Evening star., 1934-04-03
DUNLAP IS AMONG
ACES DUE TO PLAY
Howell and Harper, State
Champ, Will Help Make
Going Difficult.

VI T. d Sloup VI doli-
ington golfers are plan
I ming to move down to
x Richmond next week,
where they will play in the open
ing club event of the season of
1884 near the Capital, tourna-
ment which may be unusual in
that the national amateur cham
pion has promised to be an en-
trant.
A delegation of 25 or 80 Washing
ton players are planning to take in
the first annual invitation affair of
the Country Club of Virginia, to be
played over the James River course.
located about six miles west of the old
course of the country club.
The main drama of the tournament
will center about the promised entry
of George T. Dunlap of New York.
United States amateur champion.
whose chipping and putting have
made him the Paul Runyan of the
simon pures. George is now on his
way to another victory in the North
and South amateur title tourney
where he appears an overwhelming
OH Ills 1dNOIlle
ground at Pinehurst. But he is just
as good on grass as on the sand greens
in Carolina.
If Chandler Harper comes up from
Virginia Beach to scrap it out with
Dunlap and with Billy Howell, the
blond-haired Richmond pride, the
tournament will be quite an affair,
particularly If Harry Pitt, Dick Lunn
and Roger Peacock decide to make the
trip from washington. Bill Howell
took his last licking in big tourney
around Washington three years ago at
the hands of Harry Pitt. the year
national amateur tourney at Chicago
Since that time Bill hasn't done a
great deal, but he is formidable
golfer just the same, able to move
along at as fast a pace as any man
who treads the bunker -bordered fair
ways.
TTARPER, the Virginia State title
holder, is a much under rated
golfer, and probably over a sea-
son will be more consistent than
Howell. If either of this pair hook up
with Dunlap at Richmond the match
shot Id be worth the trip, and if Harry
Pitt, Dick Lunn or Roger Peacock
have joust with the amateur cham
pion Dunlap will know he has been
in a match. Even national cham
pion can take licking from a hot"
kid on his right day. If the tourna-
ment draws the entry that has been
promised it will be one of the out
standing affairs of the Spring season
The first local tourney will be the
invitation affair of the Belle Haven
Country Club, slated for the latter
part of April. For a time the folks
at the Country Club of Virginia were
playing with the idea of an open tour
ney this Spring, but they abandoned
the scheme in favor of an amateur
event.
Richmond will not stage an open
this year, and the dream of minor
open circuit, involving Richmond,
Baltimore and Washington, with the
National Capital open listed as the
local tourney, is off for this year, at
least Entries for the Richmond tour
ney will close next Saturday.
ID ED" CUNNINGHAM, the great
n putter of other years, is plumb
disgusted with his putting, and
Is just about ready to bow his neck
to the yoke and take lesson in put
ting from AL Houghton, the same gent
whom REQ" has given many a les
son on how to stroke a golf ball into
the hole.
RED" used to bang 'em in with
nonchalance and ease, but lately he
has been in a streak Of jittery strok-
ing that has run his scores away up
and has caused him to wonder what
this putting business is all about.
The strange part of 1t Is that the
Burning Tree red-head is hitting the
ball from the tee and through the
fairways as he hasn done in years,
walloping the apple tremendous dis
tance and as straight as a string.
Houghton is having a big laugh at
1t all, for he has taken so many put
ting lessons from Cunningham he gets
quite a kick out of seeing the red
head in the throes of a putting slump.
But he will come back, and how"
says Houghton. He will start bowl
ing In those 25-footers, and when he
does, watch out" Houghton himself
showed the boys a little frst-class
putting yesterday at Kenwood, where
he got out in a mediocre SO and then
proceeded to take the last nine apart
for a 33, three under par He nearly
holed his tee shot at the 265-yard
tenth for a bird deuce. Then he
knocked in 15-footer for a bird 3
on the eleventh, and wound up with
another bird at the eighteenth. which
came of a perfectly hit iron shot and
q 15-foot putt.
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