Evening star., 1940-11-03
Youthful 200-Poundel
Has Every Asset Of
Great Linksman
Indian Spring Bottles
Baltimore 6. &. Today
For Stute Honors
By WALTER McCALLUM.

gressional pro has been around golf
q long time and has looked at
enough good swingers to know one
when he sees him. So when Wilfred
Hiram Cox picks a youngster as the
best" you can be sure he has given
the matter some thought and isn't
talking for fun.
Witty picks 2OO-pound Ralph Bo-
CART. the tall Congressional and
Army Navy youngster, as the best"
prospect he has seen among the
amateurs around Washington. Il
think he will be the best amateur
ever developed around this town"
says Cox. The kid has everything
a good swing, which never gets out
of the groove; good nerve control
and enough competitive ability to go
anywhere. How far he goes depends
on his willingness to work, but !
think he will go long way.
Sure, know he hasn't had lot
of experience in fast company. But
he will get that as he goes along
I've played quite few rounds OF
rolf with Ralph lately, and he has
convinced me that he has everything
. good amateur needs, including the
ability to putt under pressure" That
latter item, by the way, happens to
be the toughest assignment Of all.
Never Goes All Out.
~ co,,rco NJi1frcI wasn't around
Washington when Roland MacKen-
zie and George Voigt, Washington S
two Walker Cup team members and
top amateurs of the town so far in
links history, were coming along. In
fact, Wilfred hardly knew George
Voigt when he was at his best and
has seen Roland only as a pro
THAT Voigt was plenty good" said
Cox, "and, from what hear, Roland
was a great amateur. know he was
a very fine pro player.
But take this Bogart kid. Take
him if you want. He looks really
tough to me. The boy has developed
a swing that cannot get out of the
groove. He hits every shot the same
way, and he doesn't try to knock the
ball into the next county. I haven't
yet seen him try to hit ball with
all his strength. That happens to
mean a lot. like to see a fellow
with IS or 20 yards in reserve. They
are straighter and more dependable
than the boys who go all out on
every shot"
So Ralph Bogart has the tab of
future greatness on him, put there
by one of Americas greatest golf
pros. The 20-year-old youngster al
ready has done about all that can
be done around this town by win
ming the District championship twice
in row. He has qualified for match
play in the national amateur cham
pionship, and now he seems ready
for the big time of golf. If Cox is
right in his enthusiasm for the Bo-
CART boy. we may have the makings
of a national champ in the good
natured apple-cheeked youngster
who swings so veil and hits the ball
so accurately.
Indian Spring Favorite.
Indian Spring Country Clubs
championship golf team will be cast
in the role of favorite when the Four
Corners clubmen clash this after
noon in the final round of the
Maryland State team title tourney.
Its opponent in the match scheduled
to start at Rolling Road at 1:30 will
be Baltimore Country Club.
fhn
the State team matches might well
be changed, with benefit to both
Washington and Baltimore teams.
Some of the Washington clubs have
been lukewarm about the team
championship this year, and at least
Columbia-did not enter a
team.
The solution indicated is brace
of separate team contests, one be-
tween the Washington clubs, which
would settle the city team title out
side of the two Virginia clubs, and
another between the Baltimore
clubs. Then a final round over a
neutral course between the two
sectional winners to decide the State
title. That would be the logical
method Of settling the team cham
pionship. 1t would have the effect
of setting up rivalry between the
Washington clubs, and at the same
time would relieve them of much
Sunday travel, circumstance many
golfers do not like. 1t seems the
reasonable way to decide the team
championship with a minimum OF
inconvenience.
Johnny Bass, the tall stringbean
from Baltimore's Clifton Park
course, will be host to the Middle
Atlantic pros tomorrow at one of the
final affairs of the Middle Atlantic
p. G.. A. schedule. Final event is
slated for Indian Spring Novem-
ber 18.
Hear Grid Game Playing Golf.
Washington Golf and Country
Club linksmen who want to play
golf and keep abreast of the Red
skin games have worked out way
to do both. OF course they go to the
home games, but they want the out
of-town games, too. So they hire
a husky caddy to carry along q
portable radio, a bucket of ice and
beer and have their golf and the
football game, too. It's the thought
of Jimmy Corcoran and DR.. T. B.
Webb.
Bob Barnett, Chevy Chase pro,
soon will be showing off for Florida
to take over his winter berth at the
Indian Greek Club of Miami Beach,
Fla. Leo Walper, Bethesda pro,
already has gone South. Both will
be back late in March. Meanwhile,
several of the other pros are plan
ming a trip to Pinehurst, N. c., to
play in the Mid South tourney there
starting November II.
Ray Swearingen, prominent Co
1umbia golfer, has his chest out
these days, because of an ace he
holds on the 10th at his home
course Ray was in match with