Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-31
AMERICAN. WOMEN aoLDERs.
Great Increase II Skill and Larger
Circle of the Skillful.


Golf la taking affirm hold on the American
people who are becoming more and more
expert each year. Now they are beginning
to show anxiety to test their skill with the
golfers Of the old country, and some pro-
apress has been made in negotiations to
have a team from the Oxford and Cam
bridge Society visit this country next sea-
son. go = < y
Even the women show q marked improve
ment. and the number OF f1rst-class players
Is multiplying. Sls:15sss4s t'.i
For Ave years IN succession Miss Beatrix
Hoyt of the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club won
the gold medal for the lowest score IN tho
qualifying round. In three Of these cham
pionships she was the only player who
covered the course I'M less than 100 strokes.
In 1897, when she won It with 1OS strokes.
her next nearest opponent took ia while
Miss Frances Griscom, the eighth woman
to qualify. took 131. % strokes more than
Miss Hoyt. ''i-'- 49, "a p.z.
In 1900. when Miss Griscom won the
Hoyt won the gold medal with 9 score Of
o., and Miss Grfscom. who had SO. was the
only other woman in the United States up
to that time who had ever covered the Is
holes at championship In less than 100
strokes. 1t was regarded as marvellous
performance.
But last fall. just two years later. "a wo-
men did the 10 holes at the Brookline Coun-
NluO LII 1883 tudu NV SlIOhS6s Wills
there was play-on at 1O8 for thirty-second
place. In fact. there was a tie for the gold
medal in the qualifying round between Miss
Margaret Curtis OF Essex and Louise A.
Wells OF Brooktine. at 50, the lowest score
ever made in q qualifying round Of a wo-
mans national championship and eight
strokes better than the previous woman's
record for the course
The revolution began at the women's ma
tional championship held over the Baltus-
rol Golf Club links In 1901. when four wo-
men tied for the gold medal at 81. and not
one Of them was from the metropolitan dis
trict. They were Miss Margaret Curtis,
Essex. Miss Lucy Horror. Cincinnati: Mrs.
Edward A. Manice, LenoX. and Miss Molly
B. Adams. Woliaston.
It was not the only shock the local golfers
championship only three were from the
metropolitan district Miss Beatrix Hoyt
did not play. although she was present as a
spectator But the other former champions
-Mias Ruth Underhill, Nassau Country
Club. and Miss Frances Griscom. Merton
Cricket Club. Philadelphia-were completely
showed under.
1t had been pretty generally believed that
the most expert of the women golfers In the
country were to be found In the New York
and Philadelphia sets, but to the astonish-
ment Of all not one Of the 10 women from
the Philadelphia set qualified. while 20 OF
the New York contingent were crowded
out. The three that got In were Mrs N.
Pendleton Rogers. Baltusrol: Miss Gene
We've Hecker, Essex County Country Club.
and Miss Grace Fargo. Seabright
The latter was put out by Miss Hecker in
the first round and Mrs. Rogers was put
out In the second round by Miss Heron.
while Miss Hecker had to fight it out alone,
as was the case this year at Boston, al
though out Of the 82 who qualified 10 were
from New York and two from Philadelphia,
the former getting seven shut out and the
latter i've. They managed. however. to
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