Evening star., 1938-09-19

OF Virginia all have been invited to
play in the affair for a purse which
may go as high as $500.
Meanwhile, today the pros were
having a preview Of the course where
the championship will be staged later.
Most Of them, along with score OF
high-ranking amateur partners, were
competing in an amateur-pro AFFAIR
at Washington. staged by the club.
The pros and their partners were
the guests OF the club at lunch pre-
ceding the tourney, which will decide
the local amateur professional best
ball championship.
d. C. Amateur Coming Up.
Over at Congressional the amateur
contingent will start working out their
shots tomorrow in preparation for the
District simon pure title tourney, which
OPENS Wednesday. with lanky Billy
Shea prepared and well equipped to
defend the crown he won last year.
Disappointed over his failure to qualify
for the national championship Billy
finally has taken his golf seriously.
He didn't do that all summer. but
he has learned that you can't play
the game without practice. And Billy
has been knocking par for row OF
brides lately.
He will be one Of the two men
to whip in that coming title
joust.
The other will be towheaded Bobby
Brownell, the kid who hung Walker
Cup Player Reynolds Smiths scalp
at his belt over Oakmont's tortuous
test last week.
II the committee in charge is smart
they'll see to it that Billy and Bobby
are paired in opposite halves OF the
draw. Both are sure qualif1ers and II
both get to the final you'll see show
that will make your marcel curl all over
again.
Week end golf found flock Of club
championships moving toward their
climax while others wound up the
medal round. Russ Hollebaugh, the
portly golf ball peddler, who aspired
to win both Kenwood and Indian
Spring titles, was licked in defense Of
his Kenwood title, but won at Indian
Spring. M. Karawi. q delegate from
Toxic, bumped of Hollebaugh at
Kenwood, but the ball salesman licked
Eddie Ault, 2 and l, at Indian Spring.
Other winners at Kenwood were Buddy
Tew, Leo Cullinane and John O.
Bergelin.
All the favored players won in the
club title tourney at Beaver Dam,
where Eddie Bean, Martin McCarty,
John r. Miller and Forrest Thompson
all won handily. Jock Olmstead
licked Jerry Hart ut Indian Spring
and Buddy Sharkey, defending cham
pion, whipped Dick Kreutzberg.
At Woodmont Howard NordlingeI
had a narrow squeak getting through
the second round, where Willard Gold
helm carried him to the goth hole
Defending Champion Milton Harris
had no trouble licking Victor Zeve
and 6.
First-round matches in the Manor
Country Club title tourney start this
week, with big field hot on the trail
Of J. F. McBryde, the medalist, with
II. Tommy Bones, Bill Harvey anc
Mack Myers were the next at 78. De-
Tending champion. Harry Pitt. meets
w. w. Smith in first-round match.
At Army-Navy S. w. Pennoyer wor
the medal with 73, and meets J. w
Manning in the opening match play
round Ralph Bogart, the course rec
ord holder, meets Capt. R. G. Rodger'
in the first round.
At Capital Frank x. White, S. 8
Fletcher, Billy Houghton and c. Henry
Cohen won second-round matches II
the club title tourney.
That Washington-Ba Baltimore profes'
sional team match stands 10 to. 3 II
favor of the Capital mentors. Despite
the fact that the Baltimore boys man
aged to halve their match with th'
WASHINGTON proS At Woodholme yeSter