Evening star., 1941-09-15
Two Major Journeys
Occupy Linksmen;
Peacock Keen
Sparks Indion Spring
To D. C.'s Lone Win
In Team Matches
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Two major links Journeys, both
to run for three days, got under way
today at Manor and East Potomac
Park. With rich financial awards
awaiting them some Is amateur-pro
combinations were to swing through
an 18-hole qualifying round today
at Manor to qualify 16 teams for
the match play rounds in the Gros-
ner tourney. Meanwhile, at three
public courses, around 100 municipal
linksmen were playing the medal
rounds to qualify 16 men for the
city public links title tourney.
Defending champs in the Grosner
affair at Manor are Joe Kirkwood,
Jr., son of the old trick shot artist,
and amateur Otto Greiner of Bal
timore. They won't be easy to
nudge out of their clutch on the
Grosner plaque. either. Witty Cox
and Parker Nolan withdrew from
the affair, and in their place Leo
Walper teamed with Harry Haver-
stick, the Lancaster, Pa, lad who
long has been a star among the
HleH ranking amateurs.
Smith at East Potomac.
Leroy Smith. reigning public links
champ, played his qualifying rounds
at East Potomac Park in the mu-
nicipal tourney. where Dick Jen-
nings, husky Texan. is rated the
dark horse in the tournament. Andy
Oliveri. handy man to have around
when public links crowns are being
passed out. was competing at Rock
Creek Park along with 20 others,
while a small field also started at
Anacostia Park. Eight men will
qualify at East Potomac, with four
each from the other two public links
to fill up the fight of 16 who will
start at match play tomorrow morn
ing.
Only one Washington country club
golf team remains in the chase for
the Maryland State Golf Association
fall team championship. That one,
of course, is Indian Spring, several
times champion, and favorite to
win again. AS Indian Spring sound
ly trounced a visiting Hillendale
team at Four Corners yesterday
winning by 12l2 to 51a, two more
Washington outfits fell before Bal
timore teams in Baltimore.
Likewise last years victors fell in
an upset as Baltimore Country Club
1910 champions, were whipped by
Rolling Road on the course of the
latter club.
KenWood fell a 10la-to-712 victim
of Bonnie View in Baltimore, while
Country Club of Maryland trounced
Beaver Dam at Towson, 1212 to 51a
In another match outside the State
association team series the Wood
holme team licked a visiting Wood
mont outfit from Washington by
score of 161a to 1872.
Peacock Sparks Team.
Roger Peacock, who is turning into
great in-and-outer, spanked the
Indian Spring team to its victory
over Hillendale, as Ralph Bogart,
District amateur champ, and Dick
NhSA'AiA oioPpSo III &C POllltS W Ell
die Semmler and Bob Wilkie, the
latter former Notre Dame football
star. Roger played Indian Spring
a par 72 course, in IS wallops. which
is considerable chunking in any
mans volume. Victors for Indiar
Spring were Pro Mel Shorey and
Charlie Malone, Claude Rippy and
Jock Olmstead, Lou Harrison and
Earl Clary, who won two points anc
dropped one. and Jim HUNT and
Eddie Ault, who split even with their
Baltimore opponents. Buddy Shark
ey played with Peacock and they
won three points.
Jock Olmstead waltzed of with
the initial tourney for the A. S
Kay Trophy, shooting 70 with a
handicap for a net 81. Fred Beiers-
dorf, 82-l3-69, and r. H. OMal.
ley, 1850, tied for second.