Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-23
BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY

The District amateur golf
championship no longer is the
Who's Going to Beat Bobby
Brownell" championship. Brow
nell has been had.
Fifty-five matches, IL tourna-
ments and 10 years after he first
Iteed up the ball in a District
amateur as a 17-year-old. Brow
mel finally met with defeat yes
Iterday at the hands of 2l-year-
old Perky Cullinane, l up in 20
holes.
Now Cullinane, a Georgetown
University senior. must make up
his mind whether his objective
was just to beat Brownell or also
was to become the District titlist.
Cullinane never will forget
triumph; he'll always be the
player who finally beat Brownell
But there's important business
ahead. He's one of eight sur
vivors and the quarter finalists
Include Claude Wild, the Mary
land amateur champion, and Bill
Brownrigg. who's playing the
best golf so far. The successor
to Brownell figures to come from
those three.
CurtisS Upsets BOgart
At 1870 yesterday afternoon
Cullinane shook hands with
Brownell as they started their
second round match and said
GOOD lucky. Bobby" Brownell
replied, Il hope we both play
we'll" Neither player had his
wish. Brownell didn't have much
luck, and neither played par
ticularly well. Cullinane was
/ six over par for 20 holes,
Brownell seven over.
Among those who must have
regretted the Brownell defeat
was 18-year-old Billy Curtiss OF
Columbia. on the day that the
spirited youngster won the big
gest golf match of his career
trouncing Ralph Bogart, 4 and 8
the headlines belonged only to
Cullinane. AS the matches pro-
crossed, Billy's startling upset
virtually was forgotten.
The quarter-finalS pair Gull
linane against 30-year-old Tom
Pritchard of Congressional, a
National Amateur qualifier last
year who talks a good game and
is beginning to back it up.
| In the same bracket, the 49,
lyear-old Wild. only three over
par for the day over a long
testing golf course that gave ur
flew brides. meets 36-year-old
Julian Murphy of Kenwood. who
lin the second round won three
Iof the last four holes to upset
co-medaliSt Del Beman, up.
In the lower bracket, Brown
rigg. former District public links
Maryland junior and Kenwood
club champion. and ex-profes-
Isional. plays Bill McFerren. jr.,
University of Maryland golfer.
The other match is between
lCurtisS, who followed with a q
Iand-1 victory over Bill Gartner
in the afternoon. and Bob
Chandler, perennial threat from
Congressional who might sur
prise.
Couldn't Find Touch
Cullinane should have won
yesterday without going extra
holes, but his approach shot on
the 18TH wasn't too good. and he
a 4-footer that would
have ended the match. Almost
Everybody figured that with a
lift like that, Brownell would
charge on the extra holes.
But Brownell. who has been
far more interested in his sum-
mer home near Ocean City and
a new boat than in golf, could
not find the touch. Both played
sloppy golf for bogeys on the
18th and haved in fives.
Both hit good drives on the
goth. For Cullinane it was one
of many. as he had been driving
the ball for distance and place
ment all day. For Brownell, it
was one of a few. Both hit what
appeared to be poor second shots
but Cullinane'S wound up on the
green. Brownell hit poor chip
shot. Cullinane played an 49,
foot approach putt. a wobbly az
feet short of the hole. Brownell
left his 5-footer for par short
Iof the hole, of all things, and