Evening star., 1939-08-28
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Prepping for their heavy schedule
OF fall golf tournaments, some of
our best girl golfers around Wash
ington will move up to picturesque
White Sulphur Springs late this
week to play in week-long tourney
that looms as one of the big ones
OF the year. Betty Meckley, recent
winner at Shawnee, and probably
three or four more top-notchers plan
TO make the trip for the affair, to
be opened by mixed foursome next
Saturday. The match play tourney
opens a week from today, and the
local stars won't be in any soft spot.
For White Sulphur usually draws
fairly strong field for its fall event,
and it may draw Betty Jameson,
the new national womens S champion,
this year. If Betty plays she will be
favorite to win.
White Sulphur is about six hours
drive from Washington through
mountain country most of the way.
The golflng gals have been given an
attractive rate at the hotel, and the
affair may draw as many as 20
Washington women.
Bobby Brownell, the lean young
ster from Manor, is in with what
amounts to major bid for the top
spot among Washington amateurs
this year. If Bobby gets along all
right in the District amateur cham
pionship, coming up next month,
ad succeeds in winning a qualify
ing spot in the national amateur
title tourney, he will be rated lust
about the top Simon-pure of the
year around town. The only man
who can nose him out is mid-At-
lantic Champ Roger Peacock.
Bobby's f1rst big tournament VIC
tory in this area since 1886 won him
ranking right at the top when he
annexed the invitation affair of the
Baltimore Suburban Club yesterday.
And the Manor tow-head did it the
hard way, licking Baltimore's fair
haired boy-Otto Greiner-in the
seminal and then beating Don
O'Brien, the medalist, in the final.
Bob went to the 18th hole to win
both matches, licking Greiner, 2 up,
With a bird on the final hole and
winning the tournament with an
other bird 3 on the 18th. OBrien
beat Gene Bruning of Baltimore to
enter the final.
Five Under Par.
Bobby climaxed two days of sub
par golf in winning. Saturday he
played 81 holes in 2 under par and
yesterday he was 3 under for SO
holes. That kind of golf-if re-
peated tomorrow at Five Farms-will
easily win him spot in the national
championship.
And Bobby can go a long way in
that one if he qualities. Earle
Skinker, Columbia's junior champ,
won the fourth fight, licking Carl
Shook of Frederick on the goth hole
in the final.
Brownell and several other local
golfers are at Five Farms today
working out their shots in prepa-
ration for the amateur CHAMPION
ship test over the 36-hole route
tomorrow. 1t will probably take
154 to get one of the five spots
open among the % entrants.
Weekend golf found Capital Golf
and Country Club players getting
ready for their club championship,
with the medal rounds over and
match play due to start next week.
Billy Houghton, the defending
champ, won the medal with 74-71-
145, followed by George Molloy, with
73-74147.
At Congressional Verne Simmons,
who has acquired winning ways at
golf, tied with Eden MacFarland in
the match play against par tourney,
finishing 2 up. Tied for third were
F. w. Evans, w. T. Hayes and P.
Blouke.
George Diffenbaugh presented the
trophy given by him to G. R. Hop
kins, following Hopkins f1nal-round
victory over Don Miller at Kenwood.
Hopkins won 2 up. Other flight
winners were DR.. j. A. Thurston.
Perry Winston, L. M. Shade and
P. J. Mitchell.
The two-man sweepstakes tourney