The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-10
Tournament At Convent N.
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sIxTY-slx PLAYERS QUALIFY
MISS BISHOP. THE NATIONAL
3 CHAMPION. BREAKS HER FOR
MER RECORD BY TWO
STROKES.
special to .The Jersey city News,

CONVENT STATION, Oct. 10, 1900
The tenth annual national champion
ship of women golfers began on the
links Of the Morris County Golf
Club near Morristown, n. j., yesterday
AT the conclusion of the eighteen-hole
medal play qualifying round, Miss
Georgianna Bishop, of Burklawn, the
National champion, and Miss Margaret
Curtis, of Boston, tied for the low score
honors with 81.
This is exceptional playing, as the
best previous women's rcord for the
links. was SO.
Not in the history of the game in this
country has a higher class field played
in National championship. Out of the
sixty-nine entries all save three drove
from the first tee. the absenteees being
Miss Marie Brice and Miss Helen
Bishop of Burklawn.
Half of the thirty-two to qualify re-
turned scores under 100. while the four
tied for the last three places at 104. Mrs.
Charles T. Stout. of Apawamis. the Met
ropolitan champion. didn't strike her
true form and had to be content with
9e. She required an even so to the turn.
but then made the 300O-yard home jour
ney in 4e. Her husband acted as her
caddie
Closely following the two leaders
came Miss Anita Phipps, the Springfield
girl. who did 45 each way. Another New
England production, Miss Marjorie
Phelps. of Brae Burn, did 81. while three
Others did 80. They were Miss Louise
vanderhoef. of Ardsley; Miss Louisa A.
Wells, of Brookline: Mrs. H. Fitzgerald
st. Davids Miss Wells figured as run
ner-up to Mrs. Stout in a National tour
nament several years ago.
Miss vanderhoef has been golfng
steadily all season and she will take
lot of beating. Had il not been for a
nine at the fifteen hole she might easily
have made an So.
Mrs Fitzgerald and Mrs. r. H. Bar
low are the Philadelphia favorites. The
latter is steadiness itself as rule, but a
brace of Is going out spoiled her card.
Even at that she returned 96. Miss
Frances C. Griscom, of Merton. and a
former national champion. barely squeez-
ed in. being one of the four that had to
play off.
Other steady rounds were played by
Miss Elizabeth Henry, of Apawamis,
and Miss Kate Harley, of Fall River,
both of whom did SO, and Miss Pauline
Mackay, of Oakley, the Massachusetts
champion, did 50. She has been off her
game of late.
Several hours were required to get the
field away, and it happened that Miss
Curtis was just starting out as Miss
Bishop finished. When told that the
champion had done Z, the Essex County
girl went to work with will. She knew
she had the lcng game and with any
kind of steady putting her chances for
| the medal we're excellent.
1t seemed as if she had Miss Bishop
beaten after playing seventeen holes.
because all she needed was four for
the home hole to get an Sc. It's matter
| of 1872 yards. and Miss Curtis "stung" a
/ beauty off the tee, the ball carving the
dreaded "Punch Bowl" and stopping
hole high to the right. She pitched on
the green with her mashie and ther
promptly took those childlike puts, the
short one she missed being scarcely eigh
teen inches.
Miss Curtis and Miss Bishop will pla,
off their tie for first and second low scor
prizes some time during the week.
| Several of the W. S. G. A. ofHciah
were on hand to run off the tourney
There were Ransom H. Thomas. presi
dont; H. Y. Hubner. treasurer; ". Eel
lows Morgan. secretary, and DAME
Chauncey. of the executive committee.
The players did not have scorers. bu
the officials took pains to caution con
testants about the necessity of being par
ticular to observe the rules. Each play
er received a pocket edition of the rule
as she left the first tee.
The luck of the draw has brought som
of the strongest players together for tn
first match play round to-day. Mis-
Bishop meets Miss vanderhoef and Mi&
n. Gusts plays Mrs. Barlow. In add
tion to the championship play, there vii
be an eighteen-hoie handicap for all thos