The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-12
FINAL GAME TODAY
TOURNAMENT NARROWED TO
TWO CONTESTANTS
ON THE BALTUsRoL LINKS
In Semi-FinaIs Yesterday Miss
HeclSer Defeated Mrs. Manice
Miss Heron OutpIayed
Miss Curtis.

| NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE contest for
| the women's national amateur golf cham
! pionship will be finished tomorrow, be-
/ tween Miss Genevieve Hecker, of the Es-
sex County Country club, of Orange, N.
| j., and Miss Lucy Heron of the Gin
| c1nnati. Ohio, Country club After four
! days play these two have survived out
| of the eighty-four players who entered
| the contest last Tuesday. Miss Hecker
| is the Metropolitan amateur champion
! and is we'll known in Eastern golfing CIR
cles, while Miss Heron has surprised
everyone here by her brilliant play, be-
| ing comparatively unknown as tip
topper at the game In this section
When the Semi-hnal round was begun
this morning Miss Heron was pitted
against Miss Margaret Curtis, Of the Es-
sex Country club. of Manchester, Mass,
and Miss Hecker- was paired against Mrs.
E. A. Manfee, of Lenox, Mass There
We're very few of the 500 gol6ing enthusi-
asts who had assembled at the BaltusroI
Golf club links who thought that both Of
the Massachusetts representatives would
be beaten. Many of them believed that
Miss Curtis, with her unusually excellent
long drives and clever play through the
fair green, would be more than able to
hold her own against the Cincinnati girl
and the fact that she only won one hole
out of the sixteen played came as COM
plete surprise to everybody interested
The one-hole which Miss Curtis won was
| the first. The next pair were halved In
forty good scores, and 1T was noticeable
that whenever either player would make
mistake the other duplicated it. Hence
the close play. Miss Heron showed WON
derful Improvement in her long game
which may probably be accredited to her
use of the lively ball. Miss Curtis, while
playing her usual long game, was I'M
steady, and in fact erratic at times. On
the eighth hole Miss Curtis overplayed
the green and the ball got into the Q1s
in consequence. This cost her the hole
and the lead, as Miss Heron won 1t in
to 6, making the game all square. The
ninth was halved in four, each player
! having covered the outward Journey in
fifty strokes Coming back, Miss
Heron won the tenth, giving her the lead
| by up. Two halyed holes followed, and
then the Western player increased her
lead to up by winning the thirteenth
and fourteenth holes.
Miss Curtis approached on the tflf--
teenth, and after a recovery missed
short put. Playing the fourteenth, the
Massachusetts, girl sliced out Of bounds
from the tee and was unable to overcome
this disadvantage. She certainly had
hard luck on the fifteenth hole, as her
ball seemed to have gone into the cup
and jumped out again, and instead of
W ming this hole Miss Curtis had to be
satisfied with halt i'll six, which made
Miss Heron dormie g. The sixteenth
hole, playing for which neither did any
brilliant work, was halved in seven, and
then Miss Curtis gracefully congratulated
Miss Heron, as the latter had won the
match by 8 up and 2 to play.
The match between Miss Genevieve
Hecker- and Mrs. E. A. Maniee attracted
an unusually large gallery, as nearly 500
persons followed the players over the
links until the contest was finished on the
seventeenth green. Going out Miss Heck
Ell played a splendid long game, with an
ease and finish which was Vardon-like In
execution and results. Mrs. Manice,
while being: outdriyen, was very good on
her short game, but ill-luck seemed to
| follow her rather persistently, and at the
turn she was down. Turning in for
home, it looked as if Miss Hecker could
not lose, but just at this juncture She
seemed to fall away in general play, some
of her approach shots being badly judged.
Miss HeclSer is noted for alternately good
and bad playing in nearly every match In
which she takes part, but her falling off
at this stage of today's game caused
great deal of uneasiness among her adj
mirers. Mrs Manice meanwhile i'm
proved in proportion to the deterioration
of Miss Hecker, and on the sixteenth
green she was only 1 down. She made
a supreme effort to square the match on
the next hole and made perfect drive.
Miss Hecker was equal to the occasion,
however and clearly outplayed her oppc-
nent by winning the hole and match in
to 6. This gave Miss Hecker the match
by up and 1 to play, and congratulations
were showered upon her from all sides,
the first two to shake hands with her be-
ing Mrs. Manice and her husband, who
eaddied for his wife throughout the
game. Miss Hecker and Miss Herron will
begin their final round tomorrow fore
noon, the game being eighteen holes,
| match play.
The semi-f1nals for the consolation cup
were fairly we'll contested, Miss Hur1-
burt of Morris county, beating Miss Ell
sic Cassatt, of Philadelphia, by up and
to play, and Miss Elizabeth s. Porter,
of Boston, defeating Miss Ethel Burnett,
of Cincinnati, by up and to play. Miss
Hurlburt and Miss Porter will meet to-
morrow in the final round for the con-
| ISOLATION, Immediately following the match
| for the principal honors. Following are
! the cards:
! Miss Hecker-