Evening star., 1940-07-29
Manor Star Will PLAY
In Big Meet Il lest
Proves Leg Sound
Bobby, Stevens Paired
In TrioI Todoy;; Heot
HoIts Few Events
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Bobby Brownell, the Manor Coun.
try Club and Duke University young
ster. is trying today at York, Pa,
an experiment that will give him an
insight into what he may expect
in the way Of tournament golf for
the rest of the season.
Bobby Is making his FIRST tourna-
ment start Of l940 today. In the
amateur-pro affair In the Pennsyl-
vania town which has drawn few
local pros and amateurs. If the
Brownell youngster gets through 18
holes without feeling too much pain
in the leg which was broken last
March he won't hesitate about en-
tering the national amateur cham
pionship. For Bobby it is strictly
an experiment; but one which has
hinging on it his future for this
season.
For a boy to whom golf, and par
ticuiarly competitive golf, is as the
breath Of life. Bobby Brownell has
kept a stiff upper lip since that
compound fracture in q schoolboy
soccer fracas five months ago.
Lately he has been playing little
golf. And if today he finds that
the leg doesn't go back on him he
can enter the amateur champion
ship without feeling that it's hardly
worth while. His partner in today's
tourney is Eddie Stevens, assistant
pro at Manor.
Another highly rated Washington
pair at York today will be AL Hough-
ton and Volney Burnett Of Beaver
Dam. Here is a duo which can win
the tourney.
Dissatisfied with his showing in
the Maryland open championship,
and his failure to qualify for the
p. G. A. championship, Houghton
plans a trip to Toronto in mid
August to play in the Canadian
open championship. Back in 1894
Houghton finished fourth in that
tourney, when he was having a
good competitive year. AL hasn't
played in many out-of town affairs
this year, and he wants crack at
the big time OF pro golf.
Brace of Journeys Scheduled.
Two big golf affairs are scheduled
over the next two days. Tomorrow
at Chevy Chase a field of Is fem
mime golfers and the same number
of pros will compete in a tourney
arranged by Mrs. r. A. Lacey,
District Women's Golf Association
president, and Bob Barnett. In this
one-strange as it seems-some Of
the pros are getting handicaps,
which is something unusual. mas
much as pros all are supposed to be
on the same scoring basis.
Wednesday the assistant pros
from the Washington Baltimore
area will gather at Woodmont to
play in an assistants tourney. Buck
Worsham Of Chevy Chase and Eddie
Stevens of Manor seem to be stand
outs in this one.
Here are the pairings for the
Chevy Chase affair tomorrow:
and Barbara simons. Manor d45: Leo
WsDec wal an apd MS CIV. foq i4
kin. Woodmont. and Mrs. W r. stokes.
J. F. Gross, Columbia ;12l. $40: Bob
Barnett, Chevy Chase, and Mrs. Ora Emse,
Beaver Dam I'D; Allan Burton. Army
90. 3:45, why Cox. Congressional,
and Mrs. Leo Walper. Capital -; Rut
Coffey. Winchester. Va. and Mrs: Betty
son, Bradley Hills. and Mrs. Harvey j.
Cooper Kenwood G4); Cliff McKimmie,
unattached. and Sally Whipple. Wash
ipgton I9 3:55, Al Houghton Beaver
Dam. and Mrs. L. B. PIatt. Chevy Chase
t7) Buck Worsham. Chevy Chase, and
Mrs. Ralph Goldsmith. Woodmont uW:
Mrs. Ellen K Harris, Beaver Dam 1O;
Fred Mcleod. Columbia. and Louise Clay
Beach, Baltimore, and Mrs. Harry 4.
Knox, Congressional u0); George Dif-.
fenbaugh. Kepwood and Mrs. Richard
T KreuZbure KenWood (6)