Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-06
Powerful youngster
Outstanding in All
OF His Journeys
Burnett, Nolan, Skinker,
Peacock, Rippy and
BrowneII Follow
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Tall, 200-pound Ralph Bogart, son
Of commander in the Navy, is the
top amateur golfer of the year
around Washington Winner of the
District amateur championship for
the second straight year, runnerup
In the Chevy Chase Invitation Tour
ney and an outstanding competitor
In every event in which he played
The 20-year-old youngster led all the
simon pures around Washington in
effectiveness over the 1910 cam
paign.
In addition to these achievements
Bogart qualified sectionally for the
National Amateur ane qualified for
match play at Winged Foot. losing
In first-round match to Ted
Bishop, former pro.
Volney Burnett, crack Beaver
Dam amateur, winner of the Chevy
Chase invitation tournament and a
member of the District Fire Depart
ment, is ranked second.
Parker Nolan, COMPASSIONATE stall
wart, many times winner of the
club championship, Is ranked third,
while 18-year-old Earle Skinker, a
Georgetown freshman, is rated
fourth.
Nolan's big achievement of the
year in golf was victory in the
Maryland Amateur. He licked Mid
die Atlantic Champion Spencer
Overton, 2 up in the final round.
Skinker Greatly Improved.
Skinker, vastly improved young
ster over last year, Won the metro
politan schoolboy championship and
with Bogart not only qualified sec
tionally for the national amateur
title tourney, but also qualified for
match play. If you consider the 81
qualiflers for match play in the
amateur championship the best "a
golfers in the amateur group
throughout the LAND, Bogart and
Skinker are in that group
Here are the ratings among the
local amateurs tor the 1910 season ::
No. Ralph Bogart, Army Navy
and Congressional.
No. 2-Volney G. Burnett, Beaver
Dam
No. 3-Parker Nolan, Congress
sional
No. 4-Earl Skinker, Columbia.
No. 5-Roger Peacock, Indian
Spring.
No. 6-Claude Rippy, Washington.
No. bobby Browrell, Manor.
Such prominent stars of other
years as Billy Shea, Billy Dett-
weller, George F. Miller and Mar
tin F. Mccarthy are unranked, for
the reason that they didn't do any
thing to rate ranking.
Shea qualified for the National,
but failed to win a spot in the
match play rounds.
Peacock Has Skinny Season.
Peacock played little competitive
golf and the tournaments in which
he played failed to produce the
fashy golf of the Peacock of for
mer years, with one exception. This
was the District amateur pro cham
pionship affair, played for the bene-
fit of the Red Cross at Indian
Spring July 4. Roger won that
one, with Henry Picard as his pro
partner Roger also was medalist
in the District Amateur, but lost in
the second round.
Bogart, the top man, wasn't licked
often. Golf happens to be one game
In which the champ isn't always
the winner. But Bogart on the sea-
sons play, was the most consistent
of the local amateurs.
Burnett started the season by
romping through a good field at
Chevy Chase. licking Bogart in the
final. But the fireman did little
thereafter. Nolan, strictly an un-
derdog in the Maryland title tour
ney, came through with victory
over his home course at Congress
sional
Skinker, a good golfer last year,
became a star in 1910. The young
ster from Columbia. who entered
Georgetown University in Septem-
Der, put on a good show in the anna
teur championship. Not often does
a youngster qualify for match play
in his first national tourney. but
Skinker did. The boy has lots of
possibilities.