Evening star., 1935-07-18
PUBLIC LINKS ACE
won't Be ELIGIBLE
Rippy Barred by Handicap
= @RuIe-Peacock Pinned
= for Preliminary.
! BY WALTER n. McCALLUM,

j. BY WALTER n. McCALLUM,
~ UTE flock of the local lads
are going to enter the Sec
N tional qualifying rounds of
the national amateur cham
pionship this year, possibly more than
ever before,
with the sectional rounds sched-
tiled to be run of at Indian Spring
August 20, local entrants have only
q little more than three weeks to get
their entries in to the United States
Golf Association, which should take
in a tidy little bundle of money this
year as a by-product of the present
method of playing the title tourney.
More than thousand aspiring anna
teurs entered the tourney last year,
which meant more than 5000 bucks
for the Golfers of the U. S. @. A., ana
propably last years field will be ex-
ceedsd this year,
Entries should be sent to the United
States Golf Association, ITO East
Forty-second street, New York, and
must be accompanied by the fee OF
SIS. They will be accepted from anna
teur golfers who have club handicaps
of 4 strokes or less and who are
members of clubs in good standing.
The latter rule automatically will bar
a man who probably Is among the
better golfers of this sector-one
Claude Rippy-the transplanted Shell
by, N. c., youth, whose consistency
in all angles of the game won him the
local public links title last week with
q 72-hole score of 282.
Rippy, Notwithstanding his COM
narrative ineyperience in national az
fairs, is a lad who doesn't get f1us-
tered, and who can put on his best
brand of shotmaking when the going
gets toughest.
Peacock Back in Trim.
IRON the conversation heard
- around the local clubs all the
youngsters who can meet the handicap
requirements are going to stick in their
bids for the national.
All of those who qualified last year
from Washington, with two exceptions.
will be in there at Indian Spring
August 90 in a field which probably
will be lead by Roger Peacock. the
host club product, who has come back
into the game over the last few weeks
and is strictly back on his sharp
shooting, as he showed the other day
at KenWood, where he shot a II to
win the amateur award in the Why
Cox tourney.
In direct contrast to his dismal
showing at Five Farms last year,
when he took and 3 on the ninth
and tenth holes to erase his chances
of qualification. the Peacock man
knows Indian Spring forward and
backward and cross-wise.
He could play two rounds of Indian
Spring blind-folded in a total of $50
strokes, which will be good enough to
qualify with strokes to spare, And ne
should lead the pack with something
around IA for the twin rounds.
d. c. Entry Large.
RILLY DETTWEILER of Congress
sional, Parker Nolan and Larry
Otell of the same club, Maury Nee
and Luther Steward of Columbia, Bob
Albertus and Tommy Webb of Wash
ington, Martin Mccarthy of Colum-
bia, Dick Lunn of Chevy Chase, John
Shorey of Kenwood. John Quigley of
Army-Navy and Harry Pitt and Bill
Harvey of Manor are among the local
entrants who probably will make up
the largest local field to enter the
championship in any year since the
u. 8. G. A. started the sectional quail
ification round system back in 1881.
This year. as last, the tourney
proper will be all at match play, with
eight rounds scheduled for the crown
now jauntily worn by Larruping Law
son Little.