Evening star., 1941-02-23
Mrs. WeibIe Is Told
Districts Chance
Rates With Best
Chevy Chase, Columbia
Offer Their Courses;
Metz Hits Whopper
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Mrs. Walter L. Welble, president
of the Women's District of Columbia
Golf Association, wasn't fooling
when she announced that her big
gest ambition during her term as
head of the feminine golfers OF the
town is to start the ball rolling to-
ward getting a national women
championship for Washington.
She has on file in the ottces OF
the United States Golf Association
letter formally requesting Tor
WASHINGTON the women's champion
ship for 1912, or a later year. She
has offered either Columbia or
CHEVY Chase for the title tourney,
which this year goes to the Country
Club of Brookllne, Mass. Ihat,
incidentally, makes it two out OF
three for New England IN women
golf. The 1889 championship was
played at Noroton, Conn.
Probably the bid for 1912 cham
pionship in Washington thus Is ouI'
for the u. s. G. A. likes to spread ltS
championships around, and Chlcago
and Cleveland are clamorlng 1or Ihe
1912 affair. But 1943 is quite an
other matter. That is the year
Washington may see the major Wom-
ems title tournament. Mrs. Welole'
of course, may not see the pig
show She is the wife OF an Army
officer and in the unsettled cohol-
tion of Army affairs nowadays no
one knows where an ofncer VIII De
wear ahead. But she lnVeIloS, th
the best Army tradition, TO SUCK "
her guns and keep after the cnah-
pionship for Washington.
National Officer ENCOURAGING
eve mean business on this ma
tional tournament, SAID the len
mime links prexy. Il have been Uolo
nv Mrs. J. H. HUI, chairman oI
the Women's Committee OF the
ITnited States Golf Association, thaI
Washington has as much chance as
env other city to get the Voulla
noent That would seem to mean
that we should have good chance'
for we haven't had national "oiii-
ems event here since 1908
As to the courses offered, either
Chevy Chase or Columbia Woulo
rank with the best layouts over
which the women have tralpseo III
quest of the crown now worn ny
sturdy Betty Jameson OF IeHaS.
Roth these courses have talrWayy
watering. Both can be stretcheo
out to any reasonable length ana
both will be in condition IN sep
tenber. AS far as womens CHAM
pionships go, we believe either
course would shape up as the equal
of anv over which a previous
tournament has been played.
Washington, of course, is que Ior
q national title affair. Here Is a
citv of 100000 people, literally
hotbed of golf. with IS private CLUBS,
all owning good golf courses ana
with one of the most active
feminine golf groups IN the lano.
There's no question about the
ability of the Women's District Gol1
Association to do the necessary
things to make the tournament an
success. They want the
badly and they'll get II,
If Mrs. Weible has her way. LOOK
for the vomens championship here
about 1943. Sure as that the sun
will come up tomorrow it will come
to washington within very few
years.
Metz Makes 463-Yard Drive.
Dick Metz. Chicago pro, hit a
golf ball which carried 463 yards,
or SO feet more than a quarter OF
q mile. That will start the skeptlcs
talking, particularly when 1t is re-
lated that the shot did not have
the benefit of a following wind.
But Dick drove from an elevation
of 232 feet, with a brasSie, thus
getting the elevation needed for a
big carry. The ball was in the air
IN seconds and the shot, made IN
New Mexico's thin air, was au-
thenticated by eight persons. 1t
was quite a whack, under any set
of conditions.
What's become of mysterious"
John Montague, some one asked?
Well. John has gone to work, and
not at a golf job. He is with ma
tional meat concern as good
will ambassador and lives in Holly
wood.
Down at Fort Worth, Tex, the
tractors and ploWs are working 10
convert that formerly easy course
of the Colonial Club into a good
test for the National Open OF l94l.
The natives in that part OF Texas
sneak of Colonial with considerable
pride as having bent grass greens.
That is something unusual Tor
Texas and common in the Northern
sector of the country.
Helen Dettweiler conducts a golf
clinic in one of the Western golf
One of her questions
came from Mrs. L. G.. Pray OF the
Manor Country Club.
That pay-as-you-play golf club
thought of Gene Sarazen fits in
with Bill Stones ideas of golf club
Gene is president and
founder of club in Westchester
County, NY, whose members pay as
they play. Stone holds that many
private clubs are on the border of
bankruptcy, and that the pay-as-
you-play idea should prevail.
Lefty" Harrells Augusta crowd
will leave today for Washington
after four days spent in the balmy
atmosphere of the South. Mean
while DR.. Noah Pomeroy and Pat
Winkler of Congressional are on a
golf trip to Florida and Jack Keele,
the Kenwood long hitter, is wowing
.nr,o NTH hiS hip tee shots around