Evening star., 1940-09-16
By WALTER McCALLUM.

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fathers of golf have tried to make it,
after lot of lean years when an
entry list of so loomed as big one
The championship tourney, to
open tomorrow over the we'll
groomed course of the Manor Coun-
try Club, has drawn the largest list
in the modern history of the cham
pionship Eighty-five men have en-
tered the tourney. Most of them will
attend the championship dinner
Thursday night at Manor. and a
perusal of the entry list shows nc
important names missing except
that of Bobby Brownell. who has
gone back to school at Duke Univer-
sity.
A small group will play tomorrow
with the bulk of the entrants sched-
uled to play their medal round
Wednesday. They could have made
it three-day affair just as well
The pairings:
10 noon-Billy Rochelle. Beaver Dam. z
c. Gott. jr., Columbia; Julian Murphy
Capital l2.30-Tommy Bones. j. S Nc
Bryde and Merrill Whittlesey Manor
1;00-Joe Balestri E B Heimer and Jane!
Kenwood; S NJ. Brown. Manor. and Jack
Maddux, Manor l,2O-H A. MhlllS anc
H. Worcester. Manor, and F. G. Butler
Indian Spring.
Wednesday.
Luther G Steward, jr., Columbia Io:o7@
Chester Leakin and I T Donohue, Manor
I0:l4-Carl WillinRham. L T. Souder anc
@. D. Mason. Manor l0:2l-C. A. Albel
E2an I1d MsnoI r. Dag aga Many MsPPg o64doS 7da
Spring. 1O:35-L. G. Pray. w. w. Smith
and c. V. stifel. Manor. ORA,
Manor. io4awB' a'A BroRnrigg. row is II 1ndisr mhsI
sprinF. and n: B Stronger Manor
l0:56-F G. Young. Confessional, anc
Maury Fitzgerald. Kenwood.
.,bar1s II;45-Me! Mel shipley Manor and B9t
McCresry and RAY Fleming. Manor: JohT
Roc ocx1s5o M!iIsT Beayer snS Dan 1I:2L-Al6sTt 81.
bis, ll;"s-Frank C Jones and c. D. An.
derSon, Manor and Bob PEBBLES Kpnwood
l;35-Frank Schrider, Kenwood John c
TAYLOR Indian sprin,s; and G. H, Jnne.
Msrkie. Columbia and ID Rsiph fis p fno Gibson 5 n
Manor. IL ,4a-Msrty West. jr. Colum
bla tta3 KsJuoe9 Peters Manor, an and coTy win
lumbia Earl McAleer, Confessional, snc
L. L ratton. Manor
l2:2l-aM H. schlosser. W. D Sullivan
Taylor, and Louis Fuchs. Manor; W H
Wenzel Congressional. l2:35-Dr. T D
webb and G. C: Corcoran. Washington
an and Sec GeoIee sltsr Borssri. capitaL 124e-Bud
Spring; Earle skinker: Columbia 13:4a-
Gens Ptman s9d 5aek Mss MGcaIToH Con
Congressional
1.O7I7Georee F Miller and Martin F
mccarthy Columbia; Lee Ritter, Manor
; Peacock. Indian Spring. and Volne,
smith and PsTkef Nolan. cOnETessianaI
Shea and George De Witt, Congressional.
Public Linksmen Qualify.
More than 100 public links golfers
hopeful of knocking the municipa
crown from the fuzzy thatch of Andy
Oliveri, were qualifying today a.
East Potomac. Rock Creek anc
Anacostia courses for the public
links championship. Match play
rounds will start September % a
East Potomac Park. They'll have
tough job licking Andy, who ha.
been taking all comers in stride fol
the past two years.
At Kenwood a big field of Ma.
tional Press Club linksmen wer,
playing in the annual newspaper.
mems tourney. with the main priz,
the George R. Holmes Memoria
Trophy
The one and only Robert T. Jones
lr., one time world emperor of golf
was slated to play this afternoon 2
Columbia with Dana Belser and R
H. Gardiner in a friendly match.
Three Aces Scored.
Three holes in one were made OF
a week end which found all the club
and public courses crowded wit,
golfers.
AT Congressional Paul Porter tool
spoon OH the twelfth hole anc
whacked so fine a shot on this 200
yarder that the ball ended in tn,
cup. He followed up by holing a Co.
yard pitch for a birdie 4 on the pa
thirteenth. Only a week ago HI
put his drive into the cup holdins
the direction flag on the fifth hol,
at Congressional.
j. B. Robertson holed an ace or
the lS5-yard fourteenth hole a
Indian Spring, using a spoon. H,
was playing j. E. Fitzgerald in tht
club championship and the acc
squared the match, but Robertson
lost
Jack Leroy sank an 8-iron shot fol
an ace on the l50-yard third hole
at Anacostia Park.
Anacostia Wins Davis Trophy.
Meanwhile at East Potomac
Park the Anacostia team was alb
Sorbing its second drubbing of the
year, losing to the Potomac ParkerS
led by Cliff Spencer, who licked
Anacostia Pro Bill Carson. But
although Anacostia lost by a score
of 1872 to 1912 they won the Bill
Davis Trophy for public links
teams, winding up the season with
ll2 points against 103 for East
Potomac. Red Tanner won the
Al Guyette Trophy for winning the
largest number of points, annexing
three yesterday for a total of Il
points. Anacostia now will challenge
a 12-man team from Rock Greek
Park.
Manor opened its club cham
pionship with a medal round ir
which three tied for the top spot
Louis Fuchs, Cy Anderson anc
Frank c. Jones all had 76S. The
match play draw will be made later
Frank x. White of Capital wa!
the third 1899 club champion to fall
during the last few days. White
was whipped in the second rounc
of match play at the Capital Club
dropping a match by 2 and l tc
Billy Houghton, a former champ
At Kenwood, as previously an
nounced, John o. Bergelin defaulteo
his club title because of a death
in his family, and at Beaver Dam
Joe Balestri failed to qualify fol
the club championship. Joe de-
faulted yesterday in the non.
aualifiers division.
Medalist MARITIME Beaten.
Upsets were the rule at Capital
as Medalist Pat Marino fell before
73 shot by Frank Gradoville, the