Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24

r petitive test of the season
~ Saturday when 1t is billed to
clash with the golfers of West
Point at the Congressional Country
Club. Maurice ]. Mccarthy, captain OF
the team, and Lou Little, director Of
athletics at the Hilltop, have chosen the
following golfers to represent George
town in its first match: Mccarthy. Mark
Flanagan, F. j. Chick Beger, Robert
Manning, John Foley and Norbert
Weisler. The last named youngster
may not be able to play because OF
trip out of Washington. In that case
the golf board of strategy at the Hill
TOD may choose Dick Wilson of South
ern Pines, N c., the lad who was
semi fnalist in the North and South
amateur championship. and was unable
to compete in the qualifying rounds Tor
the Hoya team last week because OF an
injured shoulder. Mccarthy, who Is the
holder of the intercollegiate title. has
been practicing every day at Washing
ton, and has found new driver which
he feels will replace the one he used
for several years and which has been
worn out in competition.
Confessional golfers who were I'M
able to compete In the blind DOGGY
tournament last Sunday because OF the
heavy rain IN the afternoon, may COM
plete the tourney next Sunday. The
blind DOGGY has been setSat figure be-
tween 10 and 82s
Columbia Country Club golfers were
competing today in a series OF mystery
competitions arranged by the golf COM
mittee of the club as part Of the
formal opening Of the golf course.
Chairman James and his golf commit
tee refused to divulge the nature OF the
scheduled events, but intimated that
golf was to be merely incidental to the
fun-making nature Of the opening
ceremonies.
Members Of the Interdepartmental
Golf League will 60 back to the Manor
Club, scene of their first tournament in
1927, for their third annual event on
June 3 and 4, according to a decision
reached at meeting OF the executive
committee of the league last night. The
tourney will be played for the Mellon
Trophy, put up by the Secretary OF the
Treasury for the winning team score,
and for an individual trophy put up
by Washington firm. The committee
had offers from three clubs, but chose
Manor because of certain restrictions
of the other golf organizations. The
event is two-day medal play affair,
and upward of so teams are slated to
compete.
Mrs. Yelverton E.. Booker Of the
Washington Golf and Country Club is
the first holder of the Phyllis Keeler
Miller Memorial Trophy. The long
time friend and associate of the late
secretary of the Women's District Golf
Association, to whose memory a sun
dial was dedicated on the lawn OF the
washington Club yesterday, and who
succeeded Mrs Miller as secretary Of
the women's golf organization, annexed
the first competition for the memorial
trophy at Washington with a card OF
98-13-85. She led Mrs. William E.
Hall, also of Washington, and Miss
Winifred Faunce of the Manor Club by
one stroke Miss Faunce turned in the
I best gross card of the day SO, which,
| with her handicap of seven strokes,
gave her net Sc. Mrs. Hall had 1906
1886.
Mrs. Miller won the woman's cham
pionship of the Washington Club sew
eral times, and was prominent figure
In womans golf about Washington before
her death little more than year ago.
Yesterday after the tournament had
been concluded the competitors gathered
about hag-draped shaft near the first
tee at the Washington Club to par
ticipate in the dedication ceremonies.
The sun dial, erected in memory of Mrs.
Miller, was the gift of the Women's Dis
trict Golf Association to the club. On
its base it bears an inscription stating
that it was erected by the association to
the memory of Mrs. Miller. The shaft
of golf club held in the hands of
the bronze figure topping the stone
shaft forms the shadow which regis
tiers the time. Around the perimeter
of the dial is the inscription: 1.-THE shy
shadow steals, away upon the dial and
the quickest eye can discover not more
but that it Is gone"
Participating in the ceremony were
George E. Keller, father of Mrs. Miller,
and her husband, Watson B. Miller.