Evening star., 1934-08-28

TN THE thick Of any championship
links contest anywhere around
Washington young Billy Dett-
weller is worried by the events that
have cropped up on the trail of his
wish to get in ample practice for the
national amateur championship. Act
ing at the request of several Of Billy's
friends the District Golf Association
postponed the junior District title
chase so Billy could play in it, send
ing it forward to September 81, %
and %. And now those dates may
mean something more to the husky
young golfer.
BillyAis amember of the Congress
sional Country Club and wants to
play in the club championship, but
Congressional has set the dates for its
club title tourney for September 81,
% and %, the same on which Billy
is slated to defend his junior cham
pionShip.
Gosh, I didn't realize that little
thing like this would cause such a
fuss" Billy says, "but I sure hope
they are able to postpone the club
championship"
Billy is planning to leave Washing
ton for Boston next Tuesday, to get
in plenty of practice prior to the
amateur title tourney.
Meanwhile Jimmy Drain, Gene Vim
son and John Shorey will be watching
a lot Of other good golfers hitting
their shots in the first round of the
amateur championship on September
10, for Drain, Vinson and Shorey
have been fortunate enough to draw
byes in the first round of the title
tourney at Brookline.
The draw for first-round byes, an
nounced last night in New York by
the U. S. G. A, gives six byes to the
mid-Atlantic section, out of IA quail
fiers. In addition to the three local
lads Ernie Caldwell and Spencer
Overton of Baltimore and Charles w.
Kent of Richmond advance automat-
ically into the second round.
The 100 contestants who did not
draw byes will play in the opening
round, with the so survivors of that
round and the 68 byes to be paired in
blind draw on the evening of Sep
tember 10 for the second round. Nota-
bleS who drove on to the second round
without disturbing a divot were George
T. Dunlap, the defending champion,
and w. Lawson Little, jr., the Brit
iSh amateur champ.
Charles w. Kent, the red-headed
Richmond youth. may not 60, which
will let in Donald McPhail of Balti-
more if Kent does not make the trip.
TW1N rounds of match play today
will bring the uptown" tourney
at Rock Greek Park up to its
semi-flnal phase tomorrow. Along
about the middle of yesterday after
noon Claude Rippy, the defending
champ, flung a maShie shot 8 feet
from the pin at the eighteenth hole.
! To him the putt meant the qualifying
medal, and he stroked it smoothly,
but the ball hit the back Of the cup
and stayed out, putting him In a tie
with Bob Leapley at II.
John Connolly and Arthur Darling
finished in a second place tie with 72s.
Connolly blasted his chances to win
the medal with a on the fifteenth
hole Six flights qualified in the
| tourney, but only the first will be run
on today and tomorrow.
AVER at Woodmont, where Roger
~ Peacock shot a 68 to tie the
course mark and carry the team
of Peacock and George Diffenbaugh to
another monotonous victory in a P.
G. A. pro-amateur best ball affair, a
group Of caddies staged an impromptu
strike against the importation of bag
toters from other courses.
Several Of the pros brought their
own caddies and the Woodmont boys
who wanted the jobs threatened a
pop-bottle fusillade until President
Simon Of the host club stepped in and
ordered that local boys be used 1t
all resulted in the withdrawal of one
contestant, but no considerable dam
age was done except to the disposition
of player or two.