Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-13
Philadelphia Never
Considered Threat
In j. ). Amateur
Wards Game Suddenly
Cracks as BiIIows
Gains Revenge
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

MAMARONECK,N N. Y. Sept 13-
Warrington Bannerman Mccullough,
Jr., a semi-bald young blue blood
from Philadelphia, still was in there
smuggling toe-to-toe with the tough
competitors OF amateur golf when
the national championships forged
into the semifinal round at the
Winged Foot Club today.
Early yesterday. when the dew was
on the grass, Mccullough generally
was conceded to have gone further
than he belonged Some thought he
should have resigned then, to spare
himself embarrassment as the going
got really rough. But Warrington
not only didn't abdicate; he got
obstinate ano knocked the ears off
such a couple of young men as
Willie Turnesa and Johnny Fischer,
both former champions
None knew quite what to make of
Mccullough. He is 80 years old now.
and the best he ever did before was
to lose to Lawson Little in the fifth
round at Cleveland in 1885, the year
Little won his fourth straight anna
teur title, counting the British. Sure.
ne won the Pennsylvania State crown
IN 1887, but that scarcely qualified
him to upset the boys the way he is
doing here. He heat Turnesa and 2
and Fischer and 4, after being
touted to lose both matches.
Other Semifinalists Belong"
longed." as they say, definitely. Ray
Billows of Poughkeepsie, who was
assigned the task of trying to stop
Mccullough in one of tocays two
36-holers, was runner-up to the
champion twice in the last three
years. Yesterday he eliminated the
defender, Bud Ward of Seattle,
Wash, 4 and 3.
In the other bracket were MILFORD
Wehrle and Dick Chapman. strictly
according to schedule. Wehrle, out of
Chicago. has been batting at the
door for several years. and so has
Chapman. Wehrle, a beautiful golfer
mechanically, was low amateur in
the last National Open at Cleveland.
Chapman was the medalist in this
tournament with successive rounds
OF Tee and is without doubt one
of the hottest golfers in the country
at the moment.
Next to McCullough's survival, the
greatest surprise undoubtedly was
Wards weak submission to Billows.
the fellow he trampled by a score of
and 5 in last years final. Ward
had been playing great golf right
through the tournament. always
keeping the pressure on the other
man, and he appeared the logical
winner.
Ward Sprays Course.
Yet against Billows he began
spraying his shots from the start,
wandering into every available trap,
hole after hole. That didn't give him
chance against Billows. who was
heWing to par or under all the way.
The feature battle today probably
was that between Wehrle and Chap
man. 1t figures to be close and hard
fought all the way, with little to
choose between them. Chapman,
six under par for the 80 holes he
needed to beat two opponents yes
terday had little the better medal
record Of the two. Wehrle was only
two under par the same distance.
But some thought that Wehrle's
lighting qualities more than balanced
the score.
The BilloWs- McCullough affair had
its followers, however. Billows seemed
the logical winner, on the record,
but those who watched Warrington
dispose of Turnesa and Fischer yes
terday were not so certain He gave
them the impression of being a man
who would get in there and scrap
for the honor of the Philadelphia
McCulloughs.