Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-12
Kenwood Golf Title
First in IS Years for
Ex-Teen-Age Star

K-Ieen"Age JIdI
Buddy Sharkey started winning
club championships in his teens.
so it still leaves him young man
even when you say his victory in
the Kenwood championship yes
terday was his first club title in
is years. He's in his early sos.
Buddy won the Indian Spring
titles in 1887 and SO when that
club had a monopoly on the top
amateur golfers in the District.
Then he was away for a few
years, dropped out of golf for a
few more, and now is playing
week ends.
Sharkey defeated Larry Imhoff,
2 up, in the 36-hole Kenwood
final, making sweep Of tourna-
ment honors since he also won
the medal. It was the fourth
straight year for Imhoff in the
title round and he now has won
two and lost two.
Sharkey was 4 up after NOR
ming II, but was only up COM
ing to the final hole, which he
won when Imhoff, the pendulum
putter. trapped his second shot
and left it there. Sharkey had
71-44-145.
Eddie Ault and George Thorn
ton of Indian Spring kept the
Maryland State four-ball title
in the Washington area, max
ing it six times in the last seven
years District amateurs have
won the title. They defeated
Manor's Ben Hartig and Jim
Whitaker, and 8, in the title
round at Chevy Chase yester-
day.
The winners teamed perfectly,
as they had in previous matches
Thornton is big hitter and he
puts the pressure on the OPP
position from the tee. Ault IS
q 4lAiCOSC P4dyC1S 4A4Cy 44dA q
three under par best ball.
Ault. five-time club champion
at Indian Spring. had been to
the Semif1nalS three times in this
tournament. He lost with Buddy
Sharkey to Bobby Brownell and
Ralph Bogart several years ago
and two years ago Ault and
Thornton lost to Louis Fuchs
and Ted Burrows of Manor.
Bob MARITIME has been playing
most of the golf this season in
the MARITIME family but big
brother Pat put him in his place
yesterday, winning the semif1nal
match in the Argyle Club cham
pionship, up.
The match was delayed be-
cause Bob was in the Maryland
State four-ball championship
until he and Dan FultS lost in
the semifinals Saturday. Pat
will play Bill August Sunday in
a 36-hole match for the cham
plonShlp.
Gordon Rainwater, new
member of the East Potomac
Golf Club and Frank Mailley,
defending champion in the club
championship. are in the finals
and will meet for the title
sometime after the Washington
Suburban Golf Associations |
four-ball championship is over.
Mailley defeated Julian Will |
.liams, up. to continue his climb
through the toughest half Of the
draw while Rainwater won, 2 and
l. over AL Dunay.
Sew Leoff1er reached the Sec
ond-ffight final with a 3-and-2 |
victory over Ace Fuller and will |
meet Stanley Engeberg, who de-
feated William Aud. Wup.
The principal mems titles at
Chevy Chase Club are in the
hands of the Bogart family.
Capt. 1. c. Bogart CU. S. N, re-
tired, father of Ralph, the club
champion, won the senior title
and the Hawley Cup with rounds
of 80 and 70 for 159.
Walter White won low net with
a I'll total for the SO holes,
minus 80 handicap for a net 1879.
with Steve Cromwell next with
162-18-144.
Prize winners in age classes
were: 55-59-George Hamilton,
jr., net las: 60-64-Landra B.
Plat. 1853; 65-69-Dwight Dick
inson, LAG; 70 and over-Charles
Doing, IA.
Maurice LeBosquet reached
the final in defense of his Belle |
Haven title with an extra hole
triumph over Jack Kurtz, / up in
10. Frank Woolley won, 2 and l,
over Gen. L. c. Craige but Wool |
ley had business appointment |
on the West Coast and delayed |
the final until next week.
In Columbia's new 72-hole
WinsloW Trophy tournament
Buddy Bowie, the club champion.
came back with a 70 after an
opening 81 to tie Don Jones, IT.
74-15l for the lead at the half
way mark. Other low scores are
Ray SWearingen. 75-78-153:
Ricky Willis, 76-77-153; Byrn
CurtiSS, 75-79-154.
Today'S pro-amateur tourna-
ment at the Green Spring VAL
ley Club in Baltimore was to
serve as practice round for the
Baltimore Match Play Open that
starts tomorrow.
The District Golf Association
will sponsor its fall mixed two
ball tournament tomorrow at Co.
lumbia.
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