Evening star., 1939-08-22
By WALTER McCALLUM.

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Star feminine golfers OF the Ma
ton may have set a hot scoring
pace in the national championship
at Noroton, Conn, but had Mrs.
Walter r. Stokes Of Indian Spring
been there, and played the same
game she now is playing, she might
have been one of the qualifiers for
the match play rounds starting
today.
The demure Indian Spring ma
tron, who has been playing golf
only four or five years, tied a rec
ord for the Kenwood Golf and
Country Club course yesterday with
score of 75-tWo strokes over
women's par for the River road
layout. Playing with Mrs. Judson
c. Dale Of Kenwood and Mrs. G.. E.
Stratemeyer of Columbia, Mrs.
Stokes played the difficult. last nine
in 40 and then moving over to the
first nine negotiated that hazardous
stretch in IS, which equals mems
par.
For three years Mrs. Stokes, a
former winner of The Evening Star
Trophy, has been knocking at the
door OF important sectional cham
pionships around Washington. She
hasn't yet won big title, but for
the past month she has been play
ing very well. Not long ago she
played the longer and more difficult
Indian Spring course in 79. But
yesterday she topped all women's
marks for Kenwood with her IS.
She putted out on all the holes be-
cause she was playing for q
handicap.
Ties Meckley Mark.
Several years ago Mrs. Betty P.
Meckley OF Indian Spring played
Kenwood in rs, but the record did
not show that she putted out on all
the holes. Here is Mrs. Stokes card:
Out -------- 444 353 534-35
In --------- AS 554 -4O-75
At Columbia Red" Banagan and
his Junior Committee are getting
ready for the junior club champion
ship, to be played next week, with
an 18-hole qualifying round slated
for Monday. Earl Skinker, the tow
headed lad who won last year, will
not defend his title. I'VE don't let
'em win twice in a row here" said
Banagan. When they win the
Junior championship we think
they're ready for bigger tourna-
ments."
Outstanding boys among the COM
petitors are M. B. Woodson, George
Reeder, Scion Kemon, Martin R.
West, jr; Paul Stewart, jr.; Ben
Hartig. Joe Lotus, Warren Grimes,
jr., and Dana Belser, jr.
d. c. Championship Next Month.
Secretary William C. Barr of the
District Golf Association, is out
early with announcements of the
top tourney for amateurs around
town this year-the District amateur
championship-slated for Burning
Tree September 20, 81 and %.
John P. Burke, the Georgetown
JoiiioA wiz "oll ldot yCdI, Will Dc
back to defend the title he won at
Congressional last year. Entries
will close September 18 with DR..
Barr at Burning Tree, and the
course will be open for practice
September 18 and 10. That won't
give the boys much time for prac-
tice, for some of them-the lucky
ones-will stick around Chicago to
see the finale of the amateur cham
pionship there September 16.
They didn't get much money,
but they had good time, those
Washington boys who went up to
Lancaster, Pa, to play in pro-
amateur and pro sweepstakes tour
ney yesterday. They saw the lions
share of the prize dough go to tall
John Meyer, from the coal coun-
try Of Shamokin, Pa; Carroll Nc
Master, pro at Woodholme, and
the main amateur prizes 60 to w.
Fetterhof of Lancaster and Otto
Greiner Of Baltimore. These teams
tied for first place in the pro-
amateur with 67s, and Meyer won
the pro sweepstakes affair by three
strokes, with 81, over chunky little
Rut Coffey Of Winchester, Va, who