The Washington times., 1937-09-17
d. G. Amateur Golf Title
Finals ut Columbia &. C..
TOSSUP LOOMS
IN QUEST after.
SOUGHT crown
By CHICK KENNY

BY CHICK KENNY
At 2 o'clock this afternoon over
the serene green's Of the Columbia
Country Club, out Chevy Chase
way, the last lap for the District
of Columbia amateur champion
ship will start. Just who win wind
up with the crown, title, gonflagon,
or whatever you want to call It,
will not be known, though, until
around 4:3O o'clock. AS we are
prone to say, following the upset
on numerous occasions concerning
picking winners, the affair Will be
a "toSSup."
This morning, around 10 o'clock,
the semifinaliStS started to maneu-
YER around the links. In the first
set were Parker Nolan, the mus
tachoed Congressional ace, who
Knocked out Levi Yoder yesterday,
also Of Congressional, who, among
other traits, clutches the Middle
Atlantic championship.
In the other semi-final engage
ment which followed the Nolan
Shea thing five minutes later, is
the pitched battle between Martin
Iron Man" Mccarthy, Of Column
bia and Beaver Dam, and Claude
Rippy, the graduated publinxer
who is now flying the colors OF
Congressional.
AFTER TITLE
The quartet are after the title
left vacant by Bobby Brownell,
the former Roosevelt High School
star, now q freshman (his first
day. at Duke University.
If you wanted q surprise in the
way of niblicking, you should
have been on deck yesterday at
Columbia, for that is where Levi
Yoder met his doom through the
very good driving and shooting Of
Nolan. Yoder had eliminated
Roger Peacock, the medalist, l up
in the first round in the morning,
and the lads who clutter up the
place ct q tournament were Of the
opinion that it looked like Yoder
all the way down to the finals.
However, Mr.. Nolan saw to it that
he could do all right by himself,
and, although he held a two-up
margin at the fifth, was bounced
back to square-all by the tenth.
It wasn't until the seventeenth
that the Congressional ace again
barged into the / up advantage
which he held to the conclusion of
he match.
OFF GAME
Nolan. who was slightly off in
his morning first round with Ray
Fleming of Manor, played an en-
tirely different brand of golf
against the highly regarded
Yoder.
Willie Shea in the morning
round slowed away Capt. F. L.
Parks of Columbia, who, from
the. qualifying scores, doomed as
a dark horse" The Middle At
lantic champion Hoya took 2
and / decision. In the afternoon
or second round Setto, Willie
eliminated Gene Pittman, 4 and 3.
Martin Mccarthy was forced to
go to the nineteenth green be-
fore he Subdued Ralph Gibson,
who had previously defeated
Buddy Sharkey, the Gonzaga
scholastic. The Iron Man seemed
to be shooting in tough luck
throughout the day as he had a
bitter time taking John r. Miller
Of Beaver Dam in the opening
round. .
SCUTTLES PITT
Claude Rippy barged into the
Semifinal round by Scuttling
Harry Pitt Of Manor in the initial
round, and 4, and then to come
back in the afternoon session to
whip Tommy Bones Of Manor,
2 and /.
So that's the historical set-up
for today's matches which should
draw a banner turnout despite
the more or less threatening
weather.
FIRST FLIGHT
Levi Yoder (Ken.), defeated Roger
(c0ng3s defeated defeat a,1 Ray Fleming GMan5,
feated Capt. F. L. Parks. (Col.). 3 and
/; Gene Pittman (Cong.), defeated Billy
DettweiIer SCong) }. l up; Martin F.
NJ Sp g Soss ! e. R. d MsP
(Man.). defeated Buddy sharkey Il. So,
! up: Tommy Bones, (Manr defeated B.
Epp 1sn4 9cont Spa defeated and q cf Pff
(Man.), and I.
SECOND FLIGHT
George F.. Miller (Col.), defeated
GoOds (col), defeated e. B. Wightman
sSGi; d s9d 4 VGI ar Burnett Indian
featd D: L. Thomson. MAN.. i up T
Everett Ever q Johnson Cs. D')i defeated 2. B.
(Col), DEBATED Lloyd Carey (Ken1,
ana 1; Ken Lafferty Il. S., defeated
T; kookard q; s.. and I; Ale5 Baum
r.. Il. S., ! and !. Billy N00nsii''
THIRD FLIGHT
F.. E. Berquist (CongD defeated
Buddy Pope (Col), 2 and /: F. j.
Winkler (Cong) defeated Franklin
(Cong.), up. 10 holes; Eric King "a.
and NJ defeated Tom Belshe Il. 81, /
ur; J. F. MacBryde (Man.) defeated L.
L. stratton (Man:), 4 and 8: Bob Dono-
hue (Ken.) defeated Leo Cullinane
(Ken.), up; E. E. Krewson (Col.) de-
feated V. A. Sisler (Cong), 5 and /: P.
B. Anderson (Ken.) defeated Earl
skinker, (COl), l up; B. L. Hartz (Col)
defeated ]. A. Cosgrove (Man.), 8 and 2.
FOURTH FLIGHT
H. G. Young (Cong.) defeated Bill
Kimball (Cong), by default; Jack
StndlaH IAIanl hafaa tnd Ghnntnn - IL.