Evening star., 1942-10-19
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

ManpoWer problems are beginning
to beset the local country clubs.
They'll get much worse, of course,
before they improve. Not only in
the club restaurants is the man.
power shortage showing up, but in
the golf shops as well. The day of
the ambitious young assistant pro
soon may be over, with the pros
getting along as best they can.
At Congressional, for instance,
Witty Cox is losing Dewey Ricketts,
to the Army at the end of the
month, and Jocko Miller goes into
the Navy early next month.
George Diffenbaugh at Kenwood
hired man beyond draft age and
thought he was fixed. But the
elderly gent suddenly was called to
New York to take over war Job.
At other clubs the pros are get
ting along without the usual num-
ber of shop boys and aides, and the
end is not yet.
But probably next year there
won't be so much golf played, what
with the competitive end of the
game virtually going into a tailspin
and gas rationing bearing down.
Championship Finals Postponed.
Two club championship final
rounds scheduled yesterday were
postponed until next week. Lee
Ritter. fnalist at Manor, where
he was to meet Southpaw Earl Nc
Aleer for the crown, was called out
of town. They will play next Sun
day, If Ritter is back in town at that
time.
At Kenwood by mutual agreement,
the final round for the club crown,
over the 36-hole route was post
poned until next Sunday, when
finallsts John o. Bergelin and
Maury Fitzgerald decided they
would rather wait until the course
dries out.
But the club championship
players at Columbia were harder.
The soggy course didn't bother
them, as three men won their way
TO the seminal in the title tourney.
District Junior Champion Joe Barse
beat Barge L. Hartz. l up, in the top
match, while Ray SWearingen, de-
Tending champion, beat Comdr.
Thomas o. Brandon, 2 and l, and
Tommy Webb, former champion,
beat DR.. Howard L. Smith, l up.
one match, between Martin F. Nc
Carthy and C. H. Pardoe, was held
over until later. So this week Barse
will meet the winner of the post
poned match, while SWearingen will
meet Webb.
Ault in Semifinal.
Pairings in the Indian Spring club
championship find Pres Burrows
meeting Harold Gordon and Eddie
Ault clashing with Lou Harrison
The single match played yesterday
found Burrows upsetting Jim Hunt,
2 and l. R. H. OMalley won the
second flight, beating Vincent
Young, 7 and 6. The Giants VS.. Mid
gets match, scheduled yesterday,
was postponed until next Sunday to
give the course time to dry.
Pairings in the lower flights in
the KenWood two-man team cham
pionship are:
Second flight-Charles L. Vale
and r. H. Fuchs VS.. P. S. Alverson
and M. M. Wire.
Third flight-C. A. Miller and Will
liam Rardt VS.. E. P. R. Ross and
E. S. Pierce
KenWood members are taking up
a collection to honor Lew Fahren-
Wald, the young assistant PRO. killed
in action in the Solomon Islands.
They may turn it over to the mother
OF the likeable youngster.
Mack Myers won the second flight
in the Manor Country Club cham
pionship, beating George McGehee.
2 and l. D. M. Mcpherson won the
fourth flight, beating Chester Lea
kin, l up.
Three tied in a kickers' tourney at
Washington, with the contestants
choosing their own handicaps. Dead
locked at net 83 were R. w. West
wood, 84-1-83; C. L. Christie, So
3-83, and j. w. Sawyer, 83-O-83.
Elmer Jenkins and DR.. w. R. Nc
Lister defeated j. B. Emans and
Harold Hair, l up, in a match in
the club tWo-man team champion
ship.
"Pro"-Am at Argyle.
Argyle staged a pro- amateur
! tourney, with club members playing