Evening star., 1932-08-21
MANY YOUNGSTERS
AMONG QUAL|F|E
Only a Few of Outstanding
Players of Country Fail
toMake Grade.
BIZ w. r. McCALLUM.

i over the rugged Five Farms
course, out in the Green
Spring Valley, 10 miles from
downtown Baltimore, is going to
be one of the outstanding cham
rlonshipS of the past decade.
Under the sectional qualification
system established last year by
the United States Golf Association
and used again this year, there
were so few casualties among the
outstanding golfers of the country
who failed to qualify for the title
chase as to make it certain that
practically every player who has a
chance to go anywhere in the
tournament will show up at Bal
timore.
Right here in Washington, where the
sectional test was played last Tuesday
at Chevy Chase. virtually every player
of prominence made the grade: only
two outstanding stars-Tornmy Bones OF
Columbia and John Shorey of Manor
beth of whom qualified for the cham
pionsl1ip last year, failed this year.
And neither Bones nor Shorey was
near qualifying for the match play
rounds at Chicago last year.
Among the stars of other years who
failed throughout the country were
Arthur C. (Ducky) Yates, the man
mountain from Rochester; DR.. 0. F.
Willing of Portland, Greg, and Fred j.
Wright, jr.. the tall gent from Boston.
who was on one Of the first Walker
Gun teams. None of these. however.
figures to go far in the championship
THE outstanding feature Of the sec
tional Qualification rounds is the
predominance of kid" golfers
among the qualifiers. Young Billy Det-
weller. Washington schoolboy, who
learned the game at the Manor Cluo'
will be the youngest golfer in the
tourney Billy is only IA years old ana
must wait until next February before
he becomes IS But out in Kansas
CITY, rosy-cheeked Paul Jackson quail
fed. Here at Chevy Chase, 20-year-old
Billy Howell made the grade, only to
see the 1a-year-old Chandler Harper
of Portsmouth, Va. neSe out the f1eld
to lead with 143. Down in Texas, 20
year-old Gus Morelsnd. the lad VINO
should have been on the Walker Cup
team, safely qualififd. and out in De
troit. Francis Conn oily. just turned Zc,
got safely in.
Many Of the veterans of other years
also made the grade, with H. Chandler
Egan. 1904 champion, leading the
parade of oki-tmers. All told, there
will be seven fb.mer amateur champions
at Baltimore, including Francis OulneI
sxfl. EyeA III
1914 at Fkwanok and repeated lasG
wear at Chicago. Chick Evans OF Chi.
cago is in. So are Jess Sweetser OF
New YORK. Jesse Guilford OF Boston,
Jimmy" Johnston of st. Paul, Max
Marston of Philadelphia and Egan.
IT'S sure to be a grand scrap, tnaC
i jo,1st for the sinon-pure cham
bjonship at Five Farms, where
cou1y. stretched out to $500 yaros,
awrSss the nations best three weeks
he-yce. But dire news comes from bal
ii nore In spite OF persistent WorA Wy
t ke green's force at Five FarmS tne
thirteenth green has gone oao anu III nlaS
have to be re-surfaced oe1ore Iiis ,,,;,1 Gr,1 n
nionship. Cool weather Will prlng IL
back quickly. but that green Is tucked
awav in a corner of the woods, wnere
hroTn-Datch gets in its deadly WORK
1ba balance of the course Is IN e1Cel-
lent shape. and 1t is certain thaI iiolii.-s
vii, he left undone to bring the course
into lis hest condition for the nrst
amateur championship ever held IN 'lle
Nr. The choice of men fer the Walker
Gun team By the U. S. q. A. WIS Eitis VIZ
Girassd when all the 10 players n2illeu
for the international Joust ~ uaso
naff fnF1c
hence qualified in their sectlohs to1 w
amateur championship. can ~
imagine the wall that Wcuio nav
I'M throughout the country II some "a
~, had tailed. for no matter how the
IT q A. picks the Walker Cup team
there is certain to be some dlSsatlS-
faction with their choices
stdelight on the amateur chaW,
,,ionshin comes from Charley MacKall
~ chevy Chase. Charley works IN
cleveland. where he has estaonsneo
f-imseIf as quite golfer. He usually
3akes his vacation at this time OF year
and he certainly could have quanileo;
But he thought it over ana oecIueu
that a golf championship would inter-
fere with enjoyment of his vacation.
So he passed up the championship
THREE of the qualifer5 from the
W.. llCtOn area SAOulu elFe q
crc4Itable account Ct themselves IN
the coming title chase. Harry G. Pitt OF
Manor is the outstanding star from the
Capital but those two Virginia LADS
Chandler Harper and Billy Howell
can step along fast enough to go far
in any amateur championship. These
three should do better than any others
from the area around the Capital
Alex Knapp was the single star from
the Baltimore Country Club to qualify
although five others made the grade
from Baltimore. including Ernie Cald-
well, the Middle Atlantic champion
from Hillendale, whose game has great
u improved this year,
Five Farms is such a lengthy golf
course that unless the ground is very
fast during the w2el; CT the champion
shin the big hitt2rS are destined to have
Roman holiday. It's mans layout.
this Five Farms course, where lengthy
hitting alone will get man far. That 5
where the kids shine. It should be a
great struggle, that championship at
Baltimore. will all these lusty kids in
there scrapping against the flnesse ana
knowledge Of the stars Of ether years.
DOLAND MACKENZIE. three times a
n member Of the Walker Cup team.
he's an idea tina. might be worth
consideration bv the U. 8. G.. A. Ro-
LANDS plan is to ertend the sectional
qualification rounds bit further than
the chs .1piorship itself and spDly them
to the Walker Cup team. choosing the
international team candidates in Sc
ries of national trials Just as the cham
pionship espirants are chosen
Not that Rolsnd is dissatisfied with
the present Walker Cup team. He is
not. but he thirk5 that such scheme
would be fairer than the present hand
picking method as used bv tee U. s.
G. A. Il have no ax TO grind" Roland