Evening star., 1940-05-19
Evening Star Women Takes Over Golf Spotlight This Week
Annual Event 10 Give
Split Field System
lis First Tyout Il
Mrs. Kreuzberg to Pass
Up Defense Of Title;
Pros PIoy Today
BY WALTER McCALLUM,

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Biggest women's tourney of the
budding spring golf season comes up
Thursday with the 23d annual COM
petition for The Evening Star golf
trophies. The tourney also happens
to be the Oldest continuous feminine
event around Washington with the
single exception of the District
women's championship. 1t began
back In 1917, when Mrs. Charles
L. Frailey of Chevy Chase, then
president of the Women's District
Golf Association, won the initial
affair.
This year, with the feminine golf
fields split into two handicap divi-
sions, The Star has put up another
trophy along with the original one
presented to the women in 1917.
The me- cup is handsome affair,
patterned after the original trophy.
In addition The Star will present
trophies to the winners of low net
In both handicap divisions and to
the low gross winner in Glass A.
Will Test New System.
But there's one hitch in the tour
ney this year. Mrs. Richard D.
Kreuzburg, 1888 and 1888 winner,
and one of the few competitors to
repeat in the classic event, an
nounces she.will not be able to play.
Unless some special set of circum-
stances enable the former Virginia
Pope to take a day off from her
school teaching duties she will not
defend the cup she won so gallantly
during the last two years. Last year
she defeated Mrs. Judson G. Dale
in playoff in the tourney at Indian
Spring.
This year The Star Cup tourna-
ment will mark the start of the ex-
pertinent of the Women's District
Golf Association of splitting the
starting field into two divisions,
according to handicaps. Low handi-
cap women will play at the Con-
gressional Country Club, where
women with handicaps up to 10
will compete. Players with handi-
caps of 10 and over will play at the
Capital Golf and Country Club.
Prizes will be presented at Congress
sional late on the afternoon of May
% by Mrs. R. A. Lacey, president
of the Women's District Golf Asso-
citation.
Illustrious Names Adorn Trophy.
A distinguished group of the lead
ing feminine golfers of Washington
have their names engraved on the
historic old Star trophy. But Helen
Dettweiler, Marion Brown and Mrs
Betty P. Meckley, three of the best
feminine players ever turned out
around Washington, have not been
able to win in this handicap affair.
The tourney is open to all women
golfers and full handicaps will
apply. Here are the former winners
of The Star trophy: 1917, Mrs.
Charles L. Frailey; 1919, Louisa
Pierce; 1920, Mrs. j. r. De Farges;
1921, Mrs. j. w. Rankin; 1922, Mrs.
L. O. Cameron; 1928, Miss Carolyn
Warner; 1924, Miss Ruth Tanner;
1925, Mrs. Alma Won Steinner; 1926,
Miss Dorothy White; 1927, Miss
Dorothy White; 1928, Miss Winifred
Faunce; 1929, Mrs. j. N. Hodges:
1880, Mrs. j. o. Rhyme; 1881, Mrs.
Alma Won Steinner; 1882, Miss Vir-
ginia Williams; 1888, Mrs. j. E. P.
Davis: 1884, Mrs. L. B. Platt; 1885,
Mrs. L. G. Pray; 1886, Mrs. T. j.
johnson; 1887, Mrs. Walter R.
Stokes; 1898 and 1899, Mrs. Richard
D. kreuzburg.
Entries in the low handicap di-
vision, for women with handicaps
up to 10. will be taken up to / pm.
Tuesday, May 81, by Mrs. Davis
Wier at Shepherd 4352-J. Mrs. Ed
win Fox Of the Capital Club will
take entries up to the same hour
in the high handicap division. Her
telephone number is Wisconsin 4765
The tourney probably will draw a
field of $50 or more in both divisions:
Chip Shots.
Most of Washington's top pro-
fessional golfers will gather this
afternoon at the Bradley Hills
Country Club for pro sweepstakes
tourney put on by E. G.. Adams,
president of the club, who has added
$50 to the entry fees. The public
is invited to watch the pros in
action without charge. The tourney
will start at 2:30 pm.
Charley Malone and Ralph Bogart
are favored to win over the Wood
holme pair of AL London and M.
Caplan this afternoon and advance
the top Congressional team to the
semi final in the Maryland spring
best-ball matches.
The Indian Spring No. / team
of Roger Peacock and Claude Rippy
is favored over the Kenwood duo OF
Jack Keele and Charles L. Vaile.
Today's matches will be played
at Hillendale, near Baltimore. The
semi-final round next Sunday is
scheduled for Manor.
Diminutive Bobby Dunkelberger
added lot of spice to the Chevy
Chase tourney. More good golfers
of the Dunkelberger stripe in these
affairs would pep up the local
amateurs. There's no substitute fol
competition of the better brand te
bring out all the golf in any man
Roger Peacock, by any compari-
son, rates as one of the first II
amateur golfers in this or any other
country.
Kenwood now is using the new
fourth and 18th greens, built last
year. They make much better holes
Local pros are all hoped up about
the sectional qualifying rounds fol
the open championship at Manor
a week from tomorrow. They're
hoping they'll get as many as 81,
or seven places, in which cast
Washington should place three OF
four men.
Bobby Dunkelberger thinks Chevy
Chase would be fine course fol
the national amateur. But Chevy
Chase, while admitting the cours,
is good enough, doesn't want tx
give it up for the necessary TIVE