Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-10
u. ). Amateur Down
To Serious Stage as
MSurvivorsCIdsh
BY the Associated Press

PEBBLE BEACH, Calf, Sept. 10.
The Attn annual National ANA
teur golf championship reached the
dead-serious stage today as the field
of 81 survivors, which includes al
most every ranking contender,
headed into two rounds of play
over the Pebble Beach course.
Thirty-two matches were booked
for the morning, and the victors,
after lunch, swing promptly into
the fourth round of tournament
which thus far has run pretty much
to form with a well-balanced array
of the Nations top amateurs.
Missing from the ranks after yes
terday's second round, however,
were two hardy challengers, Ray
Billows of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, twice
runnerup from the championship,
and Smiley Quick of Inglewood,
who lost out in the final last year
to Ted Bishop of Dedham, Mass.
Billows was beaten by Tommy
Leonard, 29-year- New Hamp-
shire Open and Amateur champion
from Nashua, up. The self-con-
fident Quick, 1916 National pub
lie links champion, met defeao, l
up, at the hands of youthful Jack
E. Bariteau of San Jose, Calf,
whom Quick had boasted would
not be around on the 18th green.
Sweeny Is Defeated.
Still another casualty was Robert
Sweeny, jr.. Westbury, N. Y, for
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who bowed out to an unknown from
Santa Ana, Calf, Donald P. Ken
needy, and 2.
Still on deck, however, were such
threats as Frank Stranahan of To-
ledo, Marvin H. Bud" Ward of
Spokane, Dick Chapman of Man,
aroneck, N. Y, Bruce Mccormick
and Johnny Dawson of Hollywood,
Frank Strafaci of Flushing, N. Y,
Johnny Goodman of Omaha, Skee
Reigel of Monterey Park, Calf,
Chuck Kocsis of Royal Oak, Mich,
and a wiry darkhorse, Ray Sloppy
of Los Angeles Palos Verdes COM
munity, who sank an 18-foot putt on
the 10Th green to whip the Northern
California star, Ernie Pieper, San
Jose, before yesterdays largest gal
lery.
Defending Champion Bishop, who
drew first round bye and won by
default yesterday when Heyr Ker-
shaw, Phoenix, Ariz., ran into I'M
toward difficulties, meets J. J.
Molinary, dour San Francisco cop,
in today's pairings. And the winner
promptly encounters new worries
in tackling the survivor of match
between Mccormick, California |
State and former national public |
links king, and Kocsis.
Strafaci Meets Mayer.
The top rung of the upper bracket
offered quartet of Frank Strafaci
meeting A. Richard Mayer of
Mamaroneck, N. Y, and the winner
there taking on the victor of match
between Goodman, the 1887 cham
pion and still name to reckon with,
and Bob Cochran, Missouri State
champion from Overland
Dropping on down the bracket,
"Muscleman" Stranahan was favored
to trim William F. Roden, Odessa,
Tex, but more serious opposition
doomed Immediately from the winner
of play between Dawson and Gordon
Haskell of Portland, Greg. Stranahan
disposed of L. D. Ribner, White
Plains, N. Y, and 4, yesterday.
Sleepy faced the former Walker
Cup performer, Maurice Mccarthy
of Cincinnati, who gained fame in
1880 when he beat George Won Elm
in % holes, longest extra hole match
in the history Of the National
Amateur.
Col. Ben Schriever of Alexandria,
the Washington areas only entrant,
lost his f1rst-round match completed
yesterday morning. He was defeated
by Robert Cardinal, Gonna, Calf,
4 and 2.