Evening star., 1940-06-23
Capital Star Battles
0verton, Baltimore,
In Semi Today
Nolan, Miller, Both D. c.
Players, in Other Half
At Congressional

Twenty-year-old Ralph Bogart
knocking the ball around the
lengthy Congressional Country Club
course In under par for three
straight rounds, led three Washing
tonians and one Baltimorean into
the semifinal round in the Mary
land State amateur championship
yesterday.
Bogart, the tall youngster who won
the District Simon-pure title last
September. will met methodical
Spencer Overton of Rolling Road
the lone Baltimore survivor and
holder of the Middle Atlantic title
In one semifnal match at 10 am
today at Congressional. M. Parker
Nolan of Congressional, former club
champion. and George F. Miller
runner-up in the 1899 Columbia title
tourney, will meet five minutes
later.
The two victors will clash at
pm. for the championship won last
year by w. c. Eager of Baltimore
who failed this year to qualify.
Bogart Routs Malone.
Bogart, medalist in the tourney
with 2-under-par 10, streaked
through two match rounds yester-
day, overwhelming Charley Malone
the big Redskin end, by 7 and 6,
with a scintillating exhibition OF
shotmaking. He was out in "a
three under perfect figures-and
closed out the football player on the
twelfth green. Even with Gene
Pittman, Congressional champion,
at the turn in the second round, he
won four of the next five holes to
grab the match, 4 and 3, winding up
with birdie putt on the fifteenth
green.
Overton, as expected, marched
Into the semiflnal without real
trouble. The bespectacled 43-year-
old gent from Rolling Road licked
Luther Steward, jr., of Columbia in
the morning, and carried guns far
too heavy for Iron Man" Martin
F. Mccarthy in the afternoon, win
ming by S and 4.
Nolan, probably CongressionaTs
steadiest player and one of the
longest hitters around Washington,
licked Erford G. Barnes of Rolling
Road and then overcame w. H. Wen
gel Of Congressional, S and 4.
Miller Springs SurpriSeS.
Meanwhile Miller sprang two ma
jor surprises. Expected to take a
licking in the opening round at the
hands of Fireman Volney G. Bur-
nett, who won the Chevy Chase
tourney, the 38-year-old blond man
from Columbia took the bit in his
teeth and whipped Burnett by the
surprising margin of and 4. Then
In the afternoon, paired against the
usually brilliant Billy Dettweiler, he
won three of the last five holes to
end DettWeiler's hopes for an Old
Line State title, ! up.
With the match square on the
home hole Dettweiler reached the
green in three shots and lost to
Miller's carefully played par 4.
Bogart was the hot boy. He
played IL holes against Malone in
two under par and was one over
when he licked Pittman in the after
noon. For three straight rounds in
cluding the medal round he has been
3 under par. Overton was over
par to win from Mccarthy, and
Nolan was over to win from Wen
Eel, the same as Miller in his vic
tory over Dettweiler.
Three Semifinalists Vets.
Three of the four semif1nalists
are not new to final rounds in tour
naments in this territory. Miller
never before has reached the final
In a major tourney. He was semi
f1nalist in the Middle Atlantic cham
pionship of 1881. Bogart, still a
youngster, plays like a veteran.
Nolan has been a semifinalist in
many Journeys and Overton twice
has been runnerup in the Mary
land championship.
Final rounds in all flights are
scheduled this afternoon.