Evening star., 1932-11-29

RADUALLY coming onto the
v power Of what appears tc
~ be the most promising
golf game developed by a
woman around Washington in
recent years, Mrs. ]. M. Haynes
of Columbia, holder of the middle
Atlantic title, seems to be the most
likely candidate among the fair
golfers hereabouts to go any
where in national women's golf.
Even though womens golf around
Washington has developed no player
with the power and sustained skill OF
q Ccllett, an Orcutt, Van VIE or a
Helen Hicks, the game CT Mrs. Haynes
which has reached its peak this year
seems to have more promise than that
of even the fine playing of Mrs Dorothy
White Nicolson of Washington or the
steady Mrs. Betty P. Meckley of Indian
Spring.
Mrs. HAYNES has played better golf
this year than in any previous season.
even though she failed to win the Dis
trict title and failed to qualify in the
national, where Mrs. Meckley became
the first woman player from Washing
ton to qualify in something more than
20 years. Mrs. Meckley qualified in the
title tourney at Salem, Mass, last Sep
tember and was beaten in the first
Tound.
THE Middle Atlantic champion is the
l second woman In this section to
have won the major women's Sec
tionel tourney two years in a row. Back
in 1925 Mrs. E. Boyd Morrow won the
initial tourney of the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association and repeated in 1927
Since that time no feminine golfer has
been able to score two wins in a row
until Mrs. Haynes, at Rodgers Forge
last october. repeated her victory OF
1881. Two weeks later she won the
Columbia Club championship impress
Sively, setting a new women's course
record Of n in the qualifying round
Consistently this year she has scored
better than any woman golfer around
the Capital. Her rounds at Columbia
have averaged well below 60 a mark
which stands out locally.
Mrs. Nicolson won the women's Dis
trict title for the fifth time, annexing
the final round from Mrs. Everett
Eynon of Columbia on the nineteenth
hole. where she sank 20-foot putt for
q bird at the Manor Club to beat Mrs.
Eynon's par 5. In this tourney Mrs.
Haynes lost In one of the early rounds.
In the women's national Mrs. Haynes
failed by only two strokes to qualify,
after series of good practice rounds.
A pupil of Fred Mcleod, she plays her
shots much like the veteran Scot a:
Columbia. A feature of her game is
that she plays every shot quickly, and
she has the knack of saving strokes.
Mrs. Meckley,s game this year has been
fine IN spots. She set women's record
at Indian Spring with mark Of n,
missing a wee putt on the final green
for a rs, and she qualified in the ma
tional. But in the local and sectional
tournaments she has not won a title,
outside of the Indian Spring Club event,
in which she clearly outclassed the
field.
MRS. NICOLSON, who rejoined the
1vx washington club after an absence
Of more than year from the
game, showed her old-time skill and
care in winning the District title, but
that event was the only big tourney in
which she played. Had she gone to the
national and to the Middle Atlantic
she might have done well. There is no
doubt that the former Dorothy White
has a game more feared than that of
any other local competitor. But she
has played little golf for two years.
For the past six years Mrs. Haynes
has been a consistent performer in the
top ranks of the fair golfers around
Washington. But this year she has
played better than ever. For one thing,
her putting has been standing up well
in good competition, and her iron play
has been better than before. She Is
long enough from the tee, although not
as long as some of the nationally known
stars. Mrs. Haynes plans again this
year to go TO Florida TO play in the
wonens events which are held in
February and March each year in the
South.