Evening star., 1942-11-25
Young Burning Tree
Pro Has Makinqs
Of Great Star
Jomison, in U. S. Service,
Expects to Leuve D. c.;
Bowers in New Job
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

The young man has tried the Job
before and come away with little
more than enough cash to pay his
caddie, but the impressions get
around among his professional
brethren that 25-year-old Lew Wor-
sham. the Burning Tree pro, has
real chance to do all right in the
Miami Open championship coming
up next week. Lew will leave town
Friday for Miami, to play in the
$4,000 open affair that may toll the
death knell of professional golf
events in this country until Hitler
and Hirohito hold up their mitts and
yell "Uncle."
Another tourney, the Pinehurst
North and South Open. has been
scheduled next March, but events
in the interim may change the
minds Of the sponsors of the af-
fair. The Miami tourney will go
on, however, and will corral the
best shotmakers of the land not al
ready in uniform.
See Big Success for Lew.
Worsham is the youngster who
has been playing pro golf only six
years. In 1886 he was caddie at
Kenwood. In the short time inter-
vening he has managed to become
the most-talked-of youngster in this
territory, and boy whom the ma
bobs of national golf are watching
with growing interest as one they
figure can go far in the game; an
other Snead or Hogan.
For Lew, of course, cancellation
OF a big part Of the pro schedule
is real tragedy, but he isn't talk
ing about that. He has a brother
IN the Navy, may be in service him.
self one day, and figures that every
time he gets a chance to play golf
he's so much better off. But for a
youngster just getting ready to break
into the big time of golf he hasn't
had the best of breaks.
Barnett Sees Him Winner.
Bob Barnett, his erstwhile boss,
says Worsham has a great chance
to win the Miami Open. That Is
going a little far, possibly, but at
that Lew can do good job. He
shot q 64 to win the Middle At
lantic PGA championship at Indian
Spring earlier in the month, in what
may be a preview of his showing
at Miami Springs next week. The
Miami Open, four-day affair,
starts December 3.
Al Jamison, former Indian Spring
pro. who has held down jobs at
Army Navy and Kenwood, has left
golf for the duration, and is work.
ing for Uncle Sam. Jamison is with
the General Accounting Office and
expects to be shipped, along with
several hundred more, to Asheville.
N. c., soon after January /. Other
pros who have left golf for the du-
ration include Cliff Spencer, former
Beaver Dam mentor, and Al Treder,
former Manor teacher.
Bowers at Chevy Chase.
Bobby Bowers, former East Po-
tomac Park manager, today took
over the job of golf shop aide at the
Chevy Chase Club, vacated by Boyd
Jaeger when Jaeger went to Miami
Beach to open up the golf shop at
the Indian Creek Club. Bob Bar
nett left town today for Indian
Creek, and will visit his daughter
who is going to school in North
Carolina before heading for Miami.
Bowers long has been an employe
OF the Leofiler organization and is
a good golfer with a flair for scor-
ing. He'll have plenty of chance
to work out his long shots on those
lengthy reaches at Chevy Chase,
where the para holes nowadays are
real tests.
East Potomac Park has been
closed for several weeks and may
not be opened for more weeks. 1t
depends on the weather.