Evening star., 1941-04-27
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Minneapolis girl, probably the finest
feminine golfer developed in the
United States over the last decade,
will play today at the KenWood Golf
and Country Club in an exhibition
match sponsored by the Women's
District Golf Association. With her
will play Helen Dettweiler, the
Washington girl who won all the
sectional titles around the National
Capital between 1881 and 1899;
Ralph Bogart, District amateur
champi90, and Roger Peacock, for
mer champion.
There will be no admission fee to
see the four stars compete in a best
ball match starting at 2 pm. or
for a shotmaking exhibition by the
two feminine stars, at 1:30.
The lineup will be Miss Berg and
Miss Dettweiler against Bogart and
Peacock. The girls, of course, are
professional golfers, operating under
the banner of a Chicago sports goods
firm. The exhibition match today,
and another to be held at East
Potomac Park Wednesday, will be
part of the golf promotion cam
paign sponsored by that outfit.
Helen DettWeiler, who learned the
game around Washington, turned
pro in 1889. Patty Berg left the
Of or
winning the national championship
in 1888, and twice being runnerup.
Lineup for the match Wednesday
at East Potomac Park will be Patty
Berg and Tommy Doerer against
Helen DettWeiler and Cliff Spen-
Ger, at 2:30 pm. The match will
be followed by a Shotmaking eXhi-
bition and golf clinic at $50.
Spectators at today's match will
see a cherubic, freckle-faced young
ster in Patty Berg. Serious minded
In all her matches, and an intense
concentrator on the problems of
the immediate shot, Patty is far
from being a golf machine. Patty
has appeared here before-in 1887
when she played Congressional in n.
The gallery probably will be sur
prisingly large. Several thousand
people will throng the Kenwood
course to see the golfers in action,
attracted in the main by the magic
of the Berg name. The Minneap-
oils redhead is one of the unusual
figures in sport. In a brief career,
starting in 1885, Patty zoomed to
a position of top eminence among
feminine golfers. She was runner
up for the national title of that year
to Mrs. Glenna Collett Ware. runner
up again in 1887 to Mrs. Julius A.
Page and won the title in 1888.
She did not defend her champion
ship in 1889 because of an operation.
But there isn't much doubt that
Patty Berg has been Miss America
in golf over the last half dozen
years.
Federal Golfers Start.
Facing their biggest schedule IN
the four-year history of the matches
for The Star trophies, Government
golfers will open their match play
championship tomorrow over six
courses. TomorroW's schedule in the
opening matches of the tourney fol-
lows:
Glass A-Section l, Farm Credit
VS.. Treasury at Woodmont; section
2, White House Executive Offices
VS.. Reconstruction Finance Corp.
at Indian Spring; section 3, General
Accounting Office VS.. Soil Conserva-
ton at Belle Haven.
Glass B-Section l, Patent Office
VS.. Army Band, Beaver Dam; sec
ton 2, Securities and Exchange
Commission VS.. Mount Alto, Ken
wood; Reconstruction Finance Corp.
VS.. City Post Office, Bannockburn.
TIE Government matches, open
ing tomorrow, will run through
June 80, when winners will be de-
cided in all classes and sections.
Round robin playoffs in all sections
will start late in September.
The schedule, arranged by that
master Handicapped, Chuck Redick,
is the heaviest ever for the golfers
of the Federal departments and in
dependent agencies.
HOyas Open Title Defense.
Georgetown University's hot golf
team next Saturday will move into
the opening round of matches in
defense of its Eastern intercolle-
giate title, playing Pennsylvania and
Princeton at the Manor Country
Club in home" matches for the
Hoyas. Coach Tony Sylvester pre-
diets that if the well-balanced
Georgetown team wins both these
matches the Eastern title may again
come to the Hilltop. Other matches
listed at Manor find Penn playing
Princeton May 2.
Maryland also has two golf
matches scheduled this week. The
TerrapinS play Johns Hopkins April
% and Baltimore University April
80, both contests being scheduled at
the Country Club of Maryland.
George Washington's next contest
Is listed for May z at Lexington
against V. M. I.
Woodmont Country Club opens its
links schedule today with three con-
tests arranged, to be supervised by
Pro Gene Larkin. Columbia is
planning a big party for its open
ing day Thursday, with a four