Evening star., 1938-09-18

Is that where other and smaller
municipalities have turned out real
links stars Warrington has yet to
send to the national . feminine con-
tender with . real chance to win.
A TLANTA has It's Dorothy Kirby.
Minneapolis has its Patty Berg
and It's Beatrice Barrett. Louisville
has Marion Miley and Dallas has its
Betty Jameson. Even little towns like
Greensboro harbor national cham
pions. It isn't logical that q city like
Washington. where so many women
play 80 much golf throughout the
year. will not ultimately produce q
faminine golfer who can hold her
own with the stars of other cities.
MY biggest ambition In golf Is to
win place on the Curtis Cup team"
said winsome Helen Dettweiler, the
blond star from the Congressional
Country Club, who holds the Mary
land State women's championship for
the second year.
And that's mine, too," says tall
Marion Brown. the college student
who beat Helen with . circus finish
in the final round Of the District
women's championship at the Indian
Spring Country Club last June.
The Cults Cup matches are over for
this year, but two years hence, when
the international series will be re-
newed in England, it isn't impossible
that one or both Of these girls will
be on the American team. Yet no
one who observes the trend Of golf
and the improvement in women's
golf In particular can, at the moment,
give any Washington entrant better
than an outside chance in the national
tournament starting tomorrow. There
are so many stars from 20 many sec.
tions Of the country; they score SO
well and they play their shots so like
the professionals that the three WASH
tngton entrants are submerged in
one Of the classiest fields ever to play
in the national tournament. Miss
Dettweiler, Miss Brown, Mrs. Myron
Davy Of Congressional and Mrs. Bishop
Hill Of Chevy Chase are the four en-
trants in the championship.
Lest some one accuse the feminine
stars Of playing pat-ball golf, let's
straighten the record right now. I
don't believe there's = male golfer
playing the game today who could give
Estelle Lawson Page . half stroke
. hole and beat her. The same holds
true for Patty Berg, and Marion Miley,
and Mrs. Opal Hill, Charlotte Glut-
ting, and . dozen other skirted stars.
Obviously men have a tremendous
advantage In physique and hard
muscle. Yet it does not take all muscle
to play golf. Many . time I've seen
. slip Of . miss of II or thereabouts
step out on = tee and with q nicely
timed swing and . flick Of trained
wrists, knock that ball 200 yards and
more. The good ones do 1t all the
time. nor do they yield much to the
longer hitters among the men in the
matter Of distance.
ON THE scoring side Of the equation
they don't take q back seat
either. Undoubtedly the finest score
ever made by . woman golfer In COM
petition in this country was the 50
made by Mrs. Page at Pinehurst last
fall. That was one shot under mems
par on q 6,400-yard course. Ninety
five per cent Of the men who call
themselves golfers today couldn't
come close to that mark. Patty Berg,
the cute little MINNEAPOLIS red head.
who has been the uncrowned feminine
champion for three years, has scored
as low as 73 over harder courses. She
has won nine major tournaments this
year, and perhaps this Is her year to
win the national. But they've been
saying that about Patty since she
struck her pert little freckled nose
into the dnal Of the 1885 tournament
and was licked b. that suavs and