Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-18
DOWN TO THE FINALS
Miss HoIIins Plays Miss Ra-
venScroft for the Title.
AMERICANS HARD MATCH
New Yorker Is Forced to Go Two
Extra Holes Before Defeating
Miss Harriet Curtis.
AMERICANS HARD MATCH

WILMINGTON, Del. October 1S.-Miss
Marion Hollins of New York, metropoi
tan champion. and Miss Gladys Ravens
croft of England, former British title
holder. won their matches yesterday in
the semi-final round for the women's ma
tional golf championship at the Whining
ton Country Club and meet today in the
final for the American title.
Miss Ravenscroft easily defeated the
present English and Canadian champion,
Miss Muriel Dodd. up and to play
Miss Hollns on the other hand. secured
the right TO enter the finals only after
the hardest kind of a match with Miss
Harriet Curtis of Boston. Two extra
holes had to be played before the match
was decided i'm her favor.
Although Miss Dodd failed to play up
to her usual form. Miss Ravenscroft
played the strongest game that has been
shown in the present tournament. Her
medal score for the first nine holes was
40. while that of her opponent was AZ
Miss Hollins took "A strokes for the out
ward journey.
The winners of the semi-iinals each ex-
celled in distance shots. both driving
well. Miss Ravenscroft outdrove Miss
Dodd at every hole, sometimes by 10
and 80 yards. The British Canadian
champion failed to win single hole. and
was able to halve only OF the III
played
The first hole was halved in fives Miss
Ravenscroft taking the second in three
strokes, Miss Dodd giving up after she
had played two out of the pit Miss Ra-
venscroft outdrove her opponent fifty yards
on the third hole. which she won, > to u.
The fourth and fifth holes she did in four
strokes each. while Miss Dodd took hve
and six. The sixth hole was also won.
4, 1,,1 afO hnl Nah
with tours and skies. The ninth was also
Miss Ravenscrofts and she was up at
the turn. Miss Dcdd ran into bad luck
in thenext two holes, the ball hitting the
cupping on the fifth shot in the tenth,
while it jumped back and hit her club in
the eleventh. This ended the match. as
she had TO concede the hole to her OPP
ponent.
Miss Hollins. who is noted horse
woman and in other lines OF sport as well
as in golf gave n remarkable exhibition
of perseverance, in her match with her
more experienced opponent Miss Curtis
was leading by one hole at the turn the
tenth hole was halved and Miss Hollins
by a remarkable three eveneo the score
in the eleventh.
Miss Curtis should have won the twelfth.
as she was on TIE green in two to Miss
Hollias' three She took three puts.
however trimming the cup with her sec
ond while Miss Holiins halved the hole
with two puts.
The Bostonian also missed an easy
chance in the thirteenth hole. which Miss
Hollins won, ) to d. Miss Hollins overshot
the green in the fourteenth and her OPP
ponent once more squared the score. The
fifteenth was halved, but Miss Hollins
forged ahead in the sixteenth. Miss Curtis
tying the match in the eighteenth hole.
which she made in three. Both had
birds" on the nineteenth hole and both
drove into traps I'm the twentieth but
Miss Hollns, with a remarkable putt
won the hole and match. The cards: