Evening star., 1932-05-24

SOClatlOn championship
at Columbia Club next
month will be. Prior to last week
1t appeared to be just another
championships title tourney, to
be sure, in which Billy Howell of
Richmond will defend his cham
pionship against the best this sec
ton of the land can produce, but
one in which Billy should win as
he has done for the last two years.
The single factor that has raised the
forthcoming championship out of
the commonplace is the return to the
game Of Roland r. Mackenzie. Put
Roland in there, as he probably will
be. against Billy Howell, the Richmond
youngster VINO played well enough last
year to go to the semi-fnal in the
amateur championship, and you will
see turnout of golfing fans such as
hasn't been seen at an amateur event
around Washington for half dozen
years. OF course, there will be plenty
of others in there with golf enough
to bump off either Howell or Mac
Kenzie, but that has to be proved.
The ideal final would be between
Howell and Mackenzie, between the
20-year-old Richmond kid, who is one
Of the real sensations of the game
today, and the 25-year-old veteran of
scores of tournaments, who went to the
amateur championship final back in
1927 and won the qualification round
in the big championship when Billy
Howell still was in grammar school.
If Mackenzie playS-and there is lit
tie doubt that he will play-youll see
more fan interest in the Middle Allan
tic championship than has been seen
in golf around this mans town since
Roland and George Voight used to stage
their little set-tos in 1925 and 1926.
Harry Pitt can have a good deal to
say about that championship, to2 He
can move along as fast as any man
when he is right, but Harry hasn't
quite come onto his game, even though
he showed flash OF the old torm to
win the Chevy Chase medal last week.
The Middle Atlantic at Columbia, start
ing June Z, will be just about the
biggest thing that has taken place in
competitive golf around Washington
since the national open of 1921.
THE eagle duece made last Wednes-
i day on the first hcle of the Chevy
Chase Club course by Joe Lynch,
young Georgetown student. is the first
in the history fthe club, according
to the best available records in the golf
shop. Lynch holed mashie shot for
the eagle to give him flying start in
his qualification round in the tourney.
The hole plays about 420 yards in
length and is real two-shooter.
THAT Chevy Chase tournament was
i the best tourney from many stand
points that has been held there In
several years The Chevy Chase events
always are among the finest in this neck
of the golfing woods. but for the las.
two years bad weather has thWarted the
plans of the Tournament Committee. !
This year the weather was perfect the
entry excellent. the golf was very fine
and the tournament was admirably
handled
THE fine showing made by two young
i sters. both comparative newcomers
to big-time golf around Washing
ton. was one Of the features of the !
Chevy Chase event. Billy Shannon, the |
Young son of a former president of Co.
lumbia, playing in one of his first big
tournaments, qualified easily in the first
flight with 73 He was licked in the
first round, where he had the Ill luck
to draw Clarke Corkran, but he played
enough golf to satisfy thoce who
watched him that here is another
youngster who may be heard from in
future years. Billy has smoothed out
his swing and Is hitting the ball very
well.
Members Of the Woodmont Country
Club have known for several years that
Howard Nordlinger. their club cham
pion, is an effective golfer, but Howard
has not played in many big tourna-
ments in past years. This year he
qualified at Chevy Chase with a II and
went to the second round, where Fred
Hitz beat him on the nineteenth hole.
1t marks the first time a Woodnont
player has done so well in a big event
With little more practice Nordlinger
can go far.
THE bachelor girls" tournament,
i scheduled for next week by the
Women's District Golf Association,
has been posponed indefinitely. Sew
eral OF the prominent bachelor girls"
will not be able to play ct the sched-
uled time and the tourney has been
put of until they will be able to COM
pete.
A return match with the Philadel-
phia womens team, which last week
beat q selected team of Washington
woman stars. will be played in the Fall,
according to Mrs. j. Marvin Haynes,
chairman OF the Tournament Commit
tee Of the Women's Association.