Evening star., 1948-11-01
Five D. c. Linksmen,
|Worshanl Brothers
In Pinehurst Golf

At least flye washington golfers
are in Pinehurst, N. c., today for
the 18-hole qualifying round of the
46th annual North and South open
golf championship, while the Dis
trjct will have a roofing interest
in several others, including the
Worsham brothers, Lew and Buck,
and Leo Walper.
Al Houghton of Prince Georges
and Harry Griesmer OF Bethesda
Country Club left over the week
end for a practice round over the
famed Pinehurst No. 2 course. Ken
wood Club will be represented by
three amateurs, Charles Price, Will
liam Briggs and DR.. Joseph Ken
rick.
Today's qualifying round will be
followed by l8 holes Tuesday and
Wednesday and 36-hole final
Thursday. Only Lew Worsham of
the above group is exempt from
qualifying.
In mixed pro-amateur 18-hole
tournament at Southern Pines,
N. c., yesterday. Lew Worsham and
Patty Berg. Chicago, turned in a
149 for second place behind Pete
Cooper. Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla,
and Mrs. Estelle Page, Chapel Hill,
N. c.. and Johnny Bass, Baltimore,
and Betty Bush, Chicago, who tied
for first with 148.
Buck Worsham and Buttons Co.'S
grove, Southern Pines, tied for third
with Johnny Palmer, Badin, N. c.,
and Grace Lenczyk, national wom-
ems champion, at 1853.
Columbia's Cy Cummings Memo
rial Trophy, a medal play tourna-
ment for the first time this year,
is in the hands of Ray Swearingen
and Ritchie Edmonston after their
round of 10 defeated a best-ball u
by Page Cornwell and Dick Essex
in the playoff yesterday.
The rules are that each team
must be first flight golfer (Swear-
ingen of the winners and a second
sixteen played (Edmonston}. Here
tofore the defending champions
played the winner of an elimina-
tion tournament, but because it was
late in the season when play started
this year it was changed to a medal
tournament. The playoff teams tied
III the first 36 holes.
Match postponed-one player in
Egypt. That was the status of the
Indian Spring Club championship
yesterday when Eddie Ault, two
time former winner, and w. B. Nc
Ferren were scheduled to play the
36-hole final.
McFerren. navigator on trans
ocean airline, had to make a quick
trip to Egypt, but he's scheduled to
return before next Sunday.
Danny Burton and w. w. Seay
agreed before they started their 60
hole final match for the Anacostia
Club championship yesterday that
if thes second Is was not completed,
they would play another 18 next
Sunday with the count at post
poned point to stand.
Burton, a mailman, led Seay,
Agriculture Department employe,
up at the end of 33 holes yester-
day when darkness set in. So they
will play another. 18 next week
with Burton taking a 1-up lead into
the match.
! Burton had a par 66 over the
short course in the morning and
led, up. Seay came back to take
a 2-up lead. but Burton fired three
straight brides for the lead that
] he held until the 33d hole. .ses
Jack Smith broke 100 for the third
time in his golfing career yester-
fday and took home a turkey as
first low net prize in the turkey
tournament at Prince Georges.
Smith, who probably gets free golf
instruction as he. is the father-in-
law of Eddie Jones, the assistant
pro, had a SO and deducted 20
handicap strokes for a net ST.,
Other turkey winners were M, H.
de Bruin, 86-15-71; S. B. Smith,
83-11--72, Sam Kaplowitz, 88-16-
70, and DR.. M. Parks and r. c.
Spahr with respective gross scores
of rs and n.
Employees of the District Gov
ernment were playing their annual
l8-hole tournament at Indian
Spring today. Jerry Hart won the
title last year.