Evening star., 1941-07-04
Redskin Looks Ready
To Scorch Courses
In Tourney Play
FootboIIer Likes Links
Come With Chips Down;
Army, Navy TiItine
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

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Big Charley Malone, the Redskin
end (or is hep, seems about ready
to cash in on the three or four years
of preparation he has had as a
tournament golfer. Charley has
been suffering from complex or a
habit for couple of years now.
Early in his links career around
| Washington he got the reputation
of being one of the longest Of the
long hitters. And he was just that.
The trouble then was that when
Charley found the fairway with one
of his big wallops it was an occasion.
His friends had it that Charley
didn't pick up the usual coat OF tan
golfers show. They explained that
Charley couldn't get tanned in the
| rough or under the trees where he
used to wander, for the sun didn't
hit there as strongly as it hit on the
fairWay.
Nowadays Charley has a deep coat
OF tan. And whether the story about
his earlier paleness is true or not,
the big gent from Texas not only is
tanned, but is getting used to hang
ing the tanned hides of d lot of
formidable opponents on his per-
sonal 4 whipped EN-" fence.
Charley Hits the Fairways.
The reason is that Charley not only
Is parking those big tee shots out
where the grass is moved lin golf
language that means the fairway)
but also he has learned to putt. That
latter item is the one that is jolting
a lot of Charley's opponents who
used to figure that even though
Malone could outdrive them 80 to rs
yards he couldn't putt a lick. and
they'd get even with him on the
delicate shots around the cup. or
make 1t up by accurate tee shots
while Charley was doing some ex-
perlmental research work on new
varieties of clover and the other
stuff that forms the rough OIL the
local courses.
Now Charley Malone, like a lot of
Texans, likes to play with the chips
down. And the chips. in many of
Charley's matches, are said not to
be exactly peanuts. A few DAYS ago
at Annapolis Roads Charley and
CLAUDE Rippy thumped a couple of
fairly good clubsWingers when they
licked Roger Peacock and Pro Levi
Yoder. The story is that the pay off
was in fairly heavy chunks.
But Charley took a fall al Co.
lumbia when he tried to play the
best ball OF Maury Nee and Earle
Skinker, getting / up on each side
The Columbia boys took Charley
each way, winning the first nine 3
and l and the second nine and l.
Has Learned to Win.
However, the Malone man. who
isn't exactly stranger 10 golf The
used to caddie as a youngster in
Texas is getting to be a tough
hombre. Another few months of
competition, and few tournaments,
and the big boy will be ready to win
if he isn't ready right now. ANY
man who can knock that ball so
yards beyond the best of the other
lads, and who can putt. is danger
Gus. That's the Malone of today.
1t isn't the Malone of year or two
ago at all, and some of his erstwhile
opponents are learning it. to their
surprise.
Keep your eye on the Redskin. He
has learned TO win in tough links
school. one where YOU have TO win
to pay your caddie fees and drink
checks. Today Charley Malone is
l0-minute egg with the chips
down.
If you don't believe it. ask Ralph
Bogart and Cliff Spencer and a lot
of the boys who bet on them in a
little match at Washington a few
days back. Charley and Mel Shorey
were the underdogs in that match,
but they won. And the Redskin did
his part. The proceeds helped
Shorey get a long way on the road
toward the P. G. A. championship.
Betty Meckley Kenwood Winner.
Betty Meckley, the new Maryland
champion, isn't satisfied to let a
week go by without adding to the
stock of Meckley silverware. She's
at it again, collecting little silver
trinketS.
She won the George Diffenbaugh
tourney for women at Kenwood yes
terday with the good score of 70.
With her handicap of that seems
high for a State champ she had a
net of IA. Mrs. J. w. Jago. with
92-17-75, and Mrs A. A. McEntee.
with 86-11-75. tied for second and
Mrs. Jago won the draw. Mrs. Rich
ard T. Kreuzburg won the gross
award with IS.
Mrs. Betty huffman won in class
B with a card of 104-27-77, with
Mrs. J. M. Fetters second at 108-
$50. Mrs. V. G.. Myers won the
gross prize with 103. and the high
gross award went to Mrs. Robert
Fuchs with l26.
Former National Open Champion
John j. McDermott was back home
at Atlantic City today, following his
annual match at Chevy Chase with
Bob Barnett. McDermott, playing
with the same clubs he used in an
nexing his last national title in 1912,
got quite a few pars during the
round
Clubs Stage Holiday Events.
Topped by the annual match be-
tween the Army and Navy at the
Army Navy Country Club, a COM
prehensive schedule of events kept
inksmen busy at all the country
clubs around Washington today.
They were playing over courses in
much better shape than those of a
few days ago, for the rains of the
last two days have brought out the
grass and reduced fairway roll to q
minimum. Before the rain Wednes-
day the courses generally were
pretty we'll burned up. But they are
all right now. Holiday tourneys in