Evening star., 1932-08-31
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

"UNNY business, this business OF
/ - medal play golf. We saw truly
fine golfer come to the eighteenth
I hole at the Army-Navy Country
Club yesterday, needing par to an
mex the qualifying round in the club
championship, and a 5 to tie, and take
a 6-his only 6 of the round and the
only hole on which he appeared he
would go above par. 1t happened on
the last hole Of the round and came
from the only shot he had missed dur
ing the day.
| The golfer was Maj. Richard K.
| Sutherland, Army champion, and a
man who is going to cut wide swath
If he elects to play in the tournaments
around the Capital during his tour Of
duty here. A truly fine player, and a
| to green. Maj. Sutherland knew exactly
what he had to do yesterday. For. the
day before Capt Kendall j. Fielder had
shot 70 in the qualification round of
| the club tourney. finishing with on
| the last hole, where would have
netted him II.
EIELDER and Sutherland played yes
l. terday, with the latter essaying his
qualification round. Out in 36 after
missing at least three holeable puts, he
| blew a threefooter on temporary
green at the fifteenth and needed three
parts for II to beat Fielder. The
latter meanwhile was pulling just as
hard for Sutherland as he had pulled
for his own puts on the previous day.
Ct,tkarIapd tnInd UopH fiva -f00fpr fOr
4 at the sixteenth, nearly holed a
20-footer for deuce at the seventeenth
and faced that trying eighteenth with
a 4 for a II and to tie at 70. IN
He hit q fine tee shot straight up
the middle of that eighteenth fairway
! and then played the only bad shot he
made all day-a half-topped one iron
which left him short of the green. He
tried to run the ball up the bank be-
hind the green and back to the pin,
but the pesky pill stayed up. The
seven -footer that would have tied him
with Fielder failed to drop.
That's the way this medal play goli
goes. One moment you have 1t and the
| next moment it's gone. The way Sutn-
erland was playing you would have
thought he couldn't go above par: And
on the very hole where he needed a
! par he went two over. But he's a
great player, this Army champion. Per-
haps the finest golfer around Wash
! ington.
! THERE isn't as much excltemen'
! J. among local golfers this year about
/ the District championship as there
usually is at this time-a week in ad-
vance of the opening Of the tourney fol
! the local simon pure title. The reason
! is that the national amateur champion
ship, which starts at Baltimore on Sep
tember IL, is taking much OF the play
away from the District titular event
Nine Washir gton golfers have qualified
for the national and so engroSsed are
they in sharpening up their shots fol
the national that they have hardly
given the local championship more thar
passing tumble.
Indeed, the District event this year
instead of being a major tournament
becomes just another golf tournament
for, no matter what may be said on the
subject, the men who have qualified fol
the national are pointing for that tour
nament. The District championship viii
be played at the Chevy Chase Club OF
September and at 70 holes media
play. 1t starts one week from today
with the opening 36-hole round, and viii
be concluded on Thursday. September
Harry G.. Pitt of Manor will defend th