New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-05
MRS. BARLOW DRAWS OUT
Plays Sound, Steady Golf and
Increases Her Lead.
TITLE NOW AT HER MERCY
Miss Semple and Miss Harriet
Curtis Likely to Fight 1t Out
for Second Place.
LRN Telegranh 10 The Tribune. |

Philadelphia June with another con-
sistent round of S., Mrs. II. Barlow, Of
Merton. still further increased her lead in
the championship tournament Of the Wom-
ems Eastern Golf Association, continued
over the links Of the Philadelphia Cricket
Club to-day Her total of 10 gives her the
wide margin of sixteen strokes over the
score OF Miss Grace Sempe Of Wollaston.
her next nearest opponent. Miss Georgi-
anna NJ. Bishop. the lone metropolitan en-
trant. with a round of IS improved her
position considerably. as she is now in sew
enth place. her total for the two days
reading 1876
BY comparison with the others Mrs Bar
lows golf was steadincss itself, but even
she had lapses. Going out, nothing worse
than 6s appeared. and It looked as II the
inward effort would be even more success
ful, as for seven holes she was only over
Is. Then came that tricky 152-yard six
teenth hole AS the green is well guarded
Mrs. Barlow prefers playing short on her
drive and then pitching over the trouble,
plan which II successful gives her a chance
for a and a reasonably sure 4. on this
occasion her tee shot was placed salts
factorily. but the wee approach was half
topped. so that the best she could get
was .
This was followed with more trouble at
the seventeenth, where the Merton woman
took when, with good golf, should
suffice To the home hole, however, the
champion, after good drive across the
road, laid up fine approach so close to the
pin that it was no trick at all to bring off
the put for 3. This gave her a AZ home.
The card read as follows:
G in....:.... IS : 8 81 55Gss-
Oddly enough. Miss semple also dupli-
Gated her first days score. When playing
from 81. Louis some years ago she was re-
gar1ed as a national championship posi-
bility, but the best she can hope for this
bility but the best she can hope for this time
the Wollaston player Will have 20 keep on
her game. as Miss Harriet Curtis, Of Essex
County. is only a stroke away. Miss Cur
tis. by the way. displayed something like
her true form today when she reeled off
an S. eleven stroke, better than her round
Of yesterday.
a weird short game prevented Miss
Bishop from getting around in the eighties
rather than the exception-quite the re-
verse TO the happy vein she was I'm during
tho early stages OF the metropolitan cham
pionship tournament at Englewood recent
Is. The fact that the green's at the Cricket
Club are so much slower than those at
Englewood was the only way Miss Bishop
could account for her ragged short game.
Miss Edith Noblit, the Wilmington player,
who was second yesterday. had nothing
but trouble to-day taking ffty-fve to go
out. After that tho best she could get was
lo0 for the round Even so, her total of
lSS places her in fourth position.
In the elghteen-hOe medal play handi
cap Miss Curtis won with her score OF S.
This is assuming that Mrs. Barlow will
win the championship. for conditions stipu-
late that a player shall not win more than
one prize I'm this tournament.
The scores were as follows
CHAMPIONSHIP.