Evening star., 1940-07-31
Buck Worsham Rated
Player 10 Whip in
Woodmont Event
Shorey, Simons Victors
As Three Equal Par
In Pro-Womon PIoy
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Thirteen assistant professionals
from clubs around Washington and
Baltimore started play at Woodmont
today in a 36-hole tourney for the
Middle Atlantic P. G. A. assistants
title. Although Virgil E. (Buck
, Rides Again Worsham, the youth
full Chevy Chase assistant, was
tabled as the lad to lick in view
OF his recent good showing against
more experienced opposition, he
wasn't standout. All these as
sistant pros can play plenty of golf
Among the better golfing lads listed
as assistants are Stanley Collinge
OF the Columbia golf shop; Eddie
Stevens of Manor and Brick Wood
of Washington. You don't hear
much about them, but they know
the score in any golf match.
Also among today's starters was
Joe KirkWood. jr., son of the Aus
tralian trick shot manipulation, who
amazed the world with his mastery
OF trick stuff in golf almost two
decades again, but was unable to
win big championship. Joe Kirk
wood, senior, is one of the most lik-
able men in golf. He is at Phila-
delphia club.
Young Joe at Towson.
His 21-year-old son-Joe, iris
assistant to John Flattery at the
Terra Mariae Club of Towson, Md,
and if he has older Joe's deftness
with golf clubs he can 60 long
way.
1t has long been one of the major
mysteries of golf why a gent with
the skill of Joe Kirkwood never was
able to win one of the big titles.
He could make those trick shots
sit up and roll, but as for winning
a big one, that never happened.
Some folks said it was because Joe,
who could play so many kinds of
shots, became confused in the tight
spots. But that couldn't be true.
No one who knows Joe as I do could
imagine him confused in any situa-
ton. He is-and has been-a jack
of all shots and master of all but
the winning one Maybe the young
ster will carry on where his pappy
left off.
Well ahead of the time for their
scheduled matches, four Washington
Golf and Country Club men have
won their way to the semifnal
round in the tourney for the Horton
Cup, open to players with handicaps
between II and II. Semifinalists
are George Bailey, E. r. Hotze, Dr.
F. r. Shea and Don Lee. Complete
results to date are:
~ First round-R. B: Munson defeated
Goze f:sed dcead ereisnDseh e. stdrm up and e ;
g. E. Ralston defeated Dr. H. O.. House,
2 and !; Or. F. R; Shea defeated F. H.
ddafeated J W. Joslin. 3 and :; W, G.
second roundNBaiiey defeated Munson rs n
shsa up deesed ae5e Rekes5s Rsoa a0d ssd
1eated Clever, 3 and ..
Finkenstadt Scores.
Twenty years ago last June a
youngster named Robert L. Finken-
stadt won the District amateur
championship at Columbia. Bob
isn't as good gcher as he was then
or as he was year Later in 1921
when he shot Columbia in IS. paired
with Walter Hagen, to qualify for
the National Open championship.
But he's good. enough. He scored
the Columbia course in SO strokes,
which is quite a chunk of stroking,
by any yardstick. Bob was playing
with Charles Hoover, j. B. Trew,
tr., and Paul Vogel.
That Chevy Chase layout must
be getting easier. Or maybe it was
the unexpected GOODNESS of the
breeze which swept the course late
yesterday, threatened rain and then
turned into a cooling wind.
Not often do you find one pro
scoring 69-level par-over that
tough layout in medal play
tourney. But three of them did it
yesterday in the woman-pro tourney
staged by Bob Barnett and won
by Mel Shorey of Indian Spring and
youthful Barbara Simons of Manor,
holder of The Star Cup.
Shorey Plays Nine in 81.
Shorey, in the first starting four
some, played the back nine in 81
strokes for the first SO. Just a few
minutes before dark in came AL
Houghton of Beaver Dam with the
second SO and a little later, fin
ishing in the dark, came Lew Wor-
sham of Burning Tree, youngster
who knows the course forward and
backward, adding another SO to the
list These three split the money
In the pro sweepstakes, with Leo
Walper fourth at II.
The Woman-pro tourney was
played as handicap affair. Miss
Simons added 98 to Shoreys SO
for a gross score of 167. But they
had handicap of IA strokes, which
gave them net of 153, good enough
to win by 2 strokes. Four other
pairs tied for second place at net
1885, These were Rut Coffey CID
and Betty Meckley (8O for 157-
2-155, Gene Larkin C73) and Mrs
Walter r. Stokes (84) for 157-2-
155, Witty Cox and Mrs. Leo Walper
with rs and SO for 159-4-155, and
Al Jamison and Mrs. Harvey j.
Cooper with rs and "a for 1914
- 15s.
Around the middle of the affair
(they didn't start until $500 the
sky darkened and wind blew aWay
the humidity which hung over the
course like blanket. But no rain
came to spoil the tourney. The dark