The Washington times., 1933-07-31
)USTRLAL BASEBALL GES TIGHT PENNANT RACE
20D,C, GOLFERS
TRY To REACH
NATIONAL

Golfers from Delaware, Pennsyl.
vania, Maryland, the District Of
Columbia, Virginia, North Caro-
lima and South Carolina are in
cluded in the field of 48 which
will contend at Columbia Coun-
try Club on Tuesday, August
8, for the right to compete in the
national amateur championship
tournament at the Kenwood Coun-
try Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sep
tember IL to 16, inclusive.
Twenty of the 48 will represent
the District, IL come from Balti-
more, five from Virginia, five from
Pennsylvania, four from North
Carolina, one from South Caro-
lima and two from Delaware.
Thomas H. Sommerville, widely
known horseman, who divides his
time between Virginia and Della
ware, is one of the two competi-
tors listed from Delaware.
Representative Field
The field in this years qualify
ing round at Columbia is one OF
the. most representative in the
history of the event in this Sec
ton of the country.
Out Of the nine Washington
qualifiers of last year, seven again
this year will try for eligibility to
the national. They are Harry Pitt
and Billy Dettweiler, veteran and
youngster, respectively, represent
ing the Manor Club; Maury Nee,
another youngster, and Miller
STEVENSON, Columbia; Roger Pea
cock, Indian Spring; Franklin
Parks, Congressional, and Martin
Mccarthy, Beaver Dam.
Chandler Harper, Virginia
Beach star, and Billy Howell, who
was a Semi-finals in the 1881 Ma
tional Amateur and Walker Cup
member, are among the Virginians
who will compete in the qualify
ing test.
Hufty In Boston
Page Hufty, another Washing
tonian, will try his luck in the
qualifying test over the Brae Burn
C. C. course, Newton, Mass, seek
ing one of the 10 places set aside
for the Boston district.
Pairings and starting times for
the August 8 qualifying round:
9:00-1:00 Norman B. Frost (Colum-
bia) and j.. W.: Harvey, jr" Qndan
SPRING.: 9:O5-1:O5, Luther C. Stewart,
jr. (CongressionaD and Richard D.
Lunn (Chevy Chase); 9:10-1:1O, Miller
H. Somerville Wilmington, DELI; 9:15-
lis, Roger S. Peacock (Indian SPRING.
and A. S. Gardiner, jr. (Columbia); 800
1:20. Talbot T. Speer (Baltimore) and
Fred Newnham jr. (Raleigh, N. c..
9:30-1:3O, Chandler Harper Virginia
Beach, Va.) and A. Warren Corkman
(BBa;ittimOrss}; s;s5-1:a5, Billy Howell
Owen york, Pa.) and Martin F. Nc
Carthy (Beaver Dam); 9:45-1:45, J: W..
Gitt (Hanover. Pa.) and Maury Ftz-
w Kent (Richmond); 9:55-1:55, Will
Fam D. Baxter, jr. (Baltimore) and
Franklin Parks (CongressionaD.
1O:OO-2:OO-N. f. Edgerton (Raleigh,
N. c. and Ralph s. Fowler (Washing-
ton; 10:O5-2:O5, Frank Emmett (Con-
sressioTnaD and Frank G. Ford (Cha rles-
toni; 1O:O5-2:O5. Frank Emmett (Con-
Carver (Manor) and Glib S. Arthur
(Raleigh, N. CO; 1O:15-2:1S, Harry G.
Pitt (Manor) and Dermot Nee (Co-
and eyerfGn
york, Pa); 1O:25-2:25. Donald McPhail
(Baltimore) and Nelson Macrae [Wil-
mington. n. c..
and Charles Carroll ir
Md; 1O:s5-2:S5. David F. Crook (RoiI-
ing Road and Bobby Riegel (Rich-
mond); 1o:4O-2:4O. Morton Mccarthy
(BaItimore); 1O:45-2:45, Alan A. Smith
(Bitmore Forest N. c. and Ernest L.
Caldwell (Paltimore); 1O:5O-2:5O. Harvey
F. Johnsol. jr (Kenwood and Fred
2 55. Mark E. Trone (Hanover. Pa.) and
Maurice Nee (Columbia).
That long-awaited and much
discussed golfing battle of the
century, featuring star linksmen
of newspaperdom of New York
and Washington, started divot-
ing this morning bit later than
the II o'clock zero hour origi.
nally set.
Here's a Battle
The sport scribes, after an
eventful trip to Herald Harbor,
for the Tri-City Regatta nine.
teenth hole, and because Of other
reasons not so widely known,
we're almost in the throes of a
hangover. as it were, with the
result that hostilities were set
back a trifle in order for all to
achieve recovery before tackling |
the narrow and tricky Anacostia
course.
New York was considered to
have taken an unfair advantage
If Washington by naming Daniel
NJ. Daniel non-playing captain
and strategist for the Gothamites.
Bill Slocum, Buck O'Neill, Rich
ard Vidmer, Marshall Hunt,
Frank Graham, John Debringer,
Gerald Sylvester and Charlie Sc
ger were eligible to compete for
New York, while each scribe in
Washington, sports or otherwise,
vas eligible to compete for Wash
ngton, with the exception of Pete
Daily, who was declared ineligible
1t the last moment because of his
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