Evening star., 1933-08-03
Harlan will Has Grit.

" cent of the lazy swing of George
Voigt, skinny youngster whose
golf1ng aims are fostered by his father,
despite the latter's humble position in
life as greenkeeper at country club,
today holds the District public links
championship. Harlan Will, worn al
most down to the bone by endless
rounds of golf under a blazing sun,
a tall. thin kid who has plenty of spunk
under the stress of tournament tension,
is the latest youngster to win the mu-
nicipal links championship which seems
to go to youngsters with the regularity
of clockwgk. Those youngsters can
stand the Strain of missing puts on
green's almost bare Of grass; they can
learn how to play their shots to green's
of adamant hardness, and they can
hang on in the face of adversely and
come through with the winning shot.
Harlan VIII, at the tender age of 19,
has learned all that. And he has
learned more. He has found out that
constant plugging wins almost as many
golf matches as does brilliant shot
making. Yesterday the skinny young
ster, who learned the game at Wood
mont, where his father is the green's
keeper, shot 73 over course whose
par of 73 is entirely too high to lead
Claude Rippy his final round opponent.
over the first 18 holes of the 36-hole
final at East Potomac Will had won
his way to the final at East Potomac.
Rippy. taciturn North Carolinian, had
won the Rock Creek Park final. And
when Rippy stepped out on his home
playground at Rock Greek in the after
noon. his faithful supporters looked for
him to quickly erase the lead Will had
piled up at Potomac Park and go ahead
TO win the tourney. But instead of that
young Will, almost unacquainted with
Rock Greek, stuck his nose out In front
and for a time it looked like runaway
match for the East Potomac Park
cheering section. Will won the third
when Rippy three-putted, and the
fourth and fifth to go up. He was
up at the twenty-seventh and al
though he lost the twenty-eighth, he
went up again by winning the twenty
ninth.
Blown Putt Delays Verdict.
THEY halved the next two holes
and then the fireworks began
species of fireworks which Will
can trace directly to his careless putt
on the fifteenth. On this uphill hole
both played badly. Will needed only
a half to become dormie up, but he
blew putt Of only foot in length
and lost the hole. Then he cut loose
with wild second shot on the six
teenth and lost that hole to Rippy's
par 4. One up with to 60, it looked
as if the match was squared when
Rippy put his tee shot 20 feet beyond
the pin at the 160-yard seventeenth
while Harlan hooked to hillside trap.
But the youngster came through with
the needed shot. He knocked the ball
DOWN the hill within three feet of the
noe and sank the putt for the half
he needed so badly
Rippy, who had been missing puts
all day and chipping badly, made a
great chip shot at the eighteenth after
a bad second shot, laying the ball stone
dead from the left side of the green,
but Will had put his second on the
green and got down in the two puts
That won him the match. The final
match at both courses, was followed by
crowd Of 200 spectators, who kept on
through shower that came up on the
fourteenth at Rock Creek.
Bobby HoD Marks won the second
hight, defeating Dave Bent by and
in the final. A. NJ Holmes of Rock
Creek won the third flight when j. En-
right of East Potomac defaulted Cor
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Sam Miller for the fourth fight final
by 3 and 2.
Will thus becomes the first winner of
the Leoffler Trophy. which will go to
the man winning it three times.
DON O'BRIEN, lusty young member
Of the Georgetown University golf
team. won the gross prize in the
Maryland State tourney held yesterday
at Chevy Chase with card of II, put
ting together mines of 36 and 35 to lead
a good field. Spencer Overton was Sec
ond with rs. O'Brien is a member of
the Rolling Road Club of Catonsville
Md. Mel Shorey East Potomac Park
professional, and Gene Larkin of Chevy
Chase tied for first place in pro divi-
sion with scores of 72 B. L. Townsend
Of Beaver Dam won the prize in Glass
B with an "a. while H. L. Ge Vilbiss
of Beaver Dam took the net prize with
a score of 89-21-68 Only a few
entrants from local clubs participated in
the tourney.