The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OPENING or WOMEN'S CHAMPION.
SHIP AT MERTON LINKS.

SHfP AT MERTON LINKS.
Miss bod. the British Player. Paired with
Miss Maud ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Arc
Eligible to Staft--Qualifying Round
On, With Prizes for the Best Cards.
Y Play will begin in. the women's national
golf championship at 10 o o'clock this mcrn-
Ing at the links or tho Merton Cricket Club.
Philadelphia. The opening Will be score
round OF eighteen holes. the United States
Golf Association presenting trophies to the
makers OF the three loweet scores. The best
thirty-two will qualify for the first match
4 play round tomorrow. The lowest score
ever made in the qualifying round IL s0, the
figure at which Miss Margaret CARTS and
Miss Louisa A. Wells ware tied at Brooklne:
and last year at Wheaton,. a ten stroke harder
course. was u "a by Mrs. G. +. Fox.
All three will start to-day, and eighty-one
more arc eligible. The Merton round Of
$3.50 yards Is not as hard to play as either
Brooklne or Wheaton, and. with dry turf
and pleasant weather, a new qualifying
round record may with reason be expected
possibly an SIS. The four lowest scores In
the qualifying round Of Mrs. Griseoms in
| vitation tournament last October were Miss
| Rhona Adair. OF; Mrs. Charles L. Stout. 81:
Miss +. n. Lockwood. 93; and Miss Margaret
Curtis, %. But for the delugc that set In
| vie HcNt udy IL ~ likely THESE scores WOulu
| have been well beaten as the players became
familiar with the course. Now, with the
| Merton course in spick and span order and Il
familiar one TO the leading playsrs.it ~ only
fair to expect some better scores. An aver
age of SIS as the limit OF golf for our women
! indeed. may be broken this week.
The first pair. to be up at 10 o'clock sharp
| will be Miss Page SchwarZwalder OF BROOKLYN
| and Mrs. Elliott Rodgers OF Allegheny, VINO
played IN the last championship and lost 10
| l.ottie bod. the champion OF the I.ady's con
Union of Great Britain. will drive OF at lO:2a;
The plucky and capable British player will
port. Miss Wetmore did not play on the
| New York team lin the ui-city match last
id6E at at eSe 81 Il G feu shs sn
Batusrol but she arrived at the course IN
time to be the volunteer cadde for Mrs. h. A.
The draw has given TO Miss bod a helpful
and cheering partner.
national champion. and Miss Dorothy Maris
Higgins Of Chicago and Miss Jessie Crow
Championships Of Southern California and
Florida. Miss Higgins has been, goIfing
ad sne s W s
| as her caddie.
:. Another pair that may include the winner,
Miss Margaret Curtis. tee up at 1850. Twenty
minutes more and Miss Gertrude Gilbert and
! MISS benetleVe blsDOp set Out, the latter an
| Incompatible mistress Of approaching and
putting. and at Il:.o the gallery will witness
ss Il Ms s. 1d ,s sss Ssss
hrst appearance. Mrs. Fox put her out in the
keep both on their best game.
| Miss j. Anna Carpenter. runner up last year,
and Miss Lillian Biddle start at 1895; Miss
c: !; Tiffany and Mrs. T. H., Polhemus. both
and 0 the latter viii has ssSt se es s Smith
of Nassau as caddie. Mrs. Ormsby Mccain
! by no means least as winning possibilities.
at rs o'clock the Bostonians, Miss Harriet
Curtis and Miss L. s Porter. will swing their
drivers.
The fourth annual All.staten island cham
Hills Golf Club. and a week lstsf the Fox Hills
open tournament will cause \ great muster
syent Conflicts With The Ihfereolissiats cham
p1slP at Myopsa 61t hs etter i re-
sen co IL saH o ana corne
u will not affect materially the entry at Fox
honors to the New YORK intsrschoisstic
T1syes5s hESush his
Douglas and Walter u Travis, brought
out the minors. In some important cham
ship. held at the RsseI County Country CUB,
xsdfsx carnssis: second q lie home club
os SssTsesGs r.i ne anrfy' e
Of Andrew Carnegie, and his soihng has
Miss Brownell. who unfortunately. il, not
pionship Of the Rhode Island Golf isso ci,
ton on the tsawam Hunt links at Provl-
Of f tn; coli Association Of PhiIadeiphia A was
won by y B. Mcfarland. the former Uni
T Poaney Of Smith sPn 5y o" aHd
Smiths 81. &--i67.
obsPpon eorrsd tie s s1ise
final. and at the Powelton links. NewburG.
Ct thirty-sx holes from R. Boothroyd,
ss nd X. s d ss
were B. McClnng, IFS. SEQ. and George s.
Last Saturday afternoon the Princeton
team played at Baltusrol and won the four
some match by points to i. The SCORE;
sssnWs p -a a :na aaa Rsss
:Ss ';i' ;sss
o. Total. 1.
links In commission for the season, with VIII
Norton, again the professional IN charge.
her. the week, after the Horse Show. The
new year. book shows forty-three resident
and long lists Of out,of-town and subscribing
season members. The oflcers for the club
year are: George !. tiould. president: Henry
4. James. vice-presdent; Wiliism A. Ham
ilton secretary and treasurer, and James
q. Patterson, captain. 800 "
In the governors cup competition on
Saturday at the Highland Golf Club. Jamaica,
the scores were: l -
-, schllinF. loi. IS 81; r., Mills. ~. So
30: n. Harrison. 100. is-ai z. Van Tsssell, iOS
l2-as; L, Harrison. iis. 20 o. " X. Se,bert. 1ls
1876; W. n. Donnell, III, i2--so. r. r. Ely. Ill,
i2-m. -.t
Van Tassell now leads with 6h points,
with J.. Harrison second at 81 points.
ORANGE, Oct a.-The annual champions hip
of the Essex County Country Club opened
yesterday afternoon. The final will be played
Oct % Charles 0'Cpnnor; who won the
champions hip last year made the best score.
tournament was IT, The other SCORES:
. George Richards, s2 r. II. Sanford, 81: Charles
r. StSFrs IS: T. G. Reynolds, 49, william Runkle.