Evening star., 1938-08-31

18-year-old kid, Just as the score he
shot yesterday at Congressional in
winning his spurs in his second at
tempt at the amateur championship
Is big stuff. Any kid who can shoot
that tough Congressional course in
149 strokes. while a dozen tried and
true veterans were noundering around
10 shots higher, knows what golf is
all about.
Casting up the returns from all pre-
cincts in that superheated sectional
qualification round at Congressional
yesterday We find Washington winning
Of the spots and Baltimore grab
bing the other three. 1t wasn't very
hospitable when you consider that
Pennsylvania and Virginia had seven
entries in the field and none of them
qualified. But that's golf. You have
to produce to get along in the game. -
Five Headed for Pittsburgh.
A week hence the five local qualifiers
will dust of their warclubs and point
toward Oakmont. where they have a
surprise coming to them in the shape
Of the toughest course at least four of
them have seen. To the other-the
veteran Miller B. Stevinson-it will be
old stuff. for Steve has played it
before.
In fact, Steve broke into big
time golf at OakmOnt 13 years
ago, where he made his first bid
for the simOn-pure title.
The other qualifiers are 19-year -old
Bobby Brownell, the Middle Atlantic
junior champ and q sophomore at
Duke University, who won the medal
with the amazingly fine total of l43,
composed of II and u, one under
par for the double circuit; Bogart, the
amazing kid who set a new record of
10 for his home course 10 days ago
and who scored 75-74-l49 yesterday;
Iron Man" Martin F. Mccarthy of
Beaver Dam. who will be playing in
his third amateur Che scored 77-73-
1901, and Levi Yoder the tall pine
from Iinville. NJ c., who barely
squeezed into last place with 75-78-
1853, shot behind Stevinson's IT.
75-l52
Three Baltimoreans In.
The three Baltimore qualifiers were
PROFESSIONAL Spencer Overton. who
looks more like the math professor
who used to scare you in high school
than golfer, but who finished second
to Brownell with consistent rounds of
72-73-l45; Ernie Caldwell. the buck
toothed guy from Hillendale, Middle
Atlantic champ in 1882, who had 70
74-l46. and Otto Greiner, current
Mid-Atlantic titleholder from Rodg-
ers Forge, who had 76-72-l48.
Equipped with a new set OF wooden
clubs and pounding that ball 20 yards
further than ever before, BrownelI put
on the finest scoring exhibition ever
achieved in an amateur at Congress
sional
Three years ago the top score
In the intercollegiate tourney
over the same course was 144.
Bobby beat that by . shot.
A little more than q month back
Andy Gibson won the Maryland open
oo eAiS coHic NoulS &C Will III. uat
will give you some idea of the way the
Brownell boy played, as he blazed his
way around that lengthy layout with
rs pars, six brides and only five buz-
yards. And at that he three-putted
the eighteenth green in his first round
of II.
The kid has = lot Of golf shots,
gobs Of enthusiasm, and maybe
chance to 20 places In the
national.
He qualified two years ago at Garden
City and was licked in the first round
by Ralph Strafaci, the Brooklyn hair
dresser
But where Brownell will be up for
the second time, and Bogart for the
first time, to 56-year-old Miller Stev-
inson. the grand Columbia veteran. it
will be an old yarn-this amateur
championship. Steve" started play
ing in them in 1925 at Oakmont,
before they inaugurated the sectional
qualification system. In all he has
played in eight championships. and he
may we'll lead the entire bunch at
Oakmont. Always one of the great
putters Of the game. he poured in
a l0-footer on the thirty-sixth green
yesterday to get safely in.
Mccarthy played at Cincinnati in