Evening star., 1939-05-17
Rivals Play in STATE
Tourney Shows Big
Task Next Week
Mrs. SehIuderbere's IS
Earns Medal, but D. c.
Has 12in First Is
By WALTER McCALLI1M.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
All may have been sweet and rosy
for the Washington gal golfers in
previous team matches with their
pals from Baltimore, but from the
way the Baltimore linkswomen are
forging ahead the girls from the
Capital may have tough time with
their playmates a week from today
at Manor, when teams from the two
cities meet for the first time this
year.
Knowing this, and cognlzant of
the fact that a Baltimore entrant
outstayed the best skirted golfers
we have around town to win the
medal in the Maryland State cham
pionship at Congressional Yesterday
Mrs. j. F. DoWdall, chairman of the
Women's Intercity Team Committee,
has named the strongest possible
outfit to face the Baltimore golfing
gals next week. Not that it would
be too horrible if Baltimore posted
a victory. That also has been done
before. But the Women's District
Golf Association is proud of its golf
team and leaves no divot unturned
to put its best cleated shoe forward.
Team Nominees Named.
Here are the nominees to repre-
sent Washington in the forthcoming
match, not necessarily in the order
in which they will play: Mrs. Betty
P. Meckley, Marion Brown, Mrs.
Walter R. Stokes, Mrs. Charlotte S.
Stern, Mrs. Myron Davy, Mrs. Lam
dra B. Platt, Mrs. Bishop Hill, Mrs.
4. S. Giles, Mrs. L. G. Pray. Miss
Louise Claytor, Mrs. G. F. Hussey
and Mrs. T. j. Johnson.
With such a team as that Balti-
more we'll may be in for a sincere
and severe trouncing, for it isn't
possible to gather a stronger group
of feminine divot-f FINGERS around
this town. But the Baltimore girls
are coming with a rush. You don't
have to 60 further than the medal
round in the Maryland State tourney
won by Mrs T. E. Schluderberg,
with good IS, to see that
AAay DV
1t used to be that Washington
girls not only won the medal but the
championship as we'll They've done
just that for the last five years. But
this year the first part of it, at least,
is different. And smooth -stroking
Eloise Schluderberg, with the medal
tucked safely away, will be hard to
lick. She played tournament golf
in the South all winter and is very
much improved.
Mathematically the Washington
girls have the edge on the Balti-
moreans in the match play rounds
which opened at Congressional to-
day, qualifying IL Capital women
against four from Baltimore. And
there wasn't any great gap in the
scoring, for Mrs. Lucille Pray was
only shot back at 86, with Mrs.
Jerome Sloman next at 81 and Betty
Meckley next at 88.
Champ Dettweiler Missed.
But out there, stalking those fair
ways, there's ghost; the ghost of
the champion-Helen Dettweiler-
who probably could win her third
straight State championship had she
not turned pro last week Top
figure to make the first flight was
SO, which isn't such bad scoring over
the lengthy Congressional course.
Mrs. Schluderberg played Mrs. R. L.
Rose in the first round today. but the
match which threatened to steal the
show was the one between Mrs.
Myron Davy and Mrs. Leo Walper.
The final round is scheduled for 2
pm. Saturday, with one match a
day in between.
Men Start at Chevy Chase.
Over at Chevy Chase. a few more
than 100 male golfers were fighting
that elusive par today, trying to
qualify in one of the five flights in
the Chevy Chase invitation tour
ney-the only one of its kind sched-
uled around Washington this year.
Claude Rippy, the immaculate In
dian Spring SHOEMAKER and erstwhile
public links champ, who won the
Taft Cup last year, was a marked
man in the tournament, but ,nere
are plenty of lads in there who can
lick him if Rippy happens to be a
little off his mallet. Such boys as
Ralph Bogart, AL Dollins from
Roanoke, Va; Ralph Quinter, jr.,
former winner, and several others
can toss monkey wrench into the
machinery.
Match play in all flights will start
tomorrow, with the final round
scheduled for pm. Friday.
Mrs. L. o. Cameron, former club
champion, was being congratulated
at Chevy Chase today on her victory
in the French High Commission
Cup tourney. She beat Mrs. F..
Dickinson Let's, 5 and 4, in the final.
The consolation final finds Mrs.
Oscar Coolican and Nine. Van der
Straten in the final.
Over at the Army Navy Country
Club the feminine golfers have
reached the semi-fnal in their
spring tourney, in which Mrs. M. j.
Torlinski won the medal with "a.
Today's matches found Mrs. Tor
linski meeting Mrs. R. T. Schloss-
berg, while Mrs. G. A. Lynch met
Mrs. w. L. Weible in the first
flight. In the second flight Mrs. A.
c. Bennett met Mrs. W. Whitaker.
while Mrs. J. R. Matheson clashed
with Mrs. w. M. Moses. Third
flight semi-fnalists are Mrs. j. F..
Hooker, Mrs. A. B. jerks, Mrs. j. S.