Evening star., 1938-11-27
Youth S Consistency
Gains Him Top Spot,
Rippy Trailing
Yoder, Shea, Shorkey
And Nee Corthy Next
In Critics List
By WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Bobby BroWnell, the young Duke
University student who plays from
Indian Spring and Manor, is the top
amateur golfer of the year around
Washington.
Nineteen-year-o Bobby, taller
and heavier, and longer from the tee
than he was when he won the Dis
trict amateur championship back in
1896, played consistently fine golf
from June through early September
to win his spurs as the best simon
pure linksman Of the year around
the Capital. Strangely enough, Bobby
didn't win an invitation tournament,
nor major sectional championship.
But he did enough in other tourna-
ments and particularly in the ma
tional championship to rank in
front of all the other local club
swingers. Brownell did not play in
the District championship, or he
might have won the title which went
to another collegian - red-headed
Johnny Burke of Georgetown, who
also holds the national intercol-
legiate crown.
Bobby Consistent Throughout.
Playing consistently fine golf
throughout the year, Bobby went to
the final of the Middle Atlantic
championship at Charlottesville,
where Otto Greiner beat him. Later
he won the Middle Atlantic junior
with a total of 145 at Indian Spring,
and a week later he topped a fine
field at Congressional in the sec
tional qualifying rounds for the ma
tional amateur championship with
"a sub-par card of 143. Those four
rounds over two long courses for a
total of 288-only 2 over par
stamp Bobby as the outstanding
golfer of the year. But he did more
than that.
Qualifying over the fearsome Oak
mont course at Pittsburgh in eighth
place among the best amateur golf
ers of the land, Bobby stepped out
in the first round and whipped
Reynolds Smith, who was a distin-
guished member of the 1887 Walker
Cup team. He was beaten in the
second round by Melvin Chick
Harbert of Syracuse. Harbert is the
lad who set a world record for
championship medal play with 267
in the Michigan open of 1887.
Nor did Brownell play in the
spring invitation tournaments. Had
he done so the youngster might
have won one of them, but he was
away at school. The Brownells raise
their youngsters to be students when
school is in session. Golf is side
line during the school term.
How They Size Up.
Here is the way the first eight
amateur golfers of the city are rated
this year:
No. BOBBY Brownell, Manor and
Indian Spring.
No. 2-Claude Rippy, Congress
sional.
No. Slew Yoder, Kenwood.
No. +Billy Shea, Congressional.
No. 5-Buddy Sharkey, Indian
Spring.
No. 6-Martin F. Mccarthy, Co.
lumbia and Beaver Dam
No. Ralph Bogart, Army Navy.
No. Billy Dettweiler, Congress
sional.
Rippy gains second place for his
victory in the Chevy Chase tourney
and his win of the Congressional
Club crown. Yoder won the invita-
ton tourney at Washington in the
spring, and qualified for the national,
although he didn't play much golf
this year.
Shea, winner of the District and
Mid-Atlantic crowns last year, had
a disappointing season. Billy didn't
win tournament, but he did play
consistently well, and deserves third
place because of his fine golf
throughout the year. He will come
back next year and again become
winner
Sharkey Has Makings.
Sharkey won the Indian Spring
crown again, and early in the year
grabbed the metropolitan interscho-
lastic crown. Buddy can be fine
golfer in year or SO.
The veteran Martin Mccarthy won
the Beaver Dam championship, but
was licked in the final of the Colum-
bia title tourney. He qualified for
the national, and played well all
during the season.
Bogart, the tall boy who holds the
Army Navy title, definitely is billed
as conner" The Wilson High
School lad qualified for the amateur
championship, did pretty we'll at
Oakmont and came back to win his
club championship without much
trouble. Not only that, but in the
sectional qualifying rounds for the
amateur title tourney at Congress
sional, he finished with 75-74. hold
ing his best round for the last. That's
pretty good for kid who was play
ing in fast company for the first
time. You'll hear more of the Bo-
gart boy.
Dettweiler didn't play much tour
nament golf, but he demonstrated in
his few starts that the hoy wonder"
OF 1882 has developed into e man
with lot of golf. Billy is only a
shade removed from a spot at the
very top of them ALL
DJs