The Washington times., 1938-09-20

BROWN and
MRS. BISH.
OP HILL,
who both shot
SO over the
water logged
Westm o re.
land Club
layout in
Lillian Rixsy chilly S0-de.
gree dampness, played out OF
the qualifying list.
Both have had plenty Of golf
this year, MRS. HILL at
Shawnee and MARION BROWN
at White Sulphur and out on
the practice green daily with
AL TREDER. M AR 10 N
BROWN defeated HELEN
DETTWEuER for this years
District championship, and Of
the four entrants seemed. to
have the best chance Of going
places.
Practice and More Practice
Instead HELEN DETTWEI-
LER and MRS. MYRON DAVY
came through to the first round
each with a SO. HELEN'S sum-
mer mas left her but little time
for golf. She has made one.
day stands at no less than so
different cities during the base
ball season, lecturing before
women's clubs and over the
radio on the great American
game" which is her second love.
Her activities have permitted
her to play only IA rounds Of
golf during the entire trip in
preparation for the national.
MRS. DAVIS appearance on
the match.play pairings Is even
more surprising. Early in 1887
MRS. DAVY returned from
Mexico and started playing in
local golf with a 80 handicap,
only six strokes under the limit.
The golf bug bit her with a
vengeance. No other Washing
ton player has given the time
and patience to practice that
she has. Over the Congress
sional and Indian Spring links
she practiced daily.
Just before the Maryland
State event at Elkridge she re-
duced her handicap to 8. In
that tournament she advanced
to the senifinal round, upset
ting on the way such favorites
as MRS. FLORENCE GODFREY
of Beaver Dam, MRS. CHAR
LOTTE STERN of Indian
Spring and MISS ELIZABETH
JANNEY of Baltimore. It took
MRS. JEROME SLOMAN,
runnerup to HELEN DETT-
WELLER, to eliminate her.
MRS. DAVY continued prac-
ticing without a let-up until
just before she left for the ma
tionals, and by that time her
handicap was down to S.
Fourteen Are Eligible
In the pairings today MRS.
DAVY drew the favorite Of the
tournament, PATTY BERG. II
someone had told little MRS.
DAVY in 1887 that next year
she would be competing in the
nationals against such a player
she would have said that they
were crazy. MRS. MYRON
DAVY was happy just to be on
that qualifying list.
Next year Washington will un-
doubtedly have a great many
more contenders in the national
event, which Is pretty sure to be
played over the Congressional
Country Club layout. There are
IA women golfers in the District
with handicap of 6 and under,
and Is with a handicap Of 8 and
under. All of these Is can easily
get under the 6 handicap limit
for national entries with a little
practice.
There should be about five
others with slightly higher
handicaps who are able to bring
down their stroke allowance as
MRS DAVY did, making total
number Of Washington repre-
sentatives in 1889 of about 80.
Fourteen teams of pros and
amateurs braved the downpour
to compete yesterday in the in.
vitation event at Washington
Golf and Country Club. Win
ners of best-ball honors were
RUT COFFEY, stocky Winches'
ter pro and his partner, PAUL
BENNETT, Martinsburg, w.
Va, champion. Their best ball
was 81, three under par.
In the pro sweeps. the only
player to match par was CLIFF
SPENCER Of Beaver Dam, who
won with a 10. In spite Of the
weather, CLIFF lived up to his
reputation Of most colorful
golfer on the links by wearing q
canary yellow shirt. Incidentally
GEORGE DIFFENBAUGH OF
Kenwood insists that CLIFFS
famous raspberry slacks" are
mt raSnheY'rY c0lnr at all hIIf