Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-27
QUALITIES WITH Is
IN BALT|M0RE PLAY
D. c. Vet in Top Bracket
With Pitt-MackenZie
in With a 70.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

n ALTTMORE, May 27.-One OF
X Washington'S veteran golf
l. stars, a man who has won
virtually every golf tourna-
ment around the Capital in other
years, but who lately has not been
playing as we'll as he did half a
decade back, is making big
comeback in the current tourney
of the Baltimore Country Club,
whose match-play rounds started
today over the Five Farms course,
where the national amateur cham
pionship will be played next Sep
TENDER.
For many years Miller B. STEVENSON
of Columbia was one CT the favorites
to win any tournament he entered, and
he did win many of them, all Of them,
in fact, and among others he won this
tournament back in 1926. Last year.
however, Stevinson failed to win sin
gle tournament and he started this
year by failing to qualify at Chevy
Chase. But ever here on familiar ter
ritory before folks he has known for
many years STEVENSON has come back
on his game, and while he is not a
top-heavy favorite to win this tourney
in which so many stars are entered
he has his supporters and he may go
far if he plays as well as he did yes
terday to shoot Q IS in the medal
round
Getting out in 81 with ho!ed chip
shot at the ninth where he sank his
ball from above the green the Columbia
veteran breezed home in 80 for a card
which was only two shots above the
medal. STEVENSON was one OF the three
Washington stars in the first flight to-
day, where he played Charles F. Shaw
Of Baltimore, whom he should beat to
advance to the second round.
Bracketed With Pitt.
With him In the top bracket is Harry
G. Pitt Of Manor, the District champion,
who played with STEVENSON and shot
an identical score CT rs, while down in
the lower half of the draw is Roland
r. Mackenzie, the Columbia youngster
who won the Chevy Chase tourney In
brilliant fashion last week and blew
high and wide in the qualifying round
here yesterday after brilliant start.
With the three Capital stars in OPP
posite halves of the draw there may be
an all-Washington final here tomorrow
afternoon. But there IS lot of class
in this tournament, more than in any
other Baltimore tourney OF recent years.
Max Marston. amateur champion OF
1923, came down from Philadelphia to
look over the amateur championship
course and played well enough to tie at
70 for the medal with D. Clarke Cork
ran, another Philadelphian, and Mark
Stuart of Staten Island. Stuart played
the last Is holes in even par.
Pitt played today in the first round
against Dave Crook of Baltimore, while
Roland Mackenzie met F. M. Leonard
of this city. All the Westinghouse
should win and go to the second round.
The luck of the draw which threw Pitt
and STEVENSON in the same half may
force them to play against each other
tomorrow morning, if both win today.
Both Score Birdie Is.
The high spot of the qualification
round Of Pitt and STEVENSON came at
the short thirteenth hole, where Pitt
sank pitch shot from a bunker and
STEVENSON holed 6-footer for half in
birdie 2s
Mackenzie was out in IS, but went
badly on the last nine for 43 and
score of 49, He didn't want to play but
friends finally prevailed on him to start,
and he is in there today trying to win
his second tourney in row.
Most of the more than 80 Washing
tonians who started in the qualifying
round failed to turn in cards. and of
them E. c. Colt, jr of Columbia, lost
out in draw for the last flight. But
up there in the third flight today was
Frank G. Butler of Indian Spring, who
shot an "a in the medal round, and in
the fourth flight was w. N. Baldwin of