Evening star., 1940-06-17
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Strictly on the spot today is
Marie Walper of the Capital Golf
and Country Club, District women's
golf champion. and wife of one
of Washington's top professional
golfers.
Mrs. Walper came back from
winter in Florida with her golf
game sharpened up to a keen edge.
But she hasn't won a single gross
prize so far this year. Last year
she not only won the District title,
defeating Marion Brown, the de-
Tending champion, in the final
round, but she was runner-up In
the Maryland women's champion
ship, losing after going to the 14th
hole 3 up. There's no doubt that
Marie Walper was the woman
of the year in golf locally in 1899.
But will she be this year? So far
she has done little to justify the
belief that she will be the top
feminine golfer of the town in 1910,
Yet Mrs. Walper is as dangerous
defending her championship as she
was in winning it. She has
demonstrated that she has the shots
in the pinches. If she wins again
she will silence the critics who
thought last year that her victory
over Marion Brown was one of
those things. 1t happened to be
clean cut. but that didn't stop the
converse ton,
Qualify Today.
The championship started at
Kenwood today with an 18-hole
qualifying round, to be followed by
four days of match play. Probably
six or seven flights will qualify.
Meanwhile entries will be taken up
to Wednesday for the MARYLAND
mems amateur title tourney. to be
played Friday, Saturday and Sum-
day at Congressional. Locally en-
tries are being received by DR.. r. A.
Keilty, vice president of the State
ASSOCIATION.
Cox Again Licks Par.
Witty Cox played the last nine
holes at Congressional in five
under-par 81 for total score of 10.
and then went over to Beaver Dam
to prove the bright star in a match
in which Cox and Leo Walper licked
AL Houghton of Beaver Dam and
Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase. 3 and
2. Tall Wilfred led off with two
brides. and finished with 73, the
same score Houghton had.
j. E. Freeman is the new Presi-
dents Cup holder at Congressional.
Freeman licked George Neville. 6
and 4, to win the final round in the
tourney. DR.. o. U. Singer, golf
chairman, won the second flight,
beating Pat Winkler. 4 and 8. W.D.
Oseood won the third flight, with a
l-up victory over A. J. Abbott, while
Arthur tDutch Bergman. Catholic
University athletic director, proved
his versatility by taking the fourth
flight from H. j. Cristahoro
The breakfast sweepstakes tour
ney was won by A. D. Waring with
90-22-68. and Waring also was a
member Of the winning team. which
included Sam Merriam, T. Berrier
and j. L. Vandergrift.
Bergelin Kenwood Winner.
At Kenwood John E. Bergelin won
the Diffenbaugh Trophy, beating
Charles E. Vale, 8 and 2, in the
final. Other winners included R. v.
Herman, H Nelson and E. c. Carnes.
A blind bogey tourney ended in a
tie at net 76 between Tom Peyton
and E. C. Lupton. Others in the
prize list included Jack Keele. L. D.
Carson. A. H. Youngquist, c. V.
Griffin and H F. Rhodes.
Winners in the mixed foursome
match play tourney were: Mr.. and
Mrs William Hoad. Mr.. and Mrs.
V. G. Myers, Mrs. R. H. Fuchs and
L. N. Shade, and Mrs E. L. Hof-
man and Frank Schrider.
AT Woodmont the second round in
the club handicap championship
was completed in all but one
bracket, where AL Schneider and
j. E. Friedman finally settled their
flrst-round match after 81 holes,
with Schneider winning.
The sweepstakes tourney went to
A. Goldstein with 84-18-66. Herb
Sauber and L. Jacobs tied for
second. DR. Milton Harris won the
gross award with 76 In the Glass
B sweepstakes Dave Frank and Hal
Strasser tied with net CTS.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Lacey won