Evening star., 1936-07-02

~ offs great melting pot was
boiling merrily today down at
East Potomac Park where a
~ flock Of school boys, taxi
drivers, caddies, brewery workers,
sports goods statesmen, chicken workers,
chants and plain citizens were trying
to knock the District public links
championship from the bland brow of
tall, skinny Claude Rippy. the en-
peror Of the public links game In these
precincts. From any angle it looked
like too tough a Job for the rest Of the
boys to accomplish. for Rippy has his
eye set not only on winning spot
on the Harding Cup team which will
represent Washington in the national
public links title tourney late this
month, but also on the title he won
last year for the first time.
Needs Little Practice.
FURTHERMORE II Brother Rippy
keeps on pouring the same kind
of hot golf out today that he showed
yesterday in topping the field with a
36-hole total of 141 he will be several
parasangs in advance of the field.
They won't need any camera eye to
record the wind-up either.
tRippy took over a new job as clerk
in a downtown sport goods store a
few weeks ago. Being new on the job
he didn't feel as if he could take much
time off to play golf. So he played in
the afternoon and on week ends, but
he didn't get much golf in at that.
1t didn't dim the luSter of his game
much. for any guy who can stroke the
ball around courses 3 and G at East
Potomac, as he did yesterday, in 70
and 50 whacks for the double circuit
doesn't need much practice. The SO
was scoring gem, and fine come
back, for he took 81 on the par "a
first nine, and then scorched the fair
ways Of the tougher second nine with
blistering 80. winding up by canning
25-footer for bird at the eigh-
teenth.
Burrows Is Hero.
PUT the real hero Cor he will be II
~ he qualities among the first four
today Is Ted Burrows, the portly
poultry merchant. Ted used to play
lot of golf. Among his achievements
in other years he has won the Manor
Club invitation and has been runner
up at Chevy Chase. But lately Ted
has played golf about dozen times q
year and four of those times have been
in the 70 hole tournments for the Dis
trict title. Yesterday Ted showed up
for his fourth round of golf this year.
He didn't do so badly either, knock
ing out a 72 and a II for a total Of
143, and second place.
Ted, Rippy, Bob Burton and George
Malloy were the qualifiers for the
national last year, and they may make
it again thisyear but aside from Rippy
and Burrows the others were in tough
spots. Burton, for example, took
seven whacks on par golf hole and
78, but he improved in the after
noon for a II, and a total OF 149
Malloy, who started out to scorch the
layout, had II and rs for lat, several
shots backs of a lot Of guys who want
to 60 to Long Island to play in the
national. Included among these were
lanky Pat Axtell, the erstwhile Rock
Creek caddie, at 144; Barney Welsh,
the cab driver, also at 144; Harold
Bowers at las; Bill Seay. and 17-year-
old Raymond Willett, Kenwood cad
die, at 146; Virgil Worsham, another
Kenwood caddie and James Gipe, at
148, and Harold Ciriella, Naval Hos
pital employe, at 149 tied with Serge
Folk, printer.
AL Of them had a chance today,
but the main scrap for the four places
and the title lay among Rippy, Axtell
Burrows and Bowers.