Evening star., 1934-08-22
MANORL|NKSMAN
HAS CARD OF 147
Shorey, DettWeiIer, Drain,
Mccarthy Other Capital
Men to Make Grade.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

- leave the Capital along aDou'
September 5 bound for Brook
line. Mass, and the great ad-
venture Of every amateur golfer-the
national simon pure championship
tournament. Victorious in the Sec
tional qualifying round, where such
fine golfers as Roger Peacock, Mary.
land State champion, and Manor's
humping Harry G. Pitt failed to make
the grade, the following lads will rep
resent Washington in the title tour
ney September 10 for the crown now
worn by George Terry Dunlap:
Gene Vinson, tall, black-haired
Mississippian, now representing the
Manor Club, who topped the field
at Five Farms yesterday with a
card of 73-74-147.
John C. Shorey of Kenwood, for
mer Washington hoy wonder"
who qualified handily with 76-
75-151.
Billy Dettweiler, 16-year-old Dis
trict Junior champion from Con-
gressional, who made the grade
with 75-78-153.
Martin F. Mccarthy, raven
haired Beaver Dam champion,
who scored 75-78-153.
James G. Drain, blond young
ster from the Washington Golf
and Country Club, an unknown
quantity before the medal round,
who scored 75-79-154.
These five will step directly into the
melee of match play in the tourna-
ment at Brookline, for there Will be
no further qualification rounds at the
championship scene. None of the five
ever has qualified for match play be-
fore, although Shorey qualified for
the tourney in 1881, Dettweiler quail
fed in 1882 and Mccarthy went to
Cincinnati last year. To Vinson ana
Drain the national will be a new
experience, and to an five the match
play rounds will be new, for the tour
nament will be run off at straight
match play for the first time this year.
Vinson Is Medalist.
EV UNISON today wears the gold
" medal awarded to the medalist
in each section, won by virtue
of his booming tee shots and his ac-
curate iron wallops to the pins on
those tricky Five Farms greens. The
tall boy from Mississippi Che Is a
protege of Senator Pat Harrison)
played we'll within himself all day to
coast home with lat and win the
medal by a shot from Baltimore's
meteoric Ernie Caldwell, who put on
the finest round of the day with a
finishing II.
It just can't putt these bent greens" !"
Vinson said, after his experience on
his native Bermuda greens in the
South. But the tall Manor lad found
little trouble with those tricky putting
surfaces at Five Farms, where Harry
Pitt, Roger Peacock, Miller Stevinson.
District champion; Dick Lunn, Luther
Steward, Maury Nee and the rest Of
the local hopes skidded into tourna-
ment oblivion.
OF the hopes and tragedies of that
hectic qualification round, where good
golfers slipped and skidded far in the
ruck, volumes might be written-vol-
umes of the cool nerve and judgment
of men like Vinson, Mccarthy and
Drain, and Of the courage of young
Dettweiler and the fine shot-making
ability of Shorey. And of the heart
aches of Peacock, Pitt and Lunn.
Pitt Plays Poorly.
TARRY PITT never had chance.
III Playing like a virtual beginner,
the tall Manor star thumped
himself right out of the title chase
with an 81 over the first round, where
only an extraordinary round in the
afternoon could have brought him in.
He picked up in the afternoon.
Dick Lunn, hitting his tee shots all
over the landscape, never was in the
race. But Roger Peacock, the immac-
ulate hitter from Indian Spring, was
q favorite to qualify up to the ninth
hole Of the afternoon round. Roger
had scored rs in the morning and
was going along well through the
eighth in the afternoon, l over par
with on the ninth for SO. That
would have put him well up, but his
spoon shot at the 180-yard uphill
ninth landed in a pine tree, he
Clipped out and then knocked one
into road behind the green. He
f1uffed shot in the dust of the road,
finally reached the green in S and
holed out in strokes- over par
for the hole.
Plainly disturbed by this incident
Roger whacked a tee shot into the
ditch at the tenth and then put his
ball into the water in front of the
green, down where the weeping willows
hang. That was Rogers finish. Al
though he concluded the round one
under par, he scored 158, too high
by three shots. A par on the ninth
or a on the tenth would have put
him in. A tragedy? Yes, for Roger
Peacock deserves to qualify for any
tournament.