Evening star., 1939-06-18
Marion Brown Is Seen
As Player 10 Beat
milne Field
Mrs. WoIper, Mrs. Dovy
And Mrs. MeekIey in
Running for Title
By WALTER McCALLUM.

ems championship starting at Co.
lumbia will be sure to be one of the
more intriguing of the seasons
feminine tournaments. Not only
because Helen DettWeiler, for the past
six or seven years one of the top
linkswomen around town, won't be
around this year, but because a new
face has entered the lists to take up
where she left off in the Maryland
State womens championship.
The new face-and not particu-
larly new either-is that of Mrs. Leo
~ Walper, wife of a golf professional,
and much improved player. She
was a finalist in the Maryland tour
ney at Congressional, losing only to
a determined last-nine stand by
Mrs. Jerome Sloman, new queen OF
the Old Line State links stars.
At first blush you'd think that any
feminine tournament without Helen
Dettweiler would be setup for Mar
ion Brown, the defending champ.
Marion won both the District and
MARYLAND titles last year, licking
Helen in the final of both affairs.
But 1t isn't as simple as that. Mar
ion was beaten in the Maryland
State tourney by Mrs. Sloman, and
she hasn't shown so far this year the
same effectiveness that carried her
to the heights last year. Marion
Is determined competitor at her
best in match play. She will be the
player to beat.
Has Strong Opposition.
Her most serious rivals will be Mrs.
Walper, Mrs. Betty P. Meckley-a
former champ; and Mrs Myron
Davy. who enters this years cham
pionship with a stronger game than
ever before, determined to win a
big championship Mrs. Davey. de-
spite good showing in the South in
the spring, hasn't done much this
year. She has the game, however,
and can 60 long way.
This one will be the first cham
pionship in years without Helen
Dettweiler Helen now is pro and
= Is out of feminine golf around town
perhaps forever. For three years
she has been the one to lick, and in
a way her departure takes away
some of the spice from the tourney.
For years the slogan has been. beat
Dettweiler and Win" 1t won't be
that way this year. Instead 1t Will
be. Beat Brown or Meckley and
win" But in there comes Mrs. Wal
per. the sensation of the Maryland
State tourney, who licked Mrs. Neck
ley for the first time. Yes, by any
standard you want to name. that
feminine championship coming up
this week should be interesting
right down to the final putt.
Greiner Not to Defend.
Over at Baltimore's Rolling Road
course a few local amateurs will
strive for the Maryland State title
toward the end of the week. Otto
Greiner of Rodgers Forge won't de-
fend the title he won so convincingly
last year. Otto will pass up the
State title tourney for the intercol-
legiate championship at Des Moines
So will Bobby Brownell of Manor,
who failed to qualify in the Mid
Atlantic last week in one of those
strange scoring upsets that befall
every good golfer once in while
But Volnev Burnett, 1887 champ,
Billy Shea, Ralph Bogart and quite
a few of our top-notch stars will
play in the title affair, which Spen-
Ger Overton probably will win. It's
hard enough to lick Overton on any
course. Over his own track he's al
most impregnable. He should win.
Cox "Stung' in Philly.
Nor will Witty Cox go to the open
championship again and leave his
clubs in the golf shop without ask
ing the price of storing them. Wifi
left his clubs in the golf shop at
the Philadelphia Country Club for
three days. At the end of that time
the locker boy handed him bill
for three bucks, or a dollar day
for storage. And they didn't even
wipe EN- off. The usual storage
charge for clubs, with wiping, is
a dollar a month.
And I had to buy glove up
there said Cox. "They charged
me-a prc-a dollar and quarter,
when four bits would have been top
So Wilfred probably will leave his
clubs in the locker at future open
championships.
Harry Peacock, father of Roger
Peacock. is going around with his
chest stuck out these days, on &C
count of a 1-over-par 70 he scored
at Indian Spring in a match against
Mrs. Charlotte Stern and Mrs. K.
S. Giles. Harry finished all even
with the women.
Three of Washington's top pros
will pass up the sectional qualify
ing rounds Thursday for the P. G. A.
championship at Indian Spring. AL
Houghton doesn't intend to play;
Lewis Worsham of Chevy Chase
hasn't vet become P. G. A. men,
ber, and Witty Cox, if what he said
recently remains true, doesn't care
any more to play in match play
Journeys.
But most of the eligible pros in
this sector will compete in the &c.
hole medal play tourney. The cham
pionship proper will be played at
the Pomonok Club near Flushing,
N. Y, early in July.