Evening star., 1941-09-02
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

tuning up IIlelF SIlOIS lOUdy dI
Congressional for the Washington
open championship scheduled at
Indian Spring Thursday. Today's
tourney was a woman-pro affair,
each pro having three feminine
partners. It's one of the featured
events on the schedule of the
Women's District Golf Association,
which will resume its schedule later
this week with the tourney for the
Corby Cup at Columbia
Chandler Harper, Virginia ace,
today withdrew from the Washing
ton open, preferring to go to Chicago
for the rich Tam-O-Shanter Open
starting Thursday. Erie Ball, the
stylish little EngliShman from
Charlottesville, was an added starter
as AL Houghton and Mel Shorey got
together to make the pairings for the
Thursday affair.
Meanwhile the amateurs around
town we're glad for a rest from golf,
following a three-day jamboree OF
links events which found them play
ing in a flock of club Journeys. Every
club held Labor Day affairs. and
many of them held events over three
days.
Ansberry Chevy Chase Winner.
T. T. Ansberry won the Secretary's
Cup at Chevy Chase Club. Playing
with a ID handicap. Ansberry finished
even with par in the match play
against par tourney. Tied for Sec
ond, all down to par. were Louis
Mackall, jr.; Kurtz Hanson and
Edward Stafford
Archibald McLachlen and J. W.
Childress won a best ball tourney at
Columbia with 78-18-60 E. E.
Krewson and j. A. Flourney were
tied for second with George M.
Ferris and L. R. Edminster. Both
pairs scored 74-12-62.
Washington held a golf frolic
marked by variety of links affairs.
Winners were: Most pars, H. B.
Willy 90; fewest puts, R. F.
Murphy, E. c. Kochersperger and
r. w. Schnider (29); most rs, H A,
Thompson 90; gross on the odd
holes, Roy kaufman, R. S. Soder-
berg and Ken Haynes (39); net for
the even holes, Tom S. OHalloran,
49-18-31. Pairings for the semi
final round in the Birney Cup
tourney are: r. B. Jones VS.. E. F.
Mcintyre; F. w. Bradbury VS.. j. P.
Pelton.
1t E. w. Whitmore won the Ad-
miral Standley Cup tourney at Army
Navy with a score of 1865. Tied
for second were Col. H. w. Hill, 86-17
SO, and 1t. H. Jaeger, 84-15-69.
Field Day at Kenwood.
Kenwood also staged a field day
with many affairs. Winners in a
blind bogey tourney were: c. P.
Crawford, 97-18-79: Harry Lang
ley. 76-4-72: j. A. Maloney, 80-8-
70: R. Chamberlain. 91-15-76, and
Frank Hale. 92-16-76. Bob PEBBLES
poled out three big tee shots for a
total of 763 yards to win driving
contest. with J. C. FOULS second at
SIS yards. George o. Vass won the
pitching contest from IS yards with
a shot feet from the pin. j. c.
FOULS was next.
Mrs. Betty P. Meckley won the
vomen'S tourney for the J. E. Hutch
inson Trophy at Kenwood with 80-4
-76. The gross award went to Mrs.
Richard Kreuzberg at IS. Other net
winners were: Mrs H. H. Hughes,
s2-15-77; Betty huffman, 98-20-
78. Mrs. J. c. Dale, 9l-12-79; Mrs
Woodlief Thomas, 89-10-79. Win
ners in a special tourney for women
with handicaps of 20 or more were
Mrs. j. NJ. Fetters, l0427-77, and
Mrs. A. c. Paul, 108-25-83.
Meyer Presidents Cup Victor.
John r. Meyer won the Presidents
Cup tourney at Manor with two good
rounds of rs for a gross of 152, and
with his handicap OF "a strokes de-
Quoted had net of 128, good enough
to win any net tourney. Paul Rush
er, the first-day leader, scared up tc
90 yesterday and finished second
with a net of 1877. Other leaders
were: DR.. F. J. Broschart, 86-65-34-
1877; Dick Meyer, 74-73-147-8-139;
A. F. McDougald, 90-85-26-139;
Carl H. Willingham, 78-79-le7-l8-
139.
Mrs. Paul Rusher won women's s
medal play tourney on the inside
nine with 87-18-69. Other leaders
Mrs. D. M. Mcpherson, 89-19-70i
Mrs. T. N. Beavers, 82-10-72; Mrs
Linley. 1O6-3472 winners in a
putting tourney were Mrs. Rushe1
and Mrs. George Jones, 81; Mrs. q
A. Jones and Mrs. Mcpherson, 33.
Harry Hahn won the Morris Simon
trophy at Woodmont with card OF
86-25-63 Jimmy Lansburgh won
a driving contest with poke OF 265
yards with SIverett Steinem second
at 260 yards. But Steinem turned
the tables by winning the pitching
contest. knocking a ball 9 feet from
the cup to nose out Victor Zeve
with Ed Engleman third. Ruth
Simon won a Womens driving event
with a knock of 220 yards, with
Martha Josephs next at 200 yards
and Mrs. L, E. Harris, third at l9O.
Argyle Pairings Announced.
fTSJ IlSllI pan lIlSo Al Cllo IA 5S ~
Country Club championship were
announced as follows:
Dick Mothershead C74 VS.; W: L. Moore
tsD, Ed Murray t79l VS.. R. N Carr5oL arJr5oL
W r. Lephew 800 vs. c. Beard ls3!, A
Wilmett 90 VS. r. Sterling So R Rams, Ans
Cooper C7s) VS.. P. D. LIE Due tS3) n
Gibson (sOD VS. P Brousseau (S3). Flv'
flights in all Will play.
Ralph Bogart and Claude Rippy
put on a circus finish to snatch
best ball victory from under the
noses of pro Mel Shorey and Charley
Malone at Indian Spring. The lat
ter pair were / up playing the Ions
18th hoie. There Bogart pumpec
a second shot 7 feet from the pin
winning the hole and squaring the
match with a bird 4. Rippy ther
put his side l up with an iron sho
that nearly holed out at the 18th
They halved the last hole in par 4s
J. A. Woodside won the Heimel
Trophy tourney at Beaver Dam
scoring a rs with a 4 handicap tt
finish l up on par. But he didn'