Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-28
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PITT IN SEM|-F|NAL
Each a Sensation in Tourney,
No Matter How Own
Match Turns Out.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

n ALTIMORE, Md, May %
X Washington was assured of
- a place in the final round
Of the finest golf tourna-
ment played in the East this year
as Harry G. Pitt, the District
champion from the Manor Club,
and Miller B. STEVENSON, Colum-
bias 51-year-old veteran, matched
shots in the semi final round of
the Baltimore Country Club In
vitation Tournament today to de-
termine which of the two Capital
stars will enter the ultimate round
OF the tourney won last year by
Pitt.
Bolstered by victories yesterday over
two nationally known golf stars, Pitt
and Stevenson met over the Five Farms
course OF the Baltimore Country Cub
today In a renewal of the eight-year-
old rivalry between the two stars rep
resenting Columbia and Manor The
winner was to meet the survivor of the
Ernie Caldwell-versuS-Ch Brinke
match in the final this afternoon with
the odds favoring Pitt to beat the
amazing Columbia veteran and advance
to the final.
DOTH Pitt and STEVENSON are the
- sensations of the tournament no
matter which man wins today. For
Pitt gave Max r. Marston Of Merton a
sound trouncing in the second round
yesterday, winning by 3 and 2 from the
for, fan1v hnl
and looking a winner at all stages of
the game. That match showed once
again that Harry Pitt is a big-time
prospect and might go far in the ma
ticnal amateur title chase to be played
at Five Farms next September. He
likes the course and plays it we'll. For
the "a holes he played in his two
matches yesterday he was only above
par. Notwithstanding a heavy rain in
midafternoon which closed up the
course and suspended play fer more
than an hour, causing all the matches
to finish late.
CTEVINSON attained his semi-flnal
- bracket by an astounding PUP VIC
tory over the much favored j. Wood
Plat of Philadelphia. a man who has
been ranked among the first two dozen
American amateurs for many years.
The under dog in his match with Platt,
the Columbia veteran hung on and won
by sheer brilliance in the pinches and
by coming through with par-clinglng
streak over the last four holes that
won them all when Platt was up with
to GO STEVENSON always has been
fighter and he never showed this sterl-
ing golfing quality to better advantage
than yesterday. A great brassie shot
to the fifteenth green started him going
when he was down. He won the
sixteenth to square with a par 4, the
seventeenth to go l up with a par 5,
when Platt overshot the green, and an
nexed the eighteenth when the rotund
Philadelphia found bunker and
STEVENSON laid a chip shot stone dead
for his par.
With all the matches postponed be-
cause of a rain which caught Marston
and Pitt on the sixth hole. where the
Manor star was l up. Pitt won the
seventh and eighth with a par and
birdie, to turn up on the former
champion. He blew wee putt at the
ninth and dropped the long fifteenth,
to become up with 3 to play. At the
sixteenth. the decisive hole OF the
match. Pitt put his second on the green
and Marston sliced his second badly.
That was all there was to that, for
Harry laid his approach putt dead and
won the hole with par 4.
holland r. MACKENZIE, Columbia's
X youthful star. is out Of the tourna-
ment because of streak OF bad
golf and bad putting on the last nine
when he apparently had his match with
Chris Brinke in the bag. Roland was
2 up at the turn. but he dropped the
eleventh by a bad putt. the twelfth
by a topped tee shot and the short
thirteenth by finding bunker to 60
l down.
He won the long fourteenth, but
he blew a 5-footer for a half at the
fifteenth. and even though he played
a magnificent second shot to within
feet of the pin at the sixteenth ne
failed to hole and only got half.
One up with to play, Brinke sank an
8-footer for a deuce at the short
seventeenth to win the match by and
l after Roland's bid for the deuce hit
the cup and failed to drop. Had Roland
putted as he did at Chevy Chase last
week he would be in the seml-hnal
round today.
Frank G. Butler Of Indian Spring
lost in the first round in the third
flight hut w. N. Baldwin of Manor still
was going strong in the fourth flight
today. after winning two matches yes