Evening star., 1938-09-18
Four District Candidates Now Attending
National Competition in Middle West
Have Almost Reached Top Glass.

has yet to win the title. Maureen's s
latest national tournament final round
loss came in 1886, when chunky little
Pamela Barton Of England beat her
at Canoe Brook in upper Jersey. Yet
the Orcutt girl for 10 years and
more has been one of the finest fem
injne golfers in the world, a long
hitter, an assured and confident COM
petitor, and better than average iron
player.
Outstanding among the match play
ers in the feminine ranks Is Mrs Opal
s. Hill Of Kansas City, . woman who
took up the game in middle age. and
who, even though she hasn't national
title to her credit, has been one Of
the few topnotchers for . decade and
more. If you buffers think you know
something about golf you should have
seen that round Of 66 that Mrs. Hill
shot ut Kansas City . few months
back. Sixty-six on . good course.
Straight as string from the tee, Mrs.
Hills specially is the short game. She
is probably the finest chipper and
putter among American woman players
today.
But the stars come from every sector
Of the land. From the deep South
come petite Kathryn Hemphill Of CO.
lumbia. 8. c.; Jane Cothran of nearby
Greenville in the same State; Dorothy
Kirby, the tall miss from Atlanta,
who won the Southern championship
last year; Mrs. Page, the national
champion: Betty Jameson, the cute
youngster from Dallas: Mrs. Margaret
Solomon Of Memphis. From the Far
West comes Dorothy Traung. the San
Francisco girl who won the White
Sulphur Springs tournament two weeks
back.
IRON the Middle West come Patty
- Berg, comely Beatrice Barrett
out Of the Twin Cities area, and black
haired, slim Marion Miley Of Louis
vile. Miss Barrett and Miss Miley
both are daughters Of golf profess
sionals. What better training could
an ambitious girl golfer have than
that heritage? There are 80 many
good ones out there at Chicago today,
on the eve Of the national champion
ship, that the Washington girls are
only possibilities-andn not such good
ones-in q great field.
Women's golf around Washington
has had q remarkable, mushroom
like growth over the last decade.
Twenty years ago the field which
turned out for the feminine links
events were scanty affairs. In which
40 players made . big entry. Today
any tournament which doesn't draw
three times that number Is listed as .
''bloomer." The District women's
championship draws 140 or more
and some of the feminine Journeys,
played during the height Of the season,
have drawn entries Of 160. A series
of IL major cup Affairs, team matches
involving . dozen country clubs, in
formal ladies day" Journeys at the
clubs, and the rising stars Of several
good young feminine golfers, have
made Warrington . veritable hotbed
Of women's golf. And the women
of the Capital are supreme in this
sector in ability. Team victories over
Baltimore, Richmond, and even Phila-
delphia, have clinched their place at
the top.
There's an old links axiom that COM
petition and competition alone steels
the hearts Of golfers for the winning
mood. II that is the case Washington
ought to produce . feminine links star
capable Of winning the national fairly
soon. for no city In the land fosters