Evening star., 1945-09-10
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Public links golfers pick up today
where they left off in 1941 and start
a renewal Of their championship,
with Earle Marcy, the tall Vir-
ginian, defending the title he won
four years ago. Around so, includ-
ing Andy Oliveri and Leroy Smith.
both former champions, were to
play an 18-hole qualifying round
today at East Potomac Park to quail
fy 80 men for match play rounds
starting tomorrow.
Telford j. Gibraski, course man
ager at East Potomac, who has
handled the tourney arrangements,
is at Providence Hospital, facing a
possible operation, SO Len Burrage,
formerly at East Potomac, will ham
die the tournament. Len has been
at Argyle for the last two years,
and now it appears Argyle soon will
fade from the local links picture.
If slender Leroy Smith is to have
shot at another public links cham
pionship he'll have to turn on more
heat than he showed yesterday in
defense of his Manor Club cham
pionship. Roy, scoring in the high
70s, was stripped of his title by long
hitting Don Sullivan, who beat the
defending champ up. Other first
flight results at Manor: John R.
Miller defeated w. H. Peterson, S
. and 4; E. H. Rundquist defeated
F. E. Andrews, and 3; Earl Nc
Aleer beat Robert Temple, and 2.
Richard w. Miller won in Glass A
In a medal play handicap tourney
at Chevy Chase with 76-7-69. Tied
for first place in Glass B were Capt.
I. C. Bogart, 77-11-66, and Barney
Cotton, 77-11-66. Winner in Glass
G was H. G. kirkpatrick, 91-21-70.
1t. Jim Kinder, rated by Pro Al
Houghton as the steadiest golfer in
the club, led good field in the
qualifying rounds for the Prince
Georges club championship, scoring
a two-over-par IA. A shot behind
was Capt. Richard Anderson, and
John Blair, Al Birmingham and Bob
Bowie were tied at IT. Pairings will
be made later this week.
Surprise of the Kenwood cham
pionship second round was the de-
feat of favored Bill Brownrigg by
1t. Bill Briggs, who shot one of
his best rounds to lick the former
schoolboy star, 2 and /. In other
second-round matches Bill Wenzel
beat George F. Bosari, and 3, and
N. F. Hellander beat Arthur Young
quist, the medalist, 4 and 8,
1t. c.. R. Courtney won both gross
and net awards in a medal play
handicap affair at the Washington
Golf and Country Club with 73-I
12-6l. The boys put on some hot
scoring, presaging some possible
handicap slashes. Other top scores:
Paul Perkins, 75-13-62; A. B.
Burk. 89s-24-65; Clifford ]. Hunt,
6-21-66; H. K. Thompson, 83-
l7-66.
This weeks pairings for the Har-
rell two-man team championship
cup:
Claude 4agH o, Eippey and /; H GaEPeT vs.; J,
fut6ers and ana BoEb vs Harold n Gar and
Reese Hair; J. B. Heron and R. L. Hutchi-
son VS. hrSt-round match winner; Its. o.
M. TranSue and Tompkins VS.. Its. c. NJ.
FeatherStone and A. P. Bush; j. G. c. Cor
coran and F. S. Pomeroy VS.. Joe T. Kirch-
ner and Don Lee; Les Whitton and Elmer
Jenkins VS.. winner of frSt-round match;
1t. E. R. Randall and Paul Perkins vs.-J.
l. Tracy and l.. E. Hutchison; 1t. P. R.
Schoaff and S. J. Griffin VS., winner first
round match.
VictorS in a sweepstakes tourney
at Woodmont were: Glass A-Capt
Lloyd Ridner and Howard Nord-
linger, both with 75-4-71. Class
B-Dr. A. Chase, 83-l5-68; Class
CA. j. Stephens, e2-22-70.
Ralph Price joined the hole-in- one
club at Indian Spring, scoring an
ace on the 129-yard 14th hole He
played the shot with 7 iron. Wit
nesses were Mr.. and Mrs R. Lilly
bridge. Mrs. Karl S. Giles won the
playoff for the Victory Cup, scoring
82-10-72, against 103-29-74 for
Mrs. Ted Burrows.