Evening star., 1932-05-06
THREE MANOR|TES
REACH SEMI-F INALS
Pitt, Shorey in One Bracket,
With Carver Opposing
Mccarthy in Other.
w TAsHINGToN's first big
W. links joust of the season
" " the mutation tnlrr7 eV

tine lnYltatl0n tourney
Of the Army-Navy Coun-
try Club, which ends today over
the hilly course in Arlington
County-has brought out plenty
of scrapping golf to justify the
prediction that this year will see
plenty Of action among the play
ers who say it with whistling
drives and deadly pitch shots.
Harry G. Pitt of Manor, whom most
folks regard as the probable winner of
the service club event, considers him
self a lucky man today to have won
his first round match, and Leroy D.
Sasscer former Indian Spring cham
pion, also has joined in the cheering
for Joe Lynch, the stubby little star
from Georgetown who won the quail
flcation round and then carried Pitt TO
the last hole.
Not all the drama of the tournament
centers around Lynch, but at least a
healthy share Of it reVolves around
this 2l-year-old lad from Boston. For
he made one of the greatest shots We
ever have seen against Harry Pitt IN
the opening round and then he blasted
Roy Sasscer out Of the picture with a
seIntillating card of 73.
nLENTY of action? Listen to this
I Dick Lunn of Chevy Chase is
quite a golfer Only a few days ago
he sIugged the ball around Chevy
Chase in 60 strokes and he has been
doing things like that all Spring. But
yesterday he ran up against a fellow
who thinks perfect golf as represented
by par is far from perfect, and pro-
ceaded to show Lunn just what per-
feet golf is. This ohap-Martln r.
Mccarthy of Beaver Dam-has been
Knocking at the door of tournament
victories for two or three years. Two
wears ago he was runner-up in one
of the Bannockburn tournaments, and
he should be a flnalist today In the
Army-Navy tournament. Anyhow NC
Carthy knew Lunn was a tough Gus
toner and so he proceeded to take on
the wraps and do his stuff. SO enec-
lively did he do it that he played tne
stretch from the fourth hole through
the ninth hole at the Army-Navy CLUB IN
even IS, and when the smoke drl1ted
of the sanguine battletelo Lufn was
torpedoed right out of the tournament
EARLY elimination loomed fer Harry
Il Pitt. too, for the Manorite was 4
down at the turn to Lynch. But
Harry began plueking them of, one by
one. and by sinking a 35-foot putt at
the seventeenth went dormle ! up.
Then. to inject added drama into the
situation, he topped his tee shot at
the eighteenth.
Harry has a knack Of getting him.
self out of serious situations on the goiI
course and he rose to this one. Taking
a brassie, he hit that ball an awful
wallop, straight as string, and his
ball ended on the front edge OF the
green. Lynch pulled his second shot to
the left.
Now. the pin was on the upper ter
race of the three-level green and Lynch
cogitated as to what to do. He had
to win the hole, and, with Harry fully
go feet away, he appeared to have a
good chance. The Georgetown youth
pulled niblick cut of his bag, played
the ball against the bank and it rolled
down to within a foot of the hole, CIV
ing him a sure and a possible win,
for it was by no means ceretain that
Pitt could get down in puts. Harry
putted up u feet short, and then, set
ting down to work, he holed the putt
fer the needed half.
TTHE semi-final round today found
J. three Manorites among the last
four, with at least one Of them
certain to win his way to the final.
Pitt was opposed to John c. Shorey
Of Manor in one bracket, while Nc
Carthy Of Beaver Dam opposed E. j.
Carver Of Manor in the other. The
club house dopesters favored Pitt and
Mccarthy to meet in the final.
Yes, there has been plenty OF golf
shown in the first tournament OF the
season, and there was sure TO be plenty
more today as the tournament worked
toward its end. And furthermore, those
efficient tournament officials Of the
Army-Navy Club, staging their first big
invitation event, have pushed the tour
ney through with true Army thorough
ness. Not a hitch has marked the
smooth progress of the affair, and
every contestant has praised the man
agement Of the tourney. luncheon
was given by the Tournament Commit
tee at the club today to the Executive
Committee OF the District Golf AsSo-
citation and few newspaper men.
ENTRIES for The Star Cup tourna-
u ment-the next big event for
women golfers of Washington, will
close at noon tomorrow with Mrs. ].
Marvin Haynes, chairman Of the Tourn-
emenU Committee of the District
Women's Golf Association 10 entry
fee will be charged, and the tourna-
Fnent is open to every fair golfer around
Washington, regardless Of club affilia-
tions. 1t is a 36-hole handicap affair,
for which prizes have been put up by
The Star, the Womens Golf Association
and the KenWood Golf and Country
Club, over whose course the tourney
will be staged next Monday and Tues
day. The KenWood Club has added
a cup for those who fail to break 105
In the first round of the tourney.
NOUNG BILLY SHEA, who won
! the Walter johnson Trophy at
Congressional on Wednesday, has
been playing golf only two years and
started the game with a cast-of
driver "looking like le-pound sledge,
~ith wooden shaft longer than its