Evening star., 1940-07-09
Skinker Is Main D. T..
Hope Of LOT After
Baltimore Ace
Zent Tops Four Capital
Men to Qualify for
National Muny Meet
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
That tall Otto Greiner fellow per-
sists in getting in the hair of the
junior golfers-and a lot of the
seniors-around the links sector.
An overwhelming favorite to win
his second straight Middle Atlantic
junior Championship, lanky Otto, a
student at the University of Balh-
more, today started on a 36-hole
trek after the title at the Columbia
Country Club. Otto is the defend
ing champ, and the only lad who
appears to have more than an out
side chance to knock him down Is
tow-headed Earl Skinker, the Co.
lumbia youngster with the big feet
who holds the interscholastic cham
pionship.
Otto and Earl were the outstand-
ing stars in a small field of juniors
from Washington, Baltimore and
nearby Virginia clubs, under the
watchful eye of Secretary Bill Barr
of the Middle Atlantic Golf Asso-
citation.
All Greiner did last year to win
the title was to play the Kenwood
course in "a and SO for a 36-hole
total of 142. He won't do as we'll
today at Columbia, but he's still in
the hair of the boys. And he won't
get out until he becomes too old
for the junior ranks. All in all,
you may gather that Otto is some
shakes with a driver in his hand.
There isn't any doubt about that.
Four Washington Men Qualify.
Heading for the national public
links championship to start in De-
troit on July %, four Washington
public links golfers settled down to
serious practice sessions today as
they faced their toughest test of
the year over the Rackham course
in Detroit for the title now held by
Andy Szwedko, the Pittsburgh pipe
mill worker.
QualifierS from the Capital were:
Kenneth Zent, an elevator electri-
clan employed in the Commerce
Department, who topped the local
boys with 73-75-148; Andy Ohyeri,
Washington municipal champion, an
employe of the National Aeronauti-
cal Chamber of Commerce, now
working at Langley Field, Va, who
qualified with 72-78-150; John
Jankowski, former Catholic Uni
versity football star, who now man
ages the Metropolitan Boys Club
(Jankowski qualified with 75-76-
15D, and Bob Morris, Social Security
Board employe, who made the grade
with 78-74, winning the final place
in a playoff against Leroy Smith
and Bobby Burton.
For Oliveri the trip will be his
fourth after national title. Nor
ris also will be no novice in these
affairs. But for Jankowski and Gent
1t will all be new stuff.
Baltimore Wins Medal.
-Four Baltimore boys also won
places in the sectional tests yester-
day at East Potomac Park, and one
OF them-a former Baltimore caddie
went home with the medal
awarded by the United States Colt
Association to the winner. Around
dusk last night John (Buck) Arma-
cost, blond 28-year-old who used
to tote golf bags at the Baltimore
Country Club, and now is out of
job, strolled in with a last-round
level par 72, which won him the top
spot and a 36-hole total of lat.
Other Baltimore qualifers were
Benson Ensor, steel worker, with
76-74-l50; Eddie Meyer, another
steel worker, with 75-76-151, and
Lawrence Wisner, reformed profess
sional golfer, now working in Bal
tlmore distillery, with 77-73-15O.
The eight men-four on each side
will play Sunday afternoon in a
match at Baltimore's Mount Pleas
ant course to raise funds for con-
tribution toward the expenses of the
Oriole boys to the Detroit tourney.
But here in Washington they
don't need anything like that. Dom
ming his whiskers for a short Santa
Claus session in midsummer, S. G.
Leoffler, czar of the local public golf
courses, will dig down in his capac-
ious jeans and come up with the ex-
penses of the four local qualifers.
Oliveri Works Way Out.
For a while late yesterday Handy
Andy Oliveri, bellwether of the local
municipal golfers, was in a bad spot.
Andy had led the field over the
first round with u and seemed a
sure shot to qualify easily. But he
took AZ to the turn in the afternoon
and had nothing to spare. Any one
could see he had no strokes to
waste
Andy frightened his belt around his
ample middle, took a couple of
practice whacks with his big driver
and romped home in 36-good
enough for 78 and a total of $50.
Morris won the final spot in
three-way playoff against LEROY
Smith and Bobby Burton. But
Smith looked on that playoff as if he
wasn't interested. Leroy happens to
be temporarily unemployed, and the
cash isn't too plentiful.
Hero of the whole affair was
Tommy Doerer, jr., the East Poto-
mac Park manager, and public links
representative locally for the United
States Golf Association. Tommy
disqualified IL entrants because they
failed to show at their scheduled
starting time. One of them was