Evening star., 1941-03-18
Play Starts in April
And Will Run Until
Early November
Keller Memorial Event
Is First; Congressional
May Get D. c. Tourney
By WALTER McCALLUM.

The complete schedule of feminine
golf events for l94l, in a crowded
slate to start late in April and to
run through every month until
early November, will be announced
Thursday when the Executive Com
mittee of the Women's District Golf
Association holds its third meeting
at Kenwood.
First of the feminine links affairs
will be the tourney for the Keeler
Memorial Trophy, at the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club late in
April, to be followed within a few
days by the event for the Keefer
Trophy at Chevy Chase. The first
named tourney will be open to all
players, while the Keefer event is
to be open only to class A players,
with handicapS up to Is.
Congressional Gets Tourney.
Congressional Country Club, ac-
| cording to the advance dope, will
get the District women's champion
ship, although a decision may not
be made on this most important
tourney of the year until tomorrow.
Congressional, because of the reor-
ganlzation of that club, has not been
able to set definite dates for one or
two of the womens events.
The tourney for The Star Tro-
phies will be played this year at
the Washington Golf and Country
Club late in May. The first day
class A players will compete, while
the second day those in class B. with
hand1capS between 18 and 36, will
play for the trophies to be donated
by The Star.
One of the most important issues
to come before the association in
months will be decided Thursday.
This is the question of completing
one-day tournaments in a single day
and involves the vexing problem of
play-ofts OF ties for the top net and
gross prizes. Ties for the top prizes
long have been problems for the
women golfers to handle. Under the
present rule all ties must be played
off the following day.
But backed by the Women's Com
mittee of the United States Golf As
soclation, which asked the cogent
question: rs it one-day tourna-
ment when you carry over playoff
to the next day2" Mrs. Weible will
seek revision of the present rule to
force playoffs of all ties for gross
prizes the same day as the tourna-
ment proper, and in the case of ties
for the net award, will seek rule
forcing matching of cards to settle
the tie at once.
Wants Rules Understood.
Mrs. Weible happens to be a
stickler for written rules. Jokingly
she admits she is forced into such
an attitude by some of the golfers
themselves. Some have insisted on
justification of certain regulations,
so Mrs. Weible, in protection,
wants the rules written and under
stood in advance of competition.
Rules should be flexible enough to
cover all situations, she says, but at
the same time should unmistakably
state their purpose.
So the women, with their rules
brought up to date and their tourna-
ment schedule complete, have about
month before the schedule gets
under way. The coming season
looms as another big one in a long
series of increasingly big seasons.
Henry |. Quinn, prominent attOr-
ney, is the new golf chairman at
Congressional. He succeeds DR.. o.
U. Singer as general chairman
Singer remains on the committee in
charge of tournaments Other COM
mittee members are Harvey L. Cobb,
Frank Murray and Frank j. Muir
ply.
With becoming forethought the
Congressional folks reached into the
hotel business and put on the House
Committee managers of two of
Washington's prominent hotels
Harry P. Somerville of the Willard
and Russell Conn of the Ambassa-
dor have been appointed to the
House Committee at Congressional,
along with Thomas j. Groom, chair
man; Royal r. Rommell and j.
Dudley Weymer.
No indication has been forthcom-
ing from Congressional as to the
planned changes in the golf course,
such as fairway watering, about
which so much was spoken last fall.
But some changes will come as soon
as the reorganization plans proceed
further. The first big change may
be finishing of the construction work |
on an additional nine-hole layout to
handle the big playing membership
of the club.