New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-12
WOMEN PLAY FAST GOLF.
FAYORITES SCORE AGAIN.
Close Matches Are the Ruie in
National Cham i0nship.

Close hard fought matches were the rule IN
the second round of the women's national golf
championship on the links OF the Morris County
Golf Club yesterday. The real favorites, Mrs
Charles T Stout, Apawamis; Miss Georgianna
Rtshop Brooklawn. the title holder. and Miss
Margaret Curtis Boston, won though the last
named had all she could do TO dispose OF Mrs.
NJ. d. Paterson. Of Baitusrol
From the ideal conditions Of the first two
DAYS the weather turned stormy. so that. with
few exceptions. the survivors donned all sorts
Of clothing BETTING the occasion. Some wore
sweaters. others rubber coats and oilskins
while few not wishing to be handicapped by
any extra clothing, sailed forth dressed as II
1t were bright summers day.
Quite a gallery followed Miss Curtis and Mrs
Paterson when this pair left the first tee The
friends Of the BaltusroI woman, realizing the
exceptional long game Of the Boston girl dared
to hope only that their favorite would make L
a fairly close match while the other faction
declared it only question Of how many" For
a golfer who has figured creditably in so many
important tournaments, Mrs. Paterson gets less
distance than any of the others in her class.
but like short players. she tries TO make up
for lack of distance by direction and deadly
putting It was her rare short game that car
ried her into the final round of the champion
ship of the Wornen's Metropolitan Golf Asso-
citation last year against Mrs. E A Manice and
II was her short game that enabled her to win
the BaltusroI title later in the season
From the first tee Miss Curtis drove long
ball almost to the foot Of the green, practically
two hundred yards, while Mrs. Paterson. play
ing the odd from further back. had to use her
spoon. She reached the edge OF the green, and.
laying her third dead, holed out in 4 Miss
Curtis needed puts the hole costing her 3.
There were frequent occasions where the Bos-
ton player. had she taken proper advantage OF
her long game. might have holes. but her
second shots were off the line just enough to
cost a stroke. thereby giving the other oppor-
tunties which ~Vvere rarely wasted.
Playing the ninth hole. $50 yards to a Punch
Bowl green they were all square Miss Cur
tbs, after a two hundred yard drive. just failed
to get home with her iron. Mrs. Paterson
reached the green in three drive. brassey and
rnashie and then won the hole in 4, the other
being unable to do better than 3. This made
the Baltusrol woman 1 up at the turn. her card
showing TO to 46 for Miss Curtis.
By taking the eleventh. twelfth and thirteenth
holes Miss Curtis earned lead of 2 up but she
got bunkered on her third at the fourteenth
hole and lost three shots playing out. and also
lost the sixteenth. so that they were all square
standing on the eighteenth tee. Mrs. Paterson
made the green with we'll played iron shot
from the depths of the Punch Bowl while the
other, after long pulled drive, failed TO get
up the like Her third trickled past the
hole about four feet. Mrs Paterson fell short
a yard her approach put and then watched
her opponent hole out for Mrs Paterson
then made her poor put Of the match, the
ball missing by a hairs breadth, leaving Miss
Curtis winner by l UP. Their cards We're: