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STAB. - 4 THE SUNDAY WASHINGTON. D. fl, APRIL 10. 1927-SPORTS SECTION . i Voigt Wins North-South Event: Sweetser Almost Infallible WithMashmNiblick DISTRICT GOLFER VICTOR Adda Another Golf Title to His Collection JESS WIELDS THIS CLUB VJ'OMEN I IN/’ SPORT OVER HOMANS BY 4 TO 2 BY CORIHHE WITH DEADLY¦¦ EFFICIENCY IfRAZIER / * ; m a ARJORIE WEBSTER’S senior of 1 California stands alone in this j l\l\ nine triumphed over the] : elms, with possibly Pegelope Ander- . in the Final of Tourney Is Cut to 18 Holes on Account of in This Phase of Game Has Much to Do i V I -Juniors 33 to 22, second; s«n of Accuracy Richmond. Va . and ! / T I name of the annua! base ball: | Margaret series for the school title , Blake of Boston on their way to join Weather Conditions—-Capital Player Is With His Success on Links —Has Only The Juniors won the opener, 19 to t5. (her. and neither of the latter two the Ire so the Seplur victory tied up ,'ln the junior class. Down Once in Match. on Von Elm. scries / Viewing the recent feat of Mrs. Only Slight Edge Tiij teams will meet in the rubber Hazel Wightman, who, 18 2:30 .Hotchkiss prame Tuesday afternoon at .'ears after reaching the peak of her the Ellipse Field, if weather conditional national walked a birdie 2, sinking a career as champion, By the Associated Press. the seventh with BY BUNKER. i either got a half or he won. Three- permit. In the event of rain, the out on the Longwood green, they courts at Boston X. C.. April 9 putt from off the and were contest will be staged in the Webster/ proceeded through are two supremely great fourths of the time he won. this Winter and to make a Playing over a water-soaked all square the eighth. Voigt niblick gymnasium on Massachusetts avenuej clean sweep of Wash- 1 the ninth with a par makers of masbie pitch Most of the contestants had trouble / I national Indoor titles, course. George Voigt. went up at shots among the amateurs. terrace. Fred Hawthorne, tennis critic, ob- PINEHURST,ington, today won the united 1 after Homans overplayed the green. at the thirteenth It measured only Junioi# held a t2-to-2 lead in the that Unde They happen be the present serves Sam is sadlv halved in par, to nasty inning, in, North and South amateur golf The next two were THEREholders of golf’s chief prizes, 128 yards, but was a proposition. third and though the Seniors need of some promising material from championship. He defeated Eugene but Voigt took the twelfth to become Shallow pits edged into it nil around. rallied somewhat, maintained a slight which may be cut George Von Elm. American champion, margin out the future Homans, Englewood, N. J., schoolboy, 2 up when Homans missed a short Sweetser, It was long and narrow. The front through the seventh session; of and Jess British champion. th„> start tennisdom. 4 and 2 in the finals, which had been putt for a half. considered part of It was low, rising almost In eighth, however, the Senior “Are there none among thou- The thirteenth was halved, but the Os the twov Sweetser is sluggers found the pared down from 36 to IS holes be- to be just a hit the deadlier, a poll of abruuptly at the cpnter to a height of the ball for 13 runs, sands of girls now engaged in tourna- cause of a driving rain that fell fourteenth went to Voigt when Ho- leading shows. This slight 8 or 10 feet. There was then a sec- putting them far out in front. ment competition throughout the a ho amateurs throughout the morning. man's second was in trap and him almost unani- tion of comparatively level surface, The teams were lined up as follows: country who have developed overplayed the Voigt sinking a edge is yielded sufficient- The committee in charge of the green, mously. after which the ground sloped off to Seniors—Catherine Stearns i*nd ly te "Tn over the stars of two decades •vent decided to permit an IS-hole birdie -4. pits at rear. On the left a hiU. Marian Evans, pitchers; Amelia Dee- pgst?” asks Mr. And Jess being one of the biggest and the was kens, Hawthorne. match to decide the event because On the fifteenth Voigt lmld Homans eatchert Helen Zernier. first: well might he ask the question. De- necessity of to a half after hooking his tee shot huskiest men In golf, the magical Confident at Nasty Hole. Lillian Slusser, second: Mary Homans faced the getting touch which he gives to his mashie Linn spite the fact that there are many Monday morning. This oehind a tree. The -cup was always set near the Giles, third; Catherine Wilson, short; time* girls competing back to school niblick pitches seems rather strange. the number of would have made it necessary for Voigt won the sixteenth with a center. If you pitched short, and your Lillian Speers, center field: Helen Ack- for tennis crowns today that were Voigt if there was '¦putt from off the green after Homans But he must have that quality which ball dropped at the front of the green, erman. right, and Leila Steris, left. him to forfeit to makes so many big men successful playing when Mrs. Wightman and no play today. went into a trap. you might just as well be iir a trap, Juniors—Josephine* Melsner. pitcher: Mrs. Mae Sutton Bundy appeared as bad surgeons. It must be admitted tha! if you past much, Astrld catcher; horizon, Homans started today’s match The cards: many were the cup too you Hammerstrom. 'Alice luminaries on the there are holes Jess has j>erformed a difficult found the pits rear. German, first: Rosalie Walker, ty. He lost the first and second surgery upon unhappy rivals. at the second: fewer who seem to be “first ten” ma- when Voigt scored par on each. He Voigt— Wind complicated matters. If it Blanche Church, third; Margaret terial. Since Helen Wills established took third with a birdie 3 and the Out 4 4 4 4 5 5 2 5 4—37 The year that Jess won the Amer- was head-on it took a stiff No. 1 iron to Beuel. short; Ruth Stone, center field; herself at the top of the card, only the —28—65 Dorothy Kiser, fourth with a par 3 to even the match. In 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ican amateur title his mashie niblick get on. ts It was at your hack, just a right field: Eleanor two or three youthful racketers have The fifth was halved, but Homans Homans — was the most merciless in America. touch with the masie-niblick sufficed. Martin, left field. even threatened the stronghold of thf Went 1 up on the sixth when Voigt Out 76335435 5—41 In that historic struggle he beat four Most of the time, in last year’s Scltiag veterans, most of whom still are safe- 4454 5 46 —32—73 of the greatest amateurs in the world ball schedules will open on was In trouble. Voigt evened it on In struggle, the wind was from the right. two playgrounds ly seated in the choice positions on —Willie Hunter, Jesse Guilford. Bobby The correct play to aim the ball tomorrow afternoon. our national ranking list. was Games will 1m played also on other Jones and Chick Evans —and he did it toward the pits on that side and let grounds, Hawthorne ventures to prophesy with his tnashie niblick. which opened their schedules it drift in toward the pin. A hall last week. that Miss Jacobs Is the only young- He Was Always Inside. played to the center of the green Garfield and Rloomlngdale ster now competing who promise# to nearly always found the traps at the circuits reach the first five. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE will open, the former with a game be- All those hoys played • wonderful left. Amldon He secs possibilities of both Miss shots the pin But no tween and Van Nessi teams to repeatedly. Plainly,only a master with a mashie and the latter with Takoma tjieotlns Anderson and Miss Blake rising on* matter how closely they laid their nlblic could this hole or two rungs their present po- leading pro- number of entries in its tournament approch with Gage.' \ of the world's ball, Jess always got Inside them complete confidence. Sweetser was sitions. 8 and 7 respectively, he their this year, although several other clubs Brent, which won Its opening game hut fessional golfers will show It was uncanny. that sort of master. others took does not consider them as strong match at contemplate some form of restriction, While In the Virginia Avenue - series last wares in an exhibition British cham- fours and fives the thirteenth, he enough to unseat the best of the over the course of the by handicap or otherwise. Chevy In last year’s amateur at week from Randall Highland*, will vet- 36 holes pionship, probably the greatest factor steadily gained his par. he scored play erans. FOURCongressional Country Club Chase will adhere to its plan of per- once Lenox tomorrow, while Fillmore long play. possible players announced visiting of 14 han- in Jess’ success was his iron a bndie two. and Addison will meet in the (fourth Is it that the who early In May, under plans mitting only golfers GEORGE VOIGT. were eight holes Luck with were hampered in developing their Tom Armour, profes- dicap or under to compete in the At Mulrfield there was him when he played game of the Georgetown loop.

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