Evening star., 1941-06-29
ong Puts Tell Mrs. Betty Mecey Regans Maryland State Golf
Kenwood Star Winner
As Mrs. Myron Ddvy
Rims Cup on 18Th
Betty in l-Up Triumph
Sinks 20-Footer for
Needed Half on 18th
By WALTER McCALLUM.

A series of lengthy puts that
ratified into the cup from any and
all angles yesterday won for Mrs.
Betty F. Meckley, veteran Kenwood
Golf and Country Club linkswoman,
her third Maryland State golf
championship
Mrs. Meckley, who also won the
Maryland title in 1885 and 1886,
used her putter as a trenchant
weapon. first to build up a 3-hole
lead, and then, in the pinch, using
it as the tool which cut short a
courageous last ditch rally by Mrs.
Myron Davy of Columbia. Mrs.
Meckley took the final match OF
the tourney before large gallery
at Chevy Chase, 1-up on the last
hole. sinking a tricky 3~tooter TO
clinch the victory after Mrs. DaYy S
putt to carry the match INTO an
extra hole died at the rim Oh the
cup.
The match was one Of the finest
exhibitions of stroke making and
nervy shots in the pincheS that any
voman's tourney has produced IN
many years. But Mrs. MecKley
had the winning punch on the put
ting green. That was the difference.
Where each was guilty OF a 3-putt
green. the 1941 champion rammed
home three big puts, one OF ~ 1eeI
to win the fifth hole, one OF 70
feet 70 win the sixth, and the cruel
est of all Ito the Davy supporters,
a dovnhill putt of 20 feet on the
18th to maintain 1-hole margin.
Long Putt Gets Half on 18th.
At that point Mrs. DaYy was
coming strong. She had called
penalty stroke on herself IN
bunker on the 18th to lose that
hole and 90 l down. She had B
n1tted the 18th green to go down.
Then she rallied at the 10Th WIN
a short pitch shot that lett her
hall inches from the cup, and won
the hole with par 4, to go 10 'the
18th | down.
She outplayed Mrs. Meckley on
the 18th. for the new champion
was trapped from the tee ana played
her third shot 20 feet past the hole
Mrs. Davy, meanwhile, hung
mitch three feet from the cup alter
nlaving two good wooden shots TO
the edge of the bunker IN front OF
the green. Then Mrs. Meckley,
welding that big-headed ALUMINIUM
nutter as a magic wand, rammeo
in her putt for 4, and the half she
badly needed.
They halved the last hole in 5s'
although Mrs. Davy from 10 1eet
hit a putt for a winning ti.~V
stonned on the rim Of the cup. MRS.
Meckley, meanwhile, had putted
strong 3 feet past. But the
Kenwood veteran doesn't miss short
ones in the pinches. Through many
wears of winning all the sectlonai
titles in this territory she mas
nroven her mettle under fire.
Mrs. Meckley Doesn't Miss.
She didn't miss this one either
II meant the match and the cram
,ionship and the end of a gallant
i1nhill fight by Mrs. Davy, who Is
runner-up again for the secona
straight year. She won the meoal
Tuesday with a card Of 80.
Although Referee DR.. R. A. ke1ty
did not see Mrs. Davy's ball move
IN the high grass on the side OF a
bunker at the twelfth hole, she sald
It had moved and called a penalty
stroke herself. 1t cost her the mole
and possibly the match, Tor ,ney @
were square at the time. Mrs
Meckley, meanwhile, had played a a
magnificent shot from a bunker o
feet from the hole and canned the
mutt for the winning four.
At one time Mrs. Meckley was s
up. This was at the sixth hoie.
But there Mrs. Davy rallied to win
two in a row and even though sne
took five to the short ninth the noie
was halved when Mrs Meckley
three-putted.