The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-02
woMENs GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
The Second Days Play in the National
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Championship.
 Brookline, Mass, Oct. No set of women golfers ever struggled against more adverse conditions than the thir- ty-tw0 who to-day in spite of coll northeast rain storm. played over the Country club course in the first round of the national golf championship.
 From the time the first pair started until the last finished the rain fell in- cessantly, so that every player was wet through before she had finished half the course. Yet not one fiinched. nor was d single default received, and to- night the sixteen who won their match es, and who will play again tomorrow, are proud of their victories. while the sixteen who suffered defeat have the satisfaction of duty well performed. The playing was the strongest ever shown by women in this country. Not one of the sixteen matches was decided before the 14th green was reached. while four required one extra hole to decide them. Tomorrow mornig the six teen survivors will meet in the second round of the tournament and the win ners will play still another round in the afternoon. The strength of a number of the non- favorites was the feature of the day. With few exceptions they pushed play CTS who have been regarded as candi- dates for championship honors to the limit, and Mrs. Edward A. Manice, of 1 the Lenox Golf club, the Metropolitan champion went down before the aston l ishing play of Mrs. Walter M. Gorham, 1 of Philadelphia.
 The result of this match was the ! first surprise of the tournament Mrs. 1 Manice was considered almost a sure | winner, in fact it was thought that she had an easy journey as far as the third round. But no player could have kept | even on equal terms with the game of 1 Mrs. Gorham. She beat .bogey in five | of the fourteen holes, and equalled the 1 Colonel in three others, losing only one hole in the outward journey, and four | coming back. Her score of 40 for the first nine holes, will probably stand as l the wornen's record of the course for some time. Mrs Manice played stead ily, under ordinary conditions would | probably have won.
 Other interesting features were the four matches, each of which went to the nineteenth hole.
 1 The first pair who found themselves on equal terms at the end of the eighteen holes, was Miss Ruth Under hill of the Nassau County club and Mrs. R. G. Brown, of the San Francisco Golf 1 club.
 At one time Mrs. Brown was dormie | b,,k H,oi EI,o | proved too much for her, and Miss Un- derhill tied the score. Then the Mas sau player took the bye hole by excel lent putting.
 The next two with even scores on the eighteenth hole were Miss Fannie c, Osgood, Brookline Country club, and
 Miss Maud Wetmore of the Newport Country club. In this match Miss Wet more had 8 long lead at one time. but
 Miss Osgood played the last nine holes
 like machine, and nailed the New
 port player on the last green. Poor putting by Miss Wetmore lost her the
 extra hole.
 The third match to take an extra hole was that between Miss Georgianna Bishop of the Brooklawn club, Bridge port, Conn.,. and Miss Gertrude Fiske
 of the Concord Golf club. Tn this case
 the match was we'll fought out, neither
 getting much of a lead at any time Miss Bishop won it on a fine approach shot on the nineteenth green.
 While this match was being decided
 Miss Bessie Anthony of the Glen View
 Golf club, Chicago, and Miss E. c. Por-
 ter of the Oakley Country club were
 vending their way back to the start to play their extra hole. At one time
 in this match, it looked as if Miss An
 thony could not possibly win, for Miss Porter was up and to play, and af-