Evening star., 1933-08-01
Peacock Rated Best.

~EACOCK is the finest SHOEMAKER
Of the group, in the opinion OF
- most golfers; the SmootheSt
swinger OF the lot and the lad who is
destined to 90 further than any local
golfer has gone in recent years. Harry
Pitt. 20 years old. at the crest OF his
power, remains today the most de-
pendable amateur golfer around the
Capital. a man who can buckle down
and retrieve slipping game to shoot any
course in the lower and middle 7Os.
Maurice Nee. the 17-year-old youngSter
who has been runner-up in three ma
tor events this year. can play Columbia
any time in rs and better. He should
have no trouble qualifying. Nor should
Dick Lunn. the tall Chevy Chase lad
who hits the ball so far and straight
from the tee and who has improved
Is per cent this year. Miller STEVENSON
has not played in big event THIS
wear. but the Columbia veteran knows
his own golf course like book, has
sufficient reserve to stand 36 holeS IN
q hot sun. and above ALL has that well
known Stevinson determination to
buckle down to the job in hand and
push it through. Martin F. Mccarthy
is a man who is capable OF brilliant
bursts of golf. but is also capable OF
mediocre performance. He also has the
determination and the shots to quall1y.
Tough on His Own Course.
, "HE other entrants from Washing
/ ton have a big job cut out for
| - them If the tourney was being
iolayed at Congressional, Luther Stew
ard. jr, would be an almost certain
olualifier. but at Columbia he will have
a\ big Job. So will Franklin Parks,
Frost Rilly
Dattweiler and the others from Wash
inaton. It's no light task to keep those
put(s on the line over SO holes when
youi have the mental reaction that one
lapsf may push you out in the neither
regions.
Billy Howell and Chandler Harper,
from, Virginia, are as good as in. They
have yhe game. they want to play, and
they Sre among the smoother strokerS
of a golf ball anywhere in the land.
Front the Baltimore contingent Dave
Crook And Ernie Caldwell should quail
ify. Crook a tall. slender lad, has
proven ltis ability to take it this year,
and also Nhas proven his ability to pass
it out in aopious quantities. The blond
from Rolling Road copped the Middle
Atlantic and went to the Semi-flnal in
the Maryland State in such convincing
fashion that no man who has seen him
play can gaiinSay his class. Ernie Caid-
well, powerful and strong, can play the
Columbia course to the queens taste,
as he showed in the Midatlantic final
last year when he knocked the ball
around in 6$ to beat E. K. Lanman's
par II. B. Warren Corkran, Baltimore
Country Club\ veteran. is an outside
possibility, as \ are Toll Speer and
William D. Wa&ter.
Fast Course Means Low Scores.
YF the course us lightning fast and
the greens are kept copiously
watered. you can look for some
phenomenal scoring Of the same type
that surprised the fans at Indian
Spring a fortnight ago. Indeed,
leading score of 40 or l4l would not
be big surprise under such conditions,
But If rain falls between now and
Tuesday and the course is slow, the
leading score probably will be around
145 or 146 and the top score to qualify
will be in the neighborhood of l57. On
q fast course it Is likely to take l55 to
make the grade.
In any event, most of the lads en-
tered are simply padding the entry list,
which is what some of them intended
to do, in order to get more places for
their fellows. But the gents men
toned should be among the group who
will travel to the city beside the muddy
Nhio NEXT month