Evening star., 1939-07-30
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Next Sunday at Manor Country
Club will come off what promises
to be one of the seasons more in
triguing amateur golf imbroglios.
The crack simon pures of WASH
ington and Baltimore will clash for
the second year in a series. The
first one. played at Baltimore last
year, was a pushover for the gang
from the Capital. They won. II to
z, which might be taken as vim
dication of two things; that the
boys from Washington are pretty
good and that the newspapermen
who choose the team members are
fairly good first-guessers. even If
you usually think their second guess
is best.
Here's personal nomination for
membership on the Washington
team: Andrew Oliveri. the chubby
faced 21-year-old who did all right
in the national public INKS cham
pionship last week.
Andy isn't member of any club.
He plays his golf at Rock Greek
Park or East Potomac Park. But
any team of representative linksmen
from the Capital would have to in
clude this good golfer. Against
almost any man Baltimore puts
up Andy will hold his own and he
can be potent point producer for
the Capital.
Andy Deserves Recognition.
Probably Andy isn't quite as good
player as Roger Peacock, the Mid
Atlantic champ; or Billy Shea. or
Bobby Brownell, or Claude Rippy.
But he isn't far below them.
Two years ago Rippy won his last
local public links championship. He
scored 284 to win and beat Oliveri
by single stroke. And Rippy to-
day comes fairly close to being the
best golfer around town, if he isn't
just that. Two years ago over u
holes he was one stroke better than
Oliveri and since that time Andy
has improved. The chubby young
ster of Italian descent, who holds
the Washington municipal crown,
can move along at fast pace.
And if they want to stick public
links golfer against another one,
why not make a deal with Balti-
more to put Eddie Johnston on their
list? Eddie was the lone Baltimore
qualifier for the public links title.
as Andy was from the Washington
sector. Why not pair them to-
gether and let them scrap it out?
But Oliveri should be on the team.
West Delights Brownell.
Tuesday at Argyle, the hospitable
women of the little club near Silver
Spring will take the second section
of their invitation tourney. They
held the low-handicap section last
week with Mrs. ]. F. Gross Of Colum-
bia the victor But this weeks af-
fair will be for the gals with high
handicaps. 1t should draw big
field.
Bobby Brownen, the Manor boy
who has been on a tour of the
West after golf titles. is back in
town sporting a 10-gallon hat. Bob
and Skip Alexander, his Duke Uni
versity mate from Durham, N. c.,
had themselves a barrel of fun In
Oklahoma and Colorado and came
back with yarns about how hospit-
able those Western folks are.
Gosh, they tossed big dinners for
us and wouldn't let us spend a
Nickel" said Bob. But I can get
along without any more of that
Pixies Peak" Bob ruined the trans
mission in his car driving up that
mountain.
Golf All Fun to Bradley.
George Bradley, I-year-old Phil
adelphian and the oldest qualifier
in the National Public Links Cham
pionship at Baltimore, doesn't take
his game too seriously. He hits the
ball fast, without preliminaries, and
takes the breaks as they come.
When Louis Cyr licked him on the