Evening star., 1938-09-12
YOUNGSTER KEEN
UNDER RL|NKSF FIRE
Bobby Has Game Keyed to
Higher Pitch Than Other
District Entrants.
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept 12.-Slim,
1s-year-old Bobby Brownell. the
youngster who was ordered by ply
sicians to stop playing golf two years
ago, was Washington's ace in the hole
as five linksmen from the Capital teed
OF today In the national amateur
championship here-the biggest tour
ney Of the year for the simon -pures.
Two seasons back Bobby was UNDER
weight. Worried about his condition,
his physician told his parents the boy
was wearing himself thin playing golf.
He stopped for a month and rested In
the country.
But this year, although he has
played = lot Of golf. the medicos
haven't anything to say about Bobby.
the youngster who has put on added
poundage and has shot UP to a near
6-footer. That added weight and
those added inches have added yards to
Bobby's tee shots, the same far-ranging
drives that helped him win the sec-
tional qualifying round for the amateur
championship a. Congressional . few
days back, and that probably will win
the youngster q spot in the field Of
81 qualifers who start match play
here Wednesday for the title now held
by John Goodman Of Omaha.
Bobby looks the standout performer
from the Capital, even though three Of
the five local entrants have proven
themselves in match play-the hard
way-by winning local championships.
Miller B. STEVENSON. District amateur
champion Of 1880 and eldest of the
Washington qualifiers. may qualify. II
he does he win be . tough hombre to
lick. So also viii be Levi Yoder and
Martin F. Mccarthy, two of the best
match play golfers you could find
around Oakmont or anywhere else.
Question mark Of the Capital entries
is l8-year-old Ralph Bogart, the tall
Army-Navy Country Club lad who
Is making his first start In the big
championship. II Ralph qualities he'll
do all right. for youngsters, up for
the flrst time. usually don't do much
in the big show Of amateur golf.
The Washington lads are sub
merged in flock Of big names But
big names have a way of being bumped
OF in the amateur championship.
It's the one tournament where any
thing can happen. Even cracks like
Goodman. Fischer. Yates and Bill
lows dread the medal rounds and the
twin 18-hole matches that will usher
in the man-to-man combat for Good
mans title.
Brownell in Fine Fettle.
Once past those ls-hole rounds,
where . red-hot kid can knock OF
. big name. the stars move serenely
along through the 36-hole matches,
where consistency tells the story The
stars are long on consistency, but any
kid with q blazing putter can take
one Of them apart at 18 holes.
And it might be Brownell who will
make the headlines in this shuttle of
the golf deck. where no one knows
when an ace-full will come up in
the hands Of kid who doesn't fear
the big names of the game.
Bobby. if he qualities, in the twin
18-hole tests today and tomorrow.
can go long way. He doesn't fear
populations. he is quite a putter and
all in all the boy is smack in the
middle OF what looks a great year.
He played four rounds Of tournament
medal play at Indian Spring and
Congressional in 288 shots, with
rounds Of "a. II, II, u. That kind
of golf speaks for itself.
Let Brownell toss a few rounds
like that into the teeth of the head
liners Of golf here at Oakmont and
he'll be the sensa ton Of the tourna-
ment. Kids have done it before,
and Oakmont seems to be the spot
Watts Gum did it here back in
1925. when he came to the cham
pionship for the first time and went
to the final round, where It took in
spired golf by Bob Jones to lick him.
Maybe Bobby Brownell will do q
Watts Gum.