Evening star., 1932-05-05

NNI V1tatlon event OF Jne
' Y Army Navy Country
Club is working toward
its final phase many golfers of
Washington are looking forward
to the twenty-second annual in
vitation tourney of the Chevy
Chase Club, which will be played
May IT, 18, 10 and 20. Invitations
to a number of players attached
to Washington clubs were being
received today in the Capital and
elsewhere.
There is little likelihood that James
D. Herman Of the Washington Golf
and Country Club, who won the Chevy
Chase event last year from B. H. Bur-
rows, will be able to play this year.
Last year the likable Jimmy" had a
post at the Capitol, but last year he also
passed his legal examinations and be-
came a full fledged attorney. Shortly
after the first of the year he resigned
from Washington and went home to
Dayton, Ohio, to practice law. He may
come back to play at Chevy Chase, but
if he intends to do so he has not told
any of his friends Of his intention.
The cups put up by President Taft
and Vice President Sherman are the
main trophies in the Chevy Chase Club
tourney. The winner will receive a
replica of the Taft trophy, while the
runner-up will receive a replica of the
Sherman trophy. A list of the previous
winners of these trophies looks like a
who's who" in local and national golf,
for a number of names famous locally
as well as nationally grace the massive
pieces of silver presented by the Presi-
dent and Vice President Of two decades
ago.
Walter Travis, Thomas NJ. Sherman,
Warren Cochran, Lee Harlan. Walter
Buxton, George S. Lyon, Chris Dunphy,
Roland Mackenzie, George Voigt, Mil
Ter STEVENSON and Harry Pitt all have
won the Taft trophy. The entry list
may not be as large as that at some
other tournaments about the city, but
that it will be of high class cannot
be doubted The Chevy Chase tourna-
ment always attracts the leading golfers
of this section.
The committee in charge Of the tour
nament consists of Robert Stead, Jr,
chairman; Irving J. Carr, F. S. Craven,
r. P Davidson, w. Jasper Du Bose,
A. McCook Dunlop, George H. Elliott,
C. Ashmead Fuller and Emmons S.
Smith, jr. The Chevy Chase event is
the last of the purely invitation tour
naments to be played near washington
this Spring.
CEORGETOWN has had the habit
~ during the past few years of put
ting in the local golf field flock
of youngsters who can WELD clubs with
the best of 'em. The historic Hilltop
institution now appears to have another
star TO take the place of Maurice Nc
Carthy, Chick Beger and Mark Flana-
gan. For Joseph j. Lynch, the stubby
lad from Boston, who won the qualify
ing round in the Army-Navy tourney
late yesterday with card OF IA, a
freshman at Georgetown, and a new
threat in local golf.
Lynch drew a tartar today ip the
first round of the tourney, however,
for he was paired against none other
than Harry G. Pitt of Manor, the Dis
trict title holder, who has knack of
playing winning golf over any golf
course. Late yesterday afternoon. as
the sun was setting over the Virginia
hills, young Lynch, who is brother OF
Johnny Lynch of Argyle, came up to
the eighteenth hole at the Army-Navy
Club needing a to tie Bill Fender
CAST for the medal. He smacked out a
lengthy tee shot and then laid high
No 8 iron shot within IL feet of the
hole. He rolled the putt in for a 8
to score a "a and win the medal Pen
dergast earlier in the day had shot a
rs to take the lead from Craig Mckee
and John c. Shorey, who shot 76S on
the opening day Of the tourney.
That first section at the Service Club
has a lot of names new to top-flight