The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-12
| INKSMEN
PRACTICE
AT CLUB
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON
Entrants in the annual Chevy
Chase Club invitation tourney to-
day were getting in final warm
ups.
The event opens tomorrow with
an 1S-hole qualifying round fol-
lowed by match play rounds
Thursday and Friday.
The defending champion Is
Hickman Greene, who failed mis-
erably in yesterdays qualifying
rounds for the national open at
Hillendale Club, Towson, Md. The
star Manor Club amateur finished
far down the list with (S5-S3),
1873.
Martin F. Mccarthy, Billy Dett-
weller, Roland r. Mackenzie,
Harry g. Pitt, Miller B. Stevenson,
Roger 8. Peacock, and Louis
Fuchs we're among those taking
practice spins yesterday.
Two local pros, Bob Barnett, Of
Chevy Chase, and Lee j. Walper,
Of the Bethesda driving range,
qualified in yesterdays open trials.
Johnny Bass, Clifton Park, Balti-
more, and Ralph E. Beach, Sub
urban Club, Baltimore, captured
the other two places allotted the
starting field Of 80 that included
16 from this city. Barnett last
qualified in 1882. Walper quail
fled last year. Two other local
pros, Witty Cox and Mel Shorey.
qualified. Cox made the grade in
New York and Shorey in Pitts
burgh.
Beach Is Low Scorer
Beach was low scorer with Go
To, l41, nosing out Bass, who
carded (68-74, 142. Par for the
course Is 10.
Barnett put together rounds OF
u and 70 for las, while Walper
gained the fourth place in play
off with Rut Coffey, Winchester
Country Club, both of whom
carded 146. Walper shot rounds
Of II and IS, while Coffey scored
10 and rs. The local pro won out
on the first extra hole with par
4, Coffey taking q S, three-putting
from 10 feet. Coffey has been
named alternate from the Balti-
more district, filling in if any Of
the other four is unable to COM
pete in the big test at Baltimore
June IS.
Charles Betschler, Hillendale
pro, and Charlie Pettijohn, anna
teur from Georgetown University,
perhaps were the unluckieSt in the
field.
Takes Eight on Fourth Hole
BetSchler had reeled off a par
70 in the morning but misfortune
befell him on the par 4 fourth
hole in the afternoon, taking an
eight. He finished his afternoon
round with 30.
Pettijohn, up with the leaders
as the result Of morning 70, was
on the threshold Of a qualifying
berth teeing off the short seven
teenth. Here, he went one over par
and then blasted his chances for
the fourth.place playoff by three
putting the final green. giving him
q "a and o 36-hole total Of III.
Pettijohn's morning round was
featured by an eagle two on the
37S-yard fifteenth, where he holed
q niblick. Summaries:
Bob Barnett (Chevy Chased, 7s-1$-
las; Al TredOr (ManOr), 79-7$-149;
Lee WaIper (Bethesda), 71-7@146;
Hickman Greene tMgnor)' sSwSS;-
Tree). 76-sO-156; Johnny Bass (Clif-
tom Park, 6S-7A-142; Eddie Stevens
| CManOr), 7O-76-151; Gene Larkin
| (WOOdmOnt) 81-74-155; Cliff Spencer
Beaver Dam, 5s17e-148; 1a sC:
Fred Mcleod (COlumbia), 7S-76-1Sl ;
Al JamlSOn (KenwOOd)s 82-nO card ;
SCharIie PettlJohn (Georgetown UNI
verSity), 73-i4-147; Ralph Beach
| ISuburban). 5O-71-141; Frank Cum
Hingham (BuFnlng Tree). SS-1S-1BS;
George Diffenbaugh undian SPRING.
7S-5B-l48.
Denotes amateur.