The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-14

| PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct 13-The
women's national golf championship tour
nament on the links of the, Merton Crick-
ct club at Hayerford has reached the
semi final round with Miss Pauline
Mackay, of the Oakley County club; Mrs.
Il. s. Sanford. Orange. N. j.; Miss K. C.
Harley, Fall River, and Miss Georgeanna
Bishop. Brookiawn, as the contestants To-
morrow Miss Mackay win play Mrs. San
ford, while Miss Harley will meet Miss
Bishop
While the semi finalists were entitled
to their victories, the results were in the
main surprising. Miss Louise Wander
hoef. of Ardsley, who had tied for the
Qualifying prize and who had disposed
of Miss Maud K. Whetmore and Miss
j. A. Carpenter in turn, succumbed to
Mrs. Sanford. Miss Margaret Curtis,
who had been looked upon as the prob
able title holder this year, went down to
defeat before Miss Harley. In each of
these matches bFilliancy opposed steadi-
ness. and the later won. Miss Florence
AyreS, of Riverton, was elm mated from
the tournament by Miss Mackay, and Miss
Frances G. GriScom. the former champion,
yielded to Miss Bishops superiority, thus
taking from Philadelphia an chances of
winning the championship.
Miss Mackay Gets Lead
Miss Maekay in her. match with Miss
holes had been played, and increased this
to three in the fifth. Miss Ayres improv-
ed her game , and was only one down at
teenth hole. Miss Mackay ran down to
the eighteenth and deciding hole for a
five. while Miss Ayres finished in six.
The defeat of Miss GriScom was en-
tireiy unexpected. She started out with a
lead but at the sixth hole she missed an
easy putt and thereafter played close
game. At the ninth hole she was one
int -
forged ahead and won on the fifteenth
green by four up and three to play.
In defeating Miss Vanderhoef a splendid
exhibition of the short game was given
by Mrs. Sanford. The Orange player was
one up at the turn and Miss Vanderhoef
made a piuclxy effort to retrieve her lau-
relS, but missing an approach on the
home green she lost the hole and the
match.
Miss Curtis Erratic
Miss Curtis was responsible for her
own defeat. Her long. game was terrific
Harley, on the other hand, was very
steady and soon had her opponent ap-
parently in hopeless condition. Miss
down at the seventeenth hole, but could
only secure half on the eighteenth hole
and lost the match. Summary follows:
Championship. third match play
Miss Pauline Mackay, Oakley, beat Miss
F. N. Ayres, Riverton. one up.
Mrs. e. S. Sanford, Orange beat Miss
Louise NandefhOef, ArdSley, TWO up.
Miss K.-C. Harley, Fall River, beat Miss
Margaret Curtis, Essex County, one up.
Miss Georgeanna Bishop, Brooklawn,
beat Miss F. c. Griscom, Merton, four up
and three to play.
In the approaching and putting contest
Miss Ayres. Miss Charlotte bod, the Eng
lish champion. and Miss E. s. Porter, of
Brookline. tied at nine strokes. In the
play off Miss Ayres holed out in nine,
while Miss Ded and Miss Porter each
took ten.
Miss Harriott Curtis, of Essex County,
won the trophy offered for driving, she
making 175 yards Miss Ayres was sec
ond with 173 and Miss Vanderhoef third
with 165 Miss bod was fourteenth on the
list with 1856.
At the invitation of A. w. Austin. of
Toronto, Mrs. Clement A.. Griscom will
take a team of golfers to Toronto on
Tuesday to play a match on the links OF
1 the Lambton Golf club on Thursday.
The team will be composed of Miss Dod,
Miss Margaret Curtis, Miss Harriott Cur
tbs, Miss Frances Griscom, Miss E. N.
Lockwood, Lexington. Miss Louisa
| Wells, Brookline, and probably Miss
Ayres, Miss Georgeanna Bishop and Mrs.
I. III. Reath, Riverton.