Evening star., 1933-08-19
ALONE HOLDS Off
| BIRDIE SHOOTERS
Par Beaten on Every Other
Green in U. S. Amateur
Sectional Play.

NUN q long Time tTcQ McLe0d
r. and Darcy Banagan, the
l. gents who preside over golf
affairs at Columbia, have
been Of two minds as to the hard
est and best two shot hole on that
lengthy golf course out near
Chevy Chase Lake. Now they
know, and they learned about it
from perusal of the cards turned
in by the competitors in the re-
cent sectional qualifying rounds
for the amateur championship. y
The sixth hole, which stretches out
to a distance of AGO yards from the
tee, is the hardest hole among the two
shooters at Columbia, judged by the
fact that none Of the sharpshooters
who played the layout were able to
score birdie on it in the SO holes Of
the qualifying round. Brides were
scored on every other hole on the
course, but there was none on the sixth.
Even pars were rare on this
long hole, where the second shot
usually is blind and where ball
off the line at the left is severely
penalized. Mcleod and Banagan
leaned toward the eleventh hole
as the most testing two-shotter
on the course, but now they
admit that the sixth E the
toughest of 'em all.
It takes two real wallops, the first q
big tee shot straight down the alley
or over on the right side, then o long
iron or wood to a well trapped green
sloping toward the ball. A tough hole
by any count and one of the really
testing two-shotters around the Capital.
Sylvester After Record.
TTAvING tied the course record of
70 a few days ago. Tony Syl-
vester, rotund little Bannockburn
pro- now believes he Is going to bust
George Voigt's mark of 10 before the
Summer is over and the season for low
scoring ends. Tony is an incurable
optimist in every way. Even when
Bannockburn was going through stormy
days, two years back, Tony insisted
that the club would continue and that
Bannockburn would be a golf course.
It is a golf course today and a fairly
good one Never in all of Bannock-
burns history has it been in better
shape, and the membership is grow
ing-to hear Tony tell it. =
Sylvester has fitted himself out
with a new set of iron clubs by
famous maker and Is banging the
ball farther than ever. His 20 OF
the other day to tie Voigt's rec
ord might Just as well have been
a So, for Tony missed a putt on
the sixteenth which would have
shattered the previous mark had
it dropped. z
Tony tells of Eddie Doyle, former
Bannockburn member, who goes over
to the Glen Echo layout to play every
once in a while, and who played the
last nine a few days ago in 35 strokes.
Eddie now is member of washington,
but he whipped the ball around his olo
layout in IA Just the same, getting out
in 80 and back in IS.
Peacock Gets Hot.
TTARRY G. PITT of Manor picke,!
Up six brides in a round of hi
home course a couple of days ago,
but mixed in with the brides were
flock of indiffer shots. The net re-
suit was that Harry wound up with a
70. In the same round Luther Steward
of Congressional bagged four brides
and scored a II.
From Indian Spring come reports OF
Roger Peacocks immaculate shot-mak-
Ng. The District champion walloped
the ball around his home layout in 70
strokes-two better than par-playing
the easy first nine in 36, one over par,
and playing the more difficult last nine
in "a, two better than par. to wind up
one stroke under perfect" figures for
the course Peacock played with Maury
Fitzgerald, Charles A. Ryan and Oscar
Blanton.