Evening star., 1935-08-21
ALL WILL Be NEW
| TO MATCH ROUNDS
Five Go Into National Play
First Time-RiegeI Tops
Here With TAT.

TIGHT Washington golfers. none
- of whom ever before has been
in a match play In a national
- championship will represent
Washington In the national amateur
golf title tourney at Cleveland, start
ing September 9. Seven Of them won
places in the sectional tests at In
dian Spring yesterday and one made
the grade in another sector-at
Schenectady, N. Y.
The eight qualiflers and their scores
were:
S. Levi Yoder, Indian Spring, 74-75-
149; Roger S. Peacock, Indian Spring.
75-76-151; Hickman Greene, Manor,
76-77-153; Craig Mckee, Indian
Spring, 74-80-154; Harry g. Pitt,
75-7s-154; Maury Nee, Columbia,
78-76-154 volney G. Burnett, Indian
Spring, 80-77-157; Page Hufty,
Chevy Chase. 74-75-149.
All but Hufty qualified at Indian
Spring through mud and rain in q
hectic 36-hole test which found Bobby
Riegel, 19-year.old Southern amateur
champion from Richmond. grabbing
the medal with a card Of 74-73-147.
New to Most Of Them.
A THOUGH all the Washington
= qualifiers have had previous
championship experience, not one OF
them ever before has won a spot In
the match play rounds. All will move
directly into match play at the Cleve-
land Country Club when the firing
begins on September Q for Lawson
Lttle's amateur crown.
Only three Of them ever have quail
flied sectionally before for the big
championship. These are Peacock,
a qualifler In 1888; Nee, qualif1er in
1882, and Pitt, who played in the 1928
title tourney and failed to make the
match play grade. Since 1898 the
United States Golf Association has
changed the conditions of play in the
amateur championship. and all those
who qualify sectionally go directly
into match play without further quail
iflcation tests.
Two fioaters also made the grade at
Indian Spring. tieing or bettering the
TOD score Of the local sectional quail
fiers. These were w. D. dub Fon-
dren Of Biltmore, N. c.. and Judd
Brumley Of Knoxville, Tenn.
Lunn Fails at Boston.
n1CK LUNN, District amateur cham
- pion Of 1888, failed to make the
qualifying grade in the sectional tests
at Boston, where he entered as a
doater, with q score Of 1877. Joe Lynch,
rotund Georgetown golf captain. got
in at Boston with a score Of 15z.
George ]. Voigt, former Capital links
luminary, also qualified in the New
York district, although Ernie Caldwell,
Maryland State champion. failed at
Schenectady, and Billy Howell failed
at Charlotte.
Frank Strafaci. the young public
links champ, and protege OF why
Cox, qualified in New York. Ed White
the Bonham, Tex, lad who won the
national intercollegiate crown at Con-
gressional in June, was another sue
cessful qualifier, as was Charlie Yates,
the tall Atlanta boy who recently won
the Western amateur crown.
other qualifers locally included
Morton J. Mccarthy, the rotund MID
die Atlantic champ from Virginia
Beach. who shot 1917 for 155; Don
aid McPhail Of the Baltimore Country
Club, who posted scores OF 76 ana So
for 156. and Eddie Semmler Of HELEN
dale, Baltimore, who made 7s-7S-
157 to tie for last place. John 9.
shorey Of Kenwood. yith so-7e-lss,
and Harry A. WisotzlIey OF YORK. Pa,
also with 158, will be the alternates,
and will 20 to Cleveland If one or
more Of the others drop out.
| Few Stars Left Out.
WITH all former champions auto
w matically eligible for the tourney
the sectional rounds in other parts
of the country found virtually all the
stars making the grade. Dave (Spec)
Goldman Of Dallas, who was licked by
Little in the final round last year,
qualified safely, as did Reynolds Smith,
also of Dallas, and semi-flnalist last
year. John Fischer, lanky Cincin-
NATHAN; John Goodman. Jack West
land and Voigt were among the former
Walker Cup players to make the grade.
On the intercollegiate front Ed White,
the champion; Walter Emery and VIII
son Marks were among the qualiflers.
All played here at Congressional two
months ago, as did Chuck KoScis OF
Michigan, another qualifier.
Bobby Jacobson Of Deal, N. j., con-
queror Of Goodman in last years
championship, failed at New York,
where Ray Billows, the ex-caddie who
won the New York State title q few