Evening star., 1930-06-15
SHOOT QUALIFYING
| ROUND TOMORROW
Large Fields Compete for
Few PIaces-Chevy Chase
AbandonS Miniature.

III We 4Ns NACNAALCHAs
LEVEN Washington golf pro-
- feSSionalS tomorrow are tc
essay the tough task OF
qualifying for the national
open golf championship over three
widely separated courses. Most OF
the local pros left yesterday for
Richmond to get in a practice Ses-
sion or two over the fine course OF
the Lakeside Country Club, where
only 8 men out of 20 entries Will
qualify over the 36-hole route to-
morrow.
One of the entrants will go to Pitts
burgh Field Club, and there will GO
be played over the course of the Pitts
burgh Field Club, and there will go
to Philadelphia, where the trials will
be played over the course Of the Spring
haven Club. It may be that one or
two of the local entrants will make
the grade, although the going Will be
tough; and will go on next month to
Minneapolis, where the national open
is to be played over the course Of the
Interlachen Club.
Bob Barnett and Gene Lark1n OF
Chevy Chase and r. Cliff McKimmie
of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps
Club have chosen Philadelphia as the
spot where they will make their bid.
Eighty players viii struggle for eight
places at Springhaven. At Pittsburgh,
where Sandy Armour Of Congressional
Is to 60, there are nine places available
and 81 players struggling for them.
But at Richmond the battle will be
keener, for down in the Virginia capi-
tai there are only three places open
among % men, and it is quite possible
that one or two of the local boys will
make the grade.
Those who are at Richmond are
George DifTenbaugh of Indian Spring,
Fred Mcleod of Columbia, Arthur B.
Thorn of Woodmont A. L. Houghton
of Harper, Mel Shorey Of East Potomac
Park, Al Treder Of Manor and Walter
w. Cunningham of Burning Tree. Tne
main drama, IN so far as washington
IS concerned, will center at Richmond,
where most of the Capital pros are to
play. Last year Washington had two
entrants in the open at Winged Foot,
where Bobby Jones again came through
to win.
Fred Mcleod of Columbia, q vet
eran in these open title chases, and
and Gene Larkin of Chevy Chase,
holder Of the Maryland State open,
were the entrants from Washington.
Neither played well enough to get into
the prize list.
TOR several weeks q project to con-
II struct q miniature golf course at
the Chevy Chase Club has been
under way was voted upon favorably
and now is definitely OF. The plan
was to construct the miniature layout
between the golf shop and the prac-
tice putting green, and the course had
been staked of and made ready for
construction. But the vote to build
It was reconsidered a few days ago
and the project now has been aban-
doned.
DIG golf tournaments about Wash
- ington are done with now until
Fall, when the District champion
ship and the Bannockburn Clubs invi-
tation event will hold the stage Some
few Washington golfers are planning
TO play in the Maryland Country Club
invitation tournament, to be held about
the third week in July, and some local
players may 60 to Sherwood Forest, II
the club at the Severn resort follows
Its usual custom and holds q tourna-
ment In mid-July, but the big Journeys
about the Capital are all over until
Fall. The Columbia tourney was the
last event of the Spring season, for
Columbia, has abandoned its tourna-
ment for this year.
TEAM Of Washington woman golf
n era viii play team Of players
from Richmond tomorrow over the
course Of the Congressional Country
Club. and later In the year the WASH
1ngton women viii go to Richmond to
play return engagement. Women's
-. I'D
spot last week with the crowning of
Mrs. Betty p. Meckley of Beaver Dam
as the new champion. She demon
strated her right to the throne in con-
vtncing fashion by trouncing the woman
who has held the title for the past four
years and who was universally favored
to repeat this year. We refer to Mrs.
Dorothy White Eicolson of the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club, queen
Of woman golfers Of the Capital since
1926. Mrs Meckley downed Mrs. Nicol-
son in bitter struggle In the semi
11nal and then went on to win In the
final from Mrs. Stephen F. Colladay of
Columbia. That tricky second hole at
the Washington club has decided many
extra-hole struggles and it again be-
came the decisive hole in the final
round Of the District women's event
Here Mrs. Meckley put her tee shot on
the green, while Mrs. Colladay pushed
her tee shot to the right and then went
across the green with her second shot
A winning 3 gave Mrs. Mackley the
title.
The next major event in which
Washington women will figure is the
Gibson Island tourney to be played this
week over the nine-hole layout on the
shores Of the Chesapeake. Mrs. J.
Marvin Haynes and Mrs. Meckley plar
to make the trip TO Gibson Island.