Evening star., 1951-08-12
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Virginia Against D. {.
In Golf Match Today
By MerreII WhittIesey


amateur team will meet an all
star team of amateur golfers from
| Virginia in the third annual
match today at the James River
Course of the Country Club of
Virginia in Richmond, with the
hosts given an excellent chance
to score their first victory in the
series. Their knowledge of the
Virginia course is a major point in
the hosts favor.
Bobby Brownell, District anna
teur titlist and captain of the Dis
trict team, announced a late line
up change. substituting Frank
Woolley Of Belle Haven for Char
ley Price of Kenwood. Price wired
from Atlantic City that he would
be unable to attend due to the
pressure of business.
Woolley consistently has been
breaking par over his home course
and he is expected to be paired
with clubmate Comdr Frank
Heyer. Between them they are a
tough combination. Last year
Woolley played with the Virginia
team because of his excellent per-
formance in the State amateur
The District team granted him a
release.
Bases Line-up on Merit.
Brownell would not divulge his
lineup but said he did not plan
any jockeying and would place
the players in order on a merit
basis as far as possible. The
Districts top tandem probably
will be Brownell and his Chevy
Chase clubmate, Ralph Bogart.
Several members of the District
team played a practice round at
James River yesterday and the
others will make the trip this
morning. The Virginia team will
entertain at the town course fol-
lowing the match.
Washington won, 1911, last
year at Manor Club and 1872 to
1912 in 1949 at the Pennington
Club in Charlottesville.
Other players on the District
team are: Col. Jim Wilson Of
Army Navy; Bob Morris and Mike
Jankowski of Prince Georges; Ted
Burrows and Jim Whitaker of
Manor; Claude Rippy of Bethesda;
Buddy Bowie of Columbia; Claude
Wild of Washington; Eddie Ault
and Volney Burnett of Indian
Spring; Tom Belshe of Burning
Tree and Roger MARITIME of Ar
gyle. Maury Nee of Columbia and
Eddie Gallaher of Congressional
will accompany the team as al
ternateS.
Virginia Group Impressive.
Virginia's hand-picked squad
will be headed by Connie Sellers,
State amateur champion from
Roanoke; Wynsol Spencer. twice
Virginia amateur champion and
runner up to Ralph Bogart in the
Middle Atlantic last year. and
Dick Payne, 1850 State champion.
H. M. Blankinship of Lynch
burg, non-playing team captain,
also has named George Fulton,
jr., of Roanoke. runnerup to Sell
ers last month; Ray Loving. jr.,
of Charlottesville, low amateur in
the Virginia Open; Benno Jansen,
Frank Sutton and John S. Battle.
jr., of Charlottesville; Harry
Easterly. Jack Harris. Dave Ewell,
jr., and Harry Thomson of Rich
mond; Aulick Burke of Bristol.
DR.. w. H. Alexander of Peters
burg and Ralph English and Lam
don Buchanan of Roanoke.
The Virginia squad will not have
Bill Tomlinson of Hermitage and
Robert Broad of Chesterfield be-
cause they are playing for the
Richmond city title today. Thomp-
son, a member of the team. was
medalist in the Richmond cham
pionship and Harris a semif1nalist.
The District Golf Association is
hopeful of broadening its inter-
city program next year to include
four-way match between golfers
of Maryland, Virginia, the Dis
trict and Philadelphia.