Evening star., 1932-08-17
DETWE|LER, AT A,
BEATS JONES' MARK
Nee and Parks Other Young
sters Making Grade as
Veteran Stars Fail.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

toward the battlefield at Five
Farms, near Baltimore, where the
simon pure title chase will be
played next month, it, became in
creasirgly evident to the follow
ers of the game here that the Ma
tional Capital has not one but at
least three kids who can move
along as fast as the best of them
over any mans golf course.
Two of them are from the Manor
Club. where Al Treder specializes in
bringing up Young America in the
golfing paths he should tread. The
other is from Congressional. where
Sandy Armour insists on proper style in
his pupils. All three of them are mod
crn versions of the Roland Mackenzie
OF 1928 and 1924, when the then West
ern High School student was burning
up golf courses around Washington and
preparing the way for greater things in
national and international golf.
And it also is certain that one of
these three lads, Billy DetWeiler, jr, of
Manor, will be the youngest player in
the national amateur event at Five
Farms, for Billy, who played the Chevy
Chase course yesterday in a neat total
of 152 to win a place among the l9
qualifiers in this section, is just IA years
of age, and not Is, as his Manor Club
friends say. Billy'S mother is author
ity for the statement that the young
ster, who was the real sensation of the
sectional elimination rounds yesterday,
turned IA early last February. And
6NIy efO ~ f,I tN1o
such tough golf course as Chevy
Chase in such low figures it is some
thing to think about. No matter about
his 30 in the afternoon round. His 70
in the morning was what brought him
home. Until Billy came along Bobby
Jones was the youngest golfer ever to
compete in the national amateur. Bobby
did it at the age of II at Merton, back
in 1916. But Billy is even younger
than Bobby was and ne will play at
Baltimore.
THE other youngsters from the Capt.
i tai who made the grade in that
torrid sectional elimination test
yesterday were Maurice Nee. the IT.
year-old playmate of Datweiler, from
Manor, and Franklin Parks, tall, lean
youngster from Congressional, who has
some time to go before he reaches his
majority They qualified where such
veterans as Parker Nolan, Fred Savage,
Tom Cole, "Toi" Speer, B. Warren
Co-kran and John Shoray missed.
A recapitulation of The 26hole test
yesterday shows that nine Washington
golfers from five Washington clubs
made the grade. Two from Richmond,
one from Norfolk. and six from the
neighboring city of Baltimore were
included in the 19 qualifiers.
For long time late yesterday it
looked as if four players bracketed at
158 would have to play off, but at the
at 157 got in for the last place All
the class is in, with The possible ex-
ception of Warren Corkran, the grand
old man Of Baltimore golf, who holds
the Maryland State title Certainly
most of the class of Washington golfers
will play at Baltimore next month,
even though John Shorey and Tommy
Bones, who qualified for the champion
ship last year, failed yesterday.
A LONG toward the middle of the
"A afternoon, when the firing was at
its hottest, Harry G. Pitt, ace of
the Manor Club and District champion,
slipped in a 25-foot putt to get a weird
4 on the home hole, at Chevy Chase,
for total of IA, which PIT him at
the top of the heap. Rolani Mackenzie
came along a few minutes later to miss
short putt on the same green and
finish with lat. Billy Howell. the Rich
mond sensation, meanwhile had played
the first nine in 36 and was right on
Pitts heels. But Billy found three traps
on the twelfth hole and took a G. At
the finish he needed a on the eigh-
teenth to tie Pitt. His chip shot hit the
cup and stayed out. He finished with
las, one shot behind Pitt.
Out there was the tall Saturline
Chandler Harper, perennial rival of
Billy Howell for the Virginia State title.
the same Harper who intends to get
himself reputation as an amateur and
then turn professional, according to his
friends. Harper had romped around
the opening round in 72 and he turned
in the afternoon in So. He needed
35 to win the gold medal put up by
the U. s. G. A. for the leading man in
the sectional round. And he got it.
Harper went over par only once on
that last nine. at the fourteenth l'ole,
where he three-putted. 1t the eigh-
teenth he needed a par 4 to win from
Pitt. He hit only fair tee shot, but
a high-fying iron second left him only
18 feet from the pin. He did not try
for the 3, but played his approach Putt
close and tapped in Finch putt for
the winning 4 to give him a total of
143, one of the lowest 36-hole totals
ever recorded at Chevy Chase, and a
new amateur course mark for that dis
tance.
A FTER that the main struggle was
"A to get in. There were lot of
good golfers bracketed at 159,> and
for time it looked as if they might
play off at that figure. But in came
Martin F. Mccarthy of Beaver Dam,
redeeming a bad 80 in the morning
with a fine 72 in the afternoon. Then
came J. w. Gitt of Hanover, Pa, with
a total of 154, Maurice Nee Of Manor
with 154, John Brawner of Columbia
with 155 and Alex Knapp Of Baltimore
with the same figure. Then John Reed,
Richmond youngster, showed the 1898
out and Franklin Parks with 156 and
Don Crock of Baltimore at 157 showed
out the 1885.
Lots of heartacfes out there at Chevy
Chase as these 88 amateurs strove to
qualify for the national to be played al
most on Washington's doorstep
Miller Stevinson took a ghastly 8 on
the Sl8LGenIn mole III tile IiUItlll5, "IlHu
he had a fine round in the making. Slip
ping his tee shot under bridge in the
ditch and wasting three strokes in the
hazard. But with characteristic de-
termination he fought back against this
unkind thrust of fate and put together
a pair of 78s to safely quality.
Warren Corkran of Baltimore, who
wanted so much to qualify for the cham
pionship to be played on his home
course, met the most cruel thrust of the
golfng fateS. Warren got tangled up
with a flock of bunkerS on the sixth
hole in the afternoon and took a 9. too
by three shots.
Parker Noland made gallant effort,
for after an opening IS he was appar-
entity out of it. But he came back with
a fine "a in the afternoon, and finished
two shots out.