Evening star., 1940-06-22
Elizabeth Houghton,
New Queen, Not in
Old Line Lists
Dethroned Marie WuIper
After Title; Men Tilt
BriskIy for Crown
BY WALTER McCALLUM,

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Just finished with their most i'm
portant local tourney of the year
the District championship-Wash-
ington women golfers won't move
over to Baltimore next week in great
numbers to play in the Old Line State
title tourney which opens Tuesday
at the Hillendale Country Club
The pairings, to be made today. will
include only around a half dozen
Washington entries. They happen
however, to be among the best
around town. So far only Mrs. Leo
Walper, 1899 women's District
champ; Mrs. Betty P. Meckley OF
Kenwood, Mrs. Myron Davy of Con-
gressional, Mrs. Walter r. Stokes
of Manor and Mrs. L. G. Pray of
Manor have entered the affair,
which will run for five days next
week at the Hillendale Club of
Baltimore.
The golfing women of Washing
ton aren't quite up'to two strenuous
five-day tournaments in successive
weeks. At least that is the view
taken by Mrs. Ralph w. Payne, CO.
chairman of the Women's Commit
tee of the Maryland State Golf As
sociation. But at that, the Washing
ton delegation will be strong, and if
Elizabeth Houghton-the new Dis
trict champion-enters the tourney,
one of them may bring back the
Maryland crown.
Maryland Mems Meet on Today.
At Congressional today, where the
top half of the draw in the Mary
land State mems championship
loomed as the top-heavy portion,
District Amateur Champion Ralph
Bogart, the tall 20-year-old young
ster who failed last week to qualify
for the Middle Atlantic tourney, was
strictly the lad to lick.
Ralph was the only one of the
star field to break par yesterday
in the high wind which swept the
course. He did it in form-fitting
fashion with a under-par 70 to
win the medal by three strokes. Pat
MARITIME, ball of fire on the Federal
Housing Administration team in The
Star-sponsored Government match
play tourney, but newcomer to big
time amateur golf around town, was
second with 73.
Bogart drew as his first round
opponent his partner in the recent
Maryland best-ball matches. Charlie
Malone, the big Redskin end. was
listed as the first victim-if victim
he is-of the Bogart youngster
First flight pairings, not seeded ex-
cept for Bogart, were as follows:
Charlie Malone, Congressional (775: Pat
MMart!no. Capital l73l VS.. Gene Pittman.
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Road t74) Martin F. MCCARTHY. columbis
7sl vs.. Earle skinker. Columbia (76):
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Barnes. Rolling Road (7s) VS.. NJ. Parker
No Nolan; consT;essionsl t7s; Billy Dettveiier.
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Dam Gs) VS.. George F. Miller. Columbia
Five flights Of 16 and a flight of
4 started the match play rounds.
New Woman Champion.
A golf game nurtured in the winds
which sweep British courses brought
the District women's links cham
plonship to sturdy Elizabeth Hough-
ton. Miss Houghton. one of the best
at Chevy Chase, and a member of
the team which won the feminine
championship two weeks ago, swept
through the final in the Womens
title tourney at Kenwood yesterday.
beating Mrs. Leo Walper, 1889 cham
pion, and 2.
Miss Houghton is 81 years of age,
is the daughter of former Ambassa-
DOR to the Court of st. James Alan
son B. Houghton, and is a woman
who plays in typical British fashion.
When she makes up her mind to
play a shot she plays it smack at
the pin without any fussing or fool
ing around. Her game is directness
itself, and she doesn't waste any
time about it.
Against Marie Walper, the reign
Ing titleholder and the gal who won
three hard matches in a row earlier
In the week at Kenwood, the new
champion turned on the heat start
Ing at the twelfth hole in yesterdays
final round to win five holes in a
row and close out the match on
the sixteenth green.
One up at the turn and one down
at the twelfth tee, after dropping
the tenth and eleventh, Miss Hough-
ton won the twelfth with par S, the
thirteenth when her chip shot
bounced off ball mark into the
cup for an eagle and the next three
holes, all in par, to close out the
defending champion. High spot of
the match was her brassie shot from
the rough to the middle of the
fourteenth green, which won her
the hole, and put her 2 up with
4 to play.
Is Worthy TitlehoIder.
Some folks said Marie Walper was
tired from the strain of three hard
matches in a row. She had shot an
approximate "a Thursday to win
from Betty Meckley. Certainly she
wasn't that good yesterday. But the
new champion played winning golf
OF the kind that is hard to beat.
NO player ever deserved title more
than did Miss Houghton.
Previously Miss Houghton twice
had won the Chevy Chase champion
ship and the Post Cup. She also had
oeen runner-up in the District and
Maryland championships. Here is
the score of the final match:
Miss Houeton, out 55s sao sAA,
Mis: Ms: Wa,pes; nIet out 555 453 544-41
MIS-: ,Walper. in 356 655 s
winners in the other flights were: