Evening star., 1948-09-02
.Unsung Golfers
Bid for Tit|ein
u. ). Amateur
Champion RiegeI Bows
As Stors Are Upset;
BrownelI Is Loser
By MerreII WhittIesey
Stor Sfoff Carrespondsnf

There's an accent on newcomers as
this 48th National Amateur cham
pionship enters the fifth and sixth
rounds tQdSS at the Memphis Coun-
try Club, and if you don't think so,
how many golf fans in the audience
can place William Barrett, Julius
Boros, John Levinson, Ham Caroth-
ers, James McGonagill, Louis Cass
or John Kraft?
With Is players remaining, only
nine of them are nationally known,
led by the poker-faced tWo-time
champion from Spokane, Marvin
BUD Ward and his fifth-round op-
ponent, the former United States
and British titlist, Willie Turnesa.
The hair brush-like Bermuda
greens and the tight fairways of the
increasingly tough course have TAX
en- their toll of the name players
with last years winner and runner
up, California's Skee Riegel and
Johnny Dawson, the principal cas-
ualNes of yesterdays hectic third
and fourth rounds.
The pre-tournament prognosti-
Gators who said the new champion
would be an unnamed young South
ern golfer now are leaning toward
Riegel's conqueror, the recently
crowned Southern Amateur cham
pion, Gene Dahlbender. Others,
who say Dahlbender's game is either
63 or 83. claim he is not steady
enough to outlast the long grind.
Dahlbender Gusts Riegel.
In any case, Dahlbender, stout
son of a golf professional from
Atlanta, created yesterdays biggest
disturbance His par golf ousted
Riegel in match in which Dahl
bender was we'll ahead all the way
and in the afternoon he belied his
unreliability by outsteadying the
present intercollegiate champion,
Robert Harris of Stanford.
Frank Stranahan. who has out
drawn the other contestants 10 to l.,
still is pitching, but the muscle-man
from Toledo has his hands full
again today. If he gets by Chuck
Kocsis, the veteran campaigner
from Detroit. he meets the winner
of the. match between the Metro
politan New York champion, Ray
BilloWs, twice national flnalist,
and William Barrett of Memphis.
1t figures to be pipe smoking, easy
going Billows at name your own
odds.
Honoluluan Arthur Armstrong is
the choice to win semifinal spot
if he can get by Levinson, the Great
Lakes champion, and the winner of
the match between Boros and
Charles Coe, Oklahoma City's ex-
rans-Mississippi titlist, a string
bean SHOEMAKER who is a good one.
Dahlbender is in the ideal spot.
His fifth-round opponent is Holly
woods Cass, and the winner of that
one meets either 20-year-old Ca
rothers from Greenville, Miss, or
McGonagill, a former pro from
Shreveport, La. Carethers, with
little or nothing on his past per-
formances chart, has slipped past
two prominent college golfers,
Harvie Ward of North Carolina and
Al Besselink of Miami and the for
mer intercollegiate champ, Georgia's
highly regarded George Hamer. He
beat Hamer by laying stymie on
the 18th.
Ward -Turnesa Clash Tops.
Today's early feature, of course, is
Ward VS.. Turnesa. Both played par
golf for the day in winning two
matches. Both claim a season of
little activity, but both are sur
prisingly sharp. Turnesa may be
one of those man possessed" golf
ers as he won a first-round match
on Monday that by rights he had
no business winning That type
often goes on to win the title.
The Ward d-Turnesa victor meets
either Bruce Mccormick, a veteran
campaigner and former public links
champion from Hollywood, or Kraft,
a Denver golfer. Kraft took most
of the color out of the tournament
when he eliminated five-by- five
Dynamite Goodloe of Valdosta, Ga,
on the last hole in the fourth
round. Goodloe, attired in shorts
and with fat Negro cadde about
his size who used to carry clubs
for Bobby Jones, could be the
greatest drawing card in golf.
Nine of the remaining 16 are
over 80, seven are under, with Ca
rothers the baby of the group. The
South has four contestants remain
ing, the East, Midwest and Pacific
Coast three each and the Rocky
Mountain sector, the Southwest and
Hawaii one each. Today's rounds
will cut the field to four and they
will play 36-hole matches tomorrow
and Saturday.
Brownell, Off Game, Loses.
Bobby Brownell is homeward
bound. The District titlist bowed
out, 3 and 2, to Movie Actor Clarke
Hardwicke of Los Angeles in the
third round and Hardwicke then
shot golf that Brownell would have
murdered as he was routed, 6 and
4, by Coe.
Hardwicke was unbeatable against
Brownell. Bobby was 3 under par
for five holes-and even. After hit
ting two balls out of bounds on the
sixth, Brownell earned great half
when he carved out S to halve
Hardwicke, who three-putted. But
Bobby hit his first poor chip shot
of the tournament on the eighth
hole and that led to his downfall.
Suddenly Brownells drives lost
their trueness and he found the pit
falls of this publicized wirey rough.
After one-putting six green's on his
subpar out nine of "a, Brownell did
not have a single one-putter COM
ing back. He encountered successive
double bogeys on the 18th and 18th
and Hardwicke refused to slip.
Brownell's sudden collapse was
amazing, as after playing his first
81 holes of the tournament in 6
under par, he was over on his last
IL holes as all his shots deserted
him.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.