Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-10
WOMEN AFTER TITLE.
Mrs. Barlow Leads in Golf
Test Round at BaItusroI.
SCORES ON THE HIGH SIDE
Miss Campbell, the Champion of
Three Countries, Second
at Medal Play.

NEW YORK, October 1O.-Playing the
same machinelike game that carried her
successfully through the eastern cham
pionship tournament at Brae Burn last
spring, Mrs. r. II. Barlow, representing
the Merton Cricket Club of Philadelphia,
easily outstripped the field in the eight
een-hole qualification round of the sew
enteenth annual women'S championship
tournament over the links of the Baltus-
rol Golf Club yesterday With rounds of
40 and Ill. for a total of 81, Mrs. Barlow
led her next nearest opponent by the
wide margin of six strokes Miss Dorothy
Campbell, champion of three countries,
Miss Lillian B. Hyde of the South Shore
Field Club, the metropolitan title holder,
was third, with 90.
Closely pressing this trio of title holders
were Miss Margaret Curtis of Boston, a
former national champion, and Miss N.
Pendleton Rogers of the home club, with
cards of o. Only two others-Mrs. V. M.
Earle of Deal and Miss Anita Phipps of
pringfield-succeeded in getting around
under 100. Both had scores of %.
One of the last to start. Mrs. Barlow
attracted little attention, the gallery pre-
ferring to follow Miss campbell and her
partner, Miss Georgianna Bishop. There
were times when Mrs. Barlow found IL
advisable to refrain from attempts at
long carries, contenting herself with play
ing short rather than taking chances or
getting trapped into the deep pits that
yawned on all sides. A case in point was
at the first hole, where she played short
of the bunker on her second shot, instead
of trying to clear the trouble in an en-
deavor to make the hole in .. The only
instances throughout the round where
Mrs. Barlow took more than five strokes
at hole were at the extremely long
ones. such as the first, fourth, seventh,
fourteenth and sixteenth.
Out in 46, the Philadelphia woman start
"a @I,ot hnxr dane
credit to a Hilton. Keeling off four con-
Secutive tours. Two more tours also were
recorded at the last two. thereby en-
abling her to come home in Al. The card
was as follows.
Mrs. r. II. Barlow, Merton:
f nut :....: J 8 I i1-s7
Always long off the tee, Miss Margaret
Curtis appeared to find the Short Hills
course to her liking, and bunkers that
cast terror to the hearts OF most or the
women were as nothing at all to the Bos-
ton woman. At the fourth hole, for in
stance, she was past the green on her
third shot. Inability to gauge her ap-
proach shots got her into frequent diff
culties, and this accounted for her score
of 80 going out. Coming back, Miss Cur
tbs made most of the holes in par flgures
until the sixteenth. where she sliced her
third shot to the rough, and, after over
approaching the green, made a hash OF
her short game, taking 8 for the hole.
Even at that Miss Curtis came back in 40.
Scores of lib tied for last places in the
championship division, so that in this in
stance, at least, no fault could be found
with the so-called unlucky thirteen. Prob
ably the surprise of the day came in the
failure of Mrs. Caleb +. Fox, the Hunt
ington Valley matron, to qualify. AL
though taking 1T for the round. Mrs.
Fox had no complaint to make, declar-
ing that women were always anxious to
play over difficult courses, the same as
the men, consequently it was up to them
to learn how.
Numerically the metropolitan district
leads in the number of women to qualify,
with a total of ten; Boston comes next,
with eight, while Philadelphia has six,
Canada three and Chicago two; San Fran
cisco. st. Louis and Wilmington have one
each.