Evening star., 1941-03-23
Lack Of Organization
Cuts Down Play Of
Male Divoters
Field Of $50 Moderate
Now for Weaker Sex
Where 40 Used to Be
Nv WALTER McCALLUM.

ANY doubt that the feminine golf
erS, all 200-odd of them, constitute
the busiest group in local competit-
i've golf events can be tossed aside,
If you compare the just announced
women's schedule with the meager
slate of affairs offered for the men
around Washington this year. You
might say the women are organized
and the men are not; that the men
do not have time to play and the
women do, and so on. But those
matters do not stand the test of
reason. The men could be as well
organized. They could, for example,
hold inter-club team matches, and
they could stage more tournaments.
But the District Golf Association,
which could foster such affairs, and
thus develop the youngsters of the
game, hasn't seen fit to do it,
Some will say that womans place
Is in the home, and that a we'll
than any trivial little golf mug won
with the sweat of pretty feminine
brow; and that hands calloused by
houseWork are preferable to hands
calloused by gripping a golf club.
But there are enough women play
Ing golf around town nowadays to
lake care of the golf angle. Some
one must do the house work.
Could Have Capacity in Golf.
If a woman played in all the
links events on the schedule this
year, she would have little time or
inclination to do much else than
play golf. For in addition to the IL
big Journeys and the impressive
slate Of team matches scheduled
locally a number of other affairs
are billed. Some of the local links
women will play in the MARYLAND
State championship at Chevy Chase
June "a, 25 and 26; in the Middle
Atlantic in October, and the Pavne
trophy tourney at Baltimore in the
1al, While others will 60 farther
af1eld TO compete in the Eastern
championship at Rye, N. Y. in
June; the Southern at Memphis in
May, and few will compete in the
nauonaI championship at Brook
ilne, Mass, in September. All in
all the women have quite an i'm
pressive schedule.
It's all strictly in line with the
OfnUrh "a
Con Association which was. only
a lew years ago. a sleepy little out
Mt which counted it big day when
thelr tournaments drew out 40 COM
petltors Today the tournament
which doesn't draw $50 or more
isn't so big, and last year. SO big
were the tournaments growing. the
women had to split them up into
classes according to handicaps.
Philly Match Too Lopsided.
This year the Philadelphia team
match has been abandoned. It's
high time, too, for although it hurts
to say 1t, the Washington women's
team wasn't in class with that
from the Quaker City. That lacing
the local femmes drew last year.
something like 27 to 8, should have
disposed of that. Only once in
several years of competition did the
Washington women win. The
matches were cute little social af-
fairs, but once in a while the local
women liked to win. And they had
little chance against Philly. They'll
have more chance against Balti- |
more women. whom they meet May
ID at Baltimore and October 3 at
Congressional.
A planned match with Richmond !
Is out. The Richmond team isn't |
as good as the Washington outfit, |
and the Virginia women wanted to |
play with handicaps. This the |
women did not want /
to do.
So the tournament schedule will /
get under way April 81, and this |
year will run through July and |
August, instead of COMPRISING the ,
events into May and June, Septem-
Der and October. It's a better bal |
anced schedule this year. And !
much of the action will center /
around the team matches. to start ,
April Is and end June 80. First |
team matches, with only four clubs |
teams, won't reveal much, |
but the real struggle will come in
the second team class where handi-
caps will be used Twelve clubs
have entered teams in Class B,
among them Belle Haven, a new