Evening star., 1941-04-29
Still Playing Winter
Rules With Big Test
Two Weeks Away
Burnett to Defend Title;
Mrs. WoIper Leading in
Keefer Cup Struggle
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

the Chevy Chase Club. Here it is
close to the end of April, and the
BOYS haven't tried summer rules yet
In case you forgot to remember, its
q tough item to hit ball as 1t lies
In good spots and bad-after teelng
'em up for several months.
But they'll play summer rules IN
that Chevy Chase tourney just the
same. Two weeks from today Will
mark the opening day and II the
amateurs aren't ready it will be Just
too bad. Entries will close week
from Friday with the Chevy ChaSe
Club Golf Committee.
Burnett 1910 Victor.
Volnev Burnett, the husky gent
who slides down firehouSe poles oy
vav of business, burns his hands on
ropes and other things incidental 10
his lob of fireman, will be in there
after his second straight win. Vol
nev shocked a sector of link WASH
ington with victory in the tourney
last wear. But golf, being the most
democratic game of them all, Ism
confined in its aspects OF skill 10
those who grace the social register,
and a fireman can be as good a
golfer as a blueblood. Or so Burnett
proved.
Volney again will play from Indian
Spring in the forthcoming tourna-
ments, and in the Maryland state
four-bal matches, which start next
Sunday. He happens to be capable
divot singer who has kept his hand
in during the late winter by froSt-
bitten rounds over the tricky ROCK
Greek Park course.
Invitations are going out now to
the men who will play in the tourney
over that always immaculately
srooomed Chevy Chase course.
Mrs. Walper Keefer Cup Leader.
Winning golf is a queer thing
You have it today, and you may
lose it tomorrow. Or it may be
around for a few holes and then
vanish.
Consider the case of Marie Walper,
who started the final round today In
the Keefer Cup tourney at Chevy
Chase with a three-stroke lead over
Mrs. Betty P. Meckley and Mrs. L. B.
Platt, her nearest rivals.
Sunday night Marie had prac-
ticed so hard she had practically
worn her hands to the bone. And
she was tired. And her shots were
punk. Along came Husband Leo
Walper just out of the hospital from
q throat operation, Let me see
Ii y cold
III hit just 10. No more" said
Marie. I'm tired, and my hands are
sore"
So Marie hit about five, and Leo
told her to throw that clubhead,
"f1ail it" as Marie described it. L
thought only of that during that
round of 3d." she said. 1T worked
o. K, too. Of course, it may have
made me concentrate more, but in
any case it worked"
Mrs. Walper Husband Leo is one
of the better playing golf pros
around town scored that tough
Chevy Chase course in 81. With her
handicap of five off, it gave her a net
of IT, good enough to lead the net
s0s of Mrs. Meckley and Mrs. Platt
bv three shots. And Marie finished
with six.
The final round was to be run
off today, with the net scorer over
the entire 36 holes to win the Keefer
Trophy. Leading f1rst-day scores:
Mrs Leo Walper (Bannockbugn,, s., S21-
50 Mrs Betty Meckley ~ Ike ,KenTood rSa %,
ss-s-sO: Mrs. ]. v. Brownell Manor
iumbiap, S6-5@s1; MIS-. A, 4. MeEntee
Manor. s6-3-s3; Mrs. w. B. JARVIS
(Columbia(, 1OI-1S-S3; Mrs. NJ. J. Tor
Ilnski (Army Navy. 95-12-S3: Baroness
Miss f Hawey Chevy Chase. 99-16-
81; Mrs. Kurtz Hanson Chevy Chase
1KenWoodI, 9s-I5-S3.
DettweiIer, BrOwnell Flying High.
Two of Washington's top young
golfers are going in for aviation in
q big way. Helen Dettweiler, the
blond young professional who won
all the sectional titles around town
In brief amateur career, has soloed
more than 20 hours and looks for
ward to the time when she will
obtain her pilots license.
Bobby BroWnell, the Manor Club
lad. to graduate in June from Duke
University. already has his pilots
license, and is thinking of entering
Army aviation. Bobby is quite a
high-fyer as a golfer, and will do all
right In the air, although he never
gets up there on the golf course.
Pappy BroWnell, known to his boys
as DADDY jim" has offered Bob a
tournament tour during the summer
as a graduation present.
Match-play pairingS for the OPEN
ing round of the French High Com
mission Cup at Chevy Chase are:
JP Lannon G6p vs. Donald De Veau
(aS, L B Piatt 90 VS.. Walter White Ll0l,
r T, Ansberry n6l VS.. Gen. F. w. Cole
man IA. Reeve Lewis I31 yS yio, Dr. " z e
Ransdell 1sN, MAJ J. P. Patterson 80 VS..
p. s. Ridsdale q51 and John W. Childress
1s) vs. w. c.. Emory. Jr. ~.
JamisOn Bradley Hills Pro.
AL Jamison, former Bradley Hills
pro. will be back on the job in the
golf shop at Bradley Hills within a
few days.
Jamison resigned from the Brad
ley Hills post last fall. Last night
the club Board of Governors, salts
fed that he is the man for the job
appointed him for the second time
to fill the pro berth vacated few
days ago by Roland Armacost.
It's all very surprising to those not
on the in" and not any great sur
prise to those in the know. Al al
ways has been keen for Bradley
Hills. Now that he will be back he
will have things humming again,
particularly on that new nine the
club is building. Jamison came back
from a winter job at Miami Beach
about 10 days ago.
Several other pros were consulted
on the post, among them Cliff
Spencer.