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smoothest swinser and the best golfe,
Of the lot (potentially) since away
back In 1882. today stands at thu
crest Of the male divot lifters around
the Capital, probably the best club
swinger produced In the Capital since
George Voigt and Roland Mackenzie
were winning almost as they pleased
back in 1928 and 1926.
Roger stands out far above the
pack, not only by virtue Of his win.
ming performances In the two local
tournaments In which he played this
year. but because. of the general all.
around excellence Of his game and his
good showing In the national amateur
championship. No man ever has q
better claim to the top-ranking spot
among the local amateurs than this
same raven-haired Indian Spring lad
who has far more than local ambi-
tions.
Closest to Peacock In all.around
play this year comes another Indian
Spring player, . man who came up
from the South q little more than q
year ago and has proven over the
1895 campaign that he Is entitled TO
the second spot among the local
simon-pures. This man Is s. Levi
Yoder, Q restaurant employe, who
gave Peacock his tightest match in
the recent District championship, won
another major event and beat the
veteran Francis Ouimet in one Of the
real upsets in the national, where
Peacock went to the fourth round.
Here is the way the Washington
amateurs are ranked this year:
No. Roger S. Peacock, Indian
Spring Country Club.
No. as. Levi Yoder, Indian Spring
Country Club.
No. @Hickman Greene. Manor
Club
No. Harry @. Pitt. Manor Club
No. 5-Thomas D. Webb, Washing
ton Golf and Country Club.
No. 6-Volney @. Burnett. Indian
Spring Country Club.
No. BILLY Shea. Congressional
Country Club.
No. s-Blly Dettweiler, Congres.
sional Country Club.
pEACOCK needs no justification for
the top spot. Any one who wit
messed the near-nawless game Of the
reigning District champion In the
1885 tourney, from the time he won
the medal at Washington with q So
until he dropped the putt that gave
him victory over young Hickman
Greene from Louisiana, must concede
the Peacock boy is the top amateur
Of the season. Even though Roger did
not play In some Of the larger events
after the Woodmont tourney In May
which he won, he maintained the ex-
cellence of his game by constant prac-
tice at his home course.
Among other scoring stunts this
year he duplicated his 50, first made
last year at Indian Spring. But the
81 this year, according to Peacock
himself, was a far better performance
than that Of 1894. His So in the
District championship at Washington
was a new ofiicial amateur record for
that tough and tricky course. In the
national, for which he qualified hand
lily. he beat Greene In the first round:
Robert Sweeney Of England In the
second round; Eddie Hogan Of Port
land. Oreg., In the third round, and
fell before the deadly putting Of Eddie
Held of New York in the fourth round,
playing q brand of golf that should
have won. AS it was he went further
than any entrant from the Capital in
eight years. Roger Peacock today Is
the finest amateur golfer swinging Q
driver on the local courses.
Takes Manor Title.
A TOUGH nut in match play and q
"A good competitor In any links con-
test Levi Yoder won the Manor tour
ney in impressive fashion; qualified
for the national and beat Francis
Ouimet in the first round; went to the
semi final in the Middle Atlantic and
gave Peacock his closest fight In the
District championship. battle which
did not end until Peacock holed a
3-footer on the eighteenth green.
Yoder Is q fine competitor who does
not wilt when the going gets tough
and rough, a man who has o wide
variety of golf shots and who. at his
best, might lick Peacock. He rates
the second position because OF the
consistency Of his game and his cool
firing in the close final stages OF q
golf match.
Hickman Greene, drawing lad from
Louisiana, didn't play such hot golf
last year, but this year he has earned
his third place. With q little more
consistency he might well have had
the second position. As 1t was, the
young man from the deep South put
on one of the really impressive golf
performances Of the year in winning
the Chevy Chase tourney, where he
showed Billy Dettweiler under with a
barrage of golf that won the match on
the twelfth green. where ne was
under par. He finished out the round
with a 70. Greene also won his way
to the final in the District champion
ship, where Peacock beat him by 3
and 2. He qualified for the national
and fell in the first round before Pea
cock. Next year Hickman Greene,
with his tailor made swing, may prove
the toughest nut Of them all to crack.
or Year for Pitt.
HARRY @. PITT, Manor Clubs
grand old veteran, didn't win a
this year. Probably 1885
will 60 down in the Pitt book as the
most unusual of them oil, for 1t has
been many q year since Harry didn't
grab q single piece Of silver as the top
prize In Q tournament. Harry has
been somewhat indifferent toward golf
this year, and as q result has not
played as well as he might. But he
was runner-up to Peacock In the
Woodmont invitation, qualified for the
national and gave q good account Of
himself in all the events in which he
played. He ranks No. 4 and should
be higher.
Tommy Webb, the stalwart son Of
Dr.. Thomas D. Webb Of Washington.
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