Evening star., 1940-08-28
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

0y WAL1Eh MCtALLOm.
So some one told you golf is an
old mans game. Well, put this
down in your little red book. Golf
happens to be q young mans game,
and the "old" men just don't get
anywhere these modern days, at
least in the championship class.
Six young men-three Of them
from Washington-will leave this
links sector around the middle of
next week heading for the Winged
Foot Club of Mamaroneck, N. Y.
and the 44th national amateur golf
championship which starts Septem-
9. Their average age is 21h years.
The youngest is 18-year- Earle
Skinker of Columbia, and the Oldest
is 26-year-old Jimmy Watts Of
Lynchburg, Va. In keeping with
the championship itself, which is
strictly young mans affair. the
mid-Atlantic sector will send six
of its better youngsters to play for
the national title.
Here are the qualifiers and their
scores, made at the Chevy Chase
Club on one of the toughest scoring
days in the history of sectional
| qualifying rounds:
Otto F. Greiner, Terra Mariae
Club of Towson, Md, 21-year old
Baltimore University student and for
three years an outstanding star, who
scored 74-72-146 to win the medal
Ralph Bogart. Congressional
Country Club, 20-year-old high
school student. who holds the Dis
trict amateur championship. Bo-
CART scored 73-74-147 missing a
2l2-foot putt on the 36th green to
tie Greiner for the medal.
Earle Skinker, 18-year-old young
ster from Columbia, who holds the
metropolitan interscholastic cham
pionship. Skinker won one of the six
spots with consistent rounds of 76
and IA for $50
William L. Shea. % years old, a
June graduate of Georgetown Uni
| verSity and a member of the Hoya
championship links team. Shea quail
/ ifled with 79-73-152. A member of
Congressional.
James o. Watts, jr, Lynchburg
Va, lawyer. at the age of rs the
| oldest qualifier. Watts made the
grade with 78-74-152.
Samuel Bates. jr., Princess Anne
Country Club. Virginia State anna
teur champion, who tied with Dr.
Ed Stinebert of Terra Maraie for
the last place at l55, and won on
the playoff. scoring a par 4 on the
first extra hole. Bates is "a years
old.
All Good Golfers.
It's a promising buch of golfers.
take 'em right down the line. 1t
could be improved had Roger Pea
| cock and Bobby Brownell won a
brace of the qualifying spots. but
they were not good enough in the
sloppy going at Chevy Chase. Roger
finished with a pair of 78s for 1856,
hashing up the last four holes with
a quartet of buzard S. Brownell,
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the leg which he broke in March,
retrieved himself with q last-round
73. but his opening Sc had left
him too far back. Alternates are
Stinebert, Peacock and Eddie john
ston, jr., the Terra Mariae young
ster, who had 157.
At the championship itself the
lads may find worse weather than
that through which they played at
Chevy Chase yesterday. But that is
doubtful. Chevy Chase, from the
back tees, is long enough. But toss
in occasional rain. falling on top
of two days of more or less steady
downpour and you have combina-
ton that stretches out any course.
So it was at Chevy Chase.
The ninth hole is about 245 yards
long from the tees they used. Only
one man reached it. That was