Evening star., 1932-05-01
ARGYLE YOUNGSTER
IMPROVED PLAYER
Carolina Collegiate Champ
Looms as Tough Rival of
Pitt, STEVENSON.
BY w. r. MeCALLUM.

THEHES a merry little glof
scramble in the off1ng this
/ year when the time for the
larger tournaments rolls
around, If Roger Peacock, the
smooth-swingins lad who halls
from the Argyle Country Club,
continues to stroke the ball around
Washington as he has been strok-
ing 1t during the early Spring.
Roger, who, to the minds of a
good many students of the game,
is the smoothest piece Of golfng
machinery in the amateur ranks,
topped off a scintillating Spring
season only a week or so ago by
winning the North Carolina inter
collegiate championship over the
Sedgefield course, after a tie with
Allen Smith.
The pair tied at 71-72-143 and then
the Argyle lad stepped out to do 69
over a 6,700-yard course to break the
tie and win the title. He had previ-
ously whipped Billy Howell OF Rich
mond in an intercollegiate contest.
Peacock, who attends Duke Univer-
sity, holds the District junior cham
pionship and was runner-up to Harry
@. Pitt of Manor for the District title
in all classes last year, will be home
from college just about in time to play
in the Middle Atlantic championship
at Columbia during the second week IN
June. The youngster always has had
fondness for the Columbia course,
and this year, if he maintains his early
form, he may cash in on the promise
of preceding years and win big tour
nament.
THE scramble we refer to lies mainly
i between Peacock, Miller Stevin-
son, Harry Pitt and one or two
others who can be depended upon to
give their all in the larger tournaments
Today Harry Pitt is the boss Of the
amateur golfers around Washington
But last year in the District champion
ship Peacock was within a stroke OF
him with only 13 holes to go and Pitt
finally beat him by less than hall
dozen strokes over the 72-hole route
Harry had his best year in 1881.
Possessed of great power from the
tee. q fine putting stroke and all
around ability to handle the iron clubs
Pitt waded through the local f1eld like
hot knife through butter, winning
four big events and absorbing only one
major defeat, at Manor where Ted Bur
roughs beat him in the final. Peacock
did not play in as many tournaments
as did Pitt, and he won none Of them
with the exception Of the District jun
ior. But the Argyle kid has started
moving down par in such spectacular
fashion this Spring that he may be
too strong for any one except Pitt
when he returns from college.
- oGER PEACOCK has one Of the
II finest golf swings we ever have seen
He knows plenty about how golf
ball should be hit. All his shots are
struck in the approved 'inside-ou
manner, which so many instructors
, have held up as the proper way to hit
a golf ball Rogers main trouble. in
past years, has been inability to con-
troll hook that came from hitting toe
hard. On tightly trapped course he
was frequently in trouble on the left
side of the course But he must have
overcome this fault to turn in scores
like those he has been amassing in
Carolina. You can't hook many tee
shots and get around a 6,700-yard
course in SO.
Among the real youngsters around
Washington Dick Lunn of Chevy Chase
and Burning Tree has stepped out in
front Of the parade with the SO he shot
the other day at Chevy Chase. Dick
is II years old, while Roger Peacock
will be 81 within few months. That
difference in age means lot Of ex-
perience and experience in tournaments
means plenty to any golfer. Maurice
Nee Of Manor is another of the young
sters who is coming along in good
shape and may cut quite a swath when
he puts q few more tournaments under
his belt.
That scramble between Peacock,
Pitt, STEVENSON, Lunn, Nee and one or
two others should be worth watching
this year, even though the opportu-
mites for competition are limited. The
Middle Atlantic championship will be
the high spot of the year. Watch
young Peacock do his stuff in that one.