Evening star., 1932-06-09


and tragedy in any major goli
championship. For Harry G
Pitt, the District title-holder
from the Manor Club, the current
tourney of the Middle Atlantic Coli
Association at the Columbia Country
Club, which entered its match play
phase today, is just another golf tourna-
ment and one in which, strangely
enough, Harry finds himself cast in the
role of spectator in the most important
match play event of the year in this
section
Harry shot a IS on the first qualifica-
ton day. At that time it looked as il
78 would be safely in. by a stroke or SO
but the boys got so hot yesterday that
they thrust out all the 76s and 79s, and
a play-off at II for one of the last few
places in the first fight was only avoid
ed because Dick Davidson of Chevy
Chase, who scored a II, could not be
reached for the play-off and auto
matically dropped into the second flight
So Harry Pitt, winner of numerous
golf tournaments and top ranking golfer
Of Washington, saw himself relentl2ssly
pushed aside as man after man cante
in and posted score lower than his 78
And just as Harry should have done
he withdrew his card from the second
flight. No champion should play in the
second flight.
DUT even with Pitt out, this Middle
- Atlantic is a representative cham
pionship No doubt of that. And
hot hn
golf well enough to qualify he should be
out on the side lines watching Others
battle for the title he wen back in 1928
When you get tournament in which
the leaders score 73 and the last-placers
II, and in that range are 16 Of the finest
| golfers in any large area, you have q
really representative field. And that's
Just what the qualification round showed
as it ended yesterday.
Between the 73s turned in by Byrn
Curtiss and tine two Sasscer brothers
Leroy of Indian Spring and Tom oi
Maryland-and the IT'S which were the
| last scores to make the championship
flight. there was a spread of just foul
strokes. which speaks volumes for the
class CT the fed and the excellence Of
the scoring in the medal round.
Curtiss came in fairly early with his
73, three-putting the last green when
two puts would have given him 72
Then late in the afternoon along came
the SaSscer brothers with their tying
scores of 49, But the real tragedy befel
J. William Harvey, jr., chairman of the
Indian Spring Golf Committee. Bill
Harvey came to the last two holes
needing a brace of As to win the medal
with a To- He took on the seven
teenth and then needed a to tie. He
put his second shot within 10 feet oi
the cup on the eighteenth green anG
three-putted from that distance for a
rs and IA, one stroke too high. The
tie will be played off, probably on Sun
, day.
MATCH play rounds today found
lv1 g. completely representative group
Of golfers playing, with represen-
tation heaviest from the Washington
area. Down-State Virginia is not rep
resented at all, however, as the five
Richmond men all failed to make the
first flight. However, there are three
representatives of the Washington Golf
ginia, in the first fight. Baltimore is
represented by B. Warren Cochran,
twice g holder of the title, and Ernie
Caldwell, the long hitter from Hillen-
dale and Washington. with the single
exception of Harry Pitt, has its best
golfers in that first flight.
One of them is young Roger Peacock,
recently returned home from Duke Uni
versity after Spring spent burning
up golf courses in Carolina. Roger
hadn't played in several weeks prior to
yesterday, but he was good enough to
score "a Just the same. One of the
feature matches in the opening round
today was that between Peacock and
Miller B. Stevinson, Columbia ace and
winner of countless tournaments
around the Capital
Scores of 93-all but one-qualified
for the sixth flight, and Hugh H. Saum
Of Columbia was unlucky enough to
draw his own name out of the tourna-
ment.
The team trophy. played as feature
Of the qualification round, was won by
the Indian Spring team with a total
score Of 388. The scores were as fol-
lows: j. William Harvey, jr., "A; Roger
Peacock, "A; L. D. sassser, 70; Elliott