Evening star., 1946-09-23
Manor al Last Earns
Role Of Favorife in
State Team Golf
By MerrelI WhittIesey

By MerrelI WhittIesey
A surprising Manor Club goli
team. a question mark in the first
round of the Maryland State Coll
Association team championship last
week and an underdog yesterday
against Kenwood, finally has
reached the point where it rules g
favorite over the Catoctin team oi
Frederick in next Sundays semi.
final.
Other survivors are Indian Spring
holdover champion from 1912, and g
star-laden team from the Country
Club of Maryland, including some
OF Baltimore's best amateurs.
Seven members of the Manor
team were victims of the golf shop
fire and lpayed with borrowed clubs
but you couldn't prove that by the
startled Kenwood team that lost or
the Manor course, 1312-4R. Manor
has won 2815 points out of a possible
36 in the two matches.
In the top match, Manor's Clagett
Stevens and Bobby Brownell won 2
points to l for George Diffenbaugh
and Maury Fitzgerald of Kenwood
Two down at the turn due to Diffen-
baughs three brides on the woods
nine, the host duo won points on
the back nine Stevens dropped
birdie puts on Il and Is for wins
Brownell halved Fitzgerald's birdie
on the 18th and Stevens Clipped
into the cup for a birdie on IT,
Brownell's par halved the 18th.
The strange twist to the match
was that Kenwood was listed as the
host in the Maryland State pairings
but through a misunderstanding the
match was played at Manor.
Maryland Wins All Matches.
The visiting Country Club of
Maryland team did not lose a match
in swamping Prince Georges club
championship weary golfers, 1872 =
Az, while Indian Spring doubled the
score on Rolling Road, 1876, BAL
though the winners pro-amateur
team of Mel Shorey and Jim Hunt
lost three points to best ball "a by
Glenn Spencer and Bill Hess of the
hosts. Catoctin edged Green Spring
Valley, 1913, at Green Spring.
Manor. 1914, Kenwood. All.
clagett Stevens and Bobby Brownell,
ssfTss and aaars fsI of4ss:
Miller, Manor, scored ga points to IA for
Bill wenzel and Dr.. Joseph Kendrick,
seo1ed ef0y sPh pohs apd ID Lee for R s
gTtsgs and Joe wilson; Kenwood; Ralph
Gibson and Waiter Takes, Manor, scored
Herefold, Kenwood; George McGhee and
9. 2. Andrews, Manor, scored points. TO
50r 9on Rud9sy and Mck aelaEde5
Manor, scored {. points to 0 for Larry I'M
hon and Henry Hatcher: Kenwood
Country Club of MARYLAND, I4l2i Prince
Georges, 3i3.
Andy Gibson and Otto Greiner, c. C. OF
Nd sna scored 2h points to a for a Hqugh.
Eef Bone RGs Eat efGsss %sSer 'ssi snd
points to ss. for joe Baiestri and ND Bob sIa BOWIE
?. G.: Ken Scales and DR.. Ed stinebert
Of Ms se9rsd WsbS M points to a for
s. schuirm and Rip Mann G. 'ts'' G. Of Nd,
scored "a points 10 / "a for Bob March
Francis Carnes, c. c. of Md, scored ia
points to "a for Bob Morris and Doug
Indian Spring. IL: Rolling Road, 6.
Mel Shorey and Jim HUNT, l. S. scored
o points 70 for Glenn spencer and Bill
Ferren, / S.. scored 2 points to / for Bob
Myers and Johnny Mears, r. r.; Volney
Burnett n1int. and Georse Thornton, I; s., scored
opel 32envs r. E.; Blddy sharkey and Ted
Harrison and Pres Burrows, i. s.. scored
z points to for Don Pluny ,and, Joe, New;
Denny Heyener s. scored points ooia to sid
for Carroll MacMaster, ir., and George
Mallonee, r. r.
About an hour and a half before
the sun went down yesterday Claude
Rippy had completed only one of his
two rounds in the club champion
ship qualifying at Washington Golf
and Country Club and for a while it
looked as though a new champion
would be crowned.
But Rippy, one of this sections
top amateurs when he had time
for competitive golf, decided to
race against time on the final 18.
With Ed Hotze as a partner, he
played hit-and-run golf, completed
the round in an hour and 35
minutes, and posted a three-under-
par 81. Paired with an opening II,
that gave "the Ripper" a two-round
total of 1873, believed to be a local
record for 36-hole club champion
ship qualifying and an eight stroke
margin over Joe Baldwin. Match
play begins next week.
1t. Jim Kinder could not get past
the first round in defense of his
Prince Georges club championship
as he dropped a 2-and-1 decision
to Joe Balestri. The latter was
among three extra hole winners
in second-round matches as he de-
feated Billy Griffin on the 18th,
Bob Morris won on the 21st over
Al Birmingham and Ed Boiling
on the 23d over Bob March.
w. w. Bayfield,, playing a second
flight match in the Congressional
Club championship, hit a four
wood second shot on the 485-yard
par five eighth hole that rolled
into the cup for a "dodo," the com.
mon term for a three -under-par
hole. His opponent, c. A. Camalier,
jr., scored birdie and lost the
hole by two strokes--but Camalier
won the match, 2 up
The upsets that have marked the
club championship season claimed
Indian Spring women's champion,
Mrs. K. S. Giles, who lost a quar-
ter-f1nal match to Mrs. M. S. Sha-
han, 2 and /.
The host Country Club of Mary
land team of Andy Gibson and
Otto Greiner was picked as the
team to beat in the Middle Atlantic
PGA, 36-hole pro-amateur cham
pionship today Play was from
scratch In the one-partner event.