Evening star., 1936-09-06
Not Easy for Burnett.

NOn olo VOuey burnett, the sur
prise package from Indian Spring,
have any royal road to the semi final
Against Southpaw Earl McAleer, he
had. among other things, to wade into
q ditch at the fifth hole, knock the
ball out and hole chip shot for a par
to win when McAleer three-putted;
to hole bird 4 on the tough ninth
and to hang on in the stretch when
McAleer put on his chara cteristic fin
tsh and bid for victory. Brownell had
tough match in the forenoon session,
going to the last hole to win from
Southpaw Merle Thorpe, but he had
easier going in the afternoon when he
putted Ralph Quinter of Chevy Chase
right out of the tournament with a
series of lenghthy cup-finding nudges.
But the main saga of the day GEN.
ters around Peacock. 1t always does
when a champion totters on the brink
Of defeat and fights gamely back to
clinch another chance. Twice during
those first two rounds Peacock
looked to be a beaten man. First
against notwithstanding Billy Dett-
weller, making his finest stand against
the titleholder, for Billy went to the
turn 2 up, dropping five of the next
eight holes to lose on the 17th when
Peacock bliStered the last nine for
SO which might have been 81 had
he needed the 6-foot putt he missed
on the final green. And second to
Fuchs, who waxed red hot on the first
nine Of the second-round match, bag
ging four brides in fve-hole stretch
and winning six holes in row from
the District champion. You won't
often hear of that, either, for Peacock
won the first two and then dropped
six straight to 60 to the turn down.
Roger Proves His Courage.
IF EVER a man was whipped thor
oughly in golf match, Peacock
was whipped against Fuchs as they
faced the tenth fairway. That is, If
you can forget that courage wins golf
matches. But Roger won the tenth,
when Fuchs sliced out of bounds.
He three-putted the eleventh to lose
and stood on the twelfth tee 4 down
with to 60. Right there he showed
the downright CUTS of a true cham
pion. Fuchs never has beaten Pea
cock in serious competition and Pea
cock knew it. The champion won
two holes in row, the thirteenth
with a bird 3; three-putted the four
teenth for a half and then put on
the scrapping finish that will stand
out forever in the minds eye of
those who saw it. Failing two colos-
sal wooden shots to the edge of the
fifteenth green, Roger won it with a
IN par As. Roger stuck a wooden
shot 18 feet from the pin at the
seventeenth and holed the putt, while
Fuchs missed from II feet for the
half which would have left him DOR
mie up. Then Roger finished the
match with his fourth birdie in six
holes, canning a 25-footer for a
on the eighteenth. He didn't need it,
for Fuchs hashed up the hole, but
he made it just the same. It was
the gesture Of real champion. Pea
cock Is all of that.
Pitt and Shea battled level all the
way to the fifteenth, where Harry
went up, only to drop the seven
teenth to a par 3 and 60 square
again. But Harry played two fine
shots to the eighteenth for q sure 4.
while Billy hooked his second shot
badly and then played one of those
picture shots to within feet of the
hole and canned the putt for half in
4. Billy won the nineteenth with q
par when Harry hooked his second
shot, went over in 3 and holed out
IN 6.