The Washington times., 1933-07-20
MID ATLANTIC
. PROS QUALIFY
On JULY 28
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON
Middle Atlantic golf pros will
gather at the Suburban Clu b,
Pikesville, Nd, on July % in the
36-hole qualifying rounds for the
annual P. G.. A. championship.
The four low scorers will take
part in the championship event in
Milwaukee August 8-13.
Last year AL Houghton and Mel
Shorey, of this city, and Warner
Mather and Carroll MacMaster
Baltimore pros, were winners IN
the sectional elimination rounds.
Play in Pa. Open
Two of the local entrants in
this years qualifying rounds, al
Houghton and Arthur Thorn,
were in Scranton, Pa, today for
the 72-hole Pennsylvania open to-
morrow and Saturday. Houghton
Is also to take part in the Bedford
Springs, Pa, open on July 81
and 81.
Two 18-hole rounds were on tap
today as the 80 survivors in the
field of IS began match play in
the Maryland State a m a t e ur
championship over the In di a n
Spring Club course.
Roger acock, Of Indian
Spring, carried off medal honors
in yesterdays 36-hole qualifying
session with IA, two strokes over
par for the journey. He paced
the field in the morning with &c.
two under par, but needed IS for
his afternoon round.
Putter Misbehaves
The medalist passed the first
nine in the afternoon in IS, even
par, but then his putter began to
misbehave and he scared to 40
strokes on the last leg.
Indian Spring never saw
more binding scoring pace as
Peacock set over that first nine
which he covered in 81, a new
nine-hole competitive record. He
clustered four brides in all, cap
ping his performance with a IS
OF putt for birdie deuce or
the ninth. Ernie Caldwell, o1
Hillendale Club, Baltimore, was
right on Peacock's heels with 6
blistering 80 but required 38 on
the home trip, as did Peacock.
Four Tie for Second
Four golfers tied for runner-ur
honors with 146 apiece. They
were Louis Fuchs and Bill Har
vey, indian Spring members, anc
Dave Crook, of Rolling Road
Baltimore, and Harry G. Pitt
of Manor Club. Crook added
rs in the afternoon: Pitt tackled
on a "a to a morning 72; Fuchs
placed a 72 alongside Of morn
ing "a and Harvey paired a pal
II to morning round rs.
All can lament strokes cast
away but Fuchs must look long
.ngly at the eighth hole where
in the afternoon he took 6,
over par. A skied tee shot was
to blame. Those two extra
strokes cost him a tie for the
medal, after Peacock began skid
ding on the last nine.
Tournament Notes
William r. Stone, the golf
zealot who has been playing the
game less than three years
scored sixteen one-putt greens in
80 holes, but his rounds totaled
90 and So. he hooked too often
and, upon finishing the 36-hole
route, hastened to the practice
tee to find a cure. Tom Belshe
couldn't enter the tourney be.
cause Roger Peacock was using
his driver, Peacock having broken
his sometime ago. Bill Harvey
clicked off a 81, one under par,
for his third nine, running down
a long putt for a birdie deuce on
the ninth. DR.. Larry S. Otell
eased up after a morning 7S, con-
tent to coast home with 80 in the
afternoon to safely qualify. .
Paul Hampshire, of the Hillen-
dale Club, Baltimore. stepped of
the first nine in the afternoon in
35, only to stagger home in "A
for the last lap, guilty of six g.
putt greens. .Maury Nee'S fin
gers on his left hand were cov-
cred with poison ivy. there was
a reason for the absence Of w
Byrn CurtiSS, the local southpaw
he recently wed Miss Eugenia
Hammack, of Edison, Ga. they
first met while students at Duke
University.