Evening star., 1933-06-03
FAIR D|VOT D|GGERS
BUSY ALL SUMMER
Males Tournaments Called
Off by WhoIeSaIe-Miss
Harris Competent.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

w YHILE invitation tourna-
ANI ments for the mere men
V Y golfers about the Capt.
tel are being Cancelled
right and left, and only one more
major event remains on the
Spring schedule within sight of
the Capitol dome, the fair golfers
of the city move right along in
whirl of competitive events
which will keep them buSily en-
gagged until well into the Tall.
More tournaments have been sahed-
uled this year than ever before, more
team matches are being played, more
inter-city contests have been arranged
and all in all the linkSWomen of Wash
ington have decided edge or the mere
males in the matter of golfing activity.
For the last four years golf affairs
among the fair sex about the Capital
have been on the upgrade. More tour
nan1ents are being played each year,
with the net result that out of the
whirl of competition better golfers are
being developed.
THE only tournaments now lacking
tation affairs such as are held at
clubs about New York, Boston and
Chicago. But in place of these affairs
the Washington women engage in in
terneclne warfare among themselves in
team matches which involve about $50
OF the fair sex each week. SandWiched
in among these matches are a series of
larger affairs, such as those for The
Star Cup, the Keefe Trophy and other
major events. The big invitation events
usually held for men at Columbia and
Indian Spring have been Cancelled, but
there has been no Stacking of the pace
the feminine segment Of the game has
set. A 'Fell organized and well managed
Wome.'s District Golf Association,
headed by the competent Miss Eliza
beth &, Harris, runs off the tourna-
ments with clock-like precision. With
Miss Harris in the operation of the as
Sociation is a group Of women who have
had lengthy experience in the handing
OF events, with the management Of the
mter-city team matches IN the hands
Of Mrs. Frank r. Keefer, who heads the
association for three years. A handicap
committee, headed by Mrs. ]. F. Gross
OF Indian Spring, handles the vexing
problem of handicaps-a job that is
always one Of the most arduouS with
in any golf organization.
WITHIN the last few days the Sc
w lection of members of the inter-
city team matches have been
placed strictly On handicap bass and
all potential candidates will have their
scores checked from time to time to
keep the hanGicaps right. So far the
Washington Women's team has net been
strong one in the intercity contests.
TshpV afoilac from oh I,,,%f
lost to the strong team from Philadel-
phia and the team from Baltimore,
whom they should beat with their,
strongest team. But Mrs. Dorothy
| White Nicholson, District champion;
! Mrs. Betty P. Meckley, former title
holder, and Mrs Everett Eynon, a strong
player from Columbia, have not been
able to play in all the team matches.
/ Their absence has robbed the local team
OF part of its strength.
/ The next big event for the fair
golfers viii be the Maryland womens
title tourney, to start next Tuesday
over the lengthy Five Farms course of
the Baltimore Country Club That
event will be one Of the big hitter-,
and If Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of Co.
lumbia decid-d to play she should go
lar. Mrs. Haynes has stretched out her
tee shots this year and is hitting the
ball farther than ever.
MRS. NICHOLSON will not defend
IN her District championship at Ken
wood when the title chase opens
On June 19. The champion is planning
vacation trip about that time and the
tourney viii lack defending champion.
But Mrs Meckley, who has been out of
the game all Spring, hopes to be playing
again by that time and will put up a
strong battle to win again.
AS the golf situation stands today
there is far more competitive activity
ancng the women than there is amcng
the men in golf around Washington.
Golf clubs of the Capital, hard hit in a
financial way. might give some thought
to charging small entry fee to defray
the expenses of their invitation events
IN the future