Evening star., 1947-08-18
Player Ties Record,
But Pays in Subpar
Golf al All View
By MerreII WhittIesey

When a golfer ties the unofficial
course record and loses money 1t
means the opposition must have
been pretty good. too, and that's
what happened to Bob Morris Of
Prince Georges yesterday at the All
View Club in Ellicot City.
Morris and Ralph Bogart played
Eddie Ault, the Indian Spring club
champion and Jock Olmsted, who
was one Of the citys top amateurs
before he moved to Chicago and
joined the Tam o Shanter Club.
Morris tied the amateur record at
SO but 80 did Ault and Ault and
Olmsted defeated Morris and Bo-
CART, 2 and /. Olmsted had 70 and
Bogart "a. The winners had 66
best ball.
The Middle Atlantic PGA has
moved the scheduled pro-lady
tournament next Monday back to
Friday, August 29 to allow the pros
and their amateur partners to COM
pete in the renewal Of the Bedford
Springs, Pa, Pro-amateur and open
championship next Monday.
The event attracted the top pros
from Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington in pre-
war years and was held last in 1941
when Leo Walper Of Congressional
was second in the open and Ralph
Bogart of Chevy Chase was second
amateur.
That means next week will be q
busy one in a competitive line for
the District pros who will compete
In the pro-champions invitation
Sunday at Columbia, SO holes at
Bedford Monday and the pro-lady
Friday.
Army Navy Country Clubs golf
team was held to an even break
in the home and home series with
the Pennington Club of Charlottes-
vile when the latter topped the
service club, 11h to 9h, yesterday
over the losers course. Army-Navy
won the first match at Pennington.
Howard Nordlinger, the peren-
nial Woodmont champion, gave the
contestants in the coming District
Amateur championship an idea as
to how tough he will be in the
tournament when he played his
home course in an unofficial course
record 10 yesterday.
Nor%lipoo1. uyoc IN fhA 1NcinO
team, however as the Suburban
Club OF Baltimore won, 20-16, in
their annual match and Pro Ralph
Beach and Vic Lebow of the visitors
won two of three points from Pro
Larkin and Nordlinger as Beach
posted q SO.
Steve Dale of Prince Georges
kept up the ace parade when he
knocked q f1ve-iron shot into the
cup on the 162-yard 14th hole
yesterday at Prince Georges. Dale's
playing partners were ]. w. Yeag-
ley, A. S. Pugh and L. L. Tyler.
Pro AL Houghton at Prince Georges
has received an invitation to play
In the $4,000 Reading, Pa, Open
Oct. 2-5. Houghton will attempt
to have a blanket invitation extend
ed to the Middle Atlantic PGA as
he invited the Philadelphia PGA
members to the National Capital
Open here last June.
Most OF Washington's tournament
golfers are familiar with the Country
Club Of Maryland course in Balti-
more (nee Rodgers Forge and Terra
Maria) and thus they can appreciate
the hitting prowess Of Jimmy Thom-
son in the exhibition match there
yesterday.
Thomson posted the lowest score,
q 3-under-par Ct, as he and South
Africa's Bobby Locke broke even
with Host Pro Andy Gibson and
Otto Greiner, unattached Baltimore
pro, formerly of the host club.
Thomson drove the green on the
"par four" 335-yard 10th hole and
dropped 20-foot putt for an eagle
two and drove the green on the par
four 18th, 271, and two-putted for
a birdie. The teams tied with best
ball Gas. Locke and Gibson had SO
and Greiner SO.
Pro John Flattery at Green Spring
Valley announced that contests in
the Maryland State senior golf
championship starting tomorrow
may play their qualifying round any
time during the day. Match play
starts Wednesday. The age limit
is so.