Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-02
bowieand Doser
Best Area Bets
In Junior Golf
BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY

ny MENhELL Will 1LGSEx
Keith Bowie and Jack Doser,
a pair of golf-minded 17-year-
olds who spent the week end
in competition with considerably
faster company than juniors, APP
pear to be the Districts best
bets in the United States Golf
Associations junior champion
ship, which starts two weeks
from tomorrow at Manor Club.
They are two of the six who
will be paired for match play in
the starting field of 1913. There
also is a fair chance that one
or more juniors from Washing
ton may be used as alternates.
The areas participants at
Manor will be:
Eddie Bowers, 17-year-old
Northwestern High graduate and
upcoming Maryland freshman,
who had a IA at Chevy Chase
yesterday to win the USGA's
silver medal for low sectional
qualifler.
COser, Lubar Compete
Jack Doser. 17-year,old future
Duke student, who had a IS, son
Of the .Woodmont pro, played for
st. Johns.
Chuck Lubar, 16 : year old
Wilson student, who also had IS.
Larry Burd, 17-year-old Be-
thesda Chevy Chase High all
round athlete. who had rs.
Keith Bowie. 17-year-old June
graduate of Bladensburg and a
Maryland freshman in Septem-
Der. who had n.
Charles Holden III, 17-year-
old George Washington High
senior. qualified last week as
Virginia's only representative.
First Round Losers
Only Burd and Holden have
represented the District in the
USGA Junior championship be-
fore. and both lost in the first
round last year. This will be
the last crack for all but Lubar.
as the other five will be too
old next year. The champion
ship is for juniors who have not
reached their 18th birthday by
July 20.
Bowie was runnerup in the
Prince Georges club champion
ship over the week end. Seven
down with 10 to play against
Gil Willett, he lost only 3 and 2
in the scheduled 36-hole final.
Willett is rated as the longest
hitter among the District anna
teurs, and Bowie said he outhit
Gil on 10 of 80 holes in their
match Sunday, the others being
par threeS. Bowie won the driv.
ing contest, but Willett won the
match.
DoSer was in Buffalo, N. Y,
over the week end playing in
the East Aurora Invitation, a
fast tournament for upper New
York State amateurs. Jack
qualified. lost his first round
match, but won the champion
ship flight consolation.
Eight Players in '49
The last time the USGA Junior
was held here, in 1949, the
District had eight players in
match play, but six of tkem lost
in the first round. Denny Bolster,
now a resident of Cleveland.
went to the fourth round and
Billy Wolfe to the quarter-finals.
In fact, Wolfe. teaching pro
at Glenmont, twice was quarter
f1naliSt and once semifinalist, by
far the best national record of
any other area junior.
I Alternates, in order, will be
Ronald Fighter and Doug Lind
say. who had 79s: Jerry Doser
and Dick Kraft. who had Dos,
and Carl MacCartee and jeff
Lindsay. who had 81s. Fifteen
year-old Paul Kurtz. entered in
the District Junior, but not the
USGA, also had 81. an out nine
of AZ and back nine of "a. Dave
Voris. the schoolboy champion,
was among those who missed
with an 80.
The round at Chevy Chase
also was used as qualifying for
the District Junior. Bowers was
medalist. Three flights started
play today at Prince Georges,
with Semifinals and finals to-
, morrow.