Evening star., 1942-06-21
Titles 10 Be Defended
By Betty keekIey,
VoIney Burnett
PIoy Slated for Links
Near Baltimore; D. c.
Juniors to Bottle
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Although the scene of action Is
near Baltimore, the tempo of cham
pionship golf steps up this week
with twin Maryland championships
due to be settled. Both titles now
are held by Washingtonians and a
flock of Capital golfers will travel
to Baltimore to play for the Old
Line State crowns.
Mrs. Betty p Meckley, for more
than a dozen years now the gal to
lick for the links titles In this sec
tor, will defend her Maryland title
starting Tuesday at the Country
Club of Maryland, while Volney
Burnett. the golflng fire laddie,
plans to defend his mems State
championship crown in the affair
due to get under way Thursday at
the Five Farms course of Balti-
more Country Club.
Where in past years both cham
pionships would be patronized lib
orally by Washington golfers, the
entries from the Capital will be cut
down this year by various travel re-
strictions. Most of the Washington
entrants are figuring on remaining
In Baltimore during the Journeys
instead of committing as they've
done in other years.
d. C. Golfers Dominate Meets.
Over a considerable stretch Mrs.
Meckley and Volney Burnett have
done a consistent job of grabbing
Maryland championships Mrs.
Meckley has won the Maryland
title three or four times, while Bur-
nett twice has grabbed the Old
Line State crown. They'll be fa-
vored again in the twin Journeys.
Those Maryland titles, since 1880,
when many Washington clubs joined
the Maryland State Golf Associa-
ton. consistently have been held by
Washingtonians. Burnett, Roger
Peacock and Parker Nolan have
won the mems titles while Mrs.
Meckley, Helen Dettweiler, Marion
Brown and Mrs. Leo Walper have
won the feminine crowns. Not often
has the Old Line State title re-
manned in Baltimore.
Another minor crown is due for
decision around Washington this
week. It's the city Junior title. due
to be decided Tuesday at Washing
ton Golf and Country Club, where
17-year-old Tom Brandon, jr., of
Columbia will be a favorite to repeat.
Tom won the title last year at In
dian Spring. The junior champion
ship is a 36-hole medal play affair.
with special prizes for boys under
Is years of age. Some of the top
young linksmen around town won't
be eligible because entrants must
be junior members or sons of mem
bers of member clubs of the District
Golf Association to be eligible for
the event.
Merit to "Hearsay" System.
There's some merit to the new
wrinkle the women are using to
keep handicaps in line among men,
bers of the Women's District Golf
Association under the new hear
say" system of accepting scores for
handicaps. Mrs Fred w. Evans,
handicap chairman for the WDGA,
explains that all "hearsay" scores
are not acceptable. but in many
cases such scores will be accepted
1t stems back to the reported
practice of some competitors of not
turning in their best scores for
handicap purposes. Mrs. Walter L.
Weible, president of the women S
association, says that some players
have withheld their best scores, or
have refused to hole out on the final
green so their scores could not be
accepted for handicap. These are
the cases we want to check on. ii
said Mrs. Weible Therefore we
are forced to accept 'hearsay
scores"
The whole thing sounds zany
enough, but if the players them
selves do not report their scores
perhaps the women are doing the
right thing in accepting "hearsay'
scores, authenticated by playing
partners, for handicap purposes.