Evening star., 1933-08-09
Harper, Caldwell in Play on.

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wv cocky lad from Portsmouth.
Va, and Ernie Caldwell Of
Baltimore, were playing off today their
tie for the bronze medal awarded to
the first place winner in the national
amateur championship sectional quail
fication rounds. five Washington simon
pures were turning their faces toward
Cincinnati and scanning hotel and
train reservations for the trip to the
amateur championship which starts
near that city on September IL.
Out of a whirl Of unusually high
scoring for the sectional rounds at Col
umbia yesterday, which found three or
four of the pre-tourney favorlteS fall
ing to make the grade, the following
local men qualified for the national
title chase:
Roger Peacock, black haired Indian
Spring star, with scores of 76-74-l50.
Miller B. Stevinson, veteran Columbia
star. who has played In half dozen
76-l51
Martin F. Mccarthy, swarthy, black
haired Columbia golfer, with scores of
Luther C. Steward. jr., of Congress
sional, who shot scores Of 76-79-l55.
Richard Lunn, tall sharpshooter from
Chevy Chase and Burning Tree, who
registered scores Of 81-74-l55.
Washington placed five of the quail
the be-spectacled and meticulous
Spencer Overton. secured two places,
Virginia, with Harper and red d-headed
and modest Charlie Kent, grabbed two
places and North Carolina won 3 of
the II qualifying spots with N. Ed
Edgarton. jovial Totund Raleigh gent
leader over the opening round; Nelson
MacRae. sorrel-thatched SHOEMAKER
from Wilmington. and Fred NEWMAN,
also of Raleigh, making the grade.
Pitts Putter Fails Him.
TRAGEDIES galore be-sprinkled the
lengthy Columbia course as first
Harry G. Pitt, one of WaShington'S
aces, putting like a tyro, and hitting
his second shots like a novice, took
83-83-l65 and finished far outside
the qualifying limit of 1855. And as
Billy Howell, blond Richmond star.
Walker Cup member last year, playing
like kid who has worn himself out by
too much golf, missed qualification by
three shots with a total of 1853. made
up of a mediocre 81 and none-too-
good IT, Maury Nee, brilliant Columbia
youngster, who is good enough to quail
1fy in any field, was far off his game
yesterday, playing the first round in
80 and then picking up in the after
noon. These men are all good enough to
qualify for the amateur, but they failed
But. then, so did Francis Ouimet. up
In Boston. Golf is like that. You
are a champion one day and a duffer
the next j. William Harvey of Indian
Spring can blame one short putt for
his failure to make the grade. Harvey
came to the seventeenth needing 3. 4
for 1856 He stuck his second shot 3
feet from the pin at the hilltop seven
teenth and then missed the putt. His
156 left him one shot outside.
Peacock Not Extended.
DGERTON. who led the field in
the morning with a II. slid far
back In the afternoon to 81.
but qualified safely enough with 152
His lapse permitted Harper. who had
shot rs in the morning to slide i'll
with II in the afternoon and take the
early lead The saturnine VirginiaE
put on a great show in the afternoon,
going to the ninth hole 8 better than
par and taking a 6 on the ninth for
"a His shots began to go aWry on the
last nine, but great recovery on the
fifteenth after a bad tee shot, gave
him a and he birdied the seventeenth
finishing with for II and total
of 147 Then. along about o'clock. in
came Ernie Caldwell powerful shot
maker from Hilendale and former
Middle Atlantic champion, holing a
f1ve-foot putt on the final green for a
73 to tie Harper at lat. Ernie had
three -putted the eighteenth in the
morning for IA. but he didn't three
putt in the afternoon.
Peacock did exactly as expected. All
through the day the young District
champion played well within himself,
hitting his shots with all the ease and
aplomb that has placed him on the top
of the local heap. He led the local
qualifiers with his $50 total. But most
of the orchids go to the veteran Stevin-
son. This sturdy star, who knows Co.
lumbia like book. banged away at
brides all day. Playing with his we'll
known determination he knocked the
ball around in rs in the morning. His
76 in the afternoon came easily.
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