Evening star., 1932-06-02
HOWELL NOT ABLE
TO CONTEST HERE
Forced to Default His NJ. A.
Championship to Obtain
College Degree.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

~ lily HOWELL will not be able
x to defend his Middle Atlantic
golf championship next week at
Columbia
The young man from Richmond,
who is considered almost certainty to
be named a member of the American
walker Cup team because Of his golfing
feats in the amateur title chase at
Beverly last Fall, has some sheepskin
work in front of him next week, at just
about the time he would be qualifying
for the Middle Atlantic tourney.
Billy is working for degree at
Washington and Lee University. at Lex
ington, Va, and in view OF the fact
that he will step up and be presented
with his graduation certificate next
week, he has decided to forego such
minor affairs as major golf cham
pionship.
I'd give most anything to be able
to come up for the tournament" Billy
writes Everyone has been so nice to
me at Columbia, and have always en-
joyed playing there so much. But I
cannot make 1t this year
Howell plans to play in the Southern
amateur championship at Birmingham
during the week following the mid
Atlantic This tourney starts on June IA.
So it appears that the mid-Atlantic
this year will be played without de-
Tending champion. But in place Of the
meteoric Howell, who has come along
in the past two years as fast as any
kid ever stepped up the bunkered
heights, Roland Mackenzie. the Column
bia star who won the middle Atlantic
back in 1925, when he was cleaning up
everything else around this neck OF the
woods will show his graceful swing
and his fine putting touch in the COM
ing tournament. Harry Pitt, who won
the Baltimore Country Club event last
week is no mans set-up. nor is Mil
Ter Stevinson an easy nut to crack II
he keeps on playing as he played last
week The Middle Atlantic this year
should be one of the very finest in the
long list of title Journeys staged by the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association. En-
tries will close Saturday afternoon at
the Columbia Country Club.
MEMBERS Of the Kenwood Golf and
Nl Country Club will qualify SATURDAY,
and Sunday for the club title, now
held by Maury Fitzgerald, golf writer.
An ls-hole qualification round Will
BE- played, to be followed by matcn
play on June IL and IL.
VI1OMAN golfers of washington are
w looking forward to their next
major event on Wednesday Of next
week. when they will compete in the
1s-hole medal play handicap event for
the Herald trophy. This tourney is open
to all washington woman golfers re-
eArdless cf club afflliations. Entries
l.> IN Frank r Knefpr
1907 Porter street. by Tuesday, June 7.
DOTH in the lower half Of the draw,
ID the two Washington women en-
trants in the Maryland State
Women's Championship Tourney faced
formidable opponents in the second
round of the event at Elkridge today
Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes OF Columbia
winner yesterday over Mrs. Lloyd Har-
rison of Baltimore. today met MRS; W.:
B. Hurst OF Eldridge. and Mrs. Betty
p. Meckley Of Indian Spring, who
dovned Mrs Jerome Sloman of Balti-
more Yesterday. today met Mrs. Paul
Darlington Of that city in the second
round.
If both win their matches today they
will play each other tomorrow morning
in a resumption of the duels that nave
enlivened golf around Washington over
the past two years. Both Mrs. Haynes
and Mrs. Mecklev have scored a VIC
tory over each other in major tourna-
ments, Mrs Meckley winning IN the
District championship last June and
Mrs. Haynes winning in the Mldat!antic
last October.
Mrs. Charlotte Colladay Of Columbia
lost in the first round Of the Maryland
woman's title chase yesterday to Mrs
M. Louise Bell Of Baltimore by 8 and l.
TWO favorites were eliminated IN
the first match play round OF the
woman's handicap tournament al
Woodmont yesterday when Miss bertna
Israel and Mrs. Howard Nordlinger fell
before Mrs. Jack Shulman and MIS-.
l., B. Schloss. Other winners in class
A were Mrs T. D. Peyser and MIS-.
Sylvia Strauss.
In class B the winners were Mrs. Leo
Oppenheimer, Mrs. L. E. Harris, Caro-
lyn Kaufman and Hilda King
THE second round of the competition
i for the French High Commission
Cup for women today at Chevy
Chase finds Mrs. Hume Wrong, mccall
list in the tourney. opposed to Mrs. l..
B. Platt. Mrs. Wrong yesterday de-
feated Miss Louise Clayton, up, while
Mrs. Platt defeated Mrs. Frank R.
Keefer. 3 and q Miss Susan Hacker
defeated Mrs. G. E. Elliott, and );
while Mrs McCook Knox defeated Mrs.
Lucien Boothe. 6 and 5. Mrs. James
w. Beller won from Katherine Boothe,
3 and 2. The other contestants ao-
vanced into the second round through