Evening star., 1939-09-18
Bv WALTER McCALLUM.

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With more than half a dozen
women's club championships to be
decided this week the men are busy
on the golf courses around the Capt.
tai settling their club titles. Within
a month nearly dozen club cham
pionships will be decided by the male
golfers. And the scrap is tough. A
club champ rates pretty high among
his fellow golfers. He's marked
man every time he starts.
So far only two club titles have
been decided this year. Chevy
Chase and Washington played their
club Journeys in the spring, with
Page Hufty and Ralph S. Fowler
the winners. But at all the other
clubs the top golfers either are in
the thick Of the fight or are getting
ready for the title tournaments.
Here are the 1888 champions of
clubs whose titles have not yet
been decided this year: Woodmont,
DR.. Milton Harris; Columbia, Tommy
Webb, jr.; Manor, Harry G. Pitt;
Beaver Dam, Martin F.. Mccarthy;
Indian Spring, Buddy Sharkey
(beaten this year,; Congressional,
Claude Rippy will not defend;
Argyle, Orval Kaul (out of the
city,; Army Navy, Ralph Bogart;
Capital, Billy Houghton; Kenwood,
John o. Bergelin
Nineteen-year-old Ralph Bogart,
who has been the hot number in the
Indian Spring club championship,
draws a rugged customer in the
opening round of the Army Navy
Club title tourney, which he will de-
fend. Ralph belongs to both clubs,
was medalist in the Indian Spring
championship with a 68, and shot
a ST Saturday to win his first match.
Ralph runs smack into Comdr. Will
liam S. Popham in the first round
of the service club championship.
Parks Wins Medal.
Maj. Floyd Parks won the medal
yesterday with sub-par 10. Here
are the first-fight pairings:
coMaj MAJ Pasks phns Col j, g n pn6ey Bradley
Ralph Bogart VS.. Comdrs ". S. Popham,
Kenneth Buchanan VS.. Mai; J. R, Francis,
Lunn " Steele VS. C. Miller; Nj n,,d Il Comdr:
E. w. Claxton VS.. J. H. Davidson.
Mrs. H. Mullins scored an ace on
the 135-yard fourth hole of the in
side nine at Army Navy, holi.g an
iron shot.
While club championships are
popping up all over the bunkered
horizon, the top local amateurs will
face their supreme test this week
at Burning Tree in the District
simon pure championship, to be
defended by John P. Burke of
Georgetown University. Entries for
the championship will close tonight
with Secretary William c. Barr OF
| the District Golf Association. The
tourney starts Wednesday morning
Must Have His Football.
Over at Washington, DR.. Thomas
D. Webb, an ardent Redskin sup
porter, wanted to play golf. He also
wanted to hear the broadcast of the
Redskin-E Eagles game in Philadel-
phia. So he got a portable radio
hired a caddie to tote it around the
course and played golf while listen
ing to the broadcast of the football
game. Raymond Sonny Workman,
Henry Pruser. jr., and w. Walter
Collier played with Webb and got an
earful of the football game
Did it bother your golf?' asked
Webb. Not Bit he said. I'VE
probably played better. Every one
we saw on the course wanted to
know how the football game was
going. l think Ill do it every time
1 can't get out to see the team play
At Washington this week the first
round in the Birney Cup tourney is
on, with the following pairings: M
Lyons (medalist VS.. c. A. Bailey
DR.. R. Brown VS.. L. Franklin, r. P
Jones VS.. L. Dennis. L. L. Lewis VS.
H. G.. Pratt, j. M. Mason VS.. L. P
Smith, F. E. Westernberger VS.. j. c.
Ristine, F. Harvey VS.. Harry Law
son and w. F. Nelson VS.. G. B.
Sheppard.
Bergelin has reached the final
round in the KenWood champion
ship and will play R. L. Harris next
Sunday.
At Woedmont Al Schneider scored