Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-25
Numerical Strength
Plus Glass Marks
Capital Group
Linkswomen Get Ready
For Autumn Compuign;
Hogan Is Defended
By WALTER McCALLUM.


Washington golfers should win
four of the six places open to the
amateurs in the national simon-pure
championship when the sectional
rounds are played day after tomor-
row over the well-groomed course of
the Chevy Chase CLUB.
All the class of local amateur golf
has been tossed into the sectional
rounds this year. Not single ANA
teur with a chance mas been left out
of the list, and the boys who miss
will have no one to blame but them
selves.
Looking over the list of 80 entries
who will scrap II out for six places,
you notice that Washington has "a
men in the list. That alone gives
the Capital the edge But Baltimore
has couple Of goo1 amateurs en-
tered in Middle Atlantic Champion
Spencer Overton and Middle Atlantic
Junior Champion Otto F. Greiner.
These two should win places.
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nor strong. Only two men have en-
tered the sectional tests from the
Old Dominion and neither has shown
enough class to back up prediction
he can win place in such a good
field. The capabilities of William
Mcintyre, entered from ST. Peters,
burg, Fla, are not known.
Six or Seven Strong.
On their proved strength the local
oualifers should come from a group
of six or seven top amateur perform
ers. Lots of things can happen in
a medal round. One bad shot can
knock a man out of qualifying
chance in field sure to be closely
punched, but on their demonstrated
skill the top amateurs around town
run about as follows Ralph Bogart,
Congressional; Roger Peacock, In
dian Spring; Bobby Brownell, Manor;
Volney Burnett, Beaver Dam; Par
ker Nolan, Congressional; Billy
Shea, Congressional, and Page Hufty,
Chevy Chase You can't overlook
good golfers like Earle Skinker and
George F. Miller of Columbia, nor
can you toss off Dick Lunn of Chevy
Chase, back to the golf wars after
an absence Of several years. One
thing is sure, that the field will be
punched closely by shutdown Tues
day, and the chance of playof is
good.
The qualifying score? Probably
around $50 or ISL The winning
score will be in the ne!ghborhood of
143. Chevy Chase, with Watered fair
ways and big greens, is no pushover
1t is no track where the amateurs
will bump off scores down in the
high COS. And it differs widely from
the Winged Foot course at Mamaro-
neck. N Y where championship
proper will be staged Where Chevy
Chase had wide-open fairways and
greens, Winged Foot has fairly mar
row fairways and greens on the small
side.
That sectional test at Chevy
Chase Tuesday should prove one of
the more interesting items OF COM
petition in this sector this year.
Slim Chance for D. c. Pros.
Lewis Worsham and Gene Larkin.
pro golfers at Burning Tree and
Woodmont, are at Hershey, Pa, try
ing out their shots over the 1917
yard layout where the P. G. A.
championship will open tomorrow
The two local pros will play in the
36-hole medal test tomorrow and
Tuesday, but it's problematical
whether either of them will be
around when match play opens
Wednesday. In such crack field
of hnksmen as that which will
gather at Hershey the two local
lads hardly could be classed among
the stars. But you never know. A
youngster like Worsham may get
into putting streak and upset
some of the talent.
Feminine golfers around town are
getting ready for the opening of
their fall season. First tourney on
the fall schedule of the Womens
District Golf Association will be the
Corby Cup affair, scheduled Sep
TENDER at Columbia The pro-
gram will go from there through
a dizzy whirl of big events, includ-
ing a brace Of intercity team
matches. The Washington gals will
go to Baltimore for a match with
their neighborly rivals late in Sep
TENDER and in October they'll enter
tain a Philadelphia team here.
Francis j. Allan, runnerup in the
Chevy Chase tourney in 1888 and
1899, was competitor in the Buck
hill Falls tourney last week Tommy
Doerer, jr., has some ideas for a
series of tournaments to keep Rock
Creek Park golfers busy until win
ter. Tommy happens to be buzz
saw Of activity and a gent willing
to work to put across an idea.
Hogan Unfairly Raped.
That P. G. A. tourney will be
heaven for the sluggers. Hershey
is one of the few 7,O0O-yard courses
in America. a layout where lengthy
hitting really pays off. Maybe it's
Benny Hogan's turn to win a ma
tional. Benny came in for series
of raps in a New York newspaper
last week. But Benny isn't the bad
boy he was painted. He's another
pro trying to get along. a little dazed
and awed by the adulation of the
populace, and maybe a little tough
about it all
Walter w. CRed) Cunningham
former Burning Tree pro, now is
the caddiemaster at the Manor
Country Club.
- Gil Nal. .. C-J