Evening star., 1940-06-01
-Four Cards Between
Now and June Is 10
Settle Honors
Players Must Designate
Rounds; Skinker Takes
SchooIboy Medal
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Chevy Chase Club, one of the
two local clubs which stages its
championship competition in the
spring, has changed the dates for
the tourney for the Horstmann
championship cup. Instead of the
four days from June to 7 inclusive,
Chevy Chase golfers will play for
the club title at any time between
June ! and June 16. The rub
comes here: They must designate
before starting out that the round
they are about to play is in the
club championship.
Chevy Chase is the only club
around Washington which decides
its title by the medal play route.
For 80 years it has been played that
way. Page Hufty, who won in 1899
and 1888, will defend his title. Any
four rounds may be played between
today and June Is, but the rounds
must be designated. In other words,
a competitor cannot go out and
shoot good round and tell Coli
Pro Bob Barnett that it applies to
the championship. They don't do
things that way at Chevy Chase.
Fifteen of the best of the high
school golfers were engaged at
Manor today in stern chase after
Earle Skinker, the tow-headed Will
son High School golf captain, who
plays from the Columbia Country
Club. Earle previously had been
touted as the probable winner of
the interscholastic championship
and he lived up to the forecasts by
grabbing the medal at Kenwood
yesterday with 2 over par u.
May Meet Ross.
But the luck of the draw-seeded
according to scores-toSsed David
(Scotty) Ross into the same bracket
with Skinker. Ross, who plays from
Rockville High, happens to be no
pushover. One of the unusual fea-
lures of the tourney is that no
player from Georgetown Prep, which
won the metropolitan schoolboy title,
qualified in the match play affair.
Next to Skinker was George o.
Vass, Western High School captain,
with 73. while three others tied for
third at "a They were Buster
Mrstek of Bethesda, Dick Burgess
of Tech and Ross.
Today's first and second rounds
were played at Manor, with the
semi final and final rounds carded
for tomorrow at Congressional.
Here is the way the boys started at
match play:
BroWnrigs rf Aoos Roosevelt -Sc %eo; David Ross
Rockville C74): VS.. Don Murphy, Central
Oliver Clark Bethesda 1sOl: Frank Clark,
Blair go. VS.. John Vandererift, Wilson
George vass, Western (73). vs. Carroll
wilett Bethesda f79): Freddy Bolton,
Bethesds h ds, ~, vs. Charles Price Wood
Ee saEer fo SWISS Wilson sn Arshur
Myers, Roosevelt (7s), VS.. James Anderson,
Chevy Chase Women Play.
Feminine golfers Of the Chevy
Chase Club were playing today in
the semi-fnal round of the French
High Commission Cup Second round
matches resulted as follows: Eliza
beth Houghton defeated Mrs. Hugh
Rowan, l up; Baroness de Gruben
defeated Mrs. F. r. Keefer, and 2;
Louise Claytor defeated Mrs. L. o.
Cameron. 3 and 2; Mrs. A. Y. P. Gar
nett, jr, defeated Mrs w. j. Flather,
jr., 2 and l, 27 holes.
In the Treasurer's Cup tourney at
Chevy Chase four pairs have reached
the semi-final round, with the follow
ing semiflnal pairings: M. F. Morse
and Clarence Dodge VS.. F. L. Fisher
and Robert Stead. jr, Don de Veau
and L. B. Platt VS.. C. A. Fuller and
Walter G. Emory.
Congressional Country Club women
have started what may turn out to
be good custom for feminine golfers
around town.
Believing that all golfers should
understand committee problems they
have assigned their ladies" day
Journeys to members of the golf
group. Mrs. Arnold McNitt was the
chairman for the tourney yesterday.
Winners in Glass A were Mrs. G.
c. Goetzman, 99-13-86, and Mrs.
C. j. Wilkinson, 1O8-18-90. Glass B
winners were Mrs. H. Weber, 112-
1856; Mrs. Houston Harper, 112-
24-88, and Mrs. H. j. Klossner,
111-23-88. In Class c the winner
was Mrs. j. j. Kennedy, 59-36-23
net for nine holes). Mrs. John
Lever won the putting prize after a
tie with Mrs. Harper
At Army Navy Mrs. j. S. Phillips,
with 97-16-81, and Mrs W. R.
Russell, with 111-30-81, tied for
low qualifying score in the spring
handicap tourney. Mrs. L. T. Haugen
was third with 102-20-82. Match
play will start Monday.