Evening star., 1951-06-10
Panowski and Bailey
Beat 0verton, Scales;
District Stars Fail
BY MerreII Whithesey
Stcr Stoff cerrespendens

by Merreil WnitfleSey
star SseH Correspondent
TOWSO4I, Mo-, June 9.-Dr.
Walter j. Panowski, a perfec-
zionist who believes every golf
shot should go into the cup, and
Maury Bailey. an uninhibited a.
year-old collegian. today won
their way into the finals Of the
49th Middle Atlantic Amateur Golf
Championship.
DR.. Panowski, of the host club,
and Bailey, of neighboring Hillen-
dale, will meet for the title to-
morrow over the 36-hole route at
the Country Club Of Maryland.
Washington, which has pro-
duced the Middle Atlantic cham
pion in six of the last seven years,
failed to gain even a semifinals
berth this year. Ralph Bogart's
bid for a third straight title was
halted by Spencer Overton, 2 and
!, this morning, while Col. Jimmy
Wilson Of Prince Georges was
beaten by Bailey. / up, also in
the quarter finals.
Bailey Beats Medalist.
Panowski. a Veteran Admins
tration physician at Fort Howard
Hospital. rallied to beat Overton,
] up, in the afternoon, while
Bailey. captain of the University
Of Baltimore golf team, surprised
by winning and 2. over Ken
Scales, the medalist. Both Panow-
ski and Scales had won their
morning matches by 6 and 5 mar
gins, Panowski over Clubmate
Eddie Johnston with two-under
par golf and Scales over Paul
Haviland, the Maryland amateur
champion.
Somebody is going to be tre-
mendously disappointed tomorrow
because both Panowski and Bailey
seem mighty sure of themselves,
although neither has won any
thing more important than his
own club title. However. Panow-
ski has the better record. Last
year he went to the third round
Of the National Amateur, and this
spring won three matches in the
North-South Amateur, one over
Jim McHale of the Walker Cup
team.
Panowski was down with z to
play against Overton and many
Of his own club members had lost
hope. Then all of q sudden he
Clipped into the cup for a birdie
on the 18th, won the hole and
after that made no mistakes. The
54-year-old Overton, champion of
this event in 1910 and a former
Maryland Open and Amateur
titlist. lost the match by bogeying
the 14th and 18th holes. Panow-
ski was three over par for the
Is holes.
Bogart Of His Game.
Bailey. who was even par for
18. Is a cocky youngster who re-
marked after hooking a drive on
the 18th, ''They can't all be good"
Bogart, usually deadly with his
short game, couldn't find the
touch against Overton. Ralph ac-
tually three-putted only one
green, the 18th where he lost the
match, but at least five times he
failed to get down in two shots
from the fringe of the green.
Overton won the fourth hole
with a birdie 4 and thereafter was
always / or 2 up. Bogart's chip
ping was so far of that on the
18th hole he tried to run the ball
with a putter from the fringe. He
rolled the shot within two feet of
the cup but missed the putt, only
to get a life when Overton missed
an 18-inch putt.
Bogart's long iron shot on the
200-yard 17th hit the green 80
feet from the cup, but his bid for
a birdie 2 was woefully short and
he missed a four-footer for a par
Overton won the hole and the
match with his regulation 3.
Wilson Rallies in Vain.
Col. Wilson, who qualified with
an 80 and won his first two match
.es with Spotty golf, was approx
imately six over par against Bail
ey. and that wasn't good enough
Bailey went up at the sixth
but Wilson won the seventh and
ninth to square the match at the
turn.
Bailey twice went / up on the
back nine, but Wilson pulled even
both times with pars, squarine
the match for the last time on the
18th with a 8. On the 366-yarc
18th, Wilson missed the tiny
green with his second shot, anc
his chip shot ran six feet past
the cup. Wilson's bid for a pal
hit the cup but spun out. Bailey
who was on nicely in two. wor
with his par 4.
In 49 years of competition. tht
Middle Atlantic Amateur nevel
has been won three successive
times by one player. George
Voigt, Billy Howell and Bogart art