Evening star., 1933-06-17
HARRY COULD LEAD
|. BY N. A. TITLE WIN
Has Better Tourney Record,
but Youths Low Scoring
Gets Consideration.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.


NE more major golf tourna-
1 ment and the Spring sea-
" son Of 1888 will be ended
in so far as big-time COM
petition Is concerned on golf
courses around the National Capt.
tai. The Maryland State amateur
championship is scheduled to be
played on the Indian Spring
course in July, but for most Of the
amateur golfers around Washing
ton the Spring tournament season
will end with the Congressional
Country Club event next week.
Who is the golf leader Of the Capital
this year? So far young Dick Lunn
of Chevy Chase and Burning Tree u
close to the lead by virtue of his VIC
tory In his own club tournament at
Chevy Chase and his win Of the Chevy
Chase championship a few weeks later
with score Of 290, in which he tied
Maurice Nee's course record Of 81, set
in the medal round of the Chevy Chase
event. But Harry G. Pitt, the Manor
Club ace, who won his own clubs
invitation tourney, In such impressive
fashion, must be bracketed with Lunn
In any first-place ranking.
Indeed, In 30 far as major wins are
concerned, Harry Is on top. for right
after he had won at Manor he moved
over TO the Baltimore Country Club
and took the Maryland Cup out Of
competition by winning it for the third
time and retiring the trophy.
Pitt, In the opinion Of many folks,
is the strongest golfer around Wash
ington. He may take an occasional
licking, but he still stands out as the
| most powerful player in the amateur
ranks about Washington
CHoULD Pitt win the Middle Atlantic,
- and he Is in the semi-finals this
morning, he will stand head and
shoulders over the rest Of the golfing
troop. and win rate very near the top
IN any ranking this year, even II he
falls to annex the District title next
September. Roger Peacock, the Dis
trict title holder from Indian Spring,
had bad round and failed to qualify
In the Midatlantic.
The youngster from Duke University
played the Rolling Road course In 10
strokes q few days before the tourna-
ment opened, but In his medal round he
| fired shots everywhere but in the right
direction. His round of SO included no
fewer than seven penalty shots. No
| good golfer can absorb that number of
penalties and qualify In q field where
| 1t took 70 to make the first fight.
| Peacock Is . fne golfer, no doubt of
that. But the fact still remains that
the District championship Is the only
big tournament which he ever has won
about Washington. The whole group OF
the better players viii gather at Con-
gressional next week, concentra ing
their fire on the Presidents Cup. put
up by Herbert Hoover back in 1925.
Inasmuch as the Congressional tcu- noy
win be the last big event Of the S7iag
for most Of the golfers, the entr III
may well run up to 300-perhaps i -
| Certain 1t Is that Congressiona aiil
stage bang-up event, and Il you want
to see q golf course in the pink of con-
dttion travel out to Congressional next
week. Those members Of the big club
out Rockville way have worked hard to
make their tournament success. They
have left no stone unturned and no de-
| tail overlooked to make the 1888 Con-
| gressional tourney the finest Of them
all. That Congressional joust may 60
long way toward determining the best
golfer around Washington this year.