Evening star., 1939-06-14

One lap down and another lap to
60, for the feminine golfers around
town, as they contemplate the big
gest tourney of the spring season
coming up next week, and look
back on what in many ways has
been the most interesting team
series ever run of. Next week comes
the District women's championship
and II it doesn't go to Indian
Spring, Manor or Congressional, all
the pre-tourney dope will be knocked
Tor another row of goose-eggs, which
wouldn't be any great surprise
either. It's getting traditional fol
the dope to be so completely scram-
bled that if tournament favorite
wins it will be an upset.
Marion Brown, the winsome
Manor miss who won the two bic
titles last year when she grabbed
both the District and Atlantic
crowns, will be the girl to lick. And
If there's anyone around who car
lick Marion it may be either Betty
Meckley, the dependable matror
from Indian Spring, or little Mrs
Myron Davy of Congressional. These
three today constitute the big trio
of local won1en's golf, with more
than a possibility that scrappy little
Mrs. Leo Walper, the big surprise
Of the Maryland State tourney, car
toss any one of the three over hel
shoulder and waltz in with another
one Of those Apazonian. victories
Mrs. Walper has . habit ef~ochiev-
ing. Nor would II be any~greAc Nr-
prise if demure Mrs. Walter r
Stokes of Indian Spring - long &
tMsat and never n champion-gets
on~her game wins the cham
ptnnship.
'' Five-Day Tourney.
The dear gals will battle for five
days at Columbia In the title tour
ney, starting with an 18-hole media
round Monday and winding up with
an 18-hole final on Friday, the 23d
It's just as we'll they didn't &c
through with that idea Of a 36-hole
final. BY the time they get to the
ultimate round the two finalists will
be pretty well tired out, particularly
If the weather is hot. And although
golf is serious business with the
girls, they shouldn't forget thai
l8 holes is and always has been a
match round at the game. And thai
golf still is game, after all.
Entries will close Friday with Mrs
A. S. Gardiner at Woodley 038l.
Chevy Chase Wins Team Title.
Over at Chevy Chase today the
women OF the big club near Chevy
Chase Circle racked up the massive
silver mug emblematic of the first
team championship. where it will
stay until a stronger team comes
along.
Here's the old mug back again
Bob" said Mrs. Landra B. Platt as
she laid it on the counter in the
golf shop, jubilant over the impres-
sive victory the Chevy Chase women
scored over Indian Spring in the
final match of the first team series
at rmy-Navy. Chevy Chase proved
its class, licking the defending
champions on a neutral course by
a 612 to 512 margin, winning the
entire series by score of II to "a
Manor was third with 50 points
winding up with a 9h to 3ls win
over Army-Navy.
Chevy Chase entered the fina.
match with a 2-point edge. Here
Is the way the points were won ir
the final contest of the season:
Mrs. Betty P. Meckley and Mrs. W. r
stokes Stokes a, indian Spring. defeated Mrs
ehase9 eehisSD I'm to snd g MGs Ms: Plat haats .chev,
Miss Louise ciaytor Chevy chase5 Hoas' xor ae,r
s "a p%S!nts %rt t Tor Mrs ,GhhaTl0t!s steTT
Chevy Chasel won 2 points to. for Mrs
Ora Emge and Mrs. C. P. Medley Gndiar
SPRING.; Ms; Hugh Rowan and Mrs; W. J
tor MIS- Tarry wash v. SHARPE Ten and nSInss Mrs j. 70
Bullock dndian Spring.. -
In other matches Woodmont
licked Washington 81a to 31s anc
Congressional beat Columbia 11A
to u. So the feminine team con-
tests are over for this year, and
Chevy Chase has redeemed the
trophy it lost to Indian Spring
last year. They'll be hard to lick
next year, particularly if they car
coax Elizabeth Houghton to play.
Mid-Atlantic On Today.
Seventy-f1ve aspiring amateurs
dug in their spikes at Chevy Chase
today and faced a slow and soft
course, still wet from last nights
heavy rain, in the qualifying round
Of the Middle Atlantic Golf Asso-
citation championship. Predictions
around the clubhouse were that