Evening star., 1952-07-20
|Upsetters Gain Finals
I'm Washington Golf;
Play for Title Today
By MerreIl WhittIesey

By MerreIl WhittIesey
Jack Corbett, giant-killer of the
club golf championship at Wash
ington Golf and Country Club. and
Jack Mertz. a steady shooter who
also waded through favored op-
position. meet for the title today at
So holes.
Corbett, upset victor over Claude
Wild and Harold Hair in the first
two rounds, scored a 3 and 2
triumph over Billy Martin. a CO.
lmedalist. with two-over-par golf
yesterday. Mertz. like Corbett a
week end golfer won, 3 and 2, over
Henry Kerfoot. jr. the schoolboy
champion, with a 3-over-par per-
formance.
The first 18-hole round starts at
$3.50 am. and the second at 1880
between the surprise finalists.
Forty-one professionals have
been paired for the Middle At
lantic Golf Associations pro-
amateur tournament tomorrow at
Washington Golf and Country
Club. That means about 100 anna
Iteurs will compete. The host club
has added 500 to the prize money
and the Middle Atlantic Golf As
sociation, sponsoring its only pro-
am Of the year. another 500.
Starting times of the pros:
9Henry Burch: s:Os-Fred Bolton;
S:d8-Don SAVIOR; s:241Bill Markhsm;
ton fsSsSss'B sODbS Bowers; Hsi siii
.nS:5.7 sgS:1;, Rs. aassn: agsSsi sHss
Tyson: 9;SseooFrank 80 Tenney; s:44-clin
craSio ISos nToss:h bash
Direnbaush; 1910 % '1 walter Romans;
10;4e Mus o'Linser; 1856 = Harry
ii:o4-Andy Gibson; 11:12-M Hough;
Graefe; ii I:36NCharles Betschier; 11:44
-SillS Collins; l:ss- Jl;5s-9Se aopkins
Mcclellan: 1?:4O--Ducky Miller: ,12:4s-
Charles Much; 12:56-Bill Downing.
shoie7 fs anz PTies; Ss5n11s6 is6-Eafi Flins;
1:34-Eddie stevens.
Pairings were announced by
the United States Golf Associa-
ton for the fifth annual Junior
Amateur championship starting
Wednesday at the Yale golf course
in New Haven, Conn. The 1877
survivors Of the sectional qualify
ing rounds, including five District
youngsters. 60 right into match
lplay.
Pairings of the five District
qualifiers:
s:54-Anthony tPerky) cullinane, Ken
woed, VS., John shubeck. jr,; Petroit. ..
obsrs S1sI9T,y ! MsysMsSa. sPsllnan p.tras Bethesda
12:12-Irving Salamy. Unattached. vs.
Ralph Haddad. Dedham, Mass.
1:0o..Glenn Mitchell. Kenwood. vs.. Joe
a;gs@apete LoSa. Manor. VS.. Donald
|Wrathall. East Aurora, N. =.
The public links Junior clinic,
Originally scheduled for Tuesday
at East Potomac, has been di-
fvided into boys and girls clinics
with the girls playing Tuesday and
the boys the following Tuesday,
July 40. both at East Potomac at
l10:30.
Mrs. Myrtle Bridget. mother OF
Jimmy Bridget. who competed in
the first boys clinic and was killed
in action in Korea. will present
the prizes to the winners in the
boys play.
One of the favorites in the boys
section will be 13-year-old John
Redman, who last week played
Anacostia in just q couple OF
strokes over par.
DIVOT DATA - Rock Greek
plays at Anacostia today and East
Potomac in Baltimore against the
Rangers Social Club in public
links matches Keith Kallio is
the latest District golfer to be
acknowledged as a contributor to
the USGA's Golf House Nick
Coppola, a 90-shooter at Manor
Club, has birdied the toughest
hole on the course. the par 4 sixth
three straight times. On two con-
secutive rounds he sank chip
shots and on the third surprised
himself by reaching the green ir
two and sinking a 40-foot putt
Entries for the National ANA
teur close tomorrow afternoon al
Is at the USGA Offices in New
York Marilynn Smith, one OF
the top women pro golfers, will
give an exhibition today at Wood
mont Country Club at 2 o'clock
teaming with Howard Nordlinger
many time club champion, against
Fred Bolton, the pro. and Mrs
Arthur Sims.