Evening star., 1938-09-13
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Manor Boy Is 6 Off Medal
Mark Set by Mccarthy,
Former Hoya Star.

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By WALTER MeCALLUM.
Star star Correspondent.
oAKMoNT COUNTRY CLUB, Oak
mont, Pa, Sept. 13.-There's q lot Of
complaint going around Oakmont's
classic precincts today. It isn't loud
and boisterous, but then there's moth
ing loud and boisterous around one Of
Americas swanky clubs. The COM
plants come from the old-timers and
the galleries, and they're directed at
the competitors in this National ANA
teur golf championship, which oozed
into the second medal round today In
. welter Of wet greens and squawking
from these same competitors about
the toughness Of the course and q gen.
eral idea that Oakmont is a pretty good
sort Of country golf layout.
In fact, even some Of the old-timers
broke down today and admitted that
amateur golf Of the classiest sort isn't
anywhere near as classy as that OF the
pros.
But their main squawk came along
much the same line. Sitting on the
mourning bench behind the eighteenth
green, resting . pair Of wet feet, you
watched the boys finish and with the
other galleryites you came to regard
the amateur championship as strictly
frashnon nov,pntifiny, mi os,1,, 4, .hot
making but In attire. These amateurs
probably are the worst dressed bunch
Of sportsmen in the world. You might
blame 1t on the rain or on the freedom
from entangling clothes that Oakmont
demands. but when you figure it out,
1t adds up to the fact that they Just
don't care how they look. Put q bunch
Of 100 professionals here, playing in a
national championship, and IL Of them
would look like walking Advertisements
for Mr.. America. But the amateurs
either don't care a hoot or they're so
awed by Oakmont that clothes are
just something to cover their naked
ness and they can't be annoyed.
The pros take all the cake in the
dressing league They take all the
cake in the golf league. too, although
couple OF amateurs can move along at
a good pace for round or two.
Mccarthy Up to Pro Pace.
The kind Of stroking Maurice J..
Mccarthy, jr., of Cincinnati did yes
terday would step along with any pro
over Oakmont's bunker -plastered acres.
All Maurice did was finish level with
par 70 and the name Of the former
Georgetown star stuck out like a
bandaged thumb today. up there at
the top Of the heap Maurice used to
be pretty good golfer around WASH
ington 10 years ago. He holds the
amateur record at the Washington
Golf and Country Club and Just 10
years back he won the intercollegiate
scramble. He still Is a pretty good
kind OF golfer. Any kind Of golf today
around IS or better will win him the
qualifying medal
But even though our Washington
lads-some Of them-are in fairly good
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its fnal medal-play phase, they really
must turn on the heat to get into
the match-play rounds tomorrow
where "a Of the Nations lousiest
dressed amateurs will swing into match
play for the crown now adorning the
thinning thatch Of John Goodman,
the Omaha insurance salesman. At
the close Of play last night there were
SO men under 80, which pretty def
nitely places the qualifying dead line
at about 159. or possibly 100. Which
means that Bobby Brownell the tow
head from Manor; Miller B. Stevin-
son, the Columbia veteran, and l8-
year-old Ralph Bogart, the amazingly
good kid from Army, Navy. must stick
around their first-round scores to have
q chance. Brownell made a gallant
comeback to score 78 and lead the
entire Middle Atlantic contingent.
Stevinson had 70 in a deadlock with
Spencer Overton, the meticulous vet
eran from Baltimore. Bogart had 80.
Martin Mccarthy had 81 and Levi
Yoder, sadly of his stick. took IS.
It's hard to figure Yoder taking that
many shots, but that's what the score
card said. Brownell started in a rain
storm as II he would take 80. Three
putting two greens and missing a flock
Of wee ones, he took AZ for the first
nine, and to make matters more dis
NAL he started back S, 4, 6, which is
three over par. But then the 19-year-
old tow-head settled down and with
the aid of 20-footer for bird 3 on
the l7th, he came home in SO for 78.
Just 4 Over Private Par"
STEVENSON never played better golf
than in his 79 round He took skies
at the 9th and 18th. but the rest of
the round was all right. Steve figures
the true par for Oakmont Is rs.
Those holes are too long for par
fours," he says. They really ought
tc be tives, q lot Of them" So he was
just 4 over his private par" as he
started today
Bogart Is the hot shot. Up in his
first amateur championship, and more
than a little awed by the stars he rubs
elbows with on every side, the kid
stuck to his knitting with an 80, while
many nationally known cracks weren't
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