Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
NICHOLSON
SPELL WEAKENING
MeckIey, Eynon and Williams
Coming to the Front as
Title HopefuIs.
BY WALTER r. NIcCALLUM.


THERE may be some fireworks
cut loose this year in the
i direction of the fair golfers
about the National Capital
who have long dominated compe-
tition among the fair sex who
play the ancient game. Instead
Of almost complete domination of
the big women's tournaments by
two or three individuals, and par
ticularly by two woman golfers, it
now appears that one or two other
stars may make their appearance
in big-time competition this year
and take the spotlight away from
those who have had it in other
years.
There is no question that for several
years past Mrs. Hugh T. Nicolson.
who was Dorothy White before she
married the nkable member of the
Washington Golf and Country Club,
and Mrs. j. Marvin Haynes of Column
bia have been the top liners among the
women players of the Capital for the
last five or six years. They have won
so many events and have been so gen.
orally victorious that there can be no
doubt of their past superiority over the
others. Like all golfers, they took an
occasional beating, but in the main
they were better than the other fair
players about Washington.
Monopoly Is Broken.
Last year the monopoly which the
Nicolsin Haynes combination has held
on the District women's championship
for a matter Of half decade was shat
tered. Mrs. Betty Parker Meckley, a
member of Beaver Dam, scored semi
final victory over Mrs. Nicolson after
Mrs. Nicolson had beaten her perennial
rival, Mrs. Haynes. in the first round
Of the championship. Mrs. Meckley
then went on to win the title, marking
the first time in six women's District
title events that some one other than
Mrs. Haynes or Mrs. Nicolson had been
able to win the women'S championship
of the city.
Later in the year Mrs. Haynes and
Mrs. Everett Eynon won their way to
the final round of the women,s cham
pionSh1p OF the Columbia Country Club
and Mrs. Eynon downed Mrs. Haynes
on the seventeenth hole in the ulti-
mate round, on the same green on
which her husband had won the mems
championship of the club. Mrs. Ey-
non, who also holds the Rhode Island
State women's title, did not play in
many OF the womenS events about
Washington last year, but in those in
which she did play she showed by
the sounoness of her game that she Is
a factor formidable enough to menace
seriously the supremacy of any woman
golfer about the Capital.
Has a New Star.
Out at Congressional Sandy Armour,
the smooth swinging Scot, who was
winning championships when the
younger golfers about Washington were
not born, is bringing along another
young feminine star in the person of
Virginia Williams, whom Armour
claims has the making of a very fine
golfer. Miss Williams, according to
Armour, has the swing and the tenn
permanent, but lacks the necessary
tournament experience to hold her own
IN major competition with those who
have played in many big events. He
LOOKS Tor her IN 1881 to take her place
as one OF the stars among the fair
golfers who play in the women's events
about the Capital.
This trio-Mrs. Meckley, Mrs. Ey-
non and Miss Williams be the
ones to dominate the game of the fair
sex about the Capital this year. And
again they may not. But the sign
posts all point that way, for Mrs. MIC
olson appears to have lost some of her
interest in the tournament game since
her marriage. She played in only one
or two Journeys last year and did not
practice enough to keep her game on
edge.
The defeat of Mrs Haynes by Mrs.
Eynon in the Columbia tourney last
Fail may have been one of those
matches that are lost by any golfer,
however good he or she may be. But
those who have watched the progress
OF Mrs. Eynon's game say she is good
enough to beat any woman in this
neck Of the woods at any time. Mrs.
Meckley has proved her ability by win
ming the women's title. May it not be
that this trio will cut loose with the
fireworks In 1881 and supplant the old
names with new?