The Washington times., 1934-04-28
MUNY GOLF
TOURNEY IS
DELAYED
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

Owing to the unreasonable
weather, the annual East Poto-
mac Park spring golf tournament
has been set back two weeks.
The event was scheduled to
begin Monday but will not open
until May IA when the 18-hole
qualifying round takes place.
Match play rounds are listed May
is and 16.
Ed Burns, who is handling the
tournament, had received many
entries but considered it inadvisa-
BILE to start the tourney at the
scheduled time. He figures that
better weather will prevail two
weeks hence.
Entries Close May IL
Entries for the East Potomac
Park tourney will close on Sat
urday, May IL, at 6 p. m.
Although the weather remained
cold, today's sunshine brought
smiles to the survivors Of the
first round of match play in the
Belle Haven Country Club invita-
ton tournament. It was a well
come relief following the three
day siege of windy and rainy
weather that had seriously handi-
capped the players and induced
a wholesale avalanche Of high
scores such as has never marked
any previous invitation tourna-
ment hereabout:
Harry G. Pitt, Of Manor Club
and tourney co-medal1st, escaped
an unexpected defeat in the first
round yesterday when his cppon-
ent, Hickman Green, hooked out
of-bounds on the eighteenth hole,
thus surrendering one up lead
They halved the next two holes
but Pitt won out on the twenty
first when Green was short with
his approach after outdriving Pitt.
Harvey Is Eliminated
William j. Harvey, jr., another
Manorite and who tied Pitt for
the medal with 80, gave way be-
fore the steady playing of Forrest
Thompson, of Beaver Dam, l up'
in an upset. Thompson was
never down after Squaring the
match at the ninth and forging
ahead at the tenth. Trapping
himself at the third was the only
blot of Thompson's round.
Arthur Urban, of Indian Spring,
caused some eyebrow lifting when
he eliminated Martin F. McCar-
thy, of Beaver Dam, 2 and /. Nc
Carthy was wild while Urban, who
was 4 up at one stage. was superb
in recovering from traps.
Roger Peacock remained in the
running after a tight struggle
with young Jimmy Drain, of the
Washington Golf and Country
Club, 1 up. Peacock shot one OF
the greatest rounds Of his golf
career a 76, which was but four
strokes over par. It must be re-
membered that the numbing
winds swept up from the Potomac
River flats to stymie any low
attempts at par.
TOURNAMENT NOTES
Harry Pitts difficulty was miss
ing his drives. Roger Peacock
recovered his putting touch which
deserted him in the qualifying
round. Peacock and his oppo-
nent, Jimmy Drain, had agreed
not to play stymies. but Sydney
Sherwood was forced to jump a
stymie in his losing match with
John Shorey. Tom Belshe re-
cruited entries for the Indian
Spring tourney, two weeks away
-. DR.. T. j. w. Brown, Of Ban
nockburn, knew but few OF the
players. but years ago he could
call all of them by their first
names. Brick" Wood was
proclaiming the prospects of
Tommy webb, jr... h horpe
Drain, the newly wed, was a
gallery of one for his brother,
Jimmy. the wind was so strong
that Jimmy Drain could barely
take MS puCC1ng SCdI1Ce OIL C1Ae e4eV-
enth green Mrs. John Shorey
and Mel Shorey were amnog
the spectators. Johnny Hughes
loyalty to Sharwood cost him a
small wager. with the finals
in all flights scheduled tomorrow
afternoon, Pitt and Harvey will
clash tomorrow at 10 a. m. in
the play-off for the qualifying
medal. DIR. Calvert E. Buck, of
the washington Golf and Country
Club and head of the Episcopal
Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, is
entered in the tournament as
plain calvert Buck. incident
ally, DR.. Buck is a first-rate
golfer.
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