The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-15
WOMEN GOLFERS REACH FINAL
CHAMPIONSHIP BETWEEN MRS.
SANFORD AND MISS BISHOP.
Both Are Members OF the Metropolitan
AssOciatioD--BOstOn Girls Get the
Bronze Metiais-Aliss vanderhon Do
feats Miss LOttie bod After Second Tie.

feats MISS LOtue DOu AFTER SecOnd TIC.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct A.-Mrs. 4. F. San
ford Of Orange and Miss Georg lama Bishop
OF Bridgeport, both representing the Womens
Metropolitan Golf Association. will be the
finalsts tomorrow in the woInen's national
golf championship. The defeated semi
finalsts. who will receive the bronze medals
are both members Of the Massachusetts
Golf Associntion-Miss Pauline Mackey and
Miss Katharine G.. Harley.
The two survivors have had TO work their
way to the pinnacle they have attained. and
they both won their matches like real cham
pions to-day. In the qualifying field OF
eighty-one Miss Bishop made 100 and Mrs.
Sanford 1902. In what developed to be the
easier half of the draw, Miss Bishop has won
in turn from her sister. Miss Helen, Mrs.
F. W. Batchelder. Miss Grscom and Miss
Harley. the first match by and and the
other three by and 3. Mrs. Sanford has
had no such primrose path in her matches.
In defeating Miss Harriet Curtis and Mrs.
G. F. Fox. Mrs. Sanford had to go to the
nineteenth hole. then beating Miss Vander-
hon by 2 up and Miss Mackey by and 5.
In the play-of of the tie for the low score
honors of Monday, Miss Vanderhof beat Miss
Lottie bod. the English champion. and Miss
Harriet Curtis. but only after a second tie
with Miss bod. There was a gale blowing.
which interfered with low scores in both
medal and match play. The wind was wintry.
yet both Mrs. Sanford and Miss Harley were
bareheaded. while Miss Bishop had a blue
Tam O. Shanter and Miss Mackey a white
straw sailor hat. There as wide differ
ence in their dress. Mrs. Sanford wore a
gray cloth skirt and white silk waist; Miss
Mackey. a skirt Of tartan plaid and a light
blue flannel waist Miss Bishop blue skirt
and dark blue sweater while Miss Harley
was a summer girl in white, even to the shoes.
first and the gallery" divided into three
divisions. two large companies with each
match and a small group going after the
medal play trio. There were from 200 to
200 onlookers about the links.
With the semi fnalists well on their jour-
ney and the coast clear. Miss bod. the Eng
lish champion; Miss F. Louise Vanderbilt
began an eighteen hole round 70 settle their
low, score tie Of 90 in the qualifying round
derhor. who topped her drive. and besides
SIX. Miss bod was In the bunker before the
green the second hole. recording a six
to Miss d the to
here and a nine on the third and, was vir-
"ay 9u Of Ml hunt The third WAS ,t the
in the tournament. for she holed from the
mashey. on the $50, yard green for four.
while \, Mss bod took E seven ,,a .,,o,
another stroke to her lead. the score being
4 for her; 81 for Miss D1d and o. for the
on of the tenth BY a better long game: a stroke
on. the sixteenth. where both gave a miser-
b4s. bs Sf Pnf III sr fn BIZ sSsn
pion had squared the long. hard chase.
Against the blustr,y wind. with two Of
ment they were on the home green In two
and each scored a five, This made the In
holes resTeesive,y % ana 80. dorinEi tS about
of were:
Miss vanderhoG, ArdSley-
Miss Lot,le bod, England
i 2S,:::.:..::;ss 5 80
f Gn' v,.h sHa
to settle the tie. halving in on the first
and Miss yanderhofi winning on the second
git git Of the United States Golf Association.
Mis- M Ma te won had the st sS ss IN s e0Ssy
not to win again, in all the match. Mrs;
Sanford I'd b Saah1 stDs in h sH e$
a half on three green's. The last Of these.
the seventh. was a half in 4, although
Mis- Mk s6 Sa seoa on the
road and had to drop ball and suffer
IL,
the eighth tee that she could not get a, fair
swing with the brassey and the ball did not
far Mss MssSsy %d he bn ps dvs
slice and bounded away into trouble. 1t
was SC close to q wire fence. after ts couple
hsd to Lean e over and hit the bail tSToas
with IN up added hs natS
to her string, making her up. In an odd
way. Miss Mackey had a short put for the
hole. but, the green is as bumpy as a noun
n misse tYH but au symisd herself and ND could
not even get half.
The sprint on the Inward was
confidence, especially on the putting green's,
and won by up and to play. The card
was:
Mss MIS- s a.sssS. .,.,:s &c &c
ME- Me- sT s"1srs 79s g
Miss Bishop and Miss Harley halved the.
first in Q; but Miss Bishop reached the second
nicely on ae touch aT of the
S4S the r bod Which They ntr asSss the
f tS%eg al The BAH III about ihoae at
billiards for four puts each, and they halved
Eefardsa y NJ. SshoR ssd , she Va; iSa1
onist, and but for failure on short put,
eXcusable only through tho tricky state q
As il was, they halved in 8; but on the ninth
Miss Harley won In to :, the Bridgeport girl
taking three puts.
PLAYING the tenth and eleventh in fauItless
order Miss Bishop won on cach green in a
DOGGY S and increased her lead to the
mountainous one of ) holes, with but
to play Miss Harley fought brsvely, and
they ateEnH,ted holes %P t the hfsenth
winner by to 2. The card was
N!s: # H;aisg. "A -
Miss Harley .,.,.,.,,..,G so
The summary:
Championship Semi .Gnai-Mrs, T., r. Sanford,
Essex County Country Club. beat Miss Pauline
Mackey oakley Country Club. BY up and0 10 play,
Miss Ccorgianna Bishop, Brooklyn Country Club,
beat Miss Katherine G. Harley, Fall River Colt
Club, BY up and to play
The best ball foursome this afternoon was
won by Misses Emily Lockwood and NJ.
Adams, both of Boston. with a.. 47-oi. The
other cards were:
Miss Loitio bod and Miss H. Curtis, 90, 46-e2:
Miss J. i Carpenter and Miss Mabel Higgins. +a.
| ip-g2. Miss T., e. Osgood and Miss l., A. Wells,
IS. 5i-9i Mrs. c. F. Fox and Miss T., Porter, -,
47-a6: Mrs S, BEETLE and Mrs r. II Barlow. 10.
ip-9a: Miss 7. c. Griscom and Miss NJ. Curtis,
| ~, 5i-sa: Miss " X. Netmore and Miss Y. Terry.
81. 0lOi: Mrs. r. W. Reath and Miss L. Biddle 49,
i h2-IOl. Mrs y. W. Morris. Mrs Prize.