Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-13
AMATEURSP PROVE
COURSE TOO EASY
Some Lad May Shoot SIS or
Better in Event-AII Lo-
cal Players Out.
BY w. r. McCALLUM,

N1NClNNAll, OepCemDer Is.
This national amateur
~ golf championship, which
already has seen the So
year-old record for low qualifying
score shattered to bits and a new
record set for scoring in the
Slmon-pure title chase, was due to
set new records today as a group
composed almost entirely of kids,
with only a Smattering of old
SterS, meet in the sudden death
twin 18-hOle match play rounds.
Before they started at match play
around 9 o'clock this morning, dozen
OF them played off a tie at $50 for the
last few places long before the mist had
risen from the high hills on which the
KenWood course is located
So fast has been the scoring
so far in the tourney that most
of the names famous in Ameri-
can golf over the years are out
of the tourney.
They were unable to keep pace with
the fast moving youngsters who were
topped yesterday by lanky Johnny
Fischer, idol of Cincinnati, setting the
qualifying round with a card of 70
69-14l, and thereby winning the medal
for two years in row.
II the young men can shoot scores
OF $50 and better to qualify for the
championship under the stress and
strain of medal play, there is no telling
to what ends they will go in the free
swinging abandon of match play.
Before this tournament is over
some kid is going to shoot @ IS
or better.
Easiest Of Title Courses.
Kenwood today stands as the easiest
golf course in the 36-year-old history
of the championship. They've got to
pick harder courses for the title tourney
in the future, or they will discourage
altogether the gents who pat them
selves on the back when they break
the century mark.
Again I say it's positively indecent to
play championship golf course in such
manner that it takes $50 even to get in
a play-off.
And it isn't that the ball or
the clubs are better. The course
Ii just too easy.
Scores of 81 have been made in the
medal play before. but not two such
COllSlStc1lI SCOlcS d tllC u o1o l1IC W
to which Fischer helped himself to win
the medal And the scoring pace never
before has been so fast, and probably
never will be again.
/ When a golfer like Spencer Overton
Of Baltimore, who is not a consistent
first fighter in the Middle Atlantic area,
can shoot the course in 70: when Sidney
| Noyes can play the last nine in 81.
missing short putt on the final green
| for a 80, and when pair Of 76's are
as far out as last years straw hat it IS
time to look into the way they choose
courses for the championship.
All d. c. Players Fail.
TENWOOD was not an easy layout
n for the gallant lads from Wash
ington, however. All Of them
failed to qualify, and not one Of them
even was close The pace was too fast.
the field too strong. They just couldn't
make the grade.
Ernie Caldwell, who scored 74-72 for
| a fine las, led the golfers from the Mid
| die Atlantic area, and Overton added
| his last round 10 to his 80 to get into
the playoff. That's the story in so far
| as our section is concerned.
The lads from the open spaces,
most of them youngsters, are just
too fast to catch.
For time yesterday Somerville had
his nose out in front of Fischer, but
he Jagged over the last five holes while
the lanky one finished strong for his
50, and the new record was In the
books. It should hang there for q long
time, and It will be long time before
they select course as easy as this one
| for the championship.
Somervile Appears Best.
TINE big shots In this championship
| are Fischer, Ross Somerville and
John Goodman, and still like
Somerville to repeat. The way the willy
Canadian has been banging the ball
around makes him appear the best
golfer In the tournament. Like anyone
else, he misses shot now and then.
but he Is a grand SHOEMAKER, has the
experience and wants to win.
may find one or all Of them out
of the tournament, but they
| Today's sudden death rounds
should last.
The local lads were in the gallery
today. watching their betters play off
for the title. Miller STEVENSON was
down at Lexington, KY, visiting rela-
tives, but Peacock, Lunn, Steward and
Mccarthy stuck around for the big
show and the first day Of match play.
Most of them will be on their way
home tomorrow.
Peacock finished with the best score
OF the five Washington entrants, but at
no time did the raven-haired lad from
Indian Spring strike his true game. He
finished with a score of 79-76-155,
and strangely enough his last round of
rs was not as good round as his first.
That first round might as ,oeH
| hare been q 70 as q 70, phile the
last round tUds a iDeird display
OF bad shots, good recoUeries and
| poor putting
Roger needs a little more experience
up in the big time, but he has the game
to go places In this championship just
the same, even though he has failed to
qualify for two years in a row.
Three Bad Holes.
TARTIN F. MCCARTHY Of Column
| lN bia finished second among the
local lads with q card of 90
79-159, with only three bad holes in
the last round separating him from a
score seven strokes lower
Martin was seven strokes over
| par ON three holes, yet finished
only eight above the par Of II.
He was two above on the fourth and
nth and three over on the tricky
eleventh, where be became all tangled
up with lot of trees and bushes and
took on the 310-yard hole.
The strange part Of the whole affair
Is that Mccarthy was the only one of
the Washington crowd to score birdie.
Peacock did not make one In SO holes,
STEVENSON and Lunn had none, and
Steward also finished out the string
without hole better than par.
Stevinson started yesterday 4,
| ;, z, 4, and then picked up his
ball. Lunn did not start.
Steward, following his 80 of the first,
round. played ragged golf over the final
stretch getting olIt in AZ ipcludipo a