Evening star., 1948-09-01
Bob BroWneII Trails
AT End Of 9 Despite
Sub-Par Go|fing
By MerreII WhittIesey
Stor Stoff CoYrespondent

sub-par shotmaking in the National
Amateur golf championship today,
but at the halfway mark of his
third-round match with Movie Act
or Cecil Hardwicke, Brownell found
one under par golf wasn't good
enough and he trailed, one down.
For the first five holes Brownell
was three under par-and even-in
the best match of the day from a
scoring standpoint. The District
amateur champion and the Holly
wood movie colony champ had a
best ball of five under par for the
first five holes, and they halved
one hole, the short fourth, in birdie
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Brownell won the first two with
birdie IS when he knocked in To-
footers while Hardwicke was over
par on each with S. Hardwicke
came back with a birdie on the third
when he holed Is footer, and on
the 137 yard fourth the Californians
tee shot stopped inches from the
cup. BroWnell knocked his 80 inches
from the hole and dropped the putt.
Hardwicke Squares Match.
After Hardwicke squared the
match on the fifth with his third
straight birdie, Bobby pulled the
greatest halVe of the tournament
out of the sixth hole.
BroWnell stood on the tee and
sliced two straight drives over the
hedge and out of bounds, after
Hardwicke pumped one down the
middle. Brownell's third tee shot
was in the rough. His six-iron ap-
proach stopped feet from the
cup and he dropped the putt for
five and a halve in bogeys as his
opponent three-putted from 40 feet.
HardWicke was SO deliberate and
painstaking in his putting his slow
play was holding up the trailing
matches. But his careful play served
him well again on the seventh hole.
where he dropped 10-footer after
trapping his tee shot.
Brownell went one down for the
first time in the tournament when
ne took bogey five on the eight
when his second shot was short and
he Clipped poorly. They halved the
ninth in par fours after Brownell
came out of a trap within feet
of the cup. Brownell required only
II puts on the front nine.
Brownell, who defeated Dick May
er, last years New York State cham
plon, 2 and l, in one of yesterdays
Isecopd-round features, was the lone
Middle Atlantic survivor after Maury
Nee of Washington's Columbia
Country Club was defeated by Louis
Cass of Hollywood, 5 and 3.
Today's third and fourth rounds
were to reduce the field from 81
to Is.
Champions Defeated.
Nee had distinguished company
on the sidelines. The second
days casualties included three for
mer champions, Dick Chapman,
Ted Bishop and Chick Evans, and
a former British titleholder, Robert
SWeeny, all victims of their own
ineffectiveness rather than any bril-
liant golf on the part of their op-
ponents.
The favorites were paced by
Frank Stranahan, the glamor boy
from Toledo, who is six over par
for two rounds but still in there
pitching, thanks to a birdie on the
18th that defeated South Carolinian
Charles Dudley, / up. Defending
Champion Skee Riegel had another
scare, but his 72 over the par 70
Memphis Country Club course took
care of Robert Clark Of Edgewater,
Colo, l up. Ex-Champion Willie
Turnesa warmed to the task with
3-under par golf and easily defeated
Tim Moore of Miami Beach, 7 and
6, while Bud Ward, the only two
time champion remaining, was two
over par in defeating Ed White, the
Texan who won the intercollegiate
at Washington's Congressional
Country Club in 1885.
The match between Riegel and
Gene Dahlbender, the highly
regarded Atlanta boy, easily draws
top billing for the third round and
the winner of that match meets
last years runnerup, 44-year-old
Johnny Dawson of Hollywood, pro-
vided Dawson gets by Bob Harris,
a fellow Californian.
Finally Goes Over Par.
Only Adrian Simonsen, former
professional from Minneapolis played
better golf than BrownellVn the first
two rounds of the 48th Amateur
championship, but against weak op-
position. Simonsen played only "a
holes in posting a pair of 7-and-6
triumphs with three-under-par golf
each day.
Brownell finally went over par
Yesterday, but not until he had
played % holes. His first bogey
came on the 241-yard par 3 10th,
a full drive against brisk wind
that helped keep the temperature
under the 100 mark He had an.
other bogey, also on a par 3, the
18th.
Hardwicke is former Army ma
ior who has had number OF third
and fourth lead parts in Hollywood
productions. He played five over
par golf yesterday in Debating Ar