Evening star., 1952-06-22

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Decide Title Today at
Washington Course
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By Bill Fuchs
Bobby Brownell, 33-year -old
precision golfer from the Chevy
Chase Club, and Spencer Overton,
gray-haired. bespectacled veteran
from Baltimore. meet today over
So holes for the Washington Golf
and Country Club Invitation
Tournament championship.
The first 18 holes will get under
way at 10:45 am. and the second
round at 3 pm.
Brownell, three-time Middle At
lantic Amateur champion, again
hammered away at Washington's
par-70 layout in machine-like
fashion yesterday. this time at the
expense of Bob Chandler of
Prince Georges. Chandler, like
young Perky Cullinane in Fridays
quarterfinals, was a 6-and-5 VIC
tim of Brownell, who eliminated
Medalist Claude Wild, 3 and /, in
the first round.
Overt0n Wins on 18th.
Overton had it a little tougher
in his semifinal match against
Ralph Bogart, Brownell's insur-
ance business partner and fellow
member at Chevy Chase. Two
missed puts made Bogart a q
and-1 victim.
While Bogart never once led in
the match, he pulled even on three
different occasions before losing
the 18th and 14th holes in ex-
actly the same fashion. In both
cases he had a short but difficult
downhill putt and missed each by
inches.
Chandler never had q chance
against Brownell. He was on his
way out as early as the second
hole where he missed a four-foot
putt. From that point on, his
putter failed him completely. He
missed a four-footer on the third
hole, five-footer on the sixth,
made a brilliant 50-foot try on
the seventh that just missed by
inches, was short with a 12-foot
try on the 10th and just missed a
20-footer on the 18th.
Brownell Under Par.
BroWnell wasn't missing. He
had one bogie-the third hole
and three brides, which made him
2-under at the end of the match.
The crusher, though, was de-
livered on the 10th hole. Chand-
ler hit wedge shot that put him
within IL feet of the pin. but
Bogart followed with one that
put him closer by six feet. It had
Ia telling effect on Chandler, who
missed his putt to fall 4 down.
He lost the 18th and 18th holes
with the match ending when the
18th was halved.
Bogart, the defending champion,
lost the second hole when he was
short on his first two shots, but
took the fourth after Overton
hit the trap and three putted.
The Rolling Road member took the
fifth when Bogart missed g six
foot putt. but lost the sixth when
his opponent sank a 12-foot putt
for birdie. Bogart missed the
green for bogie 4 on the 9th, but
tied it again on the 10th green
when Overton missed the green
on his second shot and took a five.
Missed Puts Hurt Bogart.
Then came the decisive 18th and
14th holes where Bogart overshot
the pin and landed on a double
slope and went 2 down. From
there through the 17th, all holes
were halved.
Today will mark the third tour
Inament meeting between Brownell
and Overton. Brownell defeated
Overton for the Middle Atlantic
title at Hot Springs, Va, in 1941
and for the Maryland State ANA
teur crown at Columbia in 1947.
Results and Starting Times.
Championship flight--Bobby .Brownell
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Chevy Chase, . and /. winners meet at
10:48 am and 3 pm.
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dss esds. defeated carp H courtney. @ wash Washington.
and 2 yho5n WnneTS meet at a942
defeated Earl Marcy. White Flint. i up
Don Sullivan. Argyle. defeated Lew
swsrthout Wysashinston. W 1 UP. Winners
'ntss Second IN fisRt&Ed HsS I'D Frank. Belle Haven,
defeated Robert Blanck, Argyle, Z, and 5;
Dan Mccarthy, Washington. and Z.
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feated Dick Reasoner. Bethesda. 2 and
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burg, Va, defeated William McFerren. In
molly, d Fairfax defeated J. Rsssei. iC Purcell cell
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son ndsn sprns Miller defeatee ee w sRHe
Beach, Fairfax. and l. Winners meet at
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defeated George n Martin. Manor, " i up. Win.
H' Seventh tS ii fiishtMW. E. Norris. Washing
ton. defeated E: H; Werner. Argyle: ! up.
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