Evening star., 1941-12-26
Mass Golf Lessons
For Girls 10 Begin
Here in Spring
CupitoI Pros Enlisted
In Move to Develop
Stor linkswomen
By WALTER McCALLUM.

don't give a mashie shot whether
the kid players get a kick up the
ladder of success via the profess
sional coaching method or not. True,
they thrill to the par-busting stunts
of the Bogarts, the Brownells and
the Skinkers, but for most OF them
these matters are beyond matching.
And the young golfers who should
be getting the kick up the ladder are
not quite getting it, even though
such long headed gents as WHY
Cox, Bob Barnett and a few more
of the pros around town realize that
bv building up the youngsters they
help themselves and the game.
Something is going TO be done
about helping the young players on
the feminine side next year, If Mrs.
Walter L. Weible, president OF the
Women's District Golf Association,
can put across the program she
hopes to make come true in 1912.
She has enlisted the aid of Witty
Cox, president of the Middle At
lantic P. G. A. in a move designed
to aid the young feminine group in
golf. Group lessons for high school
and college feminine players will be
held by the pros around town, If
Mrs. Weible can arrange it. And
Witty himself likes the idea, al
though he knows he will have to-
sell" the plan to his brother pros.
Long Has Had Idea.
Mrs. Weible long has nursed the
idea Of improving feminine golf
around Washington by starting the
youngsters of the game in the right
way; by taking lessons from the
masters Of the game, who happen to
be the club professionals. I'VE have
very fine group of professional
golfers around Washington" she
said. They know their business and
they know how to teach golf. Now
Washington never has been able to
produce a woman golfer good enough
to make real record in the national
| championship. Yes, I know that
some Of our players have qualified
for the national tournament,
Mrs. Myron Davy, Betty Meckley,
| Helen DeIVWelleI, MIS-, oIOhCop
Marion Brown, all are good golfers.
but on the record they haven't gone
very far against good opposition"
Mrs. Weible points out. Perhaps
the reason lies in the fact that our
women are not getting the proper
instruction at the beginning, and
when I say that I mean at the
age when their muscles are young
and their golf game really is in the
formative stage With all the golf
PLAYED ~ Che women around Wash
= ington we should have two or three
maybe more-topnotchers. Wher
I, say topnotchers mean women o.
girls good enough TO make real biz
for the national championship. No
merely to qualify, although that i
big honor. but to make genuine
bid to win the championship.
"As see it the only way We can
do this is to start the young golfers
on the right road"
4 Mrs. Weible already has discussed
n with Witty Cox mass lessons for
n young feminine golfers of high school
3 and college age. The project prob
7 ably will go through next spring, and
if there is one gent who can put
o across to his brother pros the matter
{ of free class instruction it IS Witty.
n The Congressional pro always has
: had the broadest viewpoint on golf
s promotion.
e Bows Should Benefit, Too.
h But the business Of class lessons
shouldn't begin and end with the
(. women. 1t should extend also to the
}. young men in high school and in
: the colleges. 1t does in other cities.
S. notably in California and Texas,
A where free class lessons for groups
d of high school and college students
are recognized parts OF the spring
teaching season.
So far only Georgetown and
George Washington have gone IN
for college golf to the point where
they employ professional to ham
die their golf instruction. Tony
=, Sylvester has piled up an enviable
q reputation as the mentor of the
7 Georgetown golf squad. George
Is Diffenbaugh coaches George WASH
g ington, a school which doesn't have
g the links material that Georgetown
= has. and AL Houghton, in 1910
. helped the Maryland University
i team
Z But insofar as general profes'
ID sional recognition in this sector that
4 golf in the high schools and colleges
* is worth helping, there just hasn't
OOss been any help. And there should
O2 be. The Middle Atlantic pros, al
aass of them, could we'll afford couple
97 of hours week of free instruction
a5 to the young men and women who
995 have ideas of becoming adept a.
81 Americas greatest outdoor recrea'
90 tional sport.
a3 You can look for some action mex
SO year along the line of aid by tn
sss pros to the young feminine golfers
ss And the pros will overlook big be
So If they don't move out and help tn
81 young men, too.