The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-04-29
oroqra Revealed for Middle Atlantic Golf Championship
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ROUNDSDUE
On JUNE4
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

The Middle Atlantic Golf AS
ISOLATION today announced its pro-
gram for the championship tour.
nament scheduled June 4, S and
at the Princess Anne Country
Club, Virginia Beach, Va. A large
number of local golfers intend to
enter.
The qualifying round of 10
holes will start June 4, at 8 a. m.
The best 16 scores will qualify
for the championship, the second
Is for the club cup and the third
Is for the governors cup. Match
play rounds are booked June 5
and 6.
Competition for the low gross,
first and second low net and team
trophy will be held during the
qualifying round. Only one quail
fication prize will be awarded any
player who must take part In
match play rounds in order to re-
ceive any qualifying prize.
Those anxious to enter must
submit a certified handicap, &C
cording to the Calkins system,
along with their entry. The
privileges of the course and
clubhouse at Princess Anne will
be extended entrants from June
2 to June 6.
Entries are to close at ? p. m.
with Walter r. McCallum, at the
Princess Anne Club An entrance
fee of $500 must accompany all
entries.
Must Top II
Golfers playing today in the
final Of the qualifying rounds in
the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club tourney will strive to
get under Mel Shipley's II, the
top figure for yesterday. The
wind baffled every entrant and
Shipley's II was seven strokes
above par. Furthermore, only
five others we're able to break so.
Miller B. STEVENSON. of Co
lumbia Country Club and defend
ing champion, scored rs, strug-
Cling all the way around. He
went out in 40, taking a on the
first hole after being trapped.
He came back in 38, losing a
stroke to Shipley when his bail
struck cedar tree on the 18th.
Five one-putt greens aided Stevin-
son immensely. Shipley went out
| in 40 but came back in 81.
Tom Belshe and J. MOnrO
Hunter, jr.. both of Indian
Spring, had opportunities to
equal or Surpass Shipley's
score. They were out in 80
but scared high on the inward
trip. Belshe needed par 4
on the last hole for II. He
hooked his bali into the ditch
and finished with a 6. Hunter
required pars on the last four
holes for IS but took brace
of 6's on the 18th and 18th
and wound up with 43 for the
last nine holes.
Some chips from the qualifying
round Lawrence Downey, the
musician from Manor Club, driv.
ing the first green and narrowly
missing an eagle. He got ms
birdie, though, and pared the
second and third, only to finish
with SO. He was accompanied
by Bill Cox, of Beaver Dam, who
found the wind too stubborn and
struggled home with 81. Perry
B. Hoover. of Indian Spring,
played with his wife's irons. =.
Jesse Baggett. of Beaver Dam,
topped his drive off one, then pre-
ceeded to get a s.. He picked up
midway around, but would have
finished with 81 had he not auto
matically disqualified himself e.
Tom Belshe had trouble with his
chip shots. Bill Harvey and L.
Valasco drove to the left Of the
first green. Bill McAvoy, Of
Congressional, mourns that he
won't be able to give advice to
Jack McCarron. Andy Walker,
another Congressionalite, was dis
appointed in not getting under 80,
his actual score. George j.
Richardson, the Indian Spring
golfer who has been playing less
than two years, would have re-
corded 50 instead of 81 had his
approach hung to the thirteenth
green. . 1t slid over the bank and
Richardson penciled 6 on his
card for this hole.
Mrs. Meckley Wins
Mrs. Betty P. Meckley, District
woman golf champion, won low
gross prize in the miniature
tourney of the Women's District
Golf Association at Beaver Dam
yesterday. Mrs. Meckley, playing
over her home course, scored IS.
Mrs. Muriel Shipley was run
ner-up in low gross with SO but
with a handicap of is took the
low net prize of SO. Mrs. w.
Hall, 1O1-l3, SO. and Mrs. Phyllis
Holman, 1921, 80, were other
low net winners. Other low gross
winners were Mrs. Alma Won
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