Evening star., 1941-07-24
Pennsylvania Event
Long Popular With
.Linksmen Here
Program includes Two
Contests; Cox Speaker
At Congressional
By WALTER McCALLUM

Washington golf courses are going
to be pretty well stripped OF their
crack performers over the coming
week end. The reason is the coming
Bedford Springs, Pa, amateur pro-
fessional tourney. This affair, held
at a spot not much more than 100
miles from the Capital, is growing
In favor with the linksmen Of the
city, and again the Bedford Springs
course. laid down in fertile Penn
svlvania valley, will seem like cross
section of the Washington courses
on a busy Sunday as more than a
score of pros and amateurs from the
Capital play Sunday in an amateur
pro event. and Monday in the Bed
ford Springs open tourney, a So
hole affair.
For some reason the boys like
that Bedford Springs tourney. They
wouldn't travel TO Philadelphia in
any great number, OF to Pine Valley
or to any other spot about the same
distance from the Capital But they
will go to Bedford. Some OF those
who plan to 90 are Mel Shorey, Al
Treder, George Diffenbaugh, Al
Houghton and Cliff Spencer, among
the pros and a flock of the better
amateurs.
Brownell Not to Play.
Bobby Brownell, the new Mary
land open champ, will not be at
Bedford Bobby, tired from playing
continuous tournament golf. Is going
to Ocean City for rest and a try
at the marlin fishing there.
Most of the Washington entrants
in the Bedford tourney will 60 up
to the mountain resort tomorrow,
or early Saturday for whirl over
the tough little course before the
pro-amateur affair gets under way
Sunday. The Bedford affair (and
pro-amateur event Monday at York,
Pa are the reasons for the cam
collation. of the intercity amateur
match scheduled for Sunday at
Manor by the Maryland State Golf
/ Association. This match probably
will be abandoned this year. 1t don't
mean anything anyhow, except to
prove again what every one already
knows: that Washington has the
best amateur iinkSmen in this sector.
But another Washington-B -Baltl-
more team match is scheduled for
August 20 at BaltimoTes Bonnie
View course. This is the junior team
match. Baltimore may grab the
decision this year Eddie Johnston,
the Middle Atlantic junior champ,
and Herbie Wagner. jr.. the Mary
land Junior open champ, seem too
strong for the local juniors. al
though Earl Skinner is not exactly
a sissy.
Bogart at Newport.
District Amateur Champion Ralph
Bogart is at Newport. f. l., today
playing in an amateur tourney.
Ralph will be away from town for
quite a while. returning to Wash
/ ington in time to play August IA
in the sectional qualification rounds
/ for the national amateur champion
ship at the Country Club Of Mary
land.
7 Witty Cox is known around town
as an after dinner speaker of parts
and a POSTMASTER supreme, but
strangely enough his home folks al
Congressional have had little
chance to hear Wifi do his stuff.
The women OF the Congressional
Club will hear him tomorrow, for
| Witty is scheduled TO make a half
hours talk on golf preceding the
usual Friday tournament. The
sparse haired Brooklyn man
happens to be one Of the most in
teresting takers anywhere. with a
well rounded fund of links anec-
dotes and a clever way of getting
across his points on golf instruction.
Witty. of course, spent a good
many years and a good many dollars
travelling the big time golf circuit,
He is the only Washington pro who
has been on the tournament circuit
for any considerable time during
the last IS years. And today, if
Witty worked as hard at golf as
some of the other boys work, he
would win flock Of tournaments.