Evening star., 1949-05-09
Capitals Golf Teams No Match
For G.. c: of Maryland Champs

Of the previous Sunday-that the
Country Club Of Marylands de-
Tending champions In the Mary
land State team matches are toe
powerful for the rest Of the league.
The team that has won the title
for the last three years has new
members In Ed Finnessy. the An
napolis Roads Open champion. and
DR.. Walter Panowski. o seminal
LIST In the Maryland Amateur last
year. With due respect to Wash
ington Golf and Country Club,
and probably Prince Georges
there doesn't appear 70 be q team
In this section strong enough TO
give the Baltimoreans q good
match.
The c. c. OF Maryland trounced
Indian Spring. 12l2 to 5lz, on the
losers course yesterday and next
week viii meet Washington Golf
and Country Club. q sla-to-sl2
victor over Baltimore c. c. at Five
Farms. The site Of the match viii
be decided by the flip Of q coin,
as both teams have played one
match at home and one away and
both played away yesterday.
C. C. of Maryland Too Tough.
The other semifinal win be be-
tween Prince Georges. which
trounced Kenwood. l2h-5h. and
Hiliendale. o 10la-7h victor over
the Naval Academy. This match
undoubtedly will be at Prince
Georges, as Al Houghton's team
has played two straight matches
away from home.
Indian Spring turned out its
best team yesterday. but the c. c.
of Maryland was too tough.
Andy Gibson had an individual
68 in the top foursome. and in the
second match Buddy Sharkey and
George Thornton Of the hosts
had q 1-over-par best ball for
the front nine and were 9 down.
Ed Meyer had an individual 80.
and with Finnessy o best ball 80.
Ernie Caldwell dropped o l5-foot
birdie putt on the 18th to make
1t three points for Caldwell and
DR.. Ed Stinebert against Volney
Burnett and Jim Hunt. The hosts
came up with ga points In the
last two foursomes after the
match had been lost. The c. c.
of Maryland led In I'VE Of the six
matches at the end Of nine and
the other was even.
They've changed some Of the
holes at Kenwood. but somebody
forgot to tell AL Houghton. Par
for the course is 10 (used to be
71). but Houghton's par there for
many years has been SO. He put
together q pair Of 33s yesterday.
holing all puts, for an unoficial
course record for the new layout.
Morris, Willett Star.
Houghton and Mike Jankowski
won three points from George
Diffenbaugh and Charles Price.
but ut that they weren't the hot
test Prince Georges team. Bob
Morris and Gil Willett played Z
under par golf for q six-hole
stretch from 6 through II. with
five brides and an eagle. Morris
had q 60 for the round. Prince
Georges locked up the match by
winning 11h Of the first IL points.
Washington G&CC members,
forced to lengthen out o bit over
the long Five Farms layout. had
q close call against the hosts, but
used o bit Of strategy to exc out
o half-point victory. Billy Martin
and Don Lee came through with
the half point In the last bracket
for the victory.
The strategy was In dropping
Jim Gardner to the second brac-
ket. where he teamed with Harold
Hair to win three points from Ro-
land Mackenzie and Steve Hus-
ted. Sid Carroll and Claude Rip
py won three points. c. M. Fea-
therstone and Bill McCabe fol-
lowed suit and then Martin and
Lee came through with the valu-
able half-point. Dave Thomson
and Bill Walsh dropped three in
the top bracket to Walter Ro-
mans, the District Open cham
pion who is tough to beat at Five
Farms, and John Quinn.
East Potomac's golf team made
1t two straight by turning back
Laurel Of Richmond. 26-ls. over
the Hams Point course. The best
scores were 73s by George Graham
and Joe Kotvan Of the hosts and
Wicky Jones. Laurel pro. and M.
DENLY. The latter team won three
points from AL Treder and George
Graham.
w. B. McFerren's 2-under-par
60 captured medal honors In the
qualifying rounds of Indian
Springs midget match play tour
nament. ALI matches win be atl
nine holes, and thus four players
from the same bracket will start
out and at the end Of nine the
winners play the second nine and
determine q semifinalist In O.
single 18-hole round.
Seven flights will start match
play next week. Buddy Sharkey