Evening star., 1941-06-22
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

BALTIMORE, Md, June 21--
Ralph Bogart, tall District of Co.
lumbia amateur champion, and
VolEey Burnett, both of the Indian
Spring Country Club, today won
their way to the semifinal round
of the Maryland State amateur golf
championship with Baltimore OPP
ponents. They will clash tomorrow
morning over the Suburban Club
course in matches leading to a
scheduled 2 pm. final.
Bogart will meet long-hitting Bob
and Country Club player. now living
in Baltimore and registered from
the Bonnie View semipublic course.
Burnett will meet James r. (Buck
Armacost, also of Bonnie View. The
semifinal matches will start at
10 and 1910 tomorrow morning.
Bogart, a first-round 4 and 3
victor over Gene Pittman of Con-
gressional, pulled out tough l-up
victory this afternoon over Herbert
A. Wagner, jr., Baltimore insurance
salesman and promising youngster
from Green Spring Valley Hunt
Club. Wagner won the medal in the
recent Middle Atlantic champion
ship, tieing with with Earl Skinker
at IS and winning the plsyoff.
Bogart's Match Thriller.
Burnett licked Edgar M. Lucas
of Baltimore Country Club 5 and 4
in a first-round engagement and
went to the final hole in the after
noon to whip Lawrence Wisner, for
merly assistant pro at Suburban
Club, when Wisner dumped his Sec
ond shot into a trap with the match
all square.
Bogarts afternoon win was the
thriller. The 20-year-old Wagner
who has not heretofore been a
tournament headliner, was out in
81 and l up on the District champ
He holed a 25-footer across the 10th
green for par, which so upset
/ Bogart that the Indian Spring lad
blew a 30-inch putt for half and
went 2 down. But Bogart came
back strong, winning the 18th and
14th holes 10 square the match. He
went l down again at the 200-yaro
10Th, where Wagner holed a To-
| footer for birdie which neutraliZeo
Bogarts nearly holed trap shot
But Wagner himself set the stage
for a final victory when the Balti-
more youngster three-putted the
18th green, enabling Bogart to wiz
the hole and square the match with
a par 3. The fall Washington lac
won the final hole and the match
when Wagner pitched over the greer
and took three to get down, while
Bogart. from the edge of the green
Clipped down 2l2 feet short and
holed the winning putt.
Burnett's Iron Shot Tells.
Burnett went into an early lead
against Wisner, but the Balti-
morean squared at the llth. They
then halved six straight holes to
the 18th, where Burnett's tee shot
hit a tree. From spot 100 yards
away he played a magnificent iron
shot to the green. Wisner, from l0C
yards, knocked his second shot into
a bunker, f1uffed it out and took
5 to the hole, losing to Burnett's 4
Eddie Ault of Indian Spring. a
| flrst-round victor over Erford
Barnes of Rolling Road, lost in the
second round to Armacost.
Albertus, a hefty gent who swings
like Ed Dudley and who has played
in many Washington Journeys. was
the hot man of the day. Bisecting
those narrow Suburban Club fair
ways with booming tee shots, AL
bertus played 81 holes in 2 under
par If he maintains that pace
against Bogart tomorrow he car
whip the District champ, for Bogart
today did not show the same kline
of golf he revealed to win the media
with level par 10 yesterday.
Buster Mrstik of Bannockburn ad-
vanced to the semifinal in the fifth
| fight with a 9 and l victory owe