Evening star., 1933-11-18
CHANDLER WINNER;
SISTER LILY STARS
Portsmouth, Va, Youngsters
Strong, Sound Players;
Both Ambitious.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

A BROIHER AND SISTER
~ act of considerable import
4 \ to golfers around Wash
ington-both men and
women-is arising in Virginia,
with definite indications already
pointing toward the youthful
scionS Of the Harper family of
Portsmouth, Va, as the potential
rulers of the amateur game in
this section within a year or two.
Nineteen -year-old Chandler Harper
the male member of this duo of fine
golfers, already has proved his ability
to play winning golf His sister. the
l7-year-old Lily Harper slim and close
mouthed as is her brother, looms AS the
coming young player among the fem
inine club swingers in the Middle At
lantic sector.
Chandler today holds his second Vir-
ginia State title, won from field which
included Billy Howell, the boy wonder
OF the national amateur championship
OF 1881, but Chandler has done more
than that
Three years ago he first won the
amateur golf crown of the Old Domin-
ion State, again beating Howell on the
way. This year Howell was erased from
his path by young star from Lynch
burg. But Chandler has won the State
open championship. in which profess
sionals competed and for the past two
years has led the field in the sectional
qualifying tests for the amateur cham
pionship held at Chevy Chase last year
and at Columbia this year.
THE only big crown which has
evaded Harper in this section is
the Middle Atlantic title
In this tourney-biggest of them all
the youngster has Jared poorly, al
though he did not play this year at
Baltimore.
Tail and slim, built with the sloping
shoulders of golfng tradition, the Har-
per boy is a cool kid under fire. His
forte is medal play, although he has
shown himself to be good match
player.
Amply long from the tee, he special
izes in keeping the ball on the narrow
path to the hole. He has not any repu-
tation as a lengthy hitter, but he sell
dom is called upon to fail his ball out
Of rough or traps. Harper is generally
regarded by the pros in this section as
the strongest amateur.
TOR weeks preceding the playing of
the Middle Atlantic women's
event at Richmond last month,
reports we're coming out of Norfolk
concerning Lily Harper, although few
had seen her play outside of her home
town.
When she came to Richmond it was
a different matter. She qualified with
a good score of 81, and in the first
round of the tourney beat Mrs. Thomas
Priddy, the Richmond title holder.
Then she advanced to the semi-flnals,
where she beat Mrs J. Marvin Haynes
of Columbia. the title holder, and she
waged a determined struggle against
Mrs. Jean Jones until the final hole,
where Mrs. Jones holed a putt half
way across the green for a winning
birdie.
According to Bobby Cruickshank, the
golf-wise little pro at the Country Club
Of Virginia. the Norfolk lass has only
enc mechanical defect in her game.
She does not hold onto the club with
her left hand at the top of her swing,
Cruickshank told me. When she gets
that Strengthened out she is going to
be hard to beat
Miss Harper is a junior model of her
brother in action, tor both have little
to say during a match. They believe
in doing their talking with golf shots,
and they talk that language I1uently.
Between them these two Harper
youngsters appear about ready to be-
come the dominating factors in men S
and Women's golf in this section. unless
some other youngsters come along fast
for they are sound players, are young
and both want to go places in the
game.