Evening star., 1939-01-19
Local Title Affair
Is Listed June 19
Al Columbia
Dotes Also Are Set for
Maryland, Mid-AtIuntic
Championships
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

MCCALLUM.
The District of Columbia women's
golf championship will be played at
Columbia during the week of
June 10.
The Maryland State women's title
tourney will be played at Congress
sional during the week of May %.
Together with the Middle Atlantic
women't title tournament, these will
be the major feminine affairs sched-
uled for Washington this year. The
mid-Atlantic goes to the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club October
913, inclusive.
Out of the preliminary conversa-
tions of the women's links organiza-
, ton, headed by Mrs. Robert A.
Lacey, has come this lineup of the
major title tournaments. In the
cases of the District and Maryland
championships the dates are more or
less tentative. In the case of the
Middle Atlantic the date is definite
and final, and already the women of
the Washington Club are making
plans for the big sectional tourney.
d. C. Association to Meet.
The Executive Committee of the
Womens District Golf Association
will gather at Columbia next Thurs
day to go over the tournament
schedule, and at the same time an
nouncement of the important COM
mittees will be made. Committee
chairmen to head the all-important
tournament and team match groups
have been appointed, and the per-
sonnel of the committees now is be-
Ing arranged.
Il am very happy that we are
getting two such important tourna-
ments here this year as the Middle
Atlantic and the Maryland cham
pionships," said Mrs. Lacey. with
our own schedule coming along in
good shape, 1t looks as if we will
have one of our biggest golf years in
1899. We won't have so many &C
tual days of tournament play this
year, even though there will be the
same number of affairs.
The Star Cup tournament, which
has been a two-day event, now has
been cut down to single day, and
the Post Cup tourney, which has
run almost week, now is a one-day
affair. We never have had the
Maryland women's tournament in
this section before, but it's prac-
tically settled now that it will 60 to
Congressional, which is the club
of Helen Dettweiler, the champion.
Well make this big one, too, just
as we will make the Middle At
lantic one of the best we ever had"
Plan to Avoid Conflicts.
In arranging their schedule the
women are making every effort to
avoid conflicts with other impor-
tant Journeys The original date
for the District championship, for
example, was the week of June 5.
but they found out this is the week
Of the national open champion
ship, to be played at Philadelphia,
and knowing that some of the fair
golfers will want to go to Philly to
See the big show of pro golf, they
Set the tourney for the week. follow
Ing the mems Mid-Atlantic which
will be played at Chevy Chase, June
q3l6, inclusive.
Tomorrow night the Maryland
State Golf Association will meet at
the Baltimore Country Club to
choose officers and go over the slate
bf affairs for 1899. But the custom
hf the State organization is not to
announce its tourney slate at the
time of the annual meeting. Harry
P. Gallagher of the Baltimore Coun-
try Club will become president of
the State association, succeeding
John V. D. Tweedy.
DR.. Robert A. Keilty of Congress
sional will become the vice president
In charge of the Washington area
and Albert E. Steinem of Woodmont
will remain as general counsel. The
State organization will have before
BIT move to include in its member
ship public parks golf organizations,
| to allow the municipal hnksmen in
the State to play In Maryland golf
Journeys.
The Maryland mems champion
ship will go to the Baltimore Coun-
try Club, probably over the last
week end in June.