Evening star., 1935-05-20

CLUBS Women's golf team,
now leading in the chase for
the first womens team title
is to be further strengthened in the
forthcoming match Wednesday by the
presence of the woman who rated at
the top of all the local players for
years Mrs. j. Marvin Haynes. for
mer Middle Atlantic and District
champion, is back in the city for a few
days. and has consented to play for
Congressional in the matches day
after tomorrow against Beaver Dam
at Columbia. the course over which
she scored many of her victories and
for which she still holds the .Women'S
record
Mrs. Haynes says she hasn't played
much golf. but she hopes she can
make the Congressional team She
spent most of the Winter at Fort
Myers Fla. after recovering from a
severe Illness at Colorado Springs. Col
Miller B. Stevinson and Donald
Woodward have a real challenge on
their hands when June 4 rolls around
and the time comes for them to de-
fend their Cummings Trophy. For
roly- poly Bob Gardner, the long-hit
ting gent from Atlanta, and fellow
Georgian-Dana Belser--haVe won the
challenger's spot, and are slated to
play StevlnSon and Woodward in their
first 1885 defense of the cup they have
held for nearly four years. Gardner
and Belser qualified in the top spot
with a II. George P. James and H
King Cornwell scored 10, while Luther
Steward. jr., and Martin F. Mccarthy
a favored pair, took "A.
4 DDED entries late yesterday and
n today brought the starting field
in the Manor Club tourney up
to nearly 425, one of the largest fields
in any local event in several years.
Among the better-known golfers
listed as added entries are Ed Wes-
eley, p w. Calfee, DR.. Howard L.
Smith. L. L. Stratton and DR.. T. M
Foley.
Volney G. Burnett, the fire laddie,
won his first qualifying round in a
local tourney. Volney won the play
off at Woodmont yesterday of a four
way tie u days ago for the medal,
scoring a 70 to lick Hickman Green
and DR. w. F. Hayes. Roger Peacock,
the other fellow who tied, couldn't
appear.
Washington's public links team
members are looking forward to an
other match with the Baltimore all
course stars, following their winning
effort yesterday at East Potomac
Park, in which they trounced the
visitors by a score of 81 to 28
The score of II, turned in Saturday
by Felix Early, stood up yesterday to
win the gross award in the week -end
tourney at Washington. The net
prize went to Frank NJ. Williams.
who scored 78-10-68. James L.
Tracy won second net with 79-9-70
Leo Walper drove the fifteenth
green and holed the putt for an eagle
2 to play a prominent part in the
match at KenWood. in which he and
Mel Shorey beat Al Houghton and
Walter Cunningham. Houghton scored
an individual II to lead.
DR. o. U. SINGER made one of
l. those miracle shots from the
rough at the right to the seven
teenth green to enable his side to bag
a on the hole and win the gross
award in the Scotch foursome at Con-
greSSional. Mrs Roland Mackenzie
and DR.. Singer scored an 88. The net
award went to Mrs. Walter L. Rice
and DR.. r. S. Keilty. with 94-15-79.
The blind bogey at Manor found the
following in the winning list G. Emer-
son Moore. W. R. Lucas. D. L. Thom-
son. DR.. w. D. Sullivan, w. w. Smith
and ]. R. Meyers.
Leroy Sasscer is we'll on his way to
WIN the Tribal Bowl at Indian Spring
again. He won his first round match
yesterday from l.. T. Powers by and
S. Other matches found John HDiz-
berg, Louis Fuchs and Craig Mckee