Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
WOMEN'S SPORTS.
Mrs Astors Fine Pistol and Rifle Shooting Other Well Known
Female Experts at Yachting, Bowling Etc

! also fine billiard player and an ex-
pert bowler. The alleys built in her
Ferncliffe home are said to be the fin
est in the country.
She hunts every year in the Vermont
woods and brings down big game. Be
sides that, she can swim, row and man.
age yacht with nicely.
Mrs. George Gould'S fondness for
yachting is fully equal to her hus-
bands. She has. commanded the
beautiful Atlanta through many seas
and understands it as well as its cap
tain. During the season she passed
at Cowes she was called the Pretty
American Commodore" by the gallant
yachtmen who saw her on the deck
each day in the linen boating dresses
she affects. Her boys she dressed in
full MILDLY costume and her girls in
dainty yachting suits of white and
blue.
The Rockefeller girls, daughters of
millionaire John D. Rockefeller, have
made bicycling their special sport At
the Rockefeller country place at larry
town there are not less than a dozen of
the silent steeds kept in readiness for
the use of the family and guests. Miss
is absolutely fearless.
Both John and William Rockefeller
are enthusiastic wheelmen and spin
along the reads of TarrytCwn and r.
vington in all sorts of weather Mrs.
John D. Rockefeller is devoted to skat-
ing ard ice sports and in her New York
house has an inciosed skating rink of
artificial ice, where she INDUCES in the
pas line with her daughters.
The bench show at the Waldorf AS
toria early this year presented fair wo-
man in comparatively new line of
sport-that of dog fancier and owner of
rare breeds. Some of the finest exhibits
and prize winners at the show in the
new French bulldog class were the en-
tries of Miss Virginia Fair, Mrs. Peter
Cooper Hewitt, Mrs. H. M Gillig. Mrs.
]. l.. Kernochan, Mrs. Blakely Hall and
Mrs. D. T. Pulsifer
Golf is undoubtedly the outdoor sport
which has the firmest hold upon the af-
fections of the fashionable woman at
dHT6sffnpt SusGial~ courses have been
most equal terms Oh skill WIN Inc heiA
players.
So marked has been the progress
made by American women IN golI WIN
in the last few years that Hon. RoperI
Cox, of Edinburgh, member OF tne
British Parliament and a golf enthu-
siast. has presented a magnificent cup
of silver and enamel valued at over
6 500 to the United States Golf Asso-
cation. This cup is LADIES' per-
petual trophy" to be played for py
women alone.
Mrs. Reginald De Koven is one OF
the leading American women golf play
ers Mrs. Arthur Turnure is also an
exuert. and on the Newport links MIS-
Ogden Mills and Miss Anna Sands nave
made great records. Miss Sands, VINO
is a sister Of the champion st. Andrews
gblfer. William H. Sands, is me
player. Mrs. Butler Duncan won the
Goelet cup offered for the ladies han
dicap match at Newport season ago.
and Mrs. Mills has also been winner
in many notable events.
There are many other society women
who excel on the links. Mrs. Hobart
C. Chatfeld Taylor, Mrs. +. S. Adams
Miss Marion Shearson and Mrs. A. Ia
futile are among the best, while Mrs.
w. Whigham, the Misses Anna and
Julia Day, Mrs. Stuyvesant lie Roy
and Mrs. Wallace Kirk are excellent
players.
While the game Of bowling has been
lost sight of in the advance Of more re-
cent sports. it has many deyotees
among society women. Miss Helen
Gould is an ardent tenpin player ana
has fine alleys at her lrvington nome
Mrs. Isaac Lawrence is champion
PLAYER, and Mrs. Henry fselin. Mrs.
Adrian Iseln, Mrs. Benedict and Mrs.
Bryce Jay are among those who enjoy
the game. In New York Miss Gould
and other women Of the swell set bowl
at a well known lyceum building.
Among the women who hunt, Mrs.
Adolph Ladenburg, the beautiful wild
ow. stands first. Her grace and fear
lessness in the saddle have made her
the idol Of the fashionable Long Island
colony. Mrs. ]. L. Kernochan is also
an accomplished horsewoman.
Mrs. w. z. D. Stokes is acknowledged
to be one Of the best judges Of driving
stock in the country. She owns many
blooded PAGERS and can drive with tht
proficiency Of any of the leading mascu
/ line whips. Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney. Mrs. Fred Gerhard and Mrs. Sew
/ ard Webb are also interested In trot
ting and running horses.
KATE MASTERSON.