Evening star., 1939-07-15
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Not with the picturesque Ian
guage of other days, but nonethe-
less in robust tones challenges are
being flung around the Indian
Spring Club these days, directed
at various members of the club who
will have it out in friendly links
combat a week from tomorrow
The insults of other days. when
E. B. Wagner headed the Golf
Committee, have toned down to
more sedate and subtly worded
innuendoes, but nevertheless plenty
of members of the club are going
around with figurative chips on
their shoulders these days, as they
look toward the struggle on July
% between the Giants" and the
''Midgets" golf teams.
AS in previous years the ''Midgets"
will be led to battle by DR.. Tommy
Utz, a heroic leader of what, up
to now, has been a lost cause. You
have to hand it to Tommy for
trying. for the records fail to show
single case where his teams
have licked what Tommy used to
call the "abysmal cave men," mean
ing men who weigh $50 pounds or
more and are over feet 6 inches
in height. Those are the height
and weight limits imposed.
But John Bachman, who heads
the Giants" this year, swears his
merry men will carry on the rec
ord of previous Giant" teams
and hand the Midget" upstairs
another trouncing. 1t all comes
off week from tomorrow, and
the losers will buy the beer--and
the crab feast which follows.
Helen Dettweiler Scores rs.
Helen Dettweiler, Washington's
gift to professional golf, moves into
the big town next week for a series
of exhibition engagements that will
keep her busy around the New York
area for about month First she
will sharpen her already keen game
for a couple of exhibitions around
Tidewater Virginia and then will go
to the metropolis to play several
matches with Helen Hicks Harb, who
works for the same outfit that keeps
Helen in golf balls-and spinach.
But one of the bigger golf galleries
of the year have behind them
memory of sweetly singing wooden
club shots, crisply hit irons that bit
deep into yielding turf and a course
record that came very close to being
smashed at Washington yesterday as
blond Helen faltered on the last two
holes for brace of IS when two 4s
would have shattered the 14-year-
old mark of Is held by Dorothy
White Nicoison.
Helen was the shining star in an
all-star women's match in which she
paired with Middle Atlantic Cham
pion Marion Brown to win by S and
4 from Mrs Leo Walper, the District
champ. and Virginia Mapes. True
the losers did not play their best,
but had they been at their peak they
probably couldn't have licked the
Dettweiler-Brown combination. Hell
en- came to the seventeenth with two
As for "a. She took two SIS through
bad second shot at the seventeenth
and missed second at the eight
zenith. Marion had 70 and the
others did not hole out all the way.
After the match Helen put on her
usual interesting shotmaking and
instruction exhibition. She must eat
gobs Of the stuff that Popeye uses
for strength, if you can Judge by
the way she wallops that ball. She
had brides on the fourth and fif-
teenth holes, which gives you an
idea. They are par affairs for men.
A few hours later along came Leo
Walper, the Mid-Atlantic champ
from Bethesda, Md, with a sub-par
So, which included an on the para
third hole. AL Houghton, playing in
the same match had 72.
From the third hole on Leo was
5 under par, and with w. r. Nc
Lister as his partner, the two had
better ball Of 66, which was too
much for Houghton and Harold
Willy. Houghton explained that al
ready he has gotten to work arrang-
ing the program for the Mid-Atlan-
tic p. G. A. tourney. Optimistic AL
said he expects to raise between
$4,000 and 5000 for this touIna-