The Washington times., 1938-04-22

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doesn't know Lillian ktxsy
her, but undoubtedly he has
seen that wide, generous mouth
and that sun-bleached hair re-
produced quite a few times in
the sports columns Of his favor
tie afternoon paper. Elizabeth
Helen Dettweiler, No. l woman
golfer in the metropolitan area,
has taken the job temporarily to
patch up the hole in her pocket
book left by her golfing jaunts
in the South last winter.
To make the rounds of anna
teur golfing tournaments re-
quires ready cash and Miss Dett-
weller has never been afraid to
roll up her sleeves to earn her
fare and keep en- route when
ever she could. Last winter she
pounded the typewriter for the
Forest Hills Hotel at Augusta,
but took time off to win the
Augusta Invitation Tournament
and the Aiken Best Ball Invi-
tation with Kathryn Hemphill.
Together they pooled the re-
markable score of 81. She is
now in the midst of writing a
series of articles on golfing
technique for the National Golf
Review and this July and
August will find her in the Ad-
irondacks at the Champlain
Hotel send out reams and reams
Of sports publicity handouts.
Likes Radio
What she likes best to do,
however, is broadcasting. Over
WRC and WMAL sustaining
programs last year she broad
cast on sports three times a
week for two months. She has
never had an attack of mike"
fright, but just before tourna-
ments she admits having a pecu-
liar "all-gone" sensation about
the mid-riff. When the club head
smacks down on that first hard
wood stroke, though, it disap-
pears completely.
In spite Of what one might
call Helen's extra-golf activity.
she has found time to collect
some 80 trophies. It takes q
little time for her to remember
Just how many there have been
in the five short years since she
began the game; her first reac-
ton is Gee, I don't know"
They range from silver candle
sticks to fruit bowls. She is the
Maryland State champion and
the District champion at the age
Of %.
She has her eye on several
other tournaments this year,
too. She has made definite
plans to enter the Eastern at
Philadelphia, June Is, 16, and
IT; the Maryland State and the
District tournaments, and hopes
to be able to take in the South
ern at Birmingham on May Q
and the Memphis tournament
on May 16. OF course there1l be
a few more rounds of golf in the
Adirondacks later in the sum.
mer.
: Taught By TreadOr
= Miss Dettweiler approach to
life and the game is as methodi.
cally Germanic as her name.
You will, however, be surprised
to learn that she considers her
driving the best feature, her put
ting the worst feature of her
play. She learned under AL
Treador, golf pro at the Manor,
the same instructor who first
put a golf club in the hands Of
pretty young Marian Brown four
years ago.
Both Miss Brown and Miss
Dettweiler, who met today in the
Phyllis Keller Handicap at the
Washington Golf and Country,
are exceptions to the rule that
a tournament golfer must learn
to play as soon as she learns to
waddle. Neither has ever learned
to waddle. Miss Dettweiler is
accomplished enough as a
golfer to hold the course record
at Congressional (75); at Beaver
Dam Ga; and at Abenaqui.
Rye, Beach, New Hampshire
III. Her best score at the
Washington Golf and Country,
an unusual course, is 80.
The secret of her strength
with woods may be the fact
that she is naturally left-handed,
but plays with right-handed
clubs. AL Treador never had to
tell her to get that old left hand
into it. Her putting is not as
bad as she would have you be
lieve, particularly because she
never gets ruffled.
Her mother. on the contrary
becomes highly nervous before
each of Miss Dettweiler's tourna'
ment matches. The first thing
Helen does after coming off the
links is to call her mother, OF
send a telegram if she is out OF
town, to give her the results
first-hand. Her father, who
owns a cafeteria at 626 e ST..
takes her golf a little more
calmly. but is just as proud OF
her. He harbors a quiet desire
to own a farm. And what her
father wants, Helen wants too
for. strangely enough, her chief
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