Evening star., 1939-08-30
BrowneN Lone D. C.. QuoIifier
For u. S. Amateur With 748
As 10 CopitoIites Fail
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Been playing too much golf. I'm
going to take a complete rest from
the game for couple of days"
Bobby Brownell, the young Manor
Club star and lone qualifier from
Washington for the national anna
teur golf championship, feels that
way about the game in which he is
today tabled as one Of the best
of the younger stars and a definite
"dark-horse" threat to grab the
national crown.
But it was too bad about those
other fellows, particularly Willie
Shea" said Bobby. Shea tried to
qualify for the championship at
Albany, N. Y, and missed winning
one of the three places, as did nine
other Washington men entered in
the local section trials over the Five
Farms course of the Baltimore
Country Club.
So tow-headed Bobby, the hottest
bit of links machinery to come along
among the local amateurs since Billy
Shea had his winning squirt in 1887,
will head a one-man invasion of
Chicago next week to prepare for
the championship starting at the
North Shore Club September IL.
Bobby scored rounds of 76-72-148
to finish second in the sectional
tests in the Middle Atlantic area.
held at Baltimore's Five Farms
course yesterday, shots behind the
blazing 76-66-142 shot by Otto
Greiner of Baltimore, who led the
field, set new amateur record for
the lengthy course and grabbed
the bronze sectional leaders medal
all in a single round.
Baltimoreans Win Three Places.
Other qualifiers were: Spencer
Overton, Rolling Road. 76-74-150;
Ernest L. Caldwell, Rolling Road,
76-76-152, and Wynsol Spencer, will
lowy Virginia State champion from
Newport News, who won his spot
with birdie on the first extra hole
in playoff against Herb Wagner
of Baltimore, tied at 154 for the
last position. Alternates will be
Wagner, portly Morton j. Nc
Carthy of Norfolk and Bill Cum
ningham of Richmond. The latter
pair scored 155, l shot too high, with
Mccarthy finishing with 6 on the
last hole when a would have won
him place.
There's always an atmosphere of
high tragedy about these sectional
rounds. Ralph Bogart, the tall
Army Navy and Indian Spring Club
youngster, supplied most of the
pathos in this one. Ralph, who has
been blistering every golf course on
which he stepped recently, shot
himself into the forefront of the
parade with first-round 70 in the
forenoon in spot where even an
afternoon round of 80 would have
qualified. Then he went out in
the afternoon and played as badly
as he had played well in the morn
ing, scoring an 49, II never had
so many close ones" he said.
Everything I did went wrong,
even my putting" His score of
156 was 2 shots too high, but ex-
perience might have saved those
precious strokes. The other WASH
ington men had little chance, even
Martin Mccarthy of Columbia and
Gene Pittman of Congressional, who
scored II and 78 in the high wind
which blew in the morning.
Third Attempt for Brownell.
For Brownell it's his third at
tempt at the national. He qualified
first in 1886, made it at Oakmont
last year, and now he's ready again
for the golf war at Chicago. It's
an old story for Caldwell and Over
ton. Both have qualified four times
before. The Chicago tourney will
mark Greiners second attempt.
John P. Burke, the reigning Dis
trict of Columbia champ and former
intercollegiate title holder, won one
of the qualifying spots at Mamaro-
neck, N. Y, along with George Voigt,
former Washington star. Three
former members of Georgetown golf
teams also won places in the cham
pionship. Maurice J. Mccarthy
former Hilltop golf captain, led the
field at Cincinnati, and Joe Lynch
and Ken Corcoran both made the
grade at Newton, Mass.
Brownell played smoothly to win
his place. Tied for second at rs in
the morning set, he set out to win
the medal in the afternoon. But he
didn't know Greiner was setting such
a blistering pace. His afternoon
round of 70 came easily and he
didn't have any trouble finishing
second to the tall Baltimorean, who
picked up five brides in his record
smashing round and only once went
over par.
Greiner's mines for the tough Five
Farms course, which may be the
scene of the 1910 Walker Cup
matches, were "a and 80. Bobby's
consistency is shown by the fact
that in the morning he played the
par IS mines in SO and SO. In the
afternoon, when the wind had gone
down, he scored a brace of 36s. He
will be nuisance to some of the
boys at Chicago if he continues in
the groove he has been in for
months.
Brownell in Exhibition Sunday.
1--WE played SO holes three of the
last four days." said Bob. I'm tired.
Think I'll rest up a couple of days"
Bobby will play in an exhibition
match Sunday and next week he'll