Evening star., 1932-09-08
HAS SCORE OF 145
/. AT HALF WAY MARK
Modern Record Is 300.
Shorey, Second in Line, Is
Seven Strokes in Rear.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

- LIN, dark haired young Roger
Peacock, ace Of the Indian Spring
4 Club and leader of the Duke
University golf team. had a
chance today to set an all-time record
for the winning score in the District S
amateur championship.
AS Roger battled down the home
stretch today over the final 36 holes of
the 72-hole title chase, pushed by such
redoubtable golfers as John Shorey,
Harry Pitt, Martin F. Mccarthy and
Maurice Nee, the young Indian Spring
star saw before him an opportunity to
bust all previous records for the Dis
trict title chase and set a record that
will stand for many years to come. For
1t isn't often that any golfer in the
District tournament gets away to such
q flying start as the raven haired In
dian Spring lad put across yesterday.
Rounds of 70 and 73 do not come
every day to many golfers over such a
course as Chevy Chase. They are even
more rare in the District championship.
The modern record for the District title
chase is the 300 score by which Frank
K. Roesch won the tourney two years
ago. closely placed by the 302 with
which Harry Pitt won the title last
year. Both these scores were made over
that rugged Burning Tree layout.
THE current tourney is being played
i at Chevy Chase. which has par
of SO and probably is not quite
as hard a course as Burning Tree.
With such a start as he had over the
first two rounds. pair of 75s by Pea
cock today would break that previous
District record score and establish the
Duke youngster as the holder OF the
all-time record for scoring among the
amateurs hereabouts. Roger Is serv-
ing plenty of warning that he is right
on top of his game for that coming ma
tional amateur championship at Bal
timore next week.
Hitting the ball straight as a string
between tee and green and putting
with the touch of a master, the young
ster might have bettered his 145 score
by several strokes yesterday over the
first half of the District title chase. AS
it was he enjoyed a ven-stroKe LEAD
over his nearest rival as the final day
of the championship opened.
For John Shorey. putting together
two average rounds of II and 70, was
seven strokes back. Harry G. Pitt, the
imperturbable one from Manor, wild
as a hawk from the tee and lacking
sting and punch with his irons, mn
ished nine shots back OF Peacock over
the first day, in a not impossible posi-
tion to catch the Indian Spring lad If
he falters in the drive down the stretch.
Pitt opened the tourney with a round
of 80, which left him eight strokes be-
hind Peacock In the afternoon TINS
pair put on a pretty show. Pitt Leo
by a single stroke over that afternoon
round I'D to the seventeenth mole, put
there his erratic driving left him be-
hind a tree, and he kicked up, on
this par hole. He finished with
for IA. while Peacock was finishing
with a brace of IS for a 73.
nEACOCK'S rounds yesterday were
all the more remarkable because
of the small gale that swept the
course. pushing well hit tee shots lar
of the line and showing iron shots into
trans. In this wind Peacock showed
his mastery, for the youngster controleo
the ball remarkably well, keeping 1t low
into the wind and using the wind to
advantage. Only once did he falter-at
the fourteenth hole in the afternoon
where the wind blew a lock of hair into
his ewes and he dumped his ball into
the ditch, finishing with a 5 on this
par hole. -Four brides fell to the
clubs of the youngster in the morning,
but he bagged none in the afternoon;
To show how that wind blew, the
448-yard sixth hole at Chevy Chase,
one of the toughest par 4 holes around
Washington. literally became par
Yesterday. Not a single golfer reached
the green in two shots and although
some 40 of the best played the hole
twice there were only three par As
recorded all day. All Of them came
from a single putt.
FRANKLIN PARKS, Jr., of Congress
l. sional. the lad whom Sandy Ar
mour says has one of the sound
est swings of any local amateur. shot
a good opening round of n, but ran
into rs on the eighth and eleventh holes
of the afternoon to finish with an S3.
The only serious contenders close to
Peacock over the final day were Shorey
at 1872; Pitt, at 154; Fred Hitz of Chevy
Chase. 13 strokes back at 158, and Mar
tin F. Mccarthy and Maurice Nee, IA
shots back at 159. The latter trio is
too far back to catch Peacock, by all
the odds of probable golf performances.
D. Page Cornwell. long-hitting Co
1umbia youth, created a mild sensation
when he took out a spoon on the 1885,
ball into the cup for an eagle ace, the
first of his career.
MRS. r. C. MITCHELL recorded a
1V1 score of 10l TO take gross honors
in the tournament staged by the
Women's District Golf Association yes
terday at Beaver Dam. Mrs. Mitchell's
score was one shot in front of the l02
shot by Mrs. Leo Walper CT Kenwood.
Low net prizes went to the following
women: MRS. Albert Fisher, Beaver
Dam. 103-21-S2; Mrs. N. A. Neff,
Manor, 103-18-35; Mrs. Leo Walper,
Kenwood, 102-13-S9; Mrs. Frank r.
Keefer. Chevy Chase, 106-15-91; Mrs.
w. F. Hoffman, Army Navy, 107-12-
95; Mrs. David Scott, Indian Spring,
103-8-95. Twenty-one women golfers
played in the tourney.
DEAVER DAM women are to start
- the match-play rounds in the
club championship on Sunday with
the following pairings:
First flight Mrs. H. b Shipley vs. Mrs
II. B. Stone; l:05 Mrs. Ora Emge VS.. Mrs.
Elsie Fischer; l:I0, Mrs Mary Waldron VS..
Mrs. r. N. TreZise is. Mrs. r. c. Mitchell
VS. Mrs. Thelma Hutchinson.