Evening star., 1961-07-10

pionships featured the week end
golf activity. Donnelle Watts
snapped Mrs. Joseph SmyLh's
streak of five straight Goose
Creek club titles with a 2-up
victory in a 36- hole final
played over two days.
Mrs. Jack Smith and Mrs.
Elmer Dodson reached the
finals at Glenn Dale, and will
meet for the title a week from
next Sunday. Both, incident
ally, are former women's cham
pions at Prince Georges, where
Mrs. Smith won the title last
year.
At Argyle, home Of the Dis
trict's first team champions,
Georgia Mae McKeever won
medal honors in 36-hole quail
flying with an 80-77-157.
GOOSE CREEK-Miss Watts,
a junior at Carson-Newman
College, ended Mrs. Smyth's
five-year reign with rounds
of 8O-S4 in the finals. Miss
Watts was 2 up after Sat-
'urday'S 18-holes, and 4 after
81. Mrs. Smyth won four holes
on the final nine, but lost the
32nd and the final hole.
Other flight winners:
1st-LouiSe Wilson defeated
Phyllis HerbSt, 6 and S.
2nd-Mrs. Ted johnson de-
feated Mrs. Arthur Mitchell,
6 and S.
3rd-Mrs. F. A. McGonegal
defeated Venita Hinkle, 3 and q.
4th-MrS. Dave Leech de-
feated Mrs. John Higgins, 4
and 8.
GLENN DALE-In semifinal
matches, Mrs. Dodson defeated
Mrs. Ray Shields, and 8,
while Mrs. Smith won over Mrs.
Rufus DeVane, 6 and 5.
The mems final also will be
played Sunday, July %, with
Dave Falter and Milton Bryg-
idyr. two surprise finalistS,
meeting over So holes.
Falter was one over par in
a Sands victory over Wilbur
Beall, while Brygidyr also was
one over in beating Frank
Lewis, 2 and /.
Robert Farr made a hole-in-
one on the ITS yard 18th
with a 5 iron.
ARGYLE-Mrs. Frank Cush,
the Maryland State champion,
is an automatic qualifier, and
passed up a crack at the medal
because of a vacation in Rhode
Island.
Mrs. Wilson Howerd, $3.50
1852, and Mrs. Helen Konopa,
80-83-i63, were next to Miss
McKeever's 157. Match play
begins next week end.
Miss McKeever was champ
ion for three years before Mrs.
Cush ended her streak last
year.
MANOR-John R. Miller won
his second club senior title in a
head-to-head scrap with Ralph
P. Gibson, another former
champion.
Gibson led the first round
with a 10 to Miller's 30, but
the 70-year old Miller took the
lead at the 9th hole where
Gibson had tree trouble and
took an 8.
Miller, who was club cham
pion at Prince Georges in 1882
35 and the Districts champion
of-champions tournament win
ner in 1885. shot S0-78-158.
Gibson won low net with
79-82-161 minus 10 handicap
each round for 141.
Bill McFerren, ST., and Jim
Murray won their second two
man title on Murray's par 4
for a net birdie 3 on the 18th
hole. That gave them a 1-up
victory over Norman ManderS
and DR.. AL Leon.
Manders birdied eight and
nine to turn even, but Meier
rem won the new 18th with a
par for a 1-up lead. Manders'
par squared the match on the
17th.
Bill Brownrigg and DR.. James
L. Goddard won the champion
ship consolation, beating DR..
Leo ShaudiS and Harry Gra-
ham. 6 and S.
SPRINGFIELD-Eddie Carr's
course, now 18 holes, was ad-
mitted to membership in the
District Golf Association at an
executive committee meeting of
the DGA over the week end.
COLUMBIA - Dick Latimer
who holds the club title and a
share of the member-g guest
championship, teamed with
Paul Knollman for the lead in
the Cummings Cup qualifying