Evening star., 1933-05-13
PITT TAKES TITLE
ON PUTTING SKILL
Beats Nolan in Manor Final,
Taking Lone Stroke on
Nine of Greens.
7 INE one-putt green's In 10
Il holes, and Harry G. Pitt,
Y Manor Club ace, was on

/ Y Manor Club ace, was on
his way back, pointing to-
ward a season when 1t looks as
If none Of the local amateur
golfers will be able to stop him.
Harry set the seal of approval on his
excellent early season play yesterday
by capturing the invitation event Of his
own club at Manor, downing M. Parker
Nolan, the Indian Spring sieze gun, by
and in the final round. From the
moment that Harry sank a curling Is
footer for bird 3 on the third green,
the match was home. To be sure, there
were moments on the second nine when
Pitts second shots were all over the
landscape, when Nolan was far inside
him after the second shot, but at these
times Pitts putter did its stuff and the
| enthusiastic ManoriteS who turned out
several hundred strong to see their
pride work, breathed easier again.
For Herry, although he has phenom-
enal success in golf tournaments at
other clubs, never has won his own
club event. before. He had performed
in spectacular fashion at Chevy Chase,
Congressional. Columbia, Washington
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the tall lad from Manor won his invita-
tion affair. Two years ago he went to
the final, where he was licked by Ted
Burrows. This year he went to the
| final again, and 1t would have taken
more golf than most people know to
stop him yesterday.
EOR the first eight holes Pitt did not
l. miss a shot. And then, after he
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came TO mis- rescue so effectively that
for the 16 holes Of the match he used
but % puts. You can't beat q guy
who won't give up and who has the
habit of holing those tantalizing and
10 footers for halves.
Nolan, who had spun around the
course In II in the morning to beat
Maurice Nee of Manor, was up against
a Harry Pitt who wouldn't take mo"
| for an answer. No matter what Harry
did 1t was right. He was just too good
playing In his first invitation tourney
final. To Harry these final rounds are
| an old story, but to Nolan 1t was O new
| experience.
Harry took 0 on the par . ninth
for his first hole over par and turned
2 up, with . 36. He worked out Q fine
half on the tenth, where he really missed
his first shot Of the round. And he
got . lucky half On the eleventh, where
he was trapped and Nolan obligingly
took three puts. But the tip-on on the
match came at the twelfth. Here Harry
tried to play cosy little pitch and run
shot which didn't have quite enough
carry and found the trap In front of tbs
green. Nolan was On in ! Then
Pitt knocked the ball out feet from
the hole, Nolan 3-putted and PIT won
1t with par 1.
A MOTHER big moment came At the
"A fourteenth. Pitt had tlst dropped
the thirteenth. reducing his lead
from three holes to two. Then he
pushed q tee shot into the rough and
topped his second, while Nolan cannily
whacked q spoon second onto the green.
Harry was 100 yards away, but ho
pitched q mashie nibNck shot feet
past the pin and slid the putt In for .
half In a. As far as he was concerned
that shot won the match. Few men,
and certainly no one around Washing-
ton. can give Harry Pitt up and catch
him in four holes. Nolan pushed his
tee shot out Of bounds at the fifteenth
and Harry won it with q bird 1. The
end came on the sixteenth, where both
men were all over the lot, but managed
TO halve the hole In SKIES. Even with
the six. Harry had two pars left for .
"a, which isn't bad golf for . final
round.
Pitt got even with John Shorey for
the licking John gave him at Army
Navy last Spring by trouncing the Ken
wood youngster, and 4, In the semi
flnals. Prizes were presented after the
tourney by Raymond F. Garrity, presi-
dent Of the Manor Club. Contestants
and spectators alike agreed that seldom
has tournament been run on so ex-
peditiously as that of the Manor Club.
The traditional Manor Club hospitality
was In evidence at every turn.
Here are the summaries Of the final
day:
First F1ight.
Semi-hnalsEParker Nolan 0ndian SPRING.
peat Maurice Nee (Manorl, and !; Harry
Pit lManor) beat John shorey Kenwood).
En.Lpitt beat Nolan, 3 and 3
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TED burrows Sunattached) By default. iSs1 Me-
kee beat Boyden. 2 and /.
Second Y1irht.
sCnl / beat N:s3aH ssGsss nJi. MiIss M,s1o "a
n'?: nnaiNMsss Mie yMsaST Seas sRS Newton. and
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r. r. Hair twashington) won from r wesely
and 1.
Semi-fnals-John Connolly Crock creek)
beat George Hume tunattachedl, and j;
Maj, 4; Moves (Army-NayO beat 0sorEs
A. Tew Ckenwood). and 8.
cOn:ossiozsR Sea GSnesy %ec.l,by Ws.sI., va l.
TONI beat D. G. Dudley tArsyle). 1 up; J.
H. Bean. (unattached) beat Charles ArneV
ISnsttaehedl: and 4. Bean bsss Ne
Fourth Fight.
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Q: Remey (Manor) by default. Elliott beat
Westwood. I'D, nineteenth hole.
Fifth Eiirht.
semi;fnals.F. NJ, williams Swashnstoq)
Melville Bennett (CongressionaD beat 3aei
Abbott (unattached). 4 and 3.
F1nal-Bennett beat Williams. end
Consolation-Jack McCarron tCorgfse.
sionaD beat / T. Donohue !Manorl. q 90
Kochenderfer CBeaver Dam). up. No
Carron beat Dudley, and 4.
D. c. NET PLAY DELAYED
To Start Next Saturday-IntyiAa