Evening star., 1941-06-16
Bob IsKeeni in Routine
0verton, 5 and ;, for
Mid-Ahanfic Title
Army Beekons Manor Lad;
Minor Honors to Boeort,
Butler, Souder, Peters
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star staff Correspondent.

HOT SPRINGS, Va, June 16.-It
will come as good news to a flock
of aspirants for the Maryland State
amateur links championship that
22-year-old Bobby Brownell of Man
or, the youngster with the clean
1941 record, will not be hitting a
rubber marble toward the pins when
the Maryland simon pures open
their title tourney at the Baltimore
Suburban Club next Friday.
On Friday afternoon, when the
Old Line State title aspirants will
be running through the medal round,
Bobby will be winging his way by
airplane to Columbus, Ohio. for his
final crack at the national inter-
collegiate championship.
He will be target for the rah-rah
lads at Columbus. for. in addition
to the newly bestowed and highly
polished Middle Atlantic champion
ship, Just won by the Manor tow
head, Bobby holds the Southern COL
lege crown He also holds clean
record in 1941 tournaments in this
sector. He has played in two and
won EN- both.
May Don Uniform.
Against Spencer Overton, the me-
thodical defending champion from
BaltimoreS Rolling Road Club, the
BroWnell lad was fairly close to
terrific in that final round over the
tough Cascades course here yester-
day. The win of the thirty seventh
Mid-Atlantic tourney was sweet
balm to BrOWnell, for it not only
crowned his 1941 campaign with
success, but insures him a major
sectional crown if, as expected, he
dons Army khaki in a short time
This one, and the intercollegiate,
expect will be my last golf events
for a long time" he said, as Middle
Atlantic prexy Hicks Kerr handed
him the big silver mug.
Plays Is Holes in Par.
Three years ago Bobby lost in the
final of the Mid-Atlantic to tall Otto
Greiner of Baltimore. Two years
ago Spencer Overton thumped him
ney. He wanted to win against
Overton yesterday. and he really
tourned on the heat against the man
with the glasses and the accurate
wooden shots to win by and g.
Brownell played the Is holes of the
match in exactly par. One up at the
turn, he won the tenth and eleventh
holes when Overton three-putted
each green. He won the fourteenth
and fifteenth with perfect golf to
close out the defending champ, who
was helpless against the accurate
golf Of the new champion.
BroWnell is a licensed airplane
pilot. but has made no move to
get into Army aviation. He ex-
pected, however. to get into the
Army before long.
Ralph Bogart, District amateur
champion from the Army Navy
Country Club, won the first flight
consolation, beating young Charlie
Price of Indian Spring, 6 and 5, in
the final. Frank G. Butler of Manor
won the second flight consolation,
licking L. G. Pray of Manor. l up
Earlier in the second flight Charles
Kent of Richmond. the eventual
winner had eliminated Lee Ritter
of Manor, 2 and /. L. T. Souder
Of Manor won the third flight con-
ISOLATION, beating Jack Stadtler Of
Manor 4 and 3.
Fay ingalls,, president of the Hot
Springs Co., became the first mid
Atlantic senior champion, beat
ing W. P. Peters of Manor, l up, in
the final round. But Peters had
some consolation in his defeat. He
beat ingalls, in the playoff for the
medal with an 83 against 85 for the