New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-15

Hers oft-times were by far too young
And left her puts full yards too long. .
She finally lost both heart and head.
That's how Miss Mackav won, instead
Miss Pauline Mackay of Boston, won the won-
ems national golf championship yesterday on tls
links Of the Morris County Golf Club near MOTIFS
town defeating Miss Margaret Curtis. also Of Bos-
ton by 1 up.
The outcome was surprise 10 nearly every one
the general belief being that Miss Curtss remark
able long game would carry her through Even
Arden NJ Robbins. OF Garden City, who carried Tor
the Oakley girl took a pessimstic view OF her
chances before the stars. 1t was another instance
OF a brilllAAt long game counting for naught when
combined with childke putting,
When Miss Curtis went out in 40, eQualins tho
mems boyle and standing up. people would Ia
offered almost any odds on her ultimate succ IS,
Miss Mackay, when the crucial test came, dspaye1
the better nerve. while the Essex County girl as
she has scores of previous occasions. weakened
when victory seemed within her grasp.
Another thing that the students of gohng form
had to influence their opinion the knowledge OF
past meetings between these two. They have
FLASHED a dozen more times. Miss Curtis IN
variably winning It is long lane that has no
turning as the saying goes and it must have been
| supremeIy gratifying TO Miss Mackay to check the
long series of reverses this. the greatest golhns
event the year.
The strongest potst in Miss Mackay's game is her
consistent putting She generaIly managed to get
near the hole her approach put; not always
dead but the ball rarely failed to drop into the
cup her next stroke. her friends were always
able to remark with smile. "Alrs well that ends
well
The match began with Miss Curtis having the
honor. AS she her driver and walked TO the
tee it noticed that she had the Same caddie
who has carried for her all week The youngster
answers u the Of Lucky" The opening
driTe beauty. clear down to the edge Of the
green. and far any o. the men can get Miss
Mackay's friends groaned when she topped her tee
shot. The ball rolled to good lie into the hollow
and her second shos made the green. Miss Curtis
hitched on with her mashe, and they halved in
A similar mistake from the second tea topped
drive-cost Miss Mackay that hole, for the ball
found 4 resting place in the depths of the punch
bowl" The Oakley girls second shot, well played
but trife too strong. found resting place close
to the wire fence, and she lost a penalty stroke
in getting cut Miss Curtis drove the green. and,
running up her approach put dead. won the hole
g.
tee shot of f,.lly 1876 yards gave Miss Curtis a
distinct advantage playing the third hole. Luck
favored the Oakley girl here, however, her topped
drive jumping the bunker and her next effort.
with brassey, also bounded over the hazard
guarding the green From there she got down in
two puts and halved the hole in T. as Miss Curtis.
after laying up her approach within six feet of
the hole, barely missed a g.
They topped their drives from the next tee and
halved G. This made the fourth consecutive
poor tee shot for Miss Mackay, but thereafter she
made no serious mistakes in this line. After out
driving her opponent going the fifth, Miss Mac
kay fubbed thee shots that the other making
no mistakes, in 5 to s.
Now standing 2 up Miss Curtis looked more
than ever like winner She got away beauty.
oIltdriving other by many yards, only to half
top her brassey short of the bunker. Playing short
on her second Miss Mackay trife too strong
on her next the ball rolling into the rough beyond
Her next hit the back of the hole and stopped
dead BY this exhibition of brilliancy she the
hole in to 6, Miss Curtis being short on her APP
proach.
The seventh hole is 80 yards, yet after pulling
her drive Miss Curtis made the green with re-
r1arkabe brassey shot, the ball stopping ten feet
from the pin. AS Miss Mackay failed to reach the
green in less than g. the hole went to the Essex
girl in 4 to s. making her again up She should
have won the eighth hole but after reaching the |
green her second shot three puts followed and |
1t was a halve in 5.
A rare at the ninth gave Miss Curtis that |
hole without a effort. The second shot with an |
iron, taking just the right kick. rolled into the |
punch bowl green, stone dead. They haved the |
tenth in and it looked if it was all over when
Miss Mackay's drive from the next tee trifie |
sliced, brought up in bad lie in the rough She |
played out with ounce of strength at her
command, turning completely around in the effort
Her third was just short Of the bunker and her |
fourth got home After long all Miss Curtis |
needed was an easy mashie to the green but she |
dug too deeply and got bunkered Three more |
shots were required to get out and the hole went |
A weak approach cost Miss Curtis the twelfth |
h teeSth M Miss MacEay dbbed her third shot
rolling only a few yards, yet beautiful recovery
with q full iron shot laid the ball within ten feet |
Of the pin and running down the put, she got |
have in 3. Miss Curtis played the hole in the regu
lation way-a drive, brassey, approach and two |
puts.
After getting on the edge of the fourteenth green
in g. Miss Curtis fused around for four puts and |
square. A topped brassey got Miss Curtis in |
trap going the fifteenth, and she needed two |
shots to get Miss Curtiss shot out of the |
trouble stopped within four of the hole but |
she could not get the put down SO that it was a
halve in T.
topped brassey shot the railroad cost Miss
Curtis the sixteenth hole. After dropping a secon1
bali she overpayed the green. Miss Mackay's sec.
ond barely missed the trap, but her third, good
shot, made the green, and she won in to I.
Miss Curtis drove the seventeenth green, but |
could do better than halve IN f. Miss Mackay's
drive hit the bunker, but getting home with her
mashie. got down in the usual two puts.
This left her dormie standing on the eighteenth
tee. Her drive went into the depths of the hollow
stance Miss Mackay fubbed her approach and
still many yards short of the green. Here |
Miss Curtiss opportunity. but she also failed to get
After Miss Mackay had played 4, her lying |
dead, the other had tweve-foot put for the hole.
It her only chance to halve the match. The
put looked good for most of the way, and then
turned Off. All they had to do to tap the balls
in for 5s. and Miss Mackay became national cham
The scoring was 81 to 90 in fevor of Miss Curtis.
but this difference was accounted for by Miss
Mackay's at the fifth hole Their cards:
Miss Mackay:
2 On ...:.::..:::::::: S-t5-os
Miss curtis:
Out ....-.......:s $685. So,
In the play-off in the approaching and putting
contest between Mrs.S Charles T. Stout, Apawamis, |
and Miss julia r. Mix. Baltusrol. the former won