Evening star., 1939-08-02
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Every year AROUND JnlS Time some
good pro or crack amateur hauls
off and socks a new course record
on the books of the golf clubs
around town. With all the low
scoring that has been done in re-
cent years you'd think it couldn't
be done, but every year it happens,
sometime during August and Sep
tember, when the courses work
into their best scoring condition.
Just now the golf layouts around
Washington are as near the pink
OF condition as ever they are, and
1t won't be long before the boys who
smack 'em far and straight will
begin coming in with record or
near-record scores. We've had
lot of rain recently, but the fair
ways aren't slow by any means.
Putting green's are in good shape
and the ball flies long way in thin
summer air. Those are the reasons
that will help the busting of course
records.
Over at Washington, where
record of sc has stood intact Ounder
summer rules) for IL years now, it's
about time some gent with a hot
putting hand stepped out and
played that rugged course in 65 or
better. 1t can be and will be done,
although so far no one has been
able to do it, barring AL Houghton s
altogether miraculous 81, made in
the spring of 1884 under winter
rules. That score doesn't count, for
AL teed the ball everywhere. But it
was a great score nonetheless.
Witty Cox Tries 1t.
A couple of weeks back Leo
Walper played the course in SO
with an 8 on the par 4 third hole.
That round could we'll have been
a IS. Witty Cox, who tied the old
course mark a few days back,
couldn't do better than a II yester-
day. He got away to bad start,
taking 6 on the first hole and on
the second. to go three over par at
the beginning. But he wound up
with and II, which isn't such
coarse scoring in any company.
The pros seem to have taken that
66 at Washington as a challenge.
And sooner or later one of them is
going to break it. Not that it will
be exactly easy. for I doubt if there
is course around town where so
many things can happen to wreck
a score as at Washington. But it
will be cracked-probably this sea-
son.
Betty P Meckley. crack feminine
golfer of Indian Spring, back from
a tournament at Lake Placid, where
she went to the final round before
losing on the last hole to Patricia
Orhng, brings word of another
major tourney, which probably will
attract good many Capital women
1t is the Shawnee (Pa) womens
invitation affair. starting Monday,
August IA, and running for five days.
1t comes a week before the national
championship, and special rates
of S6 a day have been put into
effect for competitors by Art Brown,
who leases the BuckWood Inn, where
the P. G. A. championship was
played last year.
Between this one, the women's
national and the Mason and Dixon
tourney at White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va, which many of the feminine
golfers around town are planning to
take in, a busy season looms for the
better women players.
Those who haven't seen it will
like the Shawnee course, with it's
picturesque holes and its setting in
valley between mountain ranges.
Betty plans to go back to play, and
one of the other top competitors
will be Mrs. Bishop P. Hill, Chevy
Chase champion. who is a member
of the family who built Shawnee
the Worthingtons of Philadelphia.
Brown in Final.
Over at Washington C. G. Brown
has won his way to the final round
in the Horton Cup tourney, for
men with handicaps from IL to II.
Brown beat John S. Nicoll in the
semi-final round on the last hole,
after winning his quarter final
match from j. R. McGuiness on the
twentieth hole. The other semi
final lies between Don Lee and
Paul Campbell.