Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
Illinois Congressman,
New Yorker Shatter
Par by II Strokes
By MerreII WhittIesey

Representative Leslie ArendS OF
Illinois, the House minority whip
and A. F. (Bud) Kroeger Of Gar
den City laid further claim as the
best amateur team of the District
golf season when they took the
first-round lead yesterday in the
Columbia Country Clubs Member
Guest tournament with a phe-
nomenal best-ball SO. or II under
par.
Congressman Arends, also a
member of Burning Tree, and
Kroeger, an industrial consultant
in New York, won the recent
Burning Tree 54-hole Member
Guest played over the scotch four
some route.
. Columbia's event, which will be
concluded today, is a bestaball,
handicap event in which each
amateur receives three-fourths of
his full handicap. Arends had
a seven-stroke allowance and
Kroeger four, but without any
strokes at all they paired for a
gross best-ball sc, the best of the
day in that department. They
were seven strokes lower after
taking their handicap strokes on
apthe card.
" Ormes Next with so.
The next to last of the 1875
teams to finish, Jim Orme of the
host club and his cousin. E. J.
Orme of Purcellville, posted pair
of 30s for a runnerup score of 60.
Jim Orme had II handicap strokes
and his partner Is.
The best individual effort of the
day was a three under-par 81 by
Bobby Brownell, the District anna
teur champion, but at that it
wasn't much of a score for him.
Brownel has played the Co.
lumbia course in 81 when it played
considerably harder than yester-
day. Brownell and Walter Gal
1agher won the event last year at
match play, but Brownell's 81 was
their best effort yesterday.
The tournament officials made
the course as easy as possible yes
terday, using the front of the
middle tees. There was plenty of
roll on the drives and the green's
were made for bold putting.
Short Puts Missed.
The second best gross scores of
the day were the Cts by Brownell-
Gallagher and Frank Weller of
the host club and Doug Berry of
Argyle. The latter team had an
opportunity to lead the field but
missed short puts on three of
the last four holes, after both
previously had made some phe-
nomenal puts, Weller dropping
o 75-footer on the 18th hole
Berry needed par in for a SO
with only four to play but slipped
near the finish.
The third low best ball score
was a 9-under-par 81 by M. w.
Fillius of Columbia and w. H.
Mylander with seven. The 62s
were by Weller Berry and the
father-and-son combination of
G. H. Foster, ST., and his son
from Army Navy.
SouShpaw Has So.
The only other sub-par indi-
vidual effort was a SO by south
paw Byrn Curtiss, while Ralph
Bogart. Tracy Mehr and Arnold
Palmer, the former Wake Forest
golf team captain, had 70s, even
par.
Other scores in contention were
best ball OBS by j. V. Kennedy
and Tracy Mehr of Washington
Richard B. Essex and Charles
Given of Congressional; DR.. G. T.
Sharp and DR.. Preston Haynes of
Chevy Chase; c. A. Slater. j.,
and Webb Hayes of Chevy Chase
w. j. Hickey and F. r. Hanlon of
Prince Georges and R. T. Willis
and Pat Gregg of Congressional.
Those who posted best ball Gas
were: Curtiss and Eugene Lorenz
of Congressional; r. P. Harring-
ton and w. j. Lark of Kenwood;
w S. Abel and John Powell of
Chevy Chase; j. M. Johnston and
Corcoran Thorn of Chevy Chase;
j. T. Bowie and Phi Bowie of
Chevy Chase; Page Cornwell and
John Barr, jr., of Chevy Chase;
Floyd Akers and Tom Belshe OF
Burning Tree; w. c. Lent and
Col. L. j. Wright. and r. H
Pledger and Don Sullivan OF
Argyle.