Evening star., 1939-08-03
Tourney Due 10 Lure
Many Fair Golfers
Next tuesday
Successful Argyle Meet
Won by Mrs. H. 6. Prott;
WoIper Misses Mark
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

thing stand in the way Of their golf
Hot weather, lack of frequent
competition, plenty of people out of
town, and still they keep on with
their little links events. On the
heels of successful invitation tour
ney staged by the women Of the
Argyle Country Club comes today
announcement of another invitation
tourney, to be staged at club which
hasn't before held such an affair
for the feminine players around
town.
This time it is Capitol Golf and
Country Club, located on the big hills
overlooking Glen Echo, which will
be the scene of the next women S
tourney. 1t will be staged Tuesday,
August 8, and already the women of
Capital, which is the home club of
District champion Mrs. Leo Walper,
are looking ahead to big entry list.
Mrs. H. Fox, chairman of the Capi-
tai club committee, hopes for more
than 100 entries, as there were in the
Argyle tourney, which ended yester-
day
Long Competition.
Our club pro, Tony Sylvester
already has donated several prizes" "
she said. And we hope all the girls
will come over to play in our tourna-
ment." Never before has there been
any amount of activity among the
gals after the regular spring tourna-
ment season of the Womens District
Golf Association closed. That is,
until the fall season opened. But
this year is different Maybe women S
golf competition is going to become
a season-long affair. without the
usual two-month hiatus in July and
August.
Sixty-five players started in the
high handicap division at Argyle,
and the women of that club
presented 20 prizes. Not at all bad
for the first venture into the tourna-
ment field. Since Argyle has been
a factor in women S golf only a wear
or so. the feminine players have done
all right
Home Golfer Declines Prize.
Mrs. R. c. Jewell of Argyle and
Mrs. Henry G. Pratt of Washington
turned IN Identical scores. and had
the same handicap to top both gross
and net divisions. But Mrs. Jewell
refused to draw. saying that since
Mrs. Pratt was a guest she should
take first prize. So Mrs. Pratt is the
winner, with Mrs. Jewell next. Both
women had 98-2474.
Other prize winners were as
follows:
"a Mrs. George JAM JH"SSo1 teonsressionaD. esmM
~ asn155 A5s M1s heye John Hfsslsy Ssas
6S; Mrs. R. E. Burks 1congressionaD
9aI;25e7s; 80; Je Mrs, A. D, Kane Kenvood,
!Kenwoodj 1O0-I9-Si: Mrs PheIps
Adams ,,Washinston!, lo7-55@se; MS. MS
Mrs. M R r, L. Hutchinson Washington loa-
seGins, SeansI: ilI5;3os3 M5s WlnRisr dfH
Haas tBeaver DAM. 1l2-2a-s:l: Mrs.
Mrs. Lloyd Dennis Washington. 1l6-
25-s3. ' '-''"''0' - i'0-
Easy Win for Curtiss.
Hot weather cut down the attend
ance at the District Building tourna-
ment at Indian Spring, but the
same champion emerged from the
melee. Southpaw Byrne Curtiss
who learned his golf at Indian
Spring, Whacked the ball around in
n strokes to spreadeagle the field
Next score to the winning II was a
81 registered by Charles Tschiffely
which won the blind bogey tourney
H. L. Matthews and AL Clayton, the
latter policeman, tied at "a for
the top prize in the second flight
with Bill Wilding next at 96.
Walper Has Another SO.
Al Houghton and Leo Walper both
had whack at that elusive course
record at Washington, but the best
they could do was 70 for AL and
q 50 for Leo. But that 50 gave
Brick Wood, Washington caddie-
master, another pain. Brick is going
to stop betting Leo he can't break
70 on that course, or else he'll go
broke That is, while Leo is in his
present happy scoring mood.
Optimistic AL, who is promoting
the Middle Atlantic P. G. A. tourna-
ment, says he has cash offers from
two local clubs. whose names he
won't reveal. But he insists they
are bona fide offers. We've already
raised more than S700 for that
tournament" said Houghton. And
If it keeps on going at the present
rate We'll have purse of maybe
$2,5O0 to shoot for. That won't be
so bad, huh?"
Not bad, AL. Just about perfect
For the boys, since Sid Banks
stopped turning on the money well,
have been up against a blank wall
for a big-money local affair.