Monday, Apr. 18, 1927

Onetime Caddy

While weather-bound golfers in less temperate zones were overhauling their kits, anxious to set foot on soggy, shaggy courses,

George Voight, 30, of Washington, D. C., was tasting deeply the last blood of winter, the first blood of spring, at Pinehurst, N. C. In the qualifying round of the annual North and South Amateur tournament, Voight achieved the kind of scoring ordinarily unknown outside of dreams. The first 18 holes he made in 67, the second in 68, a total just one stroke above Bobby Jones's record of 134, at Sunningdale, Eng., last summer.

Disregarding the superstition which dictates early disaster to the medalist, Mr. Voight proceeded to play through the tournament proper in form highly satisfactory to himself. In the finals he met Eugene Homans, 18, Englewood, N. J., schoolboy; triumphed, 4 and 2; added the name of Voight to the list of onetime caddies* who have made good.

*Other onetime caddies: Gene Sarazen, William Mehlhorn, Charles ("Chick") Evans.