Evening star., 1948-11-08
Radio Flight Officer
Is Surprise Winner
AT Indian Spring

w. B. McFerren, who has made
more than 100 round trip flights
across the Atlantic with Trans.
World Airlines, finally had a week
end off and he used it to good ad-
vantage.
The radio flight officer, who has
divided his golf between Washing
ton, Dublin, Paris and Cairo this
summer. scored a mild upset by
defeating two-time champion Eddie
Ault, and S, in the scheduled &c.
hole final Of the Indian Spring Club
championship.
A member at Indian Spring fol
three years, McFerren formerly held
the Baldwin, Kans., Club cham.
pionship on two occasions. He was
captain of the Baker University golt
team more than 20 years ago, ano
was f1nalist in the Kansas Amateur
championship.
McFerren and Ault played summer
rules on Saturday in the first hall
of the match and McFerren led
three up, with a creditablet76 under
the conditions. He played one over
par golf for yesterdays 13 holes
Ault was off his game in all depart
ments
McFerren then went out and lost
playoff for the medal with Doug
Jackson, scoring 73 to Jackson'S u
Buddy Sharkey, who tied with them
at 10, was out of town.
Other flight winners:
Second, Harry Gershenson de.
feated c. B. Hartman, l up; third
Dan Arnold defeated Denny Heve-
ner, 2 and /; fourth, Hank Diet2
defeated J. B. Robinson, up;
fifth, Lew Ward defeated Mike
Fera, 6 and 4; sixth, Joe Gottliet
defeated DR.. Benjamin Isaacson
4 and 2; seventh, DR.. Herman
Brodie defeated Sol Reiter, up.
Danny Burton staged his flash
lest scoring spree since he left the
pro golf ranks to win the Anacostia
Club championship with and 4
triumph over w. w. Seay.
One up at the end of the 9th OF
their split 36-hole final, Burton
birdied the 10th, pared II and II
and ended the match with brides
on 13 and IA, despite the water
logged condition of the course
which forced the contestants tc
move out of casual water on sew
eral occasions.
It was the third time in the last
four years that Seay lost in the
| final.
1t took Sam Del Vecchio 20 years
to make a hole in one and then he
didn't see the ball drop into the cup.
The Kenwood golfer hit five-iron
shot into the sun on the 152-yard
third hole yesterday and not one
member of the SiXsome saw the ball.
They found it wedged between the
pin and the side of the cup, where
it hit on the fly.
Pro George Diffenbaugh. his aSSis-
tant, Dutch Fahrenwald. Bob Cooke.
Roy Tuerke and Larry 1mhoff were
in the party.
Manor's blind bogey turkey tourn-
ament was marked by four-way
tie at net 80 between Tom Carney,
80-0-80, w. l.. Mcdaniel, $3.50,
Don Sullivan, 80-0-80 and Mrs.
Ethil Metzger, 110-30-80.
! Prince Georges concluded its
! tournament season with a women S
turkey tournament, which produced
five winners: Mrs. Joseph Conover,
11o-32-78; Mrs. Burton Kintz,
96-17-79; Mrs. George Voight,
l96-17-79; Mrs. Tracy Fairchild
104-25-79, and Marie Walper, low
gross with an 88.
| Congressionals turkey tourna-
ment winners were: j. S. Myers,
S7-S-79; George Furlow, 1O3-24-
70; A. w. Tilley, 103-24-79; A. L.
Develip, 104-25-79; DR.. F. ].
O'Bryan, 97-18-79, and DR.. E. w.
Schultze, 97-l8-79.
Bethesda Country Club members
held hole-in-one tournament with
Charles Kendall the winner, 3 feet,
7 inches from the cup on the 15O-
yard seventh hoie. Joe Seegmiller
was second and Les Arries, jr.,
third.
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