The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-07
wOMENS RISE IN GOLF.
EoRzE, SOUTH, EAST, AND VEST THEY
TRAMP THE BEFTAGGED LINKS.

AVlkIIfs hOUEbs AAb1r AND WHDI THEY
TRAMP THE BEFDAGGED LINKS.
Changes in Feminine Fashions Caused By
tho New Game-How Players Here and
Abroad Compare-Miss Hoyt, the Bright,
Particular stRr of American Courses.
Women have advanced faster In golf In 1--WE
years than they did in Great Britain during the
centuries claimed for the life Of the game. It
is another proof OF the ubiuuity Of the Ameri-
can girl. Another reason is that women had
no standing in the game abroad until the es-
tabllshing Of the Ladies' Golf Union OF Great
Britain in 1893. which promptly instituted Q
championship meeting, and has now q mem.
bership Of thirty-eight clubs. In this country
the United States Golf Association from its In
ception has undertaken the management Of
the women's tournament, and has done It's
best to encourage them to take up tho
game. Consequently nearly every club In
the United States has now its short
course for the sole use Of women. and many,
particularly In the East, have putting courses
on which that important part Of the game may
be worked up. The most conspicuous excep-
ton IL the veteran st. Andrews Club. but IL is
understood that the clubs policy in this respect
will be changed next season. In 1895 the
women golfers only comprised q few mail
groups Of women prominent in society in this
city, Boston. Philadelphia and Chicago. New
port, Observation-Disclosures and Shinnecook
Hills were the three links these few devotees
played over. The last club was the first to
lay out q separate course for women: conse-
ouently It's members have been foremost in the
game. Mrs. Charles 8. Brown, our first cham
pion. was trained there and is yet one Of the
most dangerous rivals to Miss Beatrix Hoyt's
prowess in the weekly handicaps. Miss Hoyt
Is also q Shinnecock Hills player.
The numher Of women who NAV now IN in
oaloulable. In Philadelphia. where the golf
clubs have a union to govern local champion
ships, Miss Davids Is the champion. winning the
title on Nov. IL from a field that included
women from every prominent cricket and coun-
try club in the league. Boston, Washington,
Chicago. st. Louis. and Cincinnati has each a
large coterie Of women players. AS an instance
Of rapid development 1t may be mentioned
here that Cincinnati. which did not have a
single links at the time of the Meadowbrook
championship. has produced two players. Miss
G. E. Longworth and Miss Lucy Heron. good
enough to qualify in the first eight in the last
women's championship. The Agawam Hunt.
Misquamient, Point Judith, South Country, and
Providence. in Rhode Island. have women
members as keen and nearly as brilliant
as those Of the Newport Country Club.
In New Jersey the Ocean County Hunt and the
Lakewood Golf Club have jealous lists OF reg
ular players. while the Seabright Club has 80.
the North Jersey Country tPatersonl has 103.
the New Brunswick Golf 80. the Englewood
Golf IS, the Essex County Country so, the
Princeton Golf Club 81. the Morris County Golf
$50 and the Baltusrol Golf 80 women members.
OF whom fully 10 per centum are up to open
tournament form. On Long Island the Dyker
Meadow, Maidstone. Queens County and
Marine and Field Club come next to Shinne-
cock Hills in the number of women players.
The leading clubs in Westchester county for
women are the Country Club, Knollwood Coun-
try and the Ardsley Club. Both the Fairfield
and Wee, Burn clubs have capable hosts OF
its women who swing driver and cleek.
Golf could not have become so much in favor
the feminine fashions of the day; 1t has pro-
NOTED health and strength, but these are side
t tfSsufs as II s0mp Asids f Tlth ehe SIiEsifff Rnd eam OF
nonsense length in skirts, a devotion to silk
shirt waists in summer and Jerseys in winter.
red jacket, men are not overkeen in women's
goling fashions. That women never look bet;
swear. Boots and shoes, too, while no larger.
seem to be less pointed in the toes
one change visible to both the golhng
and non-golang man. It is that golf Is ruin to
the tssh! long lip Poi mt a. el ms , finger Th nails a1. made i,
the club shafts was destructive to such dainty
finger tips. 50 that nov the rounded finger nail
AS for the implements Of the game the women
use the sam clubs as the men. reduced when
Just how our players would compare in skill
With Miss Lena Thomson, Miss e: c. Orr. Miss
Player r"IiH in Great e t Britain afeff IS open per"t to debate debate
There all championships and nearly all the
practice play is on a. regular mems links, in
famed and dinlcuit Hoyiake.. and this undoubt-
eddy tends to make, their women longer with
driver and brassey than our players. but in iron
plays and the general short game the American
maids and matrons should hold their own.
Our links are so far apart that it is not easy to
bring the scratch. players, OF the country to-
gether for q trial OF strength, but as New York Is
sos st1gp Z may PbIs be ex iESR de t6at the BEST II In t ths
land. even from far-away Omaha and San Fran
cisco. will for once meet In contest To lose
skill Of all may not be gagged by the %eXactinS
test ola meeting on the links. enough is known
Hoyt to warrant the statement that she is in
the same class as the best women abroad.
triple run of victories in the women's cham
pionship abroad an adult In years and at the
f Sep 81 irs s tch samsi; MiSi h ~ witch ERs q se Seglilnis act N
INCIDENTS helped her to success.
wanted 4 the train S st CONVENT aSa fPs% taRtion after fs 'f tSs
first days play ITo think Of a sntR Of e Eirl
ing her bread and milk for dinner and sending
her heIds Of to bed as a solaco for my wounded
lie regardedthe victory. Whether a luke Of for
tune, or not. it inspired Miss Hoyt to practice
won most easily. the defeated including Miss
Nina Sergeant. a very skilful and high class
Hoyt, with, 131 yards 7inehes, was beaten by
Miss Madeline Boardman. 1877 yards 9 inches.
This accumulated the remark. often made to
her. that the long game was the weak link in
hergolang chain. and since then Miss Hfoyt has
SSs SSs 3 m Tow IF her eG avs PrsSeiCd5n rIvd e Is df frCm f f56
to 100 yards, and the. style is nearly
perfect, II the beginning and top Of
and follow through. the most captious critic
would be satisfied as to the style. As to re-
praised. Miss Hoyt does most Of her practicinG
over the men's course at shinnecock Hills,
alone which would stamp her as the equal tc
the average scratch amateur among her brother
golfers. But to leave hearsay for facts, IN the
cock Hills. which is as difficult and, long as the
average nine-hole, course hereabouts. Miss
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