Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-11
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star Staff correspondent.


MAMARONECK, N. Y, Sept. IL
Two Washington youngsters Of the
most somber hue Of dark horses
started today in the match play
rounds of the national amateur golf
championship, hot after the crown
worn by Bud Ward of Spokane,
Wash. The odds would be-if any one
would lay them-around a thousand
to that either tow-headed Earle
Skinker of Columbia or Ralph b.
CART of Congressional will win six
matches and grab the champion
ship. But more unusual things
have happened in the game Of golf.
There was fellow named Ouimet,
for example, back in 1918, who took
the open championship out from
under the noses of Harry Vardon
and Ted Ray, the famed Englishmen,
and started all the hysteria which
is top-fight golf today.
All young Skinker had to do today
to get into the second round in
the championship was to lick red
headed Johnny Burke, the former
intercollegiate champ, who piloted
the Hoya team to its first college
title this year. And all Bogart had
to do was to trounce Ted Bishop,
the tall Massachusetts champ. 1t
looked to be a bad session for the
Washington lads, but there always
is chance they may do the unex-
pected and win.
Jack Donohue in Too.
Skinker topped the local delega-
ton in the medal round with TO
75-l5l, Bogart was next with
75-T7-152. Billy Shea of Con-
gressional, playing badly all the
way. missed qualifying with 1854
But lot Of other good men missed,
too. Georgetown had another lad
in there today. Nineteen-year- old
Jack Donohue, a Hoya freshman
and a member of next years
Georgetown links team, hit a wild
second shot into refreshment tent
at the eighteenth yesterday. Clipped
down, and got a for 1874 He
plays Gus Moreland, the former
Texas flash, today.
Strange it seems that Skinker, who
probably will go to Georgetown.
clashes with Burke today. But
Johnny can't afford to loaf. The
Skinker boy knows what this game
is all about. Skinker and Burke
started at 8:48 while Bogart and
Bishop started at 9::54.
Bud Ward, the defending champ,
met Ellis Knowles, the oldest quail
| fer. while Dick Chapman, who ought
| to win and doesn't, clashed with
boy named White. Dick won the
medal with 71-69-l40, which hap
pens 10 be quite chunk of scoring.
But Dick seems to get jittery to-
ward the latter stages of the cham
pionship. He is good enough, but
doesn't quite win.
Skinker a Fighter.
It's the first time in a good many
years that the National Capital has
had a pair of youngsters in the
championships with better than an
outside chance to go anywhere
Skinker has something in addition
to good repertoire of golf shots
Earle has that indefinite something
called heart or courage. or what
| ever you want to term it. It's that
| fighting quality that comes back
| from a bad hole or a bad series
of holes, and keeps a boy In there
fighting where lesser men might
curl up and quit.
Ralph Bogart, son Of a Navy
commander. holder of the District
amateur championship, is one of
the loosest kids in the physical
sense I have seen in quite a few
years of watching golf champion
ships. I can't imagine Ralph ever
Tightening up at any stage Of the
game. He may make a bad shot
once in a while. He may blow a
short putt, but it won't be because
of tight nerves.
For instance, Ralph was fighting
back hard at the 18th hole yester-
day to overcome a two over par
that he had taken at the tenth. He
didn't know what it would take to
qualify, but he hoped 154 would gel
in, and he wanted to beat that. His
| tee shot at that hole unS trapDod