Evening star., 1941-07-17
Loss Of N. A. Champ
Deemed Hard Blow
To Capital Team
Vacation to Keep Bobby
Out Of Clash; Houehton
Is on March Again
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Probably the boys will do all right
without the presence of one of the
stoutest lads clouting niblick shots
toward a pin on the local gol1
courses nowadays, but the Wash.
ington amateur team will have tc
get along with Robert w. Brownell
when the class OF the simon pures
July q in a match that hae be-
come over the years one OF the
high spots of the links season.
Bobby Brownell, now % years old
happens to be the Middle Atlantic
amateur champ. To win that title
he had to lick the best in this Sec
tor. Consistently since he came
home from his graduation at Duke
University, Bobby has proven that
if he isn't the top linksman of the
town he'll cross niblickS with any
other gent who contests that rating
But Bobby is going to be vacationlng
at Ocean City July 81 when the in
ter-city match comes off at the
Manor Country Club and will not
be around to win a point or two for
the locals from sturdy Baltimore
outfit.
New Spirit in Baltimore Golf.
For there's new spirit in anna
teur golf in and around Baltimore
More people are playing better golf
around the metropolis of the Old
Line State nowadays. The Balti-
more boys, having taken it on the
chin from Washington for many
years, are looking ahead to the
time when they can win champion
ships and matches over the lads
from the Capital city.
Baltimoreans are taking more in
terest in promoting their own golf
ers. and all in all the spirit of the
game around our neighboring town
is picking up. All this may fore
shadow some real trouble for the
Capital lads a week from Sunday
without Brownell. They won last
year by single point. That isn't
any decisive margin, and Brownell
would help. He didn't play last
year. but they could use him this
year.
The friendly rivalry existing be-
tween the golfers of the two cities
carries no hint of bitterness. Rather
1t carries mutual respect, even
though it's about time Baltimore
ran a long winning streak in the
club team matches, which were won
by Washington outfits for full
decade before 1910. when the Balti-
more Country Club team stopped
the march of the Capital lads.
But that team match July 27, with
out Brownell, will be no soft spot
Houghton Ties With Gibson.
Al Houghton is on the march
again. Put the Beaver Dam pro-
fessional on a course where &C
cufacy counts and he is cinch tc
get up there scrapping for the tor
spot. But Al wasn't alone in that
Maryland State amateur-pro ano
sweepstakes tournay at Manor yes
terday. Indeed Al, who breezeo
around the Manor course in a three
under-par ST, got tie for first
place in the pro sweepstakes only
because Andy Gibson, the Balti-
more Scotsman, momentarily forgot
his customary frugality and three
putted the eighteenth green. Had
Andy been down in the usual brace
of puts he would have won the
pro sweeps outright, and Houghton
would have been in second place
AS it was. however, Houghton and
Gibson tied at 81 for the top spot
and tied again in the pro-amateur
with their simon-pure partners for
the heavy dough in that division.
The amateur sweepstakes event
was pushoyer for Fireman Vomey
Burnett. Volney won the 1887
Maryland championship at Manor
with a sup-par score. Yesterday he
crashed the ball around the Manor
course in SO whacks to spreadeagle
the simon pures. The guy must
like the course. Had Houghton and
Burnett been playing together they
would have had a best ball of 58
which would have been quite mark
for future pairs.
Gibson Eagles 9Th Hole.
Houghton had five brides in his
81. Gibson, more spectacular, picked
up four brides and an eagle, the
latter coming on the ninth hole,
where he parked his second shot on
the green and holed a good putt for
a 80 on the woods nine. But he
wasn't too good on the next side
for a 81.
Winners were:
Pam 81: Andy GIBSON: Bonnie VieR. g;
Amateur sweepstakes Cgross)-Volney
Burnett, Indian Spring, 50. Bobby Brow
1eL. Manor, y; met, John s, Brooks
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Amateur -pro-Al Houghton. Beaver
s. ANDY Gibson and L. 3. Pssssno' ng Bonnie
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sional and Ralph Boeart, Indian SprinQ
(3l, s6: Lewis Worsham, Burning Tree
and John S. Brooks, Chevy Chase Q0), 66,
Tommy Doerer announces a pre-
tourney with good chunk of prize
money soon will be played at East
Potomac Park.
The money has been put up by a
friend of Doerers named Stanfield,
and will total, Tommy says, more
than $500. That ought to get out
a good field of pros to play 18 holes
at East Potomac Park in August
In addition the entry fees at IS will
be tossed into the Eot, making a
total of more than $500.