Evening star., 1940-08-01
Worshom Crosses Up Scribes
BY Winning Golf Crown They
Predicted He'd Capture

when he finished third In the Bed
ford Springs open, and won a pro
sweepstakes tourney at Chevy Chase
and turned in astoundingly low
scores over his own course.
Usually when they do that to a
gent, he looks back on his old
clippings, fondles them for a while
and does a complete flop. And the
A. s. Of S. G. drops into hole and
closes the hole down after them.
So Buck crossed us all up. He led
almost from the opening shot in
that assistants tourney at Wood
mont, and today the chubby checked
youngster is $35 richer, he wears a
bona fide championship crown, and
his brogans (big ones, by the way)
are firmly set on the road to bigger
titles. This Worsham youngster has
far bigger things ahead of him in
golf than an assistants champion
ship. A year or two more and
just as Bob Barnett predicted-he
may step out and win one of the
big ones, as his 22-year -old brother
Lewis has threatened to do.
Buck started out in that tourney
yesterday with 70. That happens
to be three over par for that tough
Woodmont course. 1t was good
enough to lead the next man by a
shot. $50 they're right on my
heels" said the youngster, as he
packed away a healthy luncheon.
"I'll do something about that"
Starts With Two Brides.
His answer was a brace of brides
to start the afternoon round, and a
round Of 10 for total of 142. That
sizzling chunk of golf, hot as the
weather, left all his rivals gasping
far in his wake.
Sturdy Joe Kirkwood, jr., whom
some of the boys unkindly declared
was a ringer" since Joe only has
been in John Flattery's golf shop at
Terra Mariae a short time, finished
second with 76-72-148, and won
s2l. Ray Willett, the smooth
swinging youngster who holds down
the fort at Woodmont when Pro-
fessional Gene Larkin isn't cunning
for bigger game, was third with 73-
76-148, and grabbed off $14.
That Kirkwood boy has all the
mannerisms and much of the golf
of his pappy. Taller than older Joe
by a couple of inches, weighing 1870
pounds teeside. he cracks the ball
a long way. At the age OF 81 he
seems to have bright links future
He will be welcome addition to
the pro ranks around this sector
But somehow we can't forget the
double cross that Buck Worsham
put over on us. AS to the others?
Well, here is the way they finished
Eddie Stevens, Manor, 74-77-151;
John Callahan, Baltimore Suburban
80-72-152; Tom Birch, Columbia
75-79-154; Stanley Ceilings, Co.
lumbia, 80-75-155; w. H. (Brick)
Wood, washington, 83-76-159;
Warner Gray, Congressional, So
82-165; Joe Curtin, Indian Spring
84-83-167.
Brick Wood is going to take some
kidding about that 80 from the
boys at Washington. please tel
EN- my ball went up in a tree and
I lost lot of shots getting 1t out,
said Brick. Which is the truth. His
ball stayed up In a tree at the fourth
hole, and he hacked and hacked.
At Manor AL Bouics Country
Hicks" put over victory on jim
Brownell's "City Slickers" in a 81.
man team match. The team led BY
Bouic had total gross score o.
2,271 strokes against 2,281 for Brown.
ellis outfit. That entitled Jim's boy!
to sign the checks for a crab feas
which followed. Ray Fleming of tn.
Bouic team had a 74-lowest score
of the day. Bobby Brownell die
all right for his dads team with
a IS.