Evening star., 1939-07-09
Has One Of Strongest
Lineups Ever Put
Together Here
Boeort, Fuchs ond Rippy
Recent Additions to
Four Corners Squad
Bv WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER MCCALLUM.
It's a long way until September,
and the execution may not come off
after all but from the way the
teams line up in July it appears that
Congressional, twice team champion
of the Maryland State Golf Associa-
title to an Indian Spring team that
looms as the strongest in the lengthy
history of Old Line State team COM
petition.
I doubt if ever before around
Washington has such a strong out
fit been gathered as the team which
will represent Indian Spring next
fall, and where Indian Spring has
been strengthened Congressional
has been weakened
Recent additions to the Indian
Spring club are Ralph Bogart, the
smooth-sWinging youngster who used
to play most of golf at Army Navy,
and Louis Fuchs, who was member
of the Congressional team last fall
Claude Rippy, who also was on the
championship Congressional team,
also has gone over to Indian Spring.
Seven or eight years ago Indian
Spring dominated the team tourna-
ments with an outfit that won almost
as it pleased. But the 1889 team at
Indian Spring seems now to be even
stronger than that of 1881 and 1882.
You don't have to go further than to
talk to Al Jamison, Indian Spring
n f,,I hnur r,,nnol thnco
boys are at Indian Spring.
Must Cling to Par.
"If you don't get around par every
round you shoot, you lose money"
says Jamison. And sometimes par
won't do. Fellows like Olmsted,
Hart, Melvin, Sharkey, Bogart, Bur-
nett and Rippy can lick par any
time they start. It's the toughest
bunch I've ever seen, and I don't
think you could get a crowd of IL
amateurs from all the other country
clubs who could lick 'em over this
course"
Here is the way the Indian Spring
team probably will line up: Al Jami-
son, pro: Buddy Sharkey. Jock Ohm
sted, Volney Burnett, Roger Peacock,
Louis Fuchs, Ralph Bogart, Russell
Hollebaugh, Charley Malone, Dick
Melvin, Claude Rippy and maybe
Bobby Brownell, if he is available
for match or two. You could
search the crowds of any other coun-
try club around Washington and not
find as tough an outfit as that at
Indian Spring.
Congressional has lost Rippy and
Fuchs, two potent point winners for
the champs. So the execution may
be delayed, but it is due in Septem-
Der and October. Where Congress
sional has been weakened Indian
Spring has been made stronger And
I may be calling the wrong shot, but
form does tell in golf And always
will.
Following her appearance at Army
Navy last week Helen DettWeiler will
put on another show at Washington
next Friday, where she will team
with Marion Brown against Mrs Leo
Walper, the District champ, and
Virginia Mapes, the golf pro who
has school out near Falls Church.
Helen also will give a talk on golf
at luncheon after the match.
Seek M. A. Junior Title.
Most of the top Junior golfers of
this sector will play in the Middle
Atlantic Junior championship at
Kenwood Tuesday. Out-of town
threats will include Otto Greiner.
the tall boy who won the senior
championship last year, and John
Farrell of Hillendale, 1887 winner of
the mid-Atlantic junior. But young
sters like Buddy Sharkey of Indian
Spring, Earle Skinker of Columbia,
Jimmy Stevens of Army Navy and
George O. Vass of KenWood, play
ing over his home course, won't be
any soft spots. 1t will take a score
around 143 to win the 36-hole cham
pionship, fourth of the series staged
by the Middle Atlantic Golf Associa-
ton.
Over at Beaver Dams rugged layout
wednesday big field of men and
women will gather for the first major
mixed foursome event of the season
1t will be one of two such affairs to
be staged by the Maryland Stats
Golf Association.
Tomorrow at the Baltimore Sub
urban Club a few of the local pros
will team with feminine golfers in
pro-lady tourney at 18 holes.