The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14
MISS CURTIS GOLF CHAMPION.
FINAL AT BRAE BURN A RAT
THING CONTEST.
Misc Adama Loses by . Up and 4 10 Play.
After Making Q Gallant Uphil right
I'm Last rive Holcs- "A Bunkered BALL
settles Match On s~eventeenCh Green.

After MAKING q Gallant UphIn right
fin Last piye Holea-A numbered nalr
aa.,1.. N.,nh IN asvsutA~m,h op.en
BOSTON, Oct. IS.-Miss Harriet Stevenson
Curtis. entered from her summer club at
Manchester by the Sea. won the woman's
golf championship to-day al tho BraO Burn
Country Club. Miss Mollis Adams Of the
Wollaston Golf Club. ID the silver medalist
OF the year. being defeated by , up and 1
to play. A gallery OF some $500 persons
followed the match, which included Eben M.
Bysrs, the amateur champion. President
Thomas Of the United States Coli Association
and two former presidents. q. Herbert Winde-
Ter and Laurenoe Curtis. uncle Of the winner.
The Misses Margaret and Harriet Curtis
played In the womans championship first
In 1897 when school girls with braided hair
and Miss Margaret was runner-up TO Miss
Pauline Mackay and Miss Griscom. Miss
Harriet had not been past the third round
until this year.
Except in the tenth, the twelfth and the
fifteenth holes Miss Adams had TO play the
odd after the drives. The second shots
were also in Miss Curtis's favor, while in
putting she had consistency and finish. Miss
Adams. while shorter on the long game,
saved herself on several greens by remark
able putting. No champion has ever won
in better golf than Miss Curtis revealed. She
had only four bad holes. Perhaps the best
feature OF the victory was that Miss Curtis
10 one Of q dozen girls who when feeling
~ ~" pIey ~ Luz oosIy nsuies IN
o.neI years one payer mas stoou OUT as = CLASS
OF the held. but this year IL was a toss up
our ~
MAJ sl'. sS SuT..' s stood d ; UP T WIT ,s ; % p p1sy' s SSs
was but 1 down with 2 to play. Those in the
gallery who remembered how Miss Margaret
Curtis had faded away on the last holes in
the final with Miss Mackay last year and Lost
the championship now began TO feel nervous
W Msy na.LeS' ~ snoI.
y seINeu inc "a'0"' o. ~ "au 'he Two III
the semi-nnal.
a. cool "a a c,crmhsr On me 10. n drIys.
- 49,. ILL., -
were throuen hhen ol pe0pie' ranged ast"o
regiments from tee to green. A couple Of
flying leaves stopped near the ball and Miss
Adams brushad them awsv hesore takIng
ner stance; She USED an aluminium clelk
and sclaned the ball on the toe OF the club.
but the slice did not carry into the woods.
The hail hrougbt nm IN = good liz hut .bor, N
Il ~ 80
the u~hhinut'Ve cop Ouhker. MISS Curts
used a cleik and sent the ball straight on
the flag. carrying lust over the far edge OF
aha Green trbc boIe 10 40 yords ara No. shot
dropped on the green and ran across II.
Miss Adams had only to make a wee mashie
pitch TO be sure OF a 4 and possible 3. She
80 80 nrolnoinary a,,tn,s yar. .LO.I.
os thourb breathinS an incsn1ation' soX,
not wort for Wlss Adams half tonned intoo
t ~ - &c., nSE;p % he bnnSnr onpeu Hngo
W. ~ On il, . n,ora NHas CurtIs DnSS
DiN,,haH III ~ " 'be 1raan N,tas n NV
ppnmt,sd ,ba Lsll Mai S the Gun b M ;nnon S u
on lot a "Uupie Tn SH ap Nom MdSs CuIIs
W ~. "t,umns LnnntaJ n =" sWhstss az. Su
~ nIaving il for I have Tnlaved ; more 70
marked Miss Adams pleasantly. ~ con-
STatHiste you o. iney snooS nands ara Miss
friends.
oeciaIs over one 81 Miss C,irtisi = shots ON The
enlcials over Ineoa MISS LuI'ts ; snots On tne
some trees and found The The ball under a per-
Ina. WLss ~, ~ Nc OH, Iy, and 49, 'hHaaocIt
Snabb ms nen uI Miss Adams %nn i D1S
Both were OYER he second green is 3 II is
y NS IIy " couptS hmt much mara %s,ippsrs, srd
treacherous. Both made light taps; but the
oaIs ss'ncuvu mnpeeses ~ Sne ,JSs.aseu stpps
s % p rhn mn he sbots rbsy baived Sne y
which on a tslrer green misht nave been tEo
2 : bhssE hnrGen tnG &c , M an ~ o. IN t,hhSs
crowd on he side line and she also missed :
pn,; ~ short hoie To- Misa C,rtis ~ si,S,
" MOI o?Iun we c, ~ dong Nfiass Nam mo- bc,ts1 seI-
Vice than, II did on The seventeentb' Another
hal in :; thsn Mas SnTtis became 2 up 6y
tin;S sIot niaysd wit nni, n tbrsaDo,arter
CIeiN snoI, piaEsS ar VIII wv onIy a h.v ~ tnoL
sWlhs' or9ush. her on Wy Eleeeh' DnI sme upVH
: puLs, Hi hoie b1igb UUIIie G0vu NINE a : socan =
Sne yNn m anti.sIy "' 10 ~" s0'"N
"sr too Sraons rast hyy.s. n, .nDI,rso n, ,ho
hSre va = ~ SseS SoD r. eisb,S in a' u
Shs Mn- IsT Us T I'LL ~ Tos stS1 ~ I'm LII
u y stseD and twice as hisb AZ thai at The nninth
~ ~ vard1 Sbs rot ~ ,bs Ssr aide ~ he
u SIM o. o. W. ~ tbird xbjcH Miss CS,rtIs MAJ
Eascbad in , IN later Tow took three
n,fS In, Wies Adams ran down one az thirtv-
aus; o9o 49, Ses1 q "o"" 'hH'S-
Tbe lo0 vard hole that fo,loved was n nor
,act = for Miss CnTtie who Needed IN for after
a. many TO getto the green, Mise Adams