Evening star., 1940-10-20
Golf Queen al Manor
Rated One 10 Beat
In Every Meet
Runnerup Ronking Given
Betty MeekIey; D. c. Men
In Baltimore Matches
By WALTER McCALLUM.

MRS. waiter II. SCOkeS, MAI ldilet
State women's champion and holder
Of the Manor Country Club title, Is
the top feminine golfer Of Wash
ington for 1910.
Considered on the record OF the
year, Mrs. Stokes has been a con-
sistent performer in every affair IN
which she has played, and in links
neighborhood devoid OF players who
could be figured as threats to win
the national title, she has been. IN
every tournament, the competitor to
lick.
The links titles have been spread
around among the women this year.
No winner of several championships,
such as the Betty Meckley OF nVe
years back, the Helen DettWeller OF
1887 or the Marion Brown of 1888,
who won most OF the big titles and
established clear claim to the NO.
spot, Mrs. Stokes rates that position
by virtue of her consistency in tour
nament play and her generally low
scoring in a sector where any score
below 80 Is something at which to
marvel.
Betty Meckley Runner-up.
Betty Meckley, without title this
year, but still a steady performer IN
all tournaments and Washington
most consistent feminine golfer over
q decade, is ranked No. 2. Mrs.
Myron Davy of Congl essional, only
local competitor N the women's ma
tional and runner-up in the Mary
land State championship to Mrs
Stokes, is ranked No 3
Here is the way the rankings look
this year:
No. - Mrs. Walter R. Stokes,
Manor. womens champion of Mary
land and of Manor Country Club.
No q Mrs. Betty P. Meckley
Kenwood, runner-up ir the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association champion
ship.
No 3-Mrs Myron Davy, Congress
sional. runner-up in the Maryland
title tourney and consistently low
sCcler.
No 4-Elizabeth Hcughton, Chevy
Chase. surprise WHINE, of the Dis
t,ict championship and member OF
tile winning team among the coun-
try clubs.
No. 5-Mrs. David H. Clark, Chevy
Chase and Army Navy, winner of
the service club title and semi
finalist in the Middle Atlantic.
Nc. 6-Mrs. Leo Walper. Indian
Spring, who scored "a at KenWood
IL the District championship. A
good performer N all tournaments
snd a member VI the intercity team.
No. Mrs. Richard Kreuzburg,
KerWood, winner Ot her club title,
an intercity team member and a
steady player.
No National Talent Here.
OF course it is high time that
out of the ranks Of feminine golfers
around Washington, in a city where
golf is highly organized, and where
a season-long series of tournaments
is played, one or two competitors
were developed capable of holding
their own in fast links company.
But the fact is that it has been
many a year since a Washington
woman has done anything of note
In the national championship.
Marion Brown lost to Maureen
Orcutt Crews in the 1889 champion
ships second round on the fifth
extra hole. Marion, however, has
played no competitive golf this year,
and Helen Dettweiler. possibly the
most promising of them all, has
turned pro.
With all the competitive golf that
Is played by the women around the
Capital few should develop into
players capable of getting along in
fast company. But the signs are
disappointing Around other cities
women capable of scoring in the
high 7Os consistently are developed.
But we do not have such golfers
around Washington
Two Washington teams are meet
Ing Baltimore opponents on Balti-
more courses today in the semi
final round Of the Maryland team
championship. Indian Spring, de-
Tending its team title, is to meet
Elkridge at Elkridge, and should
win. But the other match, in which
Beaver Dam meets Baltimore Coun-
try Club at Five Farms, may be diff
ferent.
Beaver Dam has proved itself a
strong outfit, licking Congressional
and Terra Mariae on the way to
the semifnal. But local knowledge
counts heavily in these matches,
and the Baltimore boys will be on
their own course. Both matches are
to start at 1:30 pm.
Woodmont Country Club golfers
today we're to open their two-man
team title tourney, with the follow
ing pairings:
Comdr Henry Mosler and Fulton Bry-
lawski vs. Harry Rubin and Max Poffen-
NJ Young and Sam Samuels. al Goldstein
ano Al Small VS. Milton Harris and Buddy
Brylawskl, Howard Nordlnger and Leonard
Friedman Sf Ned ei Bord apa and Hefbert T ssuber
rs. Bob Phillpson and Ned Wortman, WI,
Fedman and Sam Wheeler DR.. Sam Bog
DONOR and A. J. Feigan VS.. DR.: Jules
Winkelman and Ellis Edlowitz, DR.. E.
Cafritz and Milton Gladstein VS.. Harold
Strasser and Dave Frank.
Closing tourney of the Women's
District Golf Association schedule
will be played Tuesday at Indian
Spring and Argyle, where the
women who competed in the spring
team matches will stage little
individual competition among them
selves. First teams will play at In
dian Spring, while second and third
teams will play at Argyle.
But this affair will not end the
feminine season. The initial event
for the Mrs. Ralph w. Payne Tro-
ply is scheduled for Congressional
october %, "a and 25 at 81 holes
medal play. This tourney is open
to feminine golfers with handicaps
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