Evening star., 1932-09-07
REACH TITLE PLAY
SCENE TO TUNE Up
Many Already at Baltimore,
and 0uimet and Others
Due in Day or Two.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

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" pionship swung into action
"A today over the Chevy Chase
course, the big guns OF
amateur golf of the two major
golf nations of the world began to
boom over the Five Farms front,
which next week will see 166 of
the finest club swingers of Amer
lea and England striving for the
national amateur championship.
Francis Ouimet. lanky, bespectacled
Boston veteran, who won the title last
year at Chicago, is expected to arrive
at Five Farms tomorrow to practice
over the course for three or four days
before he begins the defense of his
title. Ouimet was exempted from the
sectional qualification rounds, but, like
the others entered in the title chase. he
will have to go through the 36-hole
ordeal next Monday and Tuesday and
qualify like any other golfer.
That qualifying ordeal is the biggest
test most of the stars face. They all
dread that 36-hole medal play round,
where every shot bears down, and an
locks like million as they near the
end
I AWSON LITTLE, Frank Dolp, Chan
- dler Egan and other stars from the
West already are at Five Farms,
along with one or two members of the
British Walker Cup team. Don Moe.
Billy Howell Gus Moreland. Charles
Voigt. Charles Seaver and other mem
bers of the United States team will
check in tomorrow, and by Friday the
big guns of golf will be booming in
championship style all along the Five
Farms front.
Harry G. Pitt. the District amateur
champion, started in defense of his
title today at Chevy Chase, but he will
Join the rest of the stars on Friday over
at Five Farms where by the latter part
of the week the scenery surrounding the
beautiful hillside over there in the
up with more golf stars than you could
Found up in year of travel.
Miller B. Stevinson, veteran Columbia
star, and Roland r. Mackenzie have
remained out of the District title chase
in order to get their fill of practice at
Five Farms In advance of the national.
But they will all be over there Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. trying out their
shots in advance of the opening of the
quanrylng grind Monday.
nESPITE gloomy reports on the con-
II dition of the course, we have 1t
from the committee in charge Of
the national that the course will be in
the pink Of condition. The thirteenth
green, at the short hole located in a
nook Of the woods, hardly the tough
fifteenth, has been resodded and will be
opened for practice by the latter part
OF the week. The rains of the past few
days have slowed down the course and
put it back in the usual fine condition
OF that tough Five Farms layout It will
be mans size gclf course too, for they
plan to use the back tees on the second,
NTH and fourteenth. making the course
stretch out to nearly 1000 yards. At
this length it will be one of the longest
golf courses over which the amateur
has been played in recent years,
tough test alike for sluggers and short
hitters.
Five Farms will be great spot for
the galleries, for there are two ideal
spots on the first nine where much Of
the play can be seen. These spots are
near the third green, where the play to
fourth hole can be seen along with play
to the seventh green and the tee shot
ut the tricky eighth, and the ninth
green, where can be viewed the play to
the eighth and ninth, the tee shct at
the tenth and the play to the eleventh
green.
Further along much of the gallery
will center around the thirteenth and
fifteenth greens, where they can see
the play to the twelfth, thirteenth and
fifteenth holes. Five Farms offers a
great chance for the galleryites to see
q lot Of golf without trekking far on
aching dogs.
DAIRINGS for the first match-play
I round for the Sheridan Trophy
among senior golfers of the Chevy
Chase Club were announced today by
Gen. d. G. Shanks, chairman of the
Golf Committee. Contestants are urged
opponents before September u. Here
are the pairings:
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Col y il il Gowlss Io; z: <; canpbell uS
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CEVEN entries yesterday brought the
~ total list of starters in the District
championship today up to 38. with
more to come at the first tee. The
list still Is slim, with less than 40
/players competing for the title held by
Harry G. Pitt of Manor. Among the
added starters are M. Parker Nolan,
Compassionate lengthy hitter: Martin
r. Mccarthy, Beaver Dam ace. and
Ralph S. Fowler, who has been playing
well at the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club this year. Fred Hitz. the
Chevy Chase champion, also is one Of
those favored to score well over his
home layout. He won the Chevy Chase
tourney last June with total of better
than 300.
Thirty-six holes of medal play to-
day was to carry the tournament to its
halfway mark, with the same route
scheduled tomorrow.