The San Francisco call., 1910-12-10
WOMEN GOLFERS IN
EXCELLENT FORM
Miss Alice Hager Wins From
Mrs. Field in Exciting
Match
Ry PETE SMITH


in the four flights of match play held
the attention of the club swingers in
the morning and produced some highly
exciting matches and splendid golf
The small crowd of enthusiasts that
followed the players over the couse
were treated to some of the best golf
ever played on the course by women.
Both matches in the first flight were
extremely close and the winners were
taxed to their utmost to win out. Par
ticularly was this the case in the match
that Miss Alice Hager won from Mrs.
Fields Both players were at the top
Of their game and every hole was a
hard fought one that was only won
by the closest of margins. 1t re-
quired six extra holes to return Miss
Hager the winner, and had Mrs. Field
not been off on her approach shot to
the twenty y-sixth hole the match might
have been going on still.
Not only was the match a close one
from a standpoint of match play, but
had it been at medal play it would
have been just as close, as the differ
ense at the end of the long match
was only two strokes and it was by
just these two strokes that Mrs. Field
lost the last hole.
There was little to choose between
the playing of the two contestants. s
both played in excellent FORM, going
out in AZ strokes each and returning
over the second nine holes in the same
number a dead heat, making the medal
play for each over the is holes "a
strokes. Fifteen of the &c holes played
were halved and most of the others
were won by one stroke.
About the only poor stroke of hte
match was the one made by Mrs. Field
that cost her the match. She walled to
get up on the green on her approach
shot and required seven to hole out,
whereas Miss Hager got on the green
with her approach and holed out in
five.
Miss Hager had an uphill fight
throughout the match as Mrs Field at.
three different stages had her l down.
Miss Hager finally overcame this lead
by winning the sixteenth hole. Mrs.
Field evened up the score, taking the
eighteenth hole by two strokes The
next five holes were halved and then
came the end.
In the other match of the first fight
Mrs ]. r. Clark defeated Mrs. H. H.
Sherwood, 2 up and to play. Mrs.
Clark played right up to her best game
and covered the Is holes in "a strokes,
good golf for a woman over these links.
Her play was especially meritorious
considering that it was not her home
course. Mrs. Sherwood did not play
back to her form of Thursday and it
is probably fortunate for some of the
other players that she did not.
In the second flight there was an
other long match that required the
playing of five extra holes. AS a re-
suit of the match Miss Knowles reached
the finals, as she defeated Mrs. L. |.
Scott, l up on % holes. Miss Knowles
has had a hard journey to the finals.
On Thursday she defeated Mrs. Rickard,
/ up on 19 holes.
Miss V. Havemeyer defeated Mrs.
Pommer in a close match, l UP. and
Mrs. Skaife registered a similar VIC
tory over Miss Wyckoff Mrs. Skate
was fortunate to win, as she was short
on her sixteenth and eighteenth holes
and had it not been that her opponent
got into bad ground she would have
been defeated instead of being victori-
Gus.
The matches that were played were
as follows:
First fight, semifnals-Mrs. ]. R. Clark de-
play: Miss Alice Hager defeated Mrs. George
Field. / up "a holes.
Second d, flight, finals-Miss u Knowles. de
V. Havemeyer defeated Mrs Pommer / up.
Third d flight. semifnals-Mrs. skaife defeated
Mrs. Gum. up and to play
Fourth fight. semifnals-Mrs J. B. Smith de-
feated Mrs. Rhodes, I up and G to play; Mrs
]. J. Valentine defeated Miss NJ. Sherwood, 6
up and to play.
The women's foursomes took up the
aftegnon, and Mrs. H H. Sherwood and
Mrs. George Field came out with first
honors, covering the Is hole course in
81.
The approaching and putting contests
for women was not run off yesterday
as scheduled.
The next two days will be the most
important ones of the tournament as
the mems semifnals and all of the
mems and women's finals will be
played. and the followers of the sport
are assured of a treat when the best
players get together.
The women's finals will take place
this morning, and when Miss Alice
Hager and Mrs. Clark tee off good
match should result, as they are both
right on their game, and neither will
have an advantage of being more fa-
miIlar with the course than the other,
as they are both members of the San
Francisco golf and country club AL
though the San Francisco women won
out, 1t is going to be a hard tussle for
the men to do likewise, as only one of
the four left in the first flight belongs
TO that club. OF course that one is G.
S. Whyte, one of the very best rem
resentatives the club has, but he has
two very clever players of the Clare
mont club against him in DIR. d. r
Fredericks and F. c. Newton Austin
Whyte of Honolulu is also still in the
running. and will have to be reckoned
with. There will undoubtedly be some
good golf played when these four NAV
ers begin TO fight it out. They are All
at the top of their game, and viii NOT
make many mistakes.
The mems seminal round in tho
eight flights viii be played off az
follows:
v, First iight-Dr. D. J. Fredericks VS.. Austin
Second fight-A Fl. Higgins VS. Dr II
Lane; M. H Cummings VS.. c. p Hubbard y
Third fight-R. NJ. Fitzgerald VS.. Ourck. II
Henshaw VS.. Ames. =
Fourth hght-F. Proctor Us. H. Fl. Smith
Wilson VS.. Van Sicklen. i'n'
Fifth fight-B. J. Smith vs. Nowak. No
6regor vs. winner of Skaife VS.. Blair match
sixth hight-Roscoe VS.. W. P. johnson: R n
Postlethwaite VS.. Hills " -
Seventh fght-Goodfellow vs. Ash. NJ
Brown VS.. Fl. Law. -
Ellis vs..
The remaining events will be PLAYED
off as follows:
lng womens putting contest on home green
saturday morning: mems sem6nals SATURDAY
afternoon; mems consolidated event Saturdsy
afternoon Saturday morning at fhp antion -