Evening star., 1933-12-02

w YOMAN'S golf around
M Washington is due for
Y Y another season of major
tournaments and a COM
plete schedule of club and aSSo-
citation events next year, if the
ticket nominated for the election
of the Woman's District Golf As
ISOLATION goes through at the an
nual meeting of the organization
at KenWOod next week.
The Women's District Golf Associa-
ton is less than 10 years old, but it
has proved the ability of the fair
golfers Of the Capital to run through
an arduous and full schedule without
a hitch, in the course of which city
championships, club team titles apd
sectional titles were decided and num-
Der of other big events staged.
The slate of officers nominated for
1884 again is headed by Miss Elizabeth
c. Harris, long a leader in women's
golf affairs about Washington, and an
advocate of competition for the wom-
en-. Miss Harris believes that only by
constant series of competitions can
women's golf around Washington be
improved, ana Sl1e Is a StduIlcn sup
porter OF any move that will bring
about more high-class tournaments
and provide competition for the bud
ding young players
Stick to Classifications.
4 GAIN in 1894 the women will stage
~ their team Journeys for first and
second teams. such as those held
for the last three years. The schedule
again will start in April and run
through into the latter part of July.
But in addition to this schedule of
events, in which teams from 10 clubs
will meet in competition, Chevy Chase
will stage the international team match
in which United States women's team
will meet team of stars from Great
Britain, and the Washington Golf and
Country Club probably will be the host
to the leading fair golfers from the
Middle Atlantic section in the women's
championship tourney of the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association. From any
angle and by any standard 1884 looks
like big competitive year for the
women golfers about the Capital, for
in addition to these events several
team matches with feminine golfers
from Baltimore, Richmond and Phila-
delphia already are being discussed
The growth of interest in womenS
golf around Washington has been phe-
nomenal over the last five or six years.
About 10 years ago when the women
came to the District Golf Association
and asked that women's golf affairs be
placed in their own hands under the
banner of the newly formed Women's
District Golf Association, won1en's
events had only a scattering few entries.
tn, Saf
fair golfers and women'S golf, in so far
as competition was concerned. was
minor affair. But shortly after the
w. D. G. A. took hold of the reins a
new spirit arose, and today it is not un-
usual for women's tournament to have
more than 100 entries.
All Excellent Promoters.
THE presidents of the Women's Dis
trict Golf Association, starting
with Mrs. Harry A. Knox of Con-
gressional and running through Mrs.
William S. Corby, Mrs. Frank R. Keefer
and Miss Harris, all have been good Or
ganizers and promoters of bigger and
better tournaments. Indeed, the wom-
ems events Of 1893, on the whole, at
tracted more entries than did the mems
tournaments. The District champion
ship, played at Kenwood, had more
than 80 entries, while the mems cham
pionship, played at Indian Spring,
barely had dozen entrants. At tour
nament after tournament. for The Star
Trophy, the Corby Trophy, the Times
Cup and other affairs, entries in these
feminine tournaments averaged better
than 100 for each event, and even for
the little informal affairs the women
turned out in r-increasing numbers
The association has done an excel
lent job of plotting its affairs through
stormy years and faces 1884, its biggest
year, with the same enthusiasm and
spirit that has overcome the obstacles
of past years.