Evening star., 1932-07-31


4 for those expectant anna
teur golfers who will at
tempt to qualify for the national
amateur championship in the sec
tional qualification rounds at
Chevy Chase on August 16. The
United States Golf Association
has announced that although the
entry lists for the various quail
flying sections have not yet been
segregated, rough count of
those amateurs in this section
who sent in their entries for
Chevy Chase on August 16 dis
closes 81 entries for the local
tests.
On the basis of l Qualifier to each
10 entries this would mean there will
be at least places open at Chevy
Chase. And that number may be
stretched to or 10 places.
Last year at Richmond, with 81 en-
tries, there were 5 places open, but
the same ratio will not prevail in
Washington this year with more en-
tries. The usual ratio, based on pre-
vious qualification rounds, is l place
to every 8 or 10 entrants, which will
allow at least and possibly 10 places
at Chevy Chase
A laSt-minute rush to file entries
before the closing hour at 8 O'Clock
last Tuesday night swamped the Cham
pionship Committee with a large num-
ber of names. The committee now is
attempting to straighten out the tangle,
and the pairings will be announced this
week. The sectional qualification
rounds will be played at 36 holes medal
play, and those who make the grade
viii! be entitled to compete In the ma
tional championship starting at Balt1-
more on September IL.
PROMINENT entrants from Wash
j ington include the two local quail
fiers Of last year-Thomas P.
Bones, jr., of Columbia, and John G.
Shorey of the Manor Club; Harry G.
Pitt, the District amateur title holder
from Manor; Roland r. Mckenzie OF
Columbia, Miller B. Stevinson OF Co
lurnbia, M. Parker Nolan, long-hitting
Congressional amateur; Ralph S. Fowl
ef, Washington Golf and Country Club,
who has been playing well this sum
ner; Maurice Nee OF Manor and Roger
Peacock and j. william Harvey, Jr, OF
Indian Spring.
Billy Howell, spectacular Richmond
star; Ernie Caldwell, Middle Atlantic
champion from Baltimore; Tom Cole
of Baltimore, one of the qualiflers last
year; B. Warren Corkran, the Mary
land State champion; Harris Jones,
Al. Knapp and Talbot T. Speer, star
players from the Baltimore Country
Club; Chandler Harper, young star
from Portsmouth, Va, and several
others from distant points in Mary
land and Virginia.
The number Of places open means
that Washington will have at least four
and possibly more qualifiers Tor the
championship, for the Washington men
all are familiar with the Chevy Chase
course and at least three OF them can
be counted upon to be up with the top
group of scorers. At a guess Mac
Kenzie, Pitt and Stevinson are almost
certain to be among the qualihers: II
they qualify they should do well at
Baltimore, particularly Pitt, VINO mas
won the invitation tournament at Five
Farms for the last two years.
THIS Pitt boy, by the way, may cause
i a lot Of trouble In the coming
championship II he gets by poth
qualification tests ano 11ltO Luc u1atC1A
play rounds. The power Of his game
viii come into its full fruit over such
long course as that at Five Farms
Harry has only played once in the
amateur championship. That was IN
1928 at Brae- Burn, where he came 10
the last hole needing to tie for last
place and missed it. He is not known
to the country at large, but he is good
enough to hold his own in any COM
pany, no matter how fast the field may
be at Baltimore.
Pitt has great opportunity await
ing him this Fall. He can easily be-
come a real sensation at Five Farms.
He whipped Howell in the Columbia
tournament last year, shooting "
to do it. This year in the Five Farms
invitation he beat SteNnson in the
semi-fnal after SteWnson had beaten
woody Platt Of Philadelphia; and ne
then went on to beat Chris Brinke OF
Philadelphia in the final round, HIS
worst score in that tournament was
rs. and rs will win lot OF matcnes
gy1 the coming amateur championship.