Evening star., 1941-08-19
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Two Washington men with ideas
as far apart as the poles on the
National Amateur golf champion
ship will shake the dust OF the Cap
ital from their brogans within the
next few hours and head west. for
Omaha and the scene of the simon
pure title tourney.
One of them, of course, Is 200
pound Ralph Bogart, the towering
District amateur champ. Ralph
happens to be the lone qualifier for
the championship from this sector,
and even though he'll be up against
some hot stuff in the gang of par
busters who will gather at the
Omaha Field Club, Ralph, with the
breaks can do all right.
The other is Leo Walper, the
Bethesda driving range pro. 1t isn't
usual for a pro to show much inter-
est in the amateur championship,
and to tell the truth Leo isn't inter-
ested in the tournament itself. But
he is interested in one man. This
man happens to be the champ.
Dick Chapman, Walper's leading
pupil, will lay his National Amateur
title on the line starting Monday,
and before he steps up to the pay
of window he wants Leo to take his
game apart, oil 1t up, and get In
gear ready for the crucial test.
Chapman Man to Lick.
Naturally, the champion will be
the man to lick. He always Is in
golf, as we'll as in other sports. But
golf happens to be a wide-open
gamble where the champ has to win
his way through a lot of tough gents
to hold on to his title. Each round
is a challenge round, and there
aren't any loaf1ng spots along the
road. Dick Chapman, according to
Leo, isn't feeling well. but Walper
says he will be o. K. by next week.
Bogart tried and still is trying to
coax pal Earle Skinker to make the
trip West with him. The two lads
are inseparable, on and of the links.
Both qualified last year and they
went to Winged Foot together. Both
were licked in the opening round.
But this year Ralph qualified and
Earle missed, and now Ralph will
have to make the trip alone. He
doesn't like 1t and you can't blame
him. Omaha is . long way on with
out some close friend with whom to
talk brassie shots and putting
strokes and stymie shots.
Bogart- Worsham Win Am-Pro.
But the Bogart boy is getting
along pretty well in his chosen sport.
Ralph was half the winning combi-
nation in the seasons biggest anna
teur-pro tourney at Lancaster, Pa,
yesterday.
Bogart and Lewis Worsham, Burn
ing Tree pro, scored q seven-under-
par IS to win the tourney by two
strokes from q field that included
all the best from Philadelphia and
nearby Pennsylvania, Washington
and Baltimore.
Theirs was a noteworthy victory,
and was strictly q two-man job, for
both shot par TBS, and where Wor-
sham checked in with six brides,
Ralph was right on his heels with
five It was one of those photo
finish things between the two young
sters, both of whom welded magic
putters over those keen and we'll
groomed Lancaster greens.
The Washington boys did all right
in the tourney, for in addition to
the winning pair, two other Capital
amateur-pro combines tied for Sec
ond with four other duos at 81.
They were George Diffenbaugh and
George o. Vass, jr, of Kenwood and
Bob Barnett and Ralph D. Quinter,
jr., of Chevy Chase. Diffenbaugh
also came in for chunk of coin in
the pro sweepstakes, with an in
dividual 2-under-par round of 10,
to tie for second money with three
others. Joe Zarhardt, an unknown
from Norristown, Pa, won the top
cash award with a sparkling 81.
Put two youngsters with good golf
games together, turn EN- loose in
an amateur-pro affair and some
thing is sure to pop. That's what
happened when the Worsham-