Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07
Meade Golfers
ToPIayM Manor
For State Title

For State Title
By MERRELL WHITTLESEY
Fort Meade. an unheralded
golf team with eight Army
career men in its lineup, and
Manor Club, with more hidden
strength than any team in the
series, meet for the Maryland
State team championship next
Sunday in one of the big sur
prise finals in the history of the
matches.
Fort Meade Cd outsmarted
and co. outplayed the TALENT
laden Bethesda Club team for
"a 91a-8la victory yesterday. Be-
thesda virtually had been con-
coded the title weeks ago with
the Beman brothers, Bobby
Brownell and Ralph Bogart and
Perky Cullinane in its lineup.
Manor, captained by the cagey
Mel Shipley. who used to get
George Voigt when both were
kids. drubbed Woodmont. 1876.
with an unprecedented sweep of
the nine points at Woodmont.
In the championship match
the pros and the No. 3 and No. 5
brackets almost certainly will
play at Manor and the PAS
brackets at Fort Meade. because
Steve Tobash, the Fort Meade
pro, and his partner have played
at home for three straight weeks.
Maneuvers Backfire
Bethesda pulled some strange
maneuvering yesterday and it
backfired all the way as the
favorites lost 7l2 out of a pos
sible 9 points at Fort Meade.
The Bethesdans have been
boasting that in Tom Manning
and AL Sepulveda they have two
players who virtually are I'M
beatable at home. and that's
been true.
But Manning and Sepulveda,
two short hitters, are at a dis
advantage away. They were
sent to Fort Meade, and lost
three points.
Bethesda left Brownell, Bogart,
Del Beman and Cullinane at
home and they accounted for
five points. but Bethesda's weak
err brackets were not split and
they virtually were shut out.
Few of Fort Meades players
are known locally. Tobash, the
pro. is a good player and his
partner. w. o. Billy Houghton,
is a Washingtonian. Col. r. H.
Chard is the I'd Army senior
champion and Specialist Jack
Laxson has Won several Euro
pean Army tournaments.
Trouble for Manor
Manor will be at a disad-
vantage next Sunday. Both Bill
McFerren, jr., and his brother,
Jerry, the Western junior cham
pion, will play SO holes for the
University of Maryland team in
the Atlantic Coast Conference
championship Saturday at Wins
ton-Salem. Unless arrangements
are made for them to fly home,
the McFerren brothers will have
to drive most of the night and
play again Sunday.
Shipley spotted his team nicely
yesterday, sending his more err
ratio hitters to wide-open Wood
mont, and keeping the older,
straighter shooters at home. And
Mel sank curling 8-footer on
the 18th that gave him and Dave
Leahy 2l2 points in their match.
The Manor tandelns of
George Thornton and George
Cornwell; DR.. Mike Oristian and
Tony MCGOWAN, and John Grub
and Jerry all swept their brac-
kets in the matches at Wood
mont. Young Grub had a SO
and he and Jerry a best ball
of 81 The best golf at Manor
was an outgoing 33 by Dr.. Jerry
Footer. the former Woodmont
champion.
Fort Meade has beaten Ken
wood. Rolling Road and Be-
thesda by a total of three points.
Manor has swamped Indian
Spring. Columbia and Wood
mont by a total of IS points.
Fort Meade, 91a: Bethesda. 8Iz
Steve Tobash and Wo. william Hough-
ton, Fort Meade. scored Ia points to
a for Harry Griesmer and Deane
ssc Dick Lehms and Capt Paul weber,
Fort Meade. scored o points to for
Bobby Brownell and Del Beman.
Capt. c. F. Thomas and Pfc. Chris
Sarro. Fort Meade. scored 3 points TO
0 for Herb Rudd and Bill Dudley.
Spl. Jack Laxson and Comdr. Jean
Winchester. Fort Meade. scored l point
to fer Ralph Bogart and Perky Cnlli-
Col. c II. chard and Acc Dean
Radtke. Fort Meade, scored 3 points
to o FOR Tom Manning and Al Sepul-
Pvt. A. Pirtle and ssc. Georre sta
rowski Fort Meade. scored point to
. fol- Claude Rippy and John Gonella
Manor, I3 W0OdmOnt. )
Clagett stevens and Bill McFerren, lr..
Manor scored y a point to 2ia for
Clarence Doser and Bobby Lerner.
Mel Shiplev and Dave .Leahy, Manor;
scored 2is points. TO for Howard
Nordlinger and Warren Krick.
Bill McFerren, ST.. and Jim Huntt
Manor. scored ! point to 2 for Jerry
Footer and Cabot Feldman
Gee re Thornton and George Corn
-"n Manor scored 3 points TO Tor
Dave Workman and Buddy, Els
Jerry McFerren and Johnny Grupn
Manor scored 3 points to q Tor BuooS
Brylawski and Milton Harris.
Or. Oristian and Tony MCGOWAN
Manor. scored 3 points to 0 for ALVIN
Dulcan and Hubert Hon