Evening star., 1935-09-28

ME young man COOdy EOlQS IIlc
District amateur golf cham
pionship. won in more con-
- vincing fashion than any
golfer ever has won the blue ribbon
classic OF the local links world. but
he thinks he should have been licked,
and as a matter of fact, he believes
had he gone another round he would
have been whipped.
Roger Peacock today sports the
District amateur golf championship,
which he won previously back in 1882.
as a mere boy Of 81, but even with
his par-busting proctvities, and his
undoubted superiority over the field
which opposed him in the tourney
which ended yesterday at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club, he
doesn't think he played fine golf to
win.
st did play fairly well In the medal
round" Che scored 68 to win IT'D. he
admitted today. But after that I
couldn't seem to get organized.
played only fairly well against Bob Al
bertus. but Levi Yoder should have
whipped me in the semi-final, and
Hickman Greene had some tough luck
in that final round. The stymie on
the fifteenth was sheer hard luck, for
when 1t looked as II Hickman would
square the match he lost the hole
by q stymie."
But regardless Of how Roger feels
about it you couldn't convince any
one who tested the Peacock mettle or
the gallery which followed the final
round between him and young Greene
Of Manor yesterday that the crown
rests on anything but q worthy head.
Roger didn't burn up the course. to
be sure. He didn't bust forth with
another 68, but he did have the shots
when he needed them.
You couldn't find better golf shots
than his pin-splitting No. iron at
the ninth, which came within 8
inches Of getting him hole in one;
nor his niblick shot from . tough
spot at the fifteenth.
In the first instance he was / down
and needed to win that ninth hole.
In the second. at the fifteenth, he
was ] up and fighting desperately to
hold the lead. No kid who can make
such shots when he needs them need
feel ashamed Of his performance.
Hickman Greene, the drawing lad
from Louisiana, who works for one
of the Government alphabetical
agencies and thinks Huey Long was
sent by God to rule the world, played
well. but not well enough.
He made gallant stand over the
first nine to win h. ee holes In row
and face the ninth up, but he faded
badly on the last three holes of the
match, dropping the fourteenth. If
teenth and sixteenth in . row to lose
by and 2 to Peacock's steady pars.
One Of those losses came from o
virtually unplayable stymie at the If
teenth, where Peacock's ball lay on
the lip Of the cup and Hickman simply
couldn't get past it. But he dropped
the other two holes through bad shots.
Peacock won his way to the final in
. ding-dong battle with lanky Levi
Yoder, which ended on the eighteenth
green, while Greene had an easier
time whipping Tommy webb of
Washington by and 3. At the end
Peacock was over par for the 16
holes Of the match. He was { over
against Yoder.
GILBERT CUNNINGHAM, youth
full assistant pro at Burning Tree,
would like to wrap up that Manor
Club course and take it home with
him.
He won the Middle Atlantic assist
ant professional championship over
the tree-fringed Manor layout yester-
day with 36-hole course score Of
14s, consisting of q 76 and q u.
But Al Jamison, assistant to Witty
Cox at Kenwood, also would like to
touch OF o stick of dynamite under
the eighteenth hole. AL finished one
shot back Of Gilly at 14s. but the sad
part Of it Is that he came to the home
hole needing q par to win and hit
MS tee shot out Of bounds to finish