Evening star., 1939-06-24
New Queen Of Links
Travels Hard Path
To Attain Success
Working Womon's' Defect
Of Marion Brown Is Due
To Courageous Climb
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

No Cooy dIiO IOydl IUdO W Cllc
heights of local feminine golfdom
has Mrs. Leo Walper of the Capt.
tai Club, the new queen of wom-
ems golf in Washington, had. The
sturdy little piece of steely courage
who yesterday canned a 25-foot
putt across the 10Th green at Co.
lumbia to lift the District womcns
crown from Marion Browns blond
locks and place it firmly on her
ditto coiffure, has had to earn her
game the hard way For the new
champion is working woman
even though much of her work Is
around golf. She is her husbands
chief helper at Leo Walpers driv-
ing range on the East-WeSt high
way. She doesn't give lessons, but
there are many things to do around
a driving range. Things that fit
the capable hands of the new Dis
trict champion.
That's just the kind of putt
she holed last year to win a tour
nament at Sarasota" said Leo, after
he had congratulated his wife on
her courageous victory. Leo walked
most of the way, when he didn't
ride in the tin-canny little road
ster he uses around his business
place. Yeah, she's liable to hole
big putt anywhere. Most likely
to do it in tough spot"
Good Golfer for Years,
For fOlly five uoorc ,,ou, ,E,n
Walper has been knocking around
the local golf tournaments, always
a good golfer but usually "out of
the money" With little of the back
ground of the swanky country clubs
some of the other competitors have,
she has taught herself to play golf,
just as her husband lifted himself
by his boot-straps to a top position
among the pro golfers in this ter
lltory. If there's one thing the
Walpers have in overfowing abund-
ance It's courage. They always
have had it-from the day seven
or eight years back they started to
play golf.
A background of practice ip Flor
Ida, chipping niblick shots against
the side of trailer, of working
hard on her game at Pinehurst. of
gong here and there to golf tour
naments with her husband, with few
OF the usual advantages the top
golflng women have. is that of Mrs
Walper. But against this she
has lived in an atmopshere of golf
Tor half a dozen years. l can see
her now chipping against a blanket
at Hollywood, Fla, practicing put
ting Wherever she goes and growing
that swing with a hundred balls
Gay over on the driving range. In
the end that constant practice told
AND maybe that's why she is good
II you do thing in the same wav
thousands OF times you ought to be
pretty good at it.
Stage Fine Links Show.
MRS. Walper and equally courage
Gus Marion Brown put on a fine
show for the biggest feminine golf
gallery in years. They scored level
8Os for the regulation distance and
were all even. And then came the
climax. Mrs. Walper, on the green
at the extra hole in three shots.
knocked in 25-footer to win. for
Marion had been visiting the woods,
and only reached the green in four
There were plenty of spots along the
road where either girl might have
Wilted. But they didn't reach the
final by willing. A fine champion
licked a fine champion at Columbia
yesterday.
And there isn't enough difference
between them to fuss about: not
when everything hinges on big putt
at an extra hole. Complete results
OF the final day in the District cham
plonshlp: Championship flight
Mrs. Leo Walper. Capital, defeated
Marion Brown, Manor. l up, 10 holes.
second fight-Mrs. Richard Kreuzberg
,Mnndlan ,Msna sprngt defeated Mrs. ]. r. Daily
-. Third hisht-,Mrs, R, L. Rose Congress
S;lonsi'. ma :, defeated Barbara simons (Manorj.
,Resyer pam, defeated MRS & STEPHEN MHFDhs pe hs
Ma5fT FIFTH 'k6enEwood!, 3 nv, 3 and :, -"
wooodl, and 3. N'"e 'heh-
s,oIn1 oIsde lIsstdieons.sFirst flight Mrs. W. R.
ep etut Hill Chevy Chase. and nd y: Z: second Sts1
5shs fested MTs MIS- 4 M4cEntss 4cTFs Ksnsoos de-
. ana ,; third Aisht, Mrs H. A. Knox
',GGongreSSSionan GonDn IS defeated Mrs. r. c. Jones
gu59t B gTass s, Amy Nay defested ffe Ms Ms
MIS-, Eo Wldmayer 'Argvlel defeated Mrs
a. r. McDougald (Manor), and 4.
Two all-star exhibition matches
nave been arranged for Helen Dett-
weller, who was presented with a
travelling bag by the woman golfers
yesterday. On July Helen will plav
at Manor with Al Treder against
Marion Brown and Harry Pitt. On
July IA she will play at Washington
with Marion Brown against Mrs.
Walper and Virginia Mapes, aWsh-
lngtons only woman golf pro.
Next Tuesday at Kenwood golfers
OF the Department of Agriculture
Will gather to play in their annual
tourney. Maurice j. Cooper heads
the committee in charge. Indian
Spring tonight is to hold a dance for
the benefit of the Golf Committee.
Local Players in Tough Spot.
WaShlngton's five amateur ouau-
fiers in the championship fight Of
the Maryland State title tourney at
Rolling Road have gotten no soft