Evening star., 1938-05-26
SHUTE SHOOTING
FOR HAGEN MARK
Would Become Second Man
to Score Three Wins in
P. 6. A. Classic.

DensmOre Shute, the human iciClt
from Boston by way of West Vir'
ginia and Ohio, has the chance mex
July to hang his name up alongside
of Walter Hagen's among the i'm.
mortals of golf. Fishy-eyed Denny
who is a good guy with flair i
goat-getting on the golf course i!
the present champion of The Fro
fessional Golfers Association. He wor
the title in 1886 at Pinehurst, re-
peated at Pittsburgh last year ana
will defend his crown on July 10 tc
16 at the Shawnee Country Club
Denny used to II an amateur. ano
a fairly good one, but he Eever was
the golfer as a Sipon-pure he ha!
turned out to be Is pro If he
can nudge through at Shawnee ano
win his third straight P. G. A. crown
he will become. with Hag IN, the only
gent to win the toughest tournament
in the world three times.
You have only to look at Denny fol
a few minutes in a rough-and-rIm Die
golf match to see why they Call him
the human icicle of the game. NJ
man ever lived who can concentrate
better in the thick of links scrap, ane
no man ever showed emotion les
than the string bean from Hunting
ton, w. Va, who grew up oN the "goll
course.
u;S CcnadonrA Cunrnmp
THAT Shutey is cold, all right,
said Tommy Armour. Il Iemembe;
playing him in the P. G. A. once
He stroked a 30-foot putt, and as l!e
hit the ball he looked me right in the
eve. He never watched the ball at all
and as it went into the cup his ex'
preston never changed. Hes ole
fishy-eye, all right, but he's a gooo
guy"
Sectional qualifying rounds for th'
P. G. A. championship will be playee
next month at Baltimore, probably
over the Woodholme Country Clut
course Four men will qualify iron
this area, and among them you car
look for Witty Cox, The big man from
Congressional never has won the r
G. A., but he's always been in there
giving a good account of himself.
Witty wants to get along in this
years title tourney because Art Brown
the lessee of Shawnee, is an old pa
of Cox, and Witty is helping to put the
tournament over. Bill Wallace o.
Miami is doing the publicity, and out
side of spelling Fred McLeods name
wrong, is doing all right. Bill reminds
us that the P. G. A. of America, nov
with 1000 members, started at Shaw
nee back in 1912, the year Freddie
Mcleod won the first Shawnee open
Biggest Purse Of Year.
It was at Shawnee in 1913 tina,
Johnny McDermott, first of the native
born American pros to win the open
championship, popped of with crack
at Harry Vardon and Ted Ray to the
general effect that America didn't need
to worry about golf championships as
long as he (McDermotD was around
Johnny's downfall dated from that
little speech. Not long after they
shipped him to the nut house. and he
hasn't done anything since. The purse
at Shawnee will total Is grand, which
makes it the biggest money affair o1
the year. You can look for one of the
finest of P. G. A. tournaments al
Shawnee, where they know how to dc
things right in golf.
Right after the Shawnee open the
pros will travel west to Chicago, where
they'll play in the $4,000 Chicago
open July %, % and "a. The purse
is half the size of that at the man.
moth circus they called the Chicago
open last year, but it will get good
field at Olympia Fields, where the 1925
national open was played.