Evening star., 1935-02-26
SEEKS TO REGAIN
HER OLD CROWNS
Expected to Rejoin Team at
CongressionaI-Has
Been in West.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

w WINNER of all the important
M titles in this sector of the
land and one of the out
standing golfers in the Sec
ton south of Philadelphia, Mrs. j.
Marvin Haynes is coming back to
washington this year to take part in
some of the tournaments to be staged
by the District of Columbia Women'S
Golf Association.
Mrs. Haynes, so its rumored, will
play in the woman's team matches as
a member of the Congressional Coun-
try Club, where she won the club title
several times. If she does play from
Congressional it will make the wom-
ans team of that club a real threat
to win the interclub championship,
for Congressional will have a stellar
group of links performers in the field.
Mrs. Haynes left Washington early
last year and has been in the West
and Southwest since that time. Ac-
cording to word received by friends
here, she will come back to the Cap
ital to play in the tournaments this
year. The outstanding woman golfer
Of Washington for many years, Mrs.
Haynes is expected to make real bid
to regain the District title and the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association
championship. She has held both
those titles and for years was ranked
as the premier club swinger among
the fair linkswomen of this section.
Taught by Mcleod.
"HE star pupil of Fred Mcleod,
the knowing little golf tutor at
Columbia, Mrs. Haynes swing is
almost an exact duplicate of that of
the little master from North Berwick.
Mrs. Haynes is not among the longer
hitters from the tee, although she gets
good distance, but she is poison to her
feminine rivals in the more delicate
work around the putting green's. She
has absorbed the Mcleod technique
on chip shots and pitch shots until
today she is one of the finest of wom-
an golfers in getting the ball close to
the cup with the maShie-niblick. And,
incidentally. she plays these shots with
a replica of the little narrow-bladed
maShie- -niblick which Mcleod plays
so we'll.
Mrs Haynes won the District cham
pionship back in 1925, only couple
Of years after she had started playing
golf. About that time young woman
by the mar of Dorothy White was
getting q start in the game. The
rivalry between the pair was intense,
with Miss White (now Mrs. Hugh T.
Nicolson) winning the major part OF
the battles, and Mrs. Haynes was
thwarted in her quest for the District
title again until 1888, when she beat
Helen Dettweiler for the crown in the
tourney at Kenwood that year. But
in the years ! tween she was able to
garner two Middle Atlantic titles She
won her first mid-Atlantic at Indian
Spring in 1881, when she went to the
twenty-second hole to beat Mrs. E.
BOYD Morrow of Baltimore.
She successfully defended the cham
pionship in 1882, licking Mrs. Betty
P. Meckley in the final at Rodgers
Ford, but she dropped the crown in
1888, losing in the semi-final to Lily
Harper, the long-hitting half-plnt
from Portsmouth, Va. If Mrs. Haynes
becomes a member of that Congress
sional team there isn't much question
that the other feminine golf teams
around Washington will have hatful
of trouble downing Congressional, for
with such players as Mrs. Haynes,
Mrs. Betty Mackenzie, Helen Dett-
weller, Mrs. Jack Scott, Mrs. Don
Scott and Mrs. j. F. Dowdall forming
the backbone of the Congressional
combination they will be hard to stop.