Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-10-29
n r ARION BROWN is on the way
M The 18-year-old Manor girl,
WI a June graduate from West
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/ L ern High School, today looms
as a real threat in future women's
golf tournaments around the Capital,
and II Helen Dettweiler doesn't step
lively when she returns to Washington
next Spring, Marion Brown is going
to take the play away from her as
the leading golfer of the younger
group around the city.
OF to a good start in the Middle
Atlantic championship at Elkridge a
little more than fortnight ago, where
she went to the semi-final and car
ried Lily Harper to an extra hole,
Marion won her first big tourney
yesterday with most of the better
known feminine golfers of the city
entered. She scored an SO over the
tough Beaver Dam course, which isn't
such hot scoring, to be sure, but 1t
was good enough to win by three shots.
showed in the quality of her shot
making that she has come far from
the inaccurate, unsteady performer
Of last year. or even of last Spring.
Today she is on the edge of some very
good golf which can, and very well
may. place her at the top of all the
better feminine club-swingers around
the Capital. Three weeks ago she
scored an 81 to win the gross prize
in the Times Cup tourney. She went
on to the semi-final in the Mid
Atlantic and now she has won one of
the big ones-the invitation affair put
on SO capably by the women of Beaver
Dam.
MARION has long way to go to
get anywhere in national golf.
But she has the shot-making equip
ment and the temperament. She may
very well develop into the leading
golfer of the city. These youngsters
come along very fast in golf. She's
going to Florida next Winter to play
in some of the tournaments in that
State. That is. she's going if her dad
can sell her the idea. 1t sounds pre-
posterous that any youngster with
golf ideas wouldn't like a trip to
Florida to meet the big shots like
Patty Berg and Maureen Crews and
the rest Of the COMMUNICATING
crowd. But Marion is diffident about
it. She says, But If dad wants me
to go I guess I'll go. I'd rather see
foot ball game, though. This big
tournament stuff is too serious. The
girls act too grim. They train like
athletes and don't have any fun"
FUNNY. Yep, it sounded funny to
us, too. But that's the way Marion
feels about it. She isn't funny when
she steps out there to play golf. She's
plenty good at that.
Second to the SO shot by the Brown
girl in the Beaver Dam tourney were
Mrs. Betty P. Meckley. the District
champion, and Mrs. c. E. Purdy,
women's chairman at Beaver Dam,
who were deadlocked with els. The
first net award went to Mrs. S. W..
Towle of Congressional, who smilingly
admitted her 100 was the best score
she ever had made. She won with a
card of 10O-23-77. Other prize win
ners: Mrs. c. E. Purdy. Beaver Dam.
91-10-81; Miss Mary Minnix, Column
bia, 1O5-23-82; Mrs. Max Taylor,
Beaver Dam, 101-18-83; Mrs. K. S.
Giles, Indian Spring, 92-7-85; Mrs.
w. T. Henderson. Beaver Dam. lie
31-S5: Mrs. H. L. Lacey, Manor.
119-34-S5.
Fewest puts for 10 holes, Mrs. H.
L. Stabler. Columbia (29); fewest
puts, first 9 holes. Mrs. ]. P. Harper,
Columbia 90; second 9, Mrs. A. S.
Gardiner, Columbia, and Mrs. Walter
B. Vogel. Indian Spring U5; low
gross, first 9, Mrs. Betty P. Meckley.
Indian Spring 90; low gross, second
9, Mrs. C. P. Medley, Manor t4O;
short hole total. Mrs. A. M. Bowden,
Congressional (9); best score on six
selected holes, Mrs. Alma Won Stein
ner, Indian Spring t34. Prizes were
presented by Mrs. Purdy, who an
nounced the tourney will be an an
nual affair. 1t was the closing event
on the women's schedule.
Judge Needham c. Turnage will
gather his city Slickers" together on
November to oppose Bill Whites
Country Hicks" at Beaver Dam In a