Evening star., 1941-08-08
Rated Capitals S Best
Title Timber Since
Days Of Voigt
Temporary Retirement
Makes Open Scrop of
D. c. Title Tourney
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

missing from the SeclOnal quau-
flying rounds for the national ANA
teur golf championship next week
will be the king pin simon pure
of this sector - Robert William
Brownell-who happens just now to
hold the Maryland open and the
Middle Atlantic and Southern COL
lege amateur titles.
Bobby will not play in the Sec
tional rounds and thus is deprived
of one of his dearest wiSheS-a crack
at the big amateur crown. The rea-
son? We cannot tell now. But
Bobby is in the middle of some i'm
portant defense work, not far from
Washington, and we have been re-
queSted not to mention the nature
of the work. It's true, however,
that the smooth swinging Manor
Country Club youngster, undoubted-
ly headed for the finest winning
season any simon pure has had in
this sector since George Voigt left
Washington in 1928, will not COM
pete in any tournament for several
weeks and probably will not play any
more tournament golf for long
time.
Leaves Bogart to Beat.
That means that the District
amateur championship to be staged
at Kenwood starting September 9,
again becomes a wide open matter,
with Ralph Bogart, the reigning
champ, hailed as the lad to lick
again. Many who had seen Brownell
wade through the Middle Atlantic
as hot knife through butter to win
the crown without tough match
along the road, and then outScore all
the top pros of this sector to grab
the Maryland open, had conceded
the District championship to the red
hot Manor 22-year-old. But that is
out now. Bobby won't be around.
Of course it is a minor tragedy
that a youngster with such prom
ising future as the Brownell boy has
in golf, will not be able, for the
second successive year, to play in the
National Amateur tourney. Bobby
couldn't do much last year while re-
covering from broken leg. But this
year he has ploughed under all op-
position, and he could and probably
would have been one of the hot
shots in the title show at Omaha.
Mrs. Neblett Goes Camping.
Short shots. Mrs. Thomas F.
Neblett, one of the top feminine
golfers of the town, is on her way to
8 fortnight's canoeing and camping
trip in the Canadian woods. Mrs.
Neblett, an all-around sportswoman,
flies her own plane, and used to be a
swimming champion in her high
school days. Mrs. Myron Davy,
lowest handicapped feminine golfer
around town, plans an intensive out
of-town tournament campaign be-
fore the national championship at
Brookline, Mass. She will stop off
at Rumson, N. j., for series of
lessons with Frank Walsh, whom she
claims is hot stuff as a teacher.
Woman-Pro Affair Sept. 2.
That postponed woman-pro tour
ney will be played at Congressional
September 2. Originally scheduled
for August 18, it, was postponed to
avoid conflict with an amateur
pro tourney at Lancaster. Pa, where
Abe Thorn annually puts on one OF
the best one-day links shows of the
year. Meanwhile the women are
pushing the British War Relief
tourney at Army Navy next Friday,
hoping to raise a sizeable purse.
Bob Barnett refuses to shine up
his iron clubs, believing that the
flash of highly polished iron clubs
In the sun does player lot of no
good. He's plenty deadly with those
rusty looking gadgets, too. Freddie
Mcleod thinks all the local golf
courses should have thorough 60
ing over to reconcile the yardage
with par. Fred claims the true
women's par at Columbia is 70, and
not rs as printed on the score cards.
He thinks accurate measurements
should be made of all golf courses
to obtain true par ratings.
Around Congressional they're
telling a yarn about Witty Cox's
hitch in the Navy. Witty, so the
story goes, tried to pick up some
extra change by washing the ham
mockS on the battle wagon on which
he served part of his sea going hitch.
Thinking he might do the job
quicker he used lye. The story says
1t took all the skin from his feet,
for he attempted the job in bare
feet. Witty just grins. The guy
can take it. And dish it out, too.
At the big club out Rockville way
they are talking about building
bridge across the ravine at the
10th hole. to eliminate the down
and up walk after the tee shot.
DR.. Keilty Hitting Hot Pace.
DR.. Robert A. Keilty, slated to be-
come president of the Maryland
State Golf Association next year, is
getting to be a hot golfer. Bob
played Congressional (par To- in II
whacks Yesterday. But the best
part of it was that he made that
score despite 7 and on the 10th
and 18th holes. In other words he
was even par for 16 holes.
Tommy Doerer is looking for a
warm scrap among the public links
bows around the middle of Septem-
ber when they get together to decide
their city municipal championship.
Reason is that several lads who
haven't heretofore been on the win
ming end are showing signs of COM
ing through. Lads such a Keith
Kallio, Ted King and Earle Marcy,
prexy of the East Potomac Coli
Club. may figure, Doerer says. Ken
wood members are getting steamed
I'D over a team match with Guam
tico team at Quantico August IT.
More than a score have signed up
for the trip.
Jim Brownell, brother of Bobby,
has gone to Camp Lee, Va, which
leaves the Brownen elders without
a young man around the house. Jim
is an expert on livestock and prob
ably will wind up at remount sta
ton.
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