Evening star., 1934-07-10
EIGHT CERTIFIED
FOR WH|TEMARSH
Mrs. MeckIey Only Capital
Entry in Many Years TO
Reach Match Play.
BY ". X. MeCALLUM.


TT LOOKS as II the fair
mashie- -wielderS Of Wash
ington are going 10 move in
n on the women's national
championship in a body this
year
With the tourney to be staged
starting October over the course of
the Whitsmafsh Valley Country Club
at Chestnut Hill Pa. just outside Of
Philadelphia eight Of the leading
women players OF the National Capital
have been certified 20 the United States
Golf Association as possessors OF a
handicap rating low enough to entitle
them 20 play for the crown now worn
by Virginia Van VIE. smooth swing
ing Chicago giii.
Mrs. J Franklin Gross. who is do
ing such a fine job as chairman Of
the Handicap Committee of the
Womens District Golf Association
has sent the names Of these eight
players to the u. S @. A. in response
TO A request from Mrs. Willard Sulli-
van, who represents this territory on
the Women's Committee. The play
ers and their handicaps are as fol-
lows Miss Winifred Faunce, Manor, 8;
Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes. Congressional.
3, Mrs. David II Clark. Army Navy,
3, Mrs. Betty p. Meckley, Indian
Spring. a. Mrs. Jack Scott, Congress
Eional. 4. Miss Helen Dettweiler, Con-
pressional, 4; Miss Virginia Pope
Kenwood, 5. Mrs. Dorothy White
Nicolson. Washington, 6. 1t is also
probable that by September IL, the
date entries will close for the ma
tional, one or two more players may
reduce their handicap rating to be-
come eligible for the tournament.
Among these are Mrs. l.. Pray OF
Manor. runner-up for the District
championship a fortnight ago, who
now has a handicap Of 7, and Mrs
Roland r. Mackenzie OF Congress
sional. Mrs Haynes now is IN Cali
fornia. but plans 10 come East prior
10 the national.
Mrs. Meckley Stands Alone.
~HE local entrants in the wom-
ems national have not had much
success in the tourney. Only
one player has qualified for the match
play rounds for many years. This
was Mrs. Betty Meckley, who qualified
two years ago at Salem, Mass, and
had the hard luck TO run right smack
up against Miss Van VIE when the
personable Chicago miss was on her
way TO the crown. But this year, with
the tournament being played only l40
miles away, and with such prospec-
tive large entry from Washington, 1t
is quite possible two and maybe more
OF the fair lassies from the Capital
viii qualify for the match rounds.
Particularly as the U. S, @. A. has
changed the rules OF the event this
year to qualify 64 players instead OF
the usual 80. Certainly one or two
of the Capital entrants are among
the first 64 golfers in the land. They
ought to be. judged by the way they
have been improving in skin over the
last two or three years,
Helen Dettweiler, the young Con-
cressional miss who looks like the best
prospect we have seen around Wash
ington in women's golf in several
wears, can 60 somewhere nationally
when she gets her short game click
ing. So can Virginia Pope, although
Virginia lacks the sock from the tee
of Miss Dettweiler. Winnie" Faunce,
the District champion, and Dorothy
Nicolson also can play considerable
golf when they buckle down to the
game. 1t isn't likely that we will
have a new national champion from
Washington this year, but the forth
coming national will have more than
the usual share of local interest. The
national will precede by few days
the Middle Atlantic tourney, sched-
uled for the Washington Golf and
Country Club in october.