Evening star., 1932-09-27
TOURNEY FOR CLUB
CROWN TO Be HELD
Larger Event Is Abandoned
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Dates Changed.
BY w. X. McCALLUM.

CONGRESSIONAL, Country Club
Nv not hold an invitation golf
tournament this year. Today
DR.. Bruce L. Taylor chairman
OF the Golf Committee, announced that
the scheduled tournament for the
Presidents Trophy. presented by Herb
ert C. Hoover, has been definitely
abandoned. 1t will be played next year,
however, DR.. Taylor said.
Various reasons caused cancellation
OF the tourney" he added 1T is diff
cult for Federal employees to leave their
work nowadays, and some Of our men,
bers do not feel justified in spending
the money. So We have decided to
cancel the event for this year. But
next year, with improved conditions, I
am sure We will renew the tournament"
Congressional will stage its club
championship event in midOctober and
the competitive season at the club will
wind up on October % with the 36-hole
medal play handicap tourney for the
Tatum Trophy. Members will qualify
on October 9 for the championship and
associated flights.
Those in the championship flight
will play an 18-hole match play round
VA ONtObCA w NC lOllONCQ ny lNO
more 18-hole match play rounds on
october IS. with a 36-hole final round
scheduled for October 16
Thoss in the other flights will play
their match play rounds on october
IS and l6 The club title now is held
by Luther c. Steward, jr.
A CHANGE has been made in the
"A dates for match play in the Wash
ington club title event. The first
round. originally scheduled for next
Thursday, may now be played any
time this week, and will be followed by
the second and third rounds next week
Chairman VI 2rhoff of the Golf Com
mittee finds that some of the con-
teStantS are unwilling to play during
the week and has set next Saturday
afternoon as the deadline for COM
pleting first-round matches in the
championship and associated flights.
Next Sunday team Of Washington
Navy Country Club, where they will
be the guests of team of members
Of the latter club. A return match will
be played on october Is at Washington.
NfR. and Mrs. H. King Cornwell won
1v1 the first of a series of mixed
Scotch foursome events at Column
bia with card of 89-12-77. In second
place were Mr.. and Mrs Herman
Stabler with 95-l5-80, while Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman B. Frost were third with
89-8-81. Fifteen pairs competed in the
tourney.
MARKED by three first-round up
1'1 sets. the woman's championship
tourney of the Congressional
Country Club moved into the second
round of play today. Virginia Will
lians, winner OF The Star Trophy last
May, scored a decided upset to defeat
Mrs. S. F. Colladay by 3 and 2. Miss
Williams played the course in 80 to win
from the more experienced Mrs. Col
laday. Mrs. J. F. Dowdall, holder of
the club title, defeated Mrs. Alma Won
STEINER. the medalist, by 5 and 4.
Mrs. -Ienry j. Richardson. wife of the
chairman of the Golf Commi. ee. wc5
2 down with 3 to go to Mrs. :. y
Rhyme. and won three holes in row
to annex the match. In the other
first-f1ight contest Mrs. H. A. Knox
defeated Mrs. w. S. Corby, and 3.
Results in the other flights were:
Second flight-Mrs. w. r. Orr de-
feated Mrs. w. R. Bush, and 2; Mrs
c. B. Ces Jardins defeated Mrs. Frank
Yates. l up, 10 holes: Mrs. H. H.
Moffett defeated Mrs. G. Await, and
!: Mrs. R. C. Jones defeated Mrs.
c. D. Amorous, 2 and l.
Third flight-Mrs. Frank Yeager de-
feated Mrs. A. NJ Hyler. and 8; Mrs.
J. MacFarland defeated Mrs. Huston
Harper, 8 and l.
RST washington woman to qualify
L for the national championship in
"a years of competition Mrs Betty
P. Mechley star golfer of the Indian
Spring Club, today had drawn worthy
opponent as she matched shots with
Virginia Van VIE Of Chicago in the first
round of the Women'S title tourney at
. Peabody, Mass. Mrs. Meckley qualified
yesterday with a score of 88. the top
score to make the match-play rounds in
the national. Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of
Columbia. the other entrant from
Washington. scored 80 in the medal
round.
Mrs. E Boyd Morrow of Baltimore,
who accompanied Mrs. Meckley and Mrs.
Haynes to the national. scored 81. Not
since the then Mary Mccain qualified
Tor the tournament back in 1908 had a
Washington woman qualified for match
play in the Women's National until yes
terday.
Mrs Meckley played the mines in
42-46. despite the fact that her score
card did not show a single g. She had
one 7 and three 6s
Miss Van VIE. who met Mrs. Mecklev
In the first round today, has twice been
runner-up for the title
WOMAN golfers of Washington are
w looking forward to the Maryland
State Day Tournament to be
played at Columbia on Thursday This
event will be played in two classes, the
first class 10 include competitors with
handlcaps up to 20. and the second tc
INCLUDE those with handicaps from 81
to IS. Prizes will be given for low gross
and low net in each class. All the
washington women who do not have
Maryland fandicaps may get them at
The tee on payment of a 50-cent entry
fee.
1N-COM-CO CLUB golfers of the In
terstate Commerce Commission to-
day were competing over a soggy
course at the Manor Club in the final
36 holes of the 72-hole tourney for the
Practitioners Trophy. Ira D. Folsom.
with net card of 143, led the con-
testants in yesterdays twin round
Mack Meyers was second. with lat, and
w. w. Seay was third, with 148 The
best total net score for the 70 holes will
win the trophy, put up several years ago
by attorneys practicing before the COM
mission.
D ALPH BEACH CT the Baltimore Sub
N urban Club scored a 7s Yesterday
in practice round at Columbia
tuning up his game for defense of his
Maryland State Open Championship in
the tourney to be PLAYED tomorrow.
Several other pros played the Columbia
course in practice Yesterday