Evening star., 1938-08-28

their shots into shape and praying
luck in the coming 36-hole sections
sounds like funny situation when
will qualify are preparing for a lick
simon pure title tourney. That is
just what they're getting ready for.
No amateur golfer from this sector
has gone far in the championship
since Roland Mackenzie went to the
semi-final at Minikhada back in 1927.
And there aren't any amateur golfers
around today as good as Mackenzie
was then.
Amateur golf being the game it is.
played under a code that makes
amateur" tennis look like the under
cover work Of a numbers mob" the
boys will be satisfied if they qualify
and take their licking at Oakmont.
For amateur golfers really are ANA
teurs, To qualify for the national
championship is quite a feat.
1t definitely stamps = man
among the first $50 linksmen of
the land, and the men who
qualify for match play at Oak
mont may consider themselves
in the top 81 clubswingers Of
the United States this year.
But you never know in golf. Let
a guy like Levi Yoder, or Otto Greiner
or Bobby Brownell get into the middle
OF hot putting streak up there at
Oakmont and he can go a long way.
Golf Is no respector of persons and
names, and is the one game where
you have the touch today and to-
morrow it's gone!
There was boy named Watts Gum.
for example. who did some things at
Oakmont back in 1925 that never
have been done before or since, with
blazing putting blade that came very
close to upsetting peerless Bobby
Jones. and did upset Jess Sweetser
and some other men who were ranked
tops IN the game at that time. And
we'll always hold that the entire
course OF the 1895 amateur champion
ship might have been different had
Lew Yoder stuck an iron shot on the
18th green at Garden City in his third
round match against Jock Mclean,
Six Local Men May Qualify.
Looking the field over in that sec
tional test tomorrow I'll guess that
fve, and maybe six. of the Washing
ton entrants will qualify. Who they'll
be no one knows. You can't guess
the run OF rolling ball, nor the twist
OF tricky putt. But on form Otto
Greiner and Spencer Overton of Bal
timore should qualify. So should
Brownell, Billy Shea, Parker Nolan
Harry Pitt, Martin Mccarthy, Levi
Yoder, Harvey johnson, Earl McAleer.
and Miller B. Stevinson
It still looks as If any gent
who scores 145 will win the
pretty little gold medal the U. s.
G. A. will present to the leader
in the sectional rounds.
But estimates Of the top score needed
to qualify are mounting. Where
Witty Cox thought a week ago l55
would get in. now it looks as if l58
will make the grade. That Congress
sional course is tough. Paralleling
some of the fairways the rough is
thick and tough, where a shot a
foot OF line can find q heavy lie.
The green's are not in the pink Of
condition, and the course will not be
one for low scoring.
Personally we'd like to see Roger
Peacock in there. Roger probably is
the best golfer we've had around town
in decade. But he's having money
trouble and hasn't entered the tour
ney. II Roger was in there he'd be
q sure shot to qualify. and better
than an even money bet to get into
the match rounds at Oakmont. But
Peacock and Claude Rippy and Volney
Burnett aren't in there.
1t would be = better tourney
with those three in there chunk
ing away at par.
The sectional rounds will start at
$50 Tuesday morning, under the able
dictatorship Of Bill Barr, secretary of
the District Golf Association. And
don't be late showing up at the frst
tee. boys. Bill can and will crack the
whip. and may default you If you are
too latA
Holes-in-one the orthodox way are
coming along regularly these days,
in contrast to soma Of them made