New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-28
ON THE GOLF LINKS.
FAST PLAY BY WOMEN.
Hiss III. Curtis and Hiss adams IN
Tie for Best Gross Score.

Boston, May FIT required 1O1 strokes or
better to qualify for further play in the fifth an
huaI championship tournament of the Boston
Women's Golf Association. which began under
uhlaVorable conditions on the links of the Coun-
try Club at Brookline to-day
over rain soaked course, with putting greens
particularly uncertain and the fair green heavy
and soggy. two of the players. Miss Harriet S.
Curtis the national champion, who has just re-
turned from an unsuccessful goldng tour abroad
and Miss Mary B. Adams, of WoHaston. played
the eighteen holes in even 80 strokes Three
others, Miss Fanny c. Osgood. Miss Margaret
curtis both of the Country Club. and Mrs
George w. Roope Of the Commonwealth Club
scored "a, % and 9S, respectively The other
three to qualify. Miss Pauline Mackay Of Oak
ley the 1905 national champion; Miss Mary Dut-
ton and Miss Alice Underwood. We're tied at 101
each.
TWenty-four others started in the play to-day
and majority finished. Although they are
barred from the championship round they will
continue for other honors or trophies.
The playing Of Miss Curtis and Miss Adams
was considerably above anything that they have
shown before, when it is taken into consideration
that they covered the full course of 6.1S7 yards
and received benefit from a roll on their
drives Miss Curtis played particularly well at
the third and eighteenth holes She made the
third hole, 800 yards. in 3 and the eighteenth
$50 yards, across the polo field. in 4 strokes
Miss Adams made the seventeenth. 800 yards. in
strokes
Inc eight players will continue tomorrow in
the first round of match play, the drawings being
as Follows; Miss Dutton vs.. Miss Underwood
MISS osgood vs. Miss II. Curtis. Miss H Curtis
VS.. Miss Pauline Mackay, Mrs Brooks VS. Miss
Adams
II Chandler Egan. the national amateur po,r
champion in 1904 and 1905. has decided to make a
determined effort 10 regain his lost title this year
mat the far driving EXmoor player IS likely TO b,
the faYorite when the field Starts at Euclid on
July is foreshadowed by the excellent showing
he has made in recent Saturday handicsps over his
home links Egan has been straighten out his
zee shots 1t is said, AID this should improve his
game in the amateur championship tournament
at Engewood last summer he found II next IN I'm,
possible to keep his long drives on the course with
Chandler Egan Walter + Esan. Ned SAWYER and
Warren X; Wood available the Western COR Asso-
in the competition for the olympic Cup
Followers Of the game in this city have no no
ton of seeing the open tournament for profess
SIGNALS which has proved such attractive feature
on tho Van Cortlandt Park public links for the
last two years. abandoned this season. Contribu-
ready been received. add it is expected that the
Smith, the national open champion, won first money
at Van Cortlandt last year.
Alec Ross the title OF open golf champion
of Massachusetts in the play-on OF the triple tie
with Gilbert Nichols and David Brown over the
links Of the Brae Burn Country club on Saturday.
Ross made the eighteen holes in g. Nichols ani
Brown were tied again at 50. They continued on
and the former finally succeeded In winning second
money after twenty-five holes. This trio tied ut
the end of the first seventy-two holes last Friday
with scores of 302. This is the second time Ross
has won the Massachusetts title. Brown was open
champion Of Great Britain some twenty years ago.
A one day tournament, open 10 members Of the
Womens Metropolitan Golf Association. Will be-
played to-day under the auspices or the PlairaelI
Country Club. The programme calls for best BAN
foursomes and obstacle approaching and pu.-
ting contest. The latter Is a decided novelty.