The San Francisco call., 1910-01-22
MISS ALICE HAGFR
IS 1910 CHAMPION
Clever BurIingan1e Golfer Beats
Miss CheSebrough Up i'm
Hard Fought Contest
BY GRANT SMITH

Miss Alice Iager Of the Burlingame
country club won the golf champion
snip Of the state on the links of the
san Francisco golf and country club
yesterday. She scored A well earned
victory over Miss Edith Chesebrough
OF the san Francisco golf and country
club in the finals, but IL was by an eX-
trenely narrow margin. There had
been nothing all week but one sided
matches. but the final contest came up
10 expectations and proved one of the
prettiest matches ever played on the
Ingleside course.
Both young women played good golf,
Miss Hager's putting being unusually
good Both played Up to their form Of
the earlier rounds and when the IS
holes were finished Miss Hager was
up. Miss Chesebrough put up a re-
markable finish and, but for an unfor-
tunate drive on the last hole, might
have won out.
Miss Hager was up on the fifteenth
hole, which made il necessary for Miss
Chesebrough 10 win the last three
holes TO take the match. The latter
gave remarkable exhibition of nerve
by winning the sixteenth and seven
teenth holes. but in driving off on the
last hole she got into a ditch alongside
the road which cost her two strokes
and ended her chances of winning the
match. It took her eight strokes to
make the hole. while Miss Hager made
it in five.
No two contestants could have been
more evenly matched throughout is
holes than were Miss Hager and Miss
Chesebrough. The latter going out
was 1 Up most Of the way, but they
finished the nine holes all even Miss
Hager showed considerable improve
ment after the ninth hole and settled
down 10 careful, steady game. She
won the tenth and eleventh holes, Civ
ing her lead of 2 up. Miss Cheese
brough cut down her opponents lead
by winning the twelfth hole. The thir-
teenth hole was halved, but the four
teenth went to Miss Hager. again Civ
ing her a lead Of up with only to
go. The fifteenth hole was halved. and
IL looked as il Miss Hager would win
10y a comfortable margin.
Miss Chesebrough. however. was not
done, and instead Of becoming discour-
aged played harder than ever. She
took the next two holes. making them
all square at the end of the seventeenth
hole Miss Chesebrough's long suit is
driving. but the same hard luck nemesis
that has been pursuing her on the
inks for years was still in her wake
and she made most unfortunate drive
Even with a good drive it is doubtful
II she would have won the deciding
hole, but she was playing a great up
min game, and the fight for the decid-
ing hole would have been a great one
had she got any kind of start.
For the last four or FIVE years Miss
Chesebrough has been put out in either
the seminal or the final round, and
always by / up.
Last year she participated in the
tournament at Los Angeles, and was
beaten in the final by Miss Isabelle
Smith by 1 up. She is a good loser,
and never has been known TO make an
excuse. She gave Miss Hager full credit
for her victory yesterday. simply stat
ing that the cleverer player won. Miss
hager'g victory was a popular one and
certainly was well earned.
A foursomes handicap over IS holes
was played in the afternoon. The first
prize was won by Miss Florence Ives
and Mrs. J. r. Clark, with a net score
Of 90. They played with a handicap of
3. their gross score being 102. Mrs. ".
:. Martin and Mrs Laurence Scott were
2 distant second. With handicap of
they made a net score Of los.
The tie for second prize in the bogey
handicap event, played on Wednesday,
was played of yesterday. and resulted
in a victory for Miss Florence Ives.
She won from Mrs Shields, with a score
OF down. The winner tied Mrs.
shields medal play score OF 104, which
was the best Of the week
The tournament viii come to a close
today. a team match will be played
in the forenoon, while q general meet
ing viii be held in the afternoon at
z.30, when the prizes viii be awarded. |