Evening star., 1932-05-18
FORSAKES NEW SET
OF CLUBS TO SHINE
Gathers Implements He Had
Given Away to Get Back
on His Game.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

ND friends are the best
{ friends, Lends, G pitt. the long
hitting District amateur
golf champion from the Manor
Club, knows that today, as he
watches a flock of amateur golf
stars trying to beat the Y he
turned in yesterday to lead a star
field in the qualification round of
the Chevy Chase tourney. And
around Harry's old friends hangs
a golf yarn that bears telling.
Last Fall Harry won the District
amateur championship at Burning
Tree. Shortly thereafter a group of his
friends gathered together and in the
way such friends have they set out to
do something substantial for Harry by
way of showing their friendship tor the
sturdy lad who has done so many me
things for the Manor Club. And one
evening Harry was the guest at oln-
ner at Manor where President Ray r
Garrity made a pretty little speech and
presented him with shiny new set OF
matched golf clubS-in fact, complete
new kit, including a bag.
Harry was touched by the demon
stration. He made nice little speech
of acceptance, and then, feeling that he
had a new golf kit, he proceeded to
dismantle the set of clubs with wnich
he had won the District title and three
other major tournaments last year. One
nv one he gave away the clubs with
which he had won so many tourna-
r1ents. Some he gave to Tom Pitt, MS
brother. Others he gave to ms close
friends and soon all that was lett OF
the old set was a heavy old mashle,
which Harry called his humping
iron"
.yYTELL Harry went on and on trying
w out the new clubs, hitting the ball
well with them occasionally, but
generally playing not as well as he hao
go, niaying with the old set He
Thought it was lack of practice and the
,Isual mid-Winter lack OF form. he
kent on with the next clubs through
ont the Winter and Spring with indlf-
ferent results and finally he mace
great decision. He thought he had
given the new weapons fair trlal ana
stiIl he hadn't been able to get the OLD
sting back in his game. Last SUNDAY
with the Chevy Chase tournament IN
view. Harry decided to get back the
old bats with which he had been SO
successful. Over into PetWorth ne
Travelled, after the clubs he had given
his brother Tom. To other parts OF the
citv he went. gathering up club mere
and a club there. Finally he had tnem
all together. ..
Yesterday he stepped out on the hrst
tee at Chevy Chase with those old
clubs and shot himself a neat ana
graceful 81 for the first nine, one over
mar for that nine because he failed 70
hole a 6-footer for at the nlntn.
Standing on the seventeenth Tee ne
needed a brace Of fours for II. ne
finished with and 1or ~,
and a mark that probably Will stand up
TODAY for the qualification medal IN
the Chevy Chase tournament, even
though such stars as Roland Macken,
zie. Clarke Corkran, Karl Kellerman ana
Tommy Bones all viii have crack
sure. the old clubs did it. I felt as
If I had an old friend in my hands
when I picked them up again. ana
I played better with them than have
played since last Fall. Give up these
old bats" says Harry. Not on your
life Old friends are the best frlends-
ERED HITZ, the young barrister, who
i is a son Of Justice Hitz of the
Court of Appeals, had fine chance
to slip in with the lowest score OF tne
day He started with on the nrst
hole. but at the second wild second
shot lay under a fixed bench on the
seventeenth tee. He could not move
the bench and he could not move the
ball. Three whacks finally dislodged the
ball and FREDDY took to this par
4 hole From this point on he played
steady golf for a 38 on the first nine.
He romped over the last nine in SINH
lar figures for TO.
It appeared today as If it will take
a score under 80 to make the first
flight and that any score over 86 Will
not qualify in any of the five flights.
There were 10 cards better than 80
yesterday and the field today is quite as
good as that Of yesterday, even though
not as strong numerically. Roland
Mackenzie probably will not play
through the tournament. He has been
suffering from a cold. The scores are
surprisingly low, considering the length
of the Chevy Chase course, and the
fact that the ball gets little run through
the fairWay. Last nights rain kept
IIle 1duWdy SOlt 1OI bOudS pldS.
MRS. BETTY P. MECKLEY Of In
IVl dian Spring. holder of the Dis
trict women's golf championship,
and Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of Columbia,
holder of the Middle Atlantic women's
title, cannot stage this year a repeti-
tion of their final round of last year
for the womens golf title Of the Ma
tional Capital Mrs Meckley, rising
from sick bed qualified yesterday in
the current tourney at the Manor Club,
with a 90, and the luck Of the numeri-
cal draw threw the defending title
holder and her chief rival-Mrs Haynes
into the same bracket. They can
meet in the semi-f1nal, If both win
their first two matches. but they can
not both go to the final.
None of the women who played yes
terday came anywhere near Mrs.
Haynes fine score of 83, made on
Monday, which won the qualification
round. In fact, Mrs. Haynes was the
only contestant able to break go. Her
fine qualification score and the gen
oral excellence of the game she is
playing just now establishes her as
a favorite to win the title. Match play
in the tourney began today at Manor,
with the first round being played to-
day, and the second round carded for
tomorrow. The final round will be