Evening star., 1909-06-09
BOSTON WOMAN HAS
FINE GOLF SCORE
Miss NJ. B. Adams Returns 81
in First Round of Eastern
Championship.

NEW YORK. June Sit was a very
much changed Baltusrol which the woman
golfers In the eastern section we're con-
fronted with yesterday in the initial stage
Of their eastern championship compared
with that in 1901. when the struggle for
the national title was decided. Bunkers.
not only in theory but in reality. had been
added. not forgetting that the distance
had been heightened. To add to these
troubles. which progress and rubber-cov-
cred balls had compelled, a stiff wind
from the east swept the stretches. which
are now among the hardest in the country
to score over.
Added to which, no distinction has been
made between the sexes as regards the
placement of tees. so that suffragettes
could have no complaint on that score.
Then. again. great change has been
made at the sixteenth hole.
Along the left line of play from the
woods on q burn has been constructed
which curves around to pond, stretching
some sixty yards from the old bunker
angles. while the BURN then ambles
along to the pond at the right of the
fourth hole. This ingenious conception
has transformed the sixteenth from
stupid hole to one whose menacing trou-
BILE calls for thought and cunning. At the
same time the seventeenth has become
twice as threatening to the wild driver
and thrice as dangerous
Furthermore, the home hole has been
changed into a fine one by the simple
process of delving cleverly devised bun
ker under the right face of the green. ter
rifying the golfer who IS approaching
from the right.
Miss M. B. Adams Fine Card.
With these alterations. and the others
which have been developed In the last
few years. it was a remarkable perform
ance of Miss Mollie B. Adams. champion
of Massachusetts,, to return card of 81.
Prior to her appearance on the home
green experts had agreed that 81 would
nc be beaten. further Endorsement of
the Boston champions effort.
The character of the leaders golf can
be better gauged from the fact that she
notched eighteen for the first three holes
her brassie to the second being trapped
while a short drive to the third was sup
plemented by heeled second and a
missed putt of three feet After this bril-
liant golf marked the progress to the
turn-a long putt in the eighth and sound
play at the ninth recording "threes" at
each.
Nothing occurred to jar the homeward
trip until the home hole was being tested
when a misjudged second just escaped
the newly excavated bunker on the star
board side of the greens and a five In
stead of a four made 40 for the last nine
holes
In the meantime Miss Adams partner.
Mrs C. T. Stout, national and metro
politan champion many seasons as
she was playing golf in earnest, was as
unsteady as a rudderless ship. as may
be imagined from her scoreA A53-5i-10S
There were. however, glints of the old
time brillancy-at the third. where she
drove the green and scored a three: at
the fifteenth. where. in spite of hooked
second into the rough. a fine Ave was
obtained, and at the sixteenth. where the
many-time champion was hole high, with
two full shots and pitch.
OF the rest of the field of forty Mrs.
Caleb Fox. with 96. apart from Miss
Adams. was the only aspirant to finish
inside a hundred. Miss 4 c. Harley. the
national champion, who started with an
IL and an 49, in spite of these ap-
palling figures. finished in an even CEN
tury, and this after wretched putting.
Miss Georgianna Bishop. the metropoli-
tan champion OF 1907 and 1908. and Miss