Evening star., 1941-06-15
Injury Bob Suffered
Last Year Has Not
Hurt Links Play
He, Bogort, Skinker Apt
To Horuss Veterans;
M. A. Pros in Test
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

IhOpC1b v. DlOhllIAl NoObDg w
yoW is back in competitive golf
around Washington, and the %
year-old is doing fairly well, thank
you, after a year of inactivity caused
by a broken leg. Which means that
the younger twosome of Ralph
Bogart, 81, and Earle Skinker 20,
who have been the top lads among
the younger set so far this year have
an added entry in the more or less
juvenile stakes.
BroWnell, of course, is no juvenile.
Nor is he exactly green pea in the
business of Clouting a golf ball up
against a distant pin. He now is a
seasoned performer, holder of the
Southern intercollegiate title and
getting ready for serious bid for
the national college crown at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, late this month.
Bogart has moved out in front
of the youngsters parade this year
by winning the medal and the Chevy
Chase tourney. But BroWnell was
half the winning combination with
Hank RusseID in the Bannockburn
best-ball affair and showed enough
stuff in that one to make it plain
that last years injury hasn't done
him any harm.
First Big Win Scored in '36.
Bobby is a very good golfer, per-
haps the best this sector has pro-
duced since Roger Peacock began
winning around 1882. BroWnel
scored his first major victory in
1886, when he licked Peacock in the
final of the District amateur tour
ney. In 1888 he was licked by Otto
Greiner in the Mid-Atlantic final,
but he has qualified for the open
and amateur championships and
has played so well in every start
that the Manor blond must be rated
a good chance to win any tour
nament.
It's going to be an interesting
campaign, this one coming up in
which the three youngsters
BroWnell Bogart and Skinker-Will
be the boys to lick. Outside of
Roger Peacock, and maybe Volney
Burnett or Claude Rippy, it's hard
to see where any of the older men
consistently can whip these young
sters.
Bogart is very good player, one
with Well-grooved swing, who
strictly is on the consistent side.
He doesn't shoot up to So after
a brilliant round. He hangs around
that 70 to rs sector all the time.
In amateur golf that's a winning
spot.
Pros at Richmond Tomorrow.
BroWnell is much the same. Con-
slstency is Bobs strong point and
he is a good putter with the chips
down. Bobby BroWneu is going to
do lot to make matters interest
ing among the amateurs this year.
Tomorrow over the woods -fringed
course of Lakeside Country Club at
Richmond a good field of pros will
play for three places from this
sector in the National P. G.. A.
championship. Washington should
land at least one of the three spots
in the national tourney. The big
event is scheduled for Denver. Colo,
in July. Entrants include Witty
Cox, Al Houghton, Lew Worsham
and Leo Walper from the Capital,
a quartet good enough to play in
any mans links tourney.
Also tomorrow over Bannockburns
rugged contours, Federal linksmen
will play in the 18th annual tourney
for the Government individual and
team championships at medal play.
This tourney is not the same as The
Star-sponsored match play cham
pionship, which will not end until
The starting field at
Bannockburn has been split into two
sections, with approximately half
playing tomorrow. while the other
half plays Tuesday. Big prize at
stake will be the individual crown,
with flock of good golfers to be out
there shooting over the 36-hole
route.
Kenw0Od Triumph Looms.
The stage is set Tuesday for the
croWning of the KenWood first
vomens team as champions of the
country clubs around Washington.
KenWood, through earlier matches.
has piled up such long lead that it
is held almost impossible to oust
them from the top. KenWood meets
Army Navy, currently occupying the
bottom rung in the standings, in
Tuesdays first team final match,
while Chevy Chase, last years title
holder, draws a tough opponent in
Manor, headed by Mrs. Walter R.
Stokes. the new District champion.
Second and third teams do not
wind up their schedule until June 80.
The men who have met him in the
Government matches are going
around telling the world that
Charles Reynolds Of the Labor De-
partment team is the longest hitter
of a golf ball they have seen. They
point to big tee shots such as one
which went past the second green
at Beaver Dam and a drive and
spoon shot that put his ball over the
10th green at the same course in
two shots as evidence of Reynolds
power. Some of them even claim
he's longer than Jimmy Thomson,
which is covering lot of territory.
If he is, Reynolds is in the wrong
game, A gent who can lick Thomson
has no business remaining at desk.
He should be out there on the golf
course, where his talents could more
easily be seen.