Evening star., 1936-09-07
.OR the first time in local links
. history the District amateur

and the District junior golf
titles today are held by the
same youngster. 1t would have to be
youngster, for no golfer who has
reached the age of 18 years is eligible
for the Junior title tourney.
One of the surprise upsets that make
golf and golfers won for Bobby
Brownell, 17-year-old Manor and In
dian Spring youngster, the coveted
District amateur championship at the
Manor Club yesterday, climaXing an
amazingly courageous bid for the
crown by the 17-year-old blond kid
who last year was only a so-and-so
golfer.
/ Bobby became the first golfer ,.
to win both championships by ,
whipping Roger. Peacock Of
= Congressional, defending cham
-pion, by 8 and 2, in enc of the
F: finest finals you and. you and
you ever will see.
One over par when the match ended,
the slender youngster, touted for weeks
as real contender for the champion
ship, but never figured as one who
could whip Peacock in man-to-man
play, gained lead of 3 up at the
end Of the first nine in the final,
went 4 up at the tenth, held on gamely
when Peacock put the pressure on
over the back nine and finally holed
a 4-foot putt to beat the champion
on the sixteenth hole. Bobby beat
Billy Shea, his perennial rival from
Congressional, by single hole in the
semi-final, while Peacock won handily
from Volney G. Burnett, the smoke
eater from No. 3 engine, and Indian
Spring.
Bobby Is Surprise Of Season.
so BOBBY BROWNELL, the real
surprise package Of the year in
local golf, the kid who only two years
ago won his first important golf match
from Maury Nee, will go to Garden
City three days hence to compete for
the national amateur championship
wearing the highest links laurels
Washington can bestow. He proved
his worth under fire yesterday and
well may become the sensation of the
national. He will do just that if he
keeps on playing the same kind OF
1awless golf he played yesterday in
whipping Peacock who was a shade
off his mallet, unsteady on the putt
ing greens, but a champion who never
quit and who fought back with the
same skill and determination that won
him two tough matches Saturday.
A story of the final is crowded
into the holes stretching from the
tenth to the sixteenth, where
spindly Bobby shook the hand of
the old champion and heard Roger
say, Congratulations, champ"
Bobby went 4 up at the tenth, where
Roger missed the green with his Sec
ond shot, and it looked as if the match
was in. But Peacock, like the new
title-holder, never is licked in golf
match while there are holes to play.
Against Fuchs and Dettweiler the day
before he was badly off, but he
came through with the winning squirt
when only subpar golf would do. He
won the eleventh with 3, when
Bobby missed a 4-footer; the twelfth
with a bird and the thirteenth with
a par when Bobby missed 2-footer
and looked as if he was cracking.
But cracking isn't in the book of the
new District champion. He may have
looked badly on that putt on the thir-
teenth, but he looked good on the four
teenth, where he walloped lengthy
tee shot, put his second on the green
and won the hole with par 4 when
Roger again hooked, made bad chip
and barely missed his try for 4. And
Bobby looked again to be real cham
pion as he birdied the long fifteenth
to 60 up. And when Roger again
missed the green with his second shot
on the sixteenth. Clipped stone dead
for 4, with the youngster 40 feet
away in 2, the blond boy stepped ur
to a 4-footer for the half and the
victory, and whacked it into the CUP
with no sign of nerves whatever. Any
golfer, no matter how experienced
might have been little wabbly or
that 4-footer, but Bobby never hesi-
tated. He thumped the ball in as il
he had no nerves.
Roger Fails on Greens.
THE youngster sprang into the lead
right at the second hole, which he
won with par 8. Roger missed a
4-footer for a winning at the first
and again blew 4-footer for win
ming at the fourth; and another wee