Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-21
GOLFER FEMININE
RULES THE LINKS
Fair Sex Continues Strife for
National Championship.
CROWN OF LAURELS READY
Goal Is in Sight, But the Whine,
Remains Unknown.
SECOND ROUND OF MATCH PLAY
Pairing Of the Contestants Today
Marine Band Will Give Con-
cert Tomorrow-scoreso Of
Leaders This Afternoon.
CROWN OF LAURELS READY
Goal Is in Sight, But the Winner
Remains Unknown.
SECOND ROUND OF MATCH PLAY
By n. L. Fitzpatrick.


goal is in sight to the successful
player in the woman's golf champion
ship at the Chevy Chase Club, but it was
will fill it. The crown Of laurels is
ready. but who will claim it? This
morning the second round Of the match
play began with sixteen players on the
leash. each as full of pluck and vim as
so many fox terriers fighting for liberty
Boston, still the dominating city, had
six and New England two more players
as representatives-Miss Kate Harley of
Fall River and Mrs. H. ST. John Smith
Of Portland. Philadelphia could claim
four, including Mrs. William Wood of
Woodbury.; Chicago had one. New York
had two and Washington two. the latter
being Mrs. Ormsby McCammon and Miss
Marion Oliver.
The Marine Band is to play tomorrow,
and there will be various social high
jinks at the clubhouse, but no such ad-
ventttlOuS aids were needed to bring
out a crowd Of onlookers this morning.
AS usual at match play, the gallery
a time-honored word at tournaments
split up into many groups and each fol-
lowed a match Only about the home
green. where rows on rows Of chairs
heightened the resemblance to open air
| theatricals. were the people massed
These are not actors. the golflng women
and girls. but as sweet to behold. mark
you. as Rosalind.
Women 1t seems have no nerves a,
| golf. leaving all tumby. jumpy feelings
| to the overwOrked and ever troublous
| sex that has vote. In golf women
are imperturba BILE and dominant. On
| tbs and Miss Harriet Curtis. the average
! male golfer has shade the better of
it. He should also carry this advan-
tage through the green where a full
shot is necessary. On the approach
shots the women are as clever as their
grandmamaS were at knitting Once
! the putting green is reached the golfer
| feminine revealed this morning tina,
mere man is not in it for quickness and
precise actions The women all putt
fallible on puts of three or four feet
This is the most trying of puts
whether 1t is the long one on the odd
or the critical and decisive stroke OF
up, women make fewer mistakes at golf
| than men, for they are always in COM
mand of their wits and senses.
Now, as to Costume.
| AS to costume those with cloth skirts
have the better of it in a blow. for thew
can make their shots undisturbed while
the women with fiimsy skirts have to
slip elastic bands down from theil
| waists to below their knees to prevent
the garments tapping before them like
flags. The shirt waists on cool mornings
are covered with jerseys or sweaters
OF wool. but no matter how chill and
| bleak the day the majority of the
women play without hats. Not one in
| FIVE this morning had on gloves. Miss
Margaret Curtis, the champion, wears
! wash skirt of white or blue, a silk
shirt waist and her dark hair is en-
| circled with a band of Yale blue rib
for ali the Curtises are true Harvard
| and Jimmy Of that ilk once won the
intercollegiate championship for Cam