The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-09
While She Played a Dashing
Game She Was Short on Her
Drives and Her Putting Was at
Times Rather Faulty
MISS BEATRIX HOYT
NOT A CONTESTANT
And with the Present Champion
Out of the Finals the Woman'S
Championship Calf Tourna-
ment Is Bound to Furnish Sur
priSeS

New York, Oct Slime weather, good
links, and a surprising reversal of
form were the features in this, the
opening days play for the women's
golf championship tournament of
America, which began today on the
links of the Baltusrol Golf Club, near
Short Hills, N ].
Miss Beatrix Hoyt, who held the
championship from 1896 to 1898 inclu-
sive, was not a contestant this year,
and the present champion, Miss Fran
ces E. Griscom, failed to qualify for
the match play rounds, which will oc-
cupy the remainder of the week. Miss
Griscom, while playing dashing game
today, was short on her drives and her
putting at times was rather faulty. Al
together her play was not up to
championship form.
AT no previous tournament for Wo-
mems championship honors was there
such a large field of contestants. Be-
fore the game began there were 50
entries and only four of these failed
to take part in the contest. R. Page
Kerr, the secretary of the National
Golf Association, who was on hand
early this morning, was appealed to
by many of the players in order that
he might sanction the qualification of
80 instead of 16 of the highest scorers,
but instead of allowing 80 to qualify
he arranged it so that the first Is
should continue at match play for the
Cox trophy, the principal prize, and
that the second 16 should play on at
match play for a consolation cup.
The leaders at the end of the days
play were Mrs e. A Manice of Len
10, of &c Nc
sex Country Club, Mass, Miss Lucy
Heron, Cincinnati Golf Club, and Miss
Mollie Adams. Wollaston, Mass, who
were tied with 81 strokes each The
playing length of the course, as altered
to suit the women players, is $3.50
yards, just 126 yards less than the dis
lance of the regular course and the
fact that four of the fair contestants
negotiated this distance in 81 strokes,
speaks highly for the quality of golf
which the leaders played.
Beginning tomorrow the 16 who quail
fed for the Cox trophy will meet each
other in IS hole match play. The semi
finals will be played on Friday and the
final contests will take place on Satur-
dav.
Miss Bessie Anthony of the Glenview
Chicago, ILL.,, who finished in the first &c.
played splendidly today, and while her
score was 1913 for the round, her graceful
style OF play attracted good deal OF at
tention and favorable comment, and
many of the experts who watched her
work were so deeply impressed with her
capabilities that they made her a prime
favorite for first honors.
In a competition for long driving, Miss
Margaret Curtis of Boston, Mass, won
with a drive of 1913 yards 2 feet and 5
inches; Miss Fanny King McLain of Bal
timore was second with a drive of 1888
yards, feet and inches, and Miss Gene
We've Hecker of Essex County, n. j.,
Country Club, got third honors with 176
yards and inches.
Tomorrow in the first round of IS holes
match play the following pairs have been
drawn:
Miss Pauline Mackay, Oakley, Mass.
Country Club and Miss Margaret Curtis,
Essex County, Mass, Club; Miss Bessie
Anthony, Glenview, Ill, Golf Club, and
Miss Marion l.. Oliver, Albany Country
Club; Mrs. N. P. Rogers, Baltusrol Golf
Club, and Miss n. P. Curtis Essex Coun-
ty, Mass, Club Miss Emily A. Lockwood
Lexington, Mass. Golf Club, and Miss
Lucy Heron, Cincinnati Golf Club; Miss
Louisa A Wells. Brookline Mass, Coun-
try Club and Mrs. E. A. Manice, Lenox,
Mass. Golf Club Miss Mollie Adams,
Wollaston, Mass. Golf Club, and Miss
Fanny King McLain, Baltimore Country
Club; Miss Georganna M. Bishop, Brook
lawn, CT, Country Club, and Miss Eliza
beth harrington, Vesper Country Club
Lowell, Mass. Miss Genevieve Hecker,
Essex. N. j., Country Club, and Miss
Grace Fargo, Seabright, N. j., Golf Club.