Evening star., 1939-07-02
Boys in Middle Teens
Already Shooting
Close 10 Par
Packed Schedule Luid
Out for Linksmen
Next Tuesday
BY WALTER McCALLUM.


Around town nowadays we have
in the process of development a
crop of young golfers who are going
to make the old timers of the game
move their aging dogs around pretty
fast in the next couple of years to
keep up with the growing power
of the game of the kids.
For years it has been so. Twenty
years ago recall writing about
kids" like Bob Finkenstaedt and
Roland Mackenzie and George
Voigt. They all justified the prom
ise they showed as youngsters. But
I doubt-even in the intervening
years when some pretty good boys
have come along-whether we ever
have had smoother swinging crop
of boys smacking golf ball around
town than we have today.
From Congressional and Capital
on the west, through Columbia to
Indian Spring on the east, the boys
are going in for golf in a big way,
and are proving themselves ready
to take over the winning scepter of
the old timers. There's nothing new
about the situation, but the number
of boys who are playing good golf
Is unusual
Shea a Major Champ at 1S.
You can't call boys like Billy Shea
or Billy Dettweiler, Bobby Brownell
or Buddy Sharkey exactly new
corners to winning golf. Shea, now
20 years old, won the Mid Atlantic
and District championships when
he was 10. Brownell won the Dis
trict in 1886, when he was l6.
Sharkey, at 10. holds the Maryland
junior title and is a threat to win
any tournament he enters.
Those four are among the older
and more experienced of Junior
golfers who are going places But
down in the more tender age strata
are four or five boys who are Just
about ready to break through. Lads
like Ralph Bogart. the tall young
ster from Indian Spring and Army
Navy: George Vass of Kenwood
David (Scotty) Ross of Capital and
Jimmy Stevens of Army Navy are
pretty good clubsWingers in any
company. From these boys, who
even now are coming pretty close
to busting par, will come the tour
nament winners of future years.
Price Doing Well at Is.
be Earl Skinker. the tow-headed
chunky little boy from Columbia
who is doing all right as a junior
And will do better when he adds
poundage. Out at Indian Spring
there's 13-year-old Charley Price
another tow-head hardly taller
than the driver he swings so effec-
lively. You are going to hear more
from Charley. The kid has the
poise and the swing of a veteran
The point is that where Roger
Peacock and Page Hufty and a few
more in the veteran" class are win
nlng tournaments nowadays, it
won't be long before the kids now
winning junior trophies will be STEP
ping up to take the major affairs
Golf has always been that way
and always will be. There aren t
supermen around. although George
Volgt came fairly close to being
one around this town a dozen wears
ago.
Golfers Look to Holiday.
Another big golf day at the
country clubs and the public courses
is coming up Tuesday-July a
when every club will stage a golf
tourney for those members who
haven't left town. Here is the golf
schedule for July 4:
Chevy garian CIp
tourney, 18 holes handicap medal
play, seven-eighths handicap to
apply
Columbia-Best ball, four ball
tourney.
Washington-Flag tourney.
Argyle-July i, 2 and 4, flag tour
ney.
Beaver Dam - Presidents Cup
tourney, also driving, approaching
and putting contests.
Kenwood-Flag tourney and field
day, for men and women.
Army Navy-Team match be-
tween the Army and the Navy, open
to the entire membership.
Indian Spring-Board of Gov
ernors' Trophy tourney.
C9n3to1-Ef1oo fnltrpoyy iy,r =,
and putting contest.
Congressional-Driving, pitching
and putting; also handicap affair.
observation-disclosures Simon Trophy
tourney, l8 holes handicap medal
play; also mixed foursome event.
Brownell May Default Title.
A field of probably 80 youngsters
will play at Kenwood July IL in
the fourth annual Middle Atlantic
junior championship, last of the
affairs around town for youngsters
this year. Bobby Brownell of Manor
the reigning champ, may not be
around to defend the title he won
last year, for Bobby, if his plans
work out, will play in the Western
Amateur Championship in Okla
homa, along with other members OF
the Duke University golf team. The
Mid-Atlantic is open to junior
members and sons of members OF
member clubs of the Middle At
lantic Golf Association. It will be
played over the 36-hole medal play
route.