all different 10
dav though. They are playing agalns
par and against the pencil.
MEMBERS of the Kenwood Coli ant
Nl Country Club, who had decloeN
Yesterday to move back the date
for the National Capital open, last nlgh
reversed their decision, and now IN
tournament will go forward on Octope
and 2. as originally planned
The scheme of the Executive Com
mite was to hold the National Capita
omen as close as possible to the MID
south open but the committee foun'
the Mid-South will be played on No
yenlber IS and Is, and fearing pa
weather here about that time tney ae
cided to adhere to the original oate'
Monte Ferry is chairman OF the EXecu
tive Committee. and has as his VIC
chairmen William E. Carey ana DO
Chamberlain.
The committee decided to limit en-
trants of amateurs to men with hanol
caps of four strokes or less.
MEL SHOREY, pro at East Potoma
wi Park, and John Shorey. Washing
ton amateur, won second place
the tourney of the Middle Atlantic Pre-
fessional Golfers Association yesterda
ct Hillendale with best-ball card OF
N the pro-amateur event. First plaC
went to Ralph Beach and Leon Har
Tine of the Baltimore Suburban Gu
with ST. Beach tied the course recor
with So.