Evening star., 1939-06-25
Youngsters 10 Seek
Capital Laure|s
Al Army Navy
Old Line Lads to Tilt
At Woodmont;; Women
Also Are Active
Bv WALTER McCALLUM.

ALSO ARE ACTIVE
By WALTER McCALLUM.
Junior golfers of the town and of
Maryland have their innings this
week. Without the hindering slow
ness of those cagey veterans of the
links who look bad and play we'll,
a flock of youngsters from WASH
ington and throughout the State of
Maryland will compete this week
in two junior tournaments designed
to turn out brace of junior cham
pions.
Dick Meyer, the young bank clerk
who won the District Junior title
last year at Manor, is not eligible
to play in the championship this
week at Army Navy. And probably
Otto Greiner, who won the Mary
land Junior last year with a pair
of subpar rounds at Baltimore SUBJ
urban Club, will pass up the tourna-
ment for the Old Line State crown,
which comes off Tuesday at Wood
mont. But there are plenty of as
piring youngsters around, all anx-
ious to crash into the winning
column.
Age Low for D. c. Juniors.
Maryland stages a real junior
tourney, if you 60 by the theory
that any boy who hasn't reached
the age of 81 is a junior. The
Middle Atlantic Golf Association has
the same policy of permitting boys
up to 81 years of age to play in its
championship to be held at Ken
wood July II.
But the District Golf Association,
which will hold the Junior cham
pionhip of the city at Army Navy
next Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, adheres to a 17-year deadline
No lad who has passed his 18th
birthday anniversary may play in
the tourney. That takes it out of
the Junior class as most people view
juniors and makes it boys tourna-
ment.
Entries for both junior affairs
the District and Maryland-closed
last night.
Feminine golfers of the town.
barely finished with their cham
pionship tourney, again move into
the spotlight with brace of af-
fairs. The "duffers' tourney, a
happy thought of former President
Elizabeth C. Harris, will come off
at Manor Tuesday, while The Eve
ming Star Trophy affair, for prizes
donated by this newspaper, will be
played at Indian Spring Thursday
Public Golf Deadline Near.
Entries will close tonight with
Tommy Doerer at East Potomac
Park for the sectional qualifying
rounds June 30 for the national
public links championship. So far
Tommy has only slim list of en-
tries at 81 a head for the sectional
tourney, to be played next Friday
over Baltimore's Mount Pleasant
public course.
For purposes of qualification,
Washington and the entire State of
Maryland are grouped as one unit
Ten places will be open to the en-
tries from Washington and Mary
land for the national championship
to be played at Mount Pleasant
July 24-29.
Some of these places should go to
Washington entrants, among them
Andy Oliveri, the District municipal
champ, and Bob Morris, former jun
ior champ.
Red Banagan, Columbias first
tee man of affairs, is going to be-
come a nationally known figure-if
he isn't already. Bill Ullman OF
Columbia has written piece about
"Gabe" for Golfing, which will ap-
pear shortly. Banagan, in case you
don't know, is a character unique
around golf clubs He's indispen-
sable at Columbia, where he han
dies most OF the handicapping. And
no matter how his matches work
out, every one is happy. They all
look alike to "Red"-captains of in
dustry, Senators and major gen.
erals. And they all like him.
Most of the goling folk around
Congressional will be on hand
Wednesday, when the club puts on
"Wifty Cox Day" to honor the popu-
lar pro. It's unusual around WASH
ington, where the clubs take their
pros as they come. But the Con-
gresSional people are enthusiastic
about Witty. And they have reason
to be. The tall gent from Brooklyn
has done fine job in the pro berth.
They'll have golf tournaments for
men and women and will wind up
with a dinner at night in honor OF
Witty and the missus.
Around town Helen DettWeiler is
wearing bar pin emblematic Of
the women's Western open cham
pionship. rs that all you won?"
asked feminine admirer. "Oh. nc"
said blond Helen. Il got a dozen
silver goblets."
you know those girls out there
play wonderful golf. And what good
sports they are. You are going to
hear lot more about Shirley Anne
johnson, the Chicago girl, and Jean
Cline, Sandy Armour's protege from
Bloomington, Ill. Those girls are
going places in this game of golf"
Wonder if Helen knows that the
Rodgers Forge Club of Baltimore
asked Patty Berg, the national wom-
ems champ, to accept $4,000 to turn
pro for one year, to represent
Rodgers Forge? And Patty turned
It down.
Charlie Malone, the Redskin foot
ball end, who comes fairly close to
being the longest hitter among the
amateur linksmen around town,