Evening star., 1938-07-27

he shot to win the championship over
the lengthy Congressional course, with
that two-under-par card of 72-70-
l42, Andy came very close to a tie.
All that stood between a win for Andy
and tie with Defending Champion
Cliff Spencer was 6 smooth feet of
turf on the eighteenth green at Con-
gressional. Cliff had that 6-footer to
tie. Carefully he stroked it, but the
ball shot of to the right of the cup
and Andy was in.
Long and valiantIy had Cliff
struggled to retain the grip on
the Maryland title he won last
year.
He looked like a lost ball at the
fifteenth, but converted disaster into
a birdie 3, which put him back in
the race. Here he hooked a tee shot
into the bushes, and played a provi-
sional ball. But his first ball hit a
bush and bounced into the rough So
well did he hit his second shot that
he had but 3-foot putt for a birdie,
which he made. And at the end Cliff
knew he had to tie on Congress
sional's 285-yard final hole. He really
got his back into that final tee shot,
with wallop that might we'll have
ended on the green. but instead slid
of at the left, leaving him a tricky
pitch. You know how he missed the
putt, but 1t might as well have dropped.
1t was that close
Cox-Houghton Tie for Third.
Cliff finished with 143, shot be-
hind the winner and a shot in front
of Witty Cox. Congressional pro and
favorite in the pre-tournament dope,
and Al Houghton Wifi never has been
a guy for alibis, but we learned that
at the movies the night before the
tournament he had a sick spell and
had to leave the flicker show Il
must have eaten something that didn t
agree with me-" We finally got Witty
to say. And felt weak all the way
through this tournament"
At that Cox didn't do badly for a
sick guy. He played two rounds OF
the course in 72-72-144, and he played
each nine in 37-35, which happens to
be just par. Witty is par golfer.
Gibson shot five brides during his
victory march
Greiner Tops Amateurs.
Otto Greiner. the lanky, lantern
jawed holder OF the middle Atlantic
and Maryland amateur titles, finished
first among the simon -pures, with 76-
72-l48, just four shots back of Cox
and AL Houghton, who tied for third
with l44. Houghton finished early
playing the 36 holes in something less
than six hours, and for hours his IA
led the parade.
But it was too bad when
Gibson started cracking the
pars. Andy finally put the
tournament on ice with a bird
2 on the fourteenth hole of the
afternoon round.
Gibson won $135 for his victory
Of which $l20 was first prize and
SIS was for the best score of the
tourney-his 10 OF the final round
Spencer got 500, and Houghton and
Cox got $45 apiece, splitting third
and fourth money. Ralph Beach
vino played the last nine in 80, nm
ished fifth with lat.
And so the game, insofar as the top
pro golfers Of this vicinity rate, re-
turns to the Scots. Maybe it's a good
thing after all. If Andy Gibson is q
good representative of Scottish golf,
they rate being at the top.
Chip Shots From the Open.
AL Houghton said he three-putted
seven green's in that final round-our
advice to him is to toss that putter
into the nearest creek Bob Bar
nett Of Chevy Chase, for years q figure
In these tournaments, was around, but
didn't play Otto Greiner looks
like the winner in that mid-Atlantic
junior next week =. Bobby Brownell
holed . full No. iron shot for an
eagle deuce on the par 4 second hole
President Ted Grape, dynamic
head man at Congressional, was
around all day, seeing to 1t that the
boys had a good time and wanted
nothing Ted took care of the
press in his usual winning style
he's a go-getter, that fellow, from away
back Spencer made one of the
finest chip shots we ever have seen
from the trap at the ninth to get a 4
after missing wallop in the trap
Fred Mcleod had seven straight Is
on the first 8 in the morning, but
weakened In the afternoon for an 81
-. at SO he's a remarkably fine golfer
>. most men his age couldn't have
walked 36 holes over that long course
that Cox guy can putt with
the heat on he canned q 40-footer on
the fourteenth, 20-footer on the six
teenth and q 12-footer on the eigh-
teenth to tie Houghton after he had
made . lousy chip shot Lewis
Worshasn, the edulsent 'Eagls.Besk'
o6 The Chevy Chase golf shop, took .