Evening star., 1960-09-15
3D.C. Golfers
Among 16Left
In National
Bemun Co-Fovorite
AS NickIuus Loses;
Lohren, Wild Win

National Amateur golf cham
pionship today and in Deane
Beman had the co-favorite in
this tournament which saw
Jack Nicklaus bow out in the
fourth round.
The other two District anna
.teurs. Carl Lohren of Brooke
Manor Club and Claude Wild
Of Burning Tree, will meet in
the sixth round this afternoon
if both win their morning
matches.
A victory this morning for
either Lohren or Wild would
mean automatic qualification
for the Masters tournament, an
honor that goes to the quarter
finalists. Beman already is q
Qualifier as the 1859 British
Amateur champion.
Wild Meeting Ward
Wild meets Harvie Ward, only
former champion remaining
and co-favorite with Beman in
the feature fifth-round match
Lohren plays Chuck Lewis, the
19-year-old son OF a Little Rock
golf pro who routed Nicklaus
S and 8, after leading six up
at the ninth hole.
Beman's opponent is Fred
Paine, 250-pound Pennsylvania
Amateur champion from Lew
Worsham's club at Oakmont,
who upset Billy Joe Patton.
If Beman beats Paine, he
meets the winner of the match
between Bill Hyndman and
Gene Andrews, a semifinalist
last year. Hyndman was Be-
mans victim in the 1851 Brit
ish Amateur final.
In the first two matches
completed this morning, Bob
Gardner of Elmsford, N. Y,
defeated Harry Root, Tampa,
Fla. Z and S, while Steve
Spray, Indianola, Iowa, won
from Bert Burdick, Baton
Rouge, La, 5 and 8.
Beman's Play Outstanding
Beman played some of the
finest golf of the third and
fourth rounds as he required
only 26 holes to take care of
Jim Dolan of Leicester, Mass,
and John Suisman of Bloom
field, Conn. Beman won, 6 and
5 and 7 and S, with three-un-
der-par golf and some tremen-
dous putting.
Wild reached the fifth round
by putting out Dick Chapman's
conqueror. Bill Harvey of
Greensboro, N. c., 3 and /,
after going 10 holes to win his
third-round match with Har-
ton Semple, Sewickley, Pa, /
up.
Ward whipped Frank Arasin
of Shamokin, Pa, 4 and 2, and
Dick Sucher, 3 and 2. The lat
ter defeated 1t. John Liechty
who qualified in Washington,
2 and /.
Wild Sinks 25-FOOter
Wild missed only three
greens in regulation figures all
day and stayed away from the
sandtraps. His longest putt
was a 25-footer on the 10Th
hole of the morning round that
won the match.
Lohren's strong point was
his straight driving. He three
putted only one green and was
in only one sand trap.
Lohren's advance to the fifth
round was spectacular. Yes
terday he eliminated Jack Pen
rose, Miami Beach, Fla, vet
eran golfer, 6 and 5. and then
Sam Carmichale of Martins
vile, Ind, 2 up.
Teen-agers Prominent
There are a couple of brash
teen-agers remaining with
Lewis, scion of an old English
golf1ng family, the ringlader.
Joining Lewis are:
Phil Brownlee, Ontario junior
champion, and Spray, clerk in
his dads grocery who was given
time off to win the 1859 West
ern Junior title. Brownlee de-
feated John Eisinger of Con-
gressional Country Club in
Washington, 4 and 8, in the
third round.
Charles Francis Lewis III,
whose grandfather was a golf
pro 81 years in Devonshire,
England, and various cities in
the United States, is the teen
age idol of the moment after
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