The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-13
BOSTONIANS IN GOLF FINAL.
MISS Curtis AND MISS ADAMS
PLAY FOR TITLE TO-D.AI.
-Four Foot Put Requiring Nerve wins for
Miss Adams FrOsII MRS. Barlow an
seventeenth Green Miss f'hipDs ID
Easily Beaten at the q stage.

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Miss diam FrOun Mrs. Barlow On
seventeenth Green Miss i'hiDDs Is
Easily Beaten At the same stage.
Bosrox, Oct. ie.-It will I've Back Bay W.
Dorchester IN the final Of the wOmen's golf
championship Tomorrow. an ending 10 the
national tournament that lila Boston with
pride. Miss Harriet Curtis IL the city's hope
and Miss Molly Adams has the backing OF all
the suburbanites. They belong tO the same
clubs aud the two young women are Jealous
sisters of the Women'E Golf Association oE
Boston. The Cox trophy will have only 10
he transferred from the Oakley Country Club
10 either the Essex County or NOllaston
club. Miss Adams beat Mrs. Barlow by
> and l.. and Miss Curtis won from Miss Phipps
by > and /.
The gallery of about I 500 went 10 the ~ even
teenth green with each match. two unusually
stirring finishes. The winners both mad
good starts, but they were on the anxious
seat Oh the last few holes. The seventeenth
hole is OF only I42 yards aud In a glen. The
crowd lined II from tee to green and IL took
nerve TO play through the sea of glazing eyes
and eager faces. but Miss Phipps was the only
one not TO make a good tee shot. There could
be no more striking instance of the cOncentra-
ton Of the gallery on a match than the drop
ping of the curtain On the Miss Adams and
Mrs. Barlow duel. The Boston girl would
have been stimed but that Mrs. Barlow's
ball stopped within six inches. The Phila-
delphian lifted and Miss Adams took her
stance for the four foot put. To hole meant
a 8 and victory: a miss and u good put by
Mrs. Barlow meant the carrying on OF the
match possibly TO AL. extra hole.
She is n quick and enfden putter, this
Boston girl, aud she did not Keep the crowd
long in suspense. She gave a last. glance
along the line and a loving pat on the ball;
There was a hush as 1t bounded forward and
made a dive into the cup, and then cheers
and handclaps Tor Miss Adams to end the
tension.
The crowd turned in it's tracks to await
the last act In the Miss Curtis and Miss Phipps
match, but IL was u tame 1nlsh IN cOnlparisol:
Both Miss Adams and Mrs. Barlow had used
brassies and made the green. but Miss Curtis
took n cleik and got hole high on the green.
With the spunk Of a young match player
Miss Phipps also took the iron. IL was not a
clever hit and found the bunker that guards
the odd, laid the ball dead for as. Miss PhIpps
was still In the bunker after two terrific
lun gees at the ball, and lifted. Miss Curtis won
Phipps and she were both wild. Miss Curtis
had Il in T.. or rather Miss Phipps's many
misses found the hole on her. A neat 5 won
played holes had Miss Curtis 4 up at the
seventh. She oVerplayed her third into dire
calamity on the eighth, Miss Phipps winning
in 5 to s. as they halved the ninth in a par 5.
There was action on each one OF the next
seven holes OF the match. not one or them
being halved. Miss Phipps got the tenth in
5. Miss Curtis pulling her second out OF bounds.
The 525 yard hole was next and Miss Curtis.
on in 4, missed a put. yet won in T. as Miss
Phipps bungled the lower game. Each win
was in par thereafter. with Miss Phtpps but
sixteenth for Miss Curtis and made her dor
ME =. She holed a 20 foot put, while Miss
seventeenth and the end. Thu card;