New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-17
GOLF.
MISS BEATRIX HOYT WINS FIRST PLACE
IN BALTUSROL TOURNAMENT.

Baltusrol may not be as well known in womens
golf as Morris County Ardsley but once year
it holds a women's tournament that ranks with the
championship itself Yesterday was the beginning
of one of these annual contests. To that 1t was
a success is merely to sayNtha IT took place at
BaltusroL Golfers have learned that whatever this
popular organization undertakes is carried through
with perfection of detail that makes failure I'M
possible. There were women by the hundreds on
the course. The entry list comprised LS names,
which is the largest number received for golf
tournament in this country not excepting the
championships themselves
In this number were all the prominent players of
the season. Miss Frances c. Griscom. who won
the recent Shinnecock championship. headed a
party from Philadelphia that included the Misses
Elsie and Catherine Cassatt daughters of the
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Mrs. Caleb
F. Fox. who up Miss Hoyt in the
National championship a year ago; Miss Edith
Burt, Mrs ]. c. Patterson and Miss NJ. @. Maule.
Miss Hoyt was there from Shinnecock Hills,
while Miss Ruth Underhill, Of Nassau completed
the list of ex-champions. Then there Miss
Genevieve Hecker, the metropolitan champion;
MISS Lucy Heron, of Cincinnati; Miss Bessie
Howe, Of Pittsburg; Miss Eunice Terry of New
port; Miss Margaret Curtis, of Boston, and Miss
F. K. McLane, of Baltimore. In fact the field is
larger and more representative than that which
appeared at Shnnecock In August and if the
promise of the opening is fulfilled the quail
ity of the play viii be higher Twelve Of the six
teen who qualified at Shinnecock were among the
early starters which illustrates the character of
the contest better than a whole chapter.
Most of the out of town contestants spent the
night at the clubhouse. and the turned
out of their comfortable quarters in two of the
anneXes TO make room for the visitors. Mrs. Caleb
f. Fox acted chaperon for the Philadelphia
party while many OF the cottagers threw their
houses open to entertain the overflow. Mrs WILL
lam Shipper has Miss Griscom and the Misses Cas-
satt as her guests at her Morristown home. The
tournament is to continue until Saturday. ana a
round Of dinners, dances and teas has been pro-
vided to fill in the interim between matches.
From the way the contest opened, however, the
visitors will have little time for social things The
score board at noon showed that hundred women
the links. Lots of them went at IL with
arms barred to elbow and with almost masculine
stride. The weather perfect the air crisp and
the Sky cloudless. The conditions called for "A
round of eighteen holes medal play, and, though
handicaps allowed. only the sixteen best
teen gross scores qualified for a consolation cup,
and both sixteens Will spend the rest Of the week
in fighting for places in the finals A number Of
other features will be introduced to keep the in
terest active until Saturday, when the finals will
take place.
Miss Beatrix Hoyt had the honor Of making the
best gross score yesterday. Her card was 81. Al
though rated at scratch In the handicap, she made
the best here also, and received the prize
Miss Marion Oliver, of Albany while Miss Girls
CON- who was somewhat off her game, came third
Following the of those who qualified for
the Baltusrol and Consolation cups: