The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-11
BUT FOUR ARE LEFT
sEAII-FINAL GAMES TODAY IN
WOIAN's CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF
TOURNAMENT
WESTERN PLAYER IS BEATEN
In Feature Contest of Yesterday, the
Match Between Miss Anthony, of
Chicago, and Miss Curtis.
of Oakley. Mass.

| NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Only four play
ers now remain of the four score of
women golfers who entered for this
years national golf championship, the
| contest for which has monopohzed the
links of the Baltusrol Golf club near
Short Hills, N. J., since last Tuesday.
| Fine weather has added to the pleasure
| of the weeks outing, and the entire
course, shortened by 125 yards for the
| convenience of the fair golfers. is in
| splendid condition The players who have
I survived the medal play qualifying round
and two rounds of eighteen hole match
| play are Miss Margaret Curtis, of the
Oakley Country club. Massachusetts, Miss
Lucy Heron, Cincinnati; Mrs. e. A.
Maniee, Ienox, Mass, and Miss Gene
We've Hecker, of the Essex Country club.
New Jersey. The feature of todays play
was the defeat of Miss Bessie Anthony,
of Chicago, by Miss Margaret Curtis, of
Oakley, Mass. They are respectively the
champions of the Western and Boston
Golf associations. 1t was close match,
and the players had to go on for an
extra hole before the game was won.
Miss Anthony had all the better of the
early part of the match, and was up at
the turn. Miss Curtis began to pick UP
on the homeWard journey, and her long
drives, the best points of her game, help-
ed her out wonderfully, and on the home
hole she succeeded in having the match
all square. Playing the extra hole. Miss
Anthony sliced her drive into the long
grass and took seen for the hole, while
the New England representative won 1t
and the match in a par 8.
The best scoring match was that be-
tween Mrs. Manice and Miss Adams, both
of whom are from Massachusetts,. 1t was
played out quite as well as the average
male amateurs could have done. and
while Mrs Maniee had a on the fourth
hole she finished with the low total of
a. The inward journey for both play
ers was productive of almost perfect golf.
Miss Lucy Heron, of Cincinnati met
and defeated Mrs. N. Pendleton Rogers,
OF BaItusrol, today by the narrow margin
of 1 up. While Mrs. Rogers was tenn
porarily relegated to obscurity, she played
a magnificent game, and outdrove her OPP
ponent in nearly every hole The Gin
cinnati girl, however, excelled on the
putting greens by holing out phenomen-
ally long puts.
The metropolitan woman champion,
Miss Genevieve Hecker, gave a splendid
exhibition of nervy play towards the end
of her match with Miss g. NJ. Bishop,
of Breoklawn, Conn. Miss Bishop SEEM
ed to have the match as good as won
on the fifteenth hole, where she was
dermie 8.
AT this stage OF the game II seemed
almost impossible for Miss Hecker to
save the match. Up to that point Miss
Heeker had played rather unsteadily, but
on the next three holes she aroused heT-
SELF and by playing practically faultiess
golf made the score all square on the
home hole. Playing the extra hole both
women made good drives, but Miss Bish-
CD unfortunately turned her brassey in
to the roadway and topped on her next
attempt Miss Hecker made no error and
won out, taking the hole in 6. In the
semi-final round tomorrow Miss Curtis
will meet Miss Heron, and Mrs. Nance
will play Miss Hecker, and the winners
will meet for championship honors In the
final round on Saturday. For the Con-
ISOLATION cup the survivors are Miss Hurl-
burt, who will meet Miss Elsie Cassatt,
and Miss Ethel Burnett of Cincinnati,
who will play Miss Elizabeth S. Porter,
of Boston, in semi-finals for that prize
tomorrow.
During the afternoon there was four
ball match open only to contestants en-
tered for the women's championship.
The prize was a cup presented by the
Baltusrol Golf club. Over fifty players
took part in this contest, which resulted
in a tie between Miss NJ. K. Wetmore
and Miss Marion Oliver, who played
against Mrs. w. F. Morgan and Miss
IJnderhill Each player made the round
of the links in 90 strokes. and will play
off the tie some time before the tourna-
ment ends on Saturday.