Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-20


dictions, that a crowd gathered at the
Englewood Golf club this week to
watch two Englishwomen play the
game of golf Miss Gladys Ravens |
croft, former British champion and a Il
present holder of the United States
title, and her compatriot, Miss Muriei
Dodd, the champion of Great Britain.
were the guests. and lived up to their
regulations in every sense of the word,
Misc Dodd going around in ST. and
Miss Ravenscroft in 81, which broke
the women's record. The handicap
committee placed them on par with
Miss Marion Hollns, of Westbrook, the
metropolitan champion.
Among the watchers at the club that
afternoon was a person who was not
naturally athletic She didn't play
golf herself, she didn't know the game,
end she wondered why she had come
perhaps it was merely to please her
dear friend Mrs. b., who had insisted
and included her in a lunch party on
the club house porch. The Unathletc
one, as she tasted her soup and heard
| a technical discussion on the proper
way TO hold d club as typified by va
| rious past-masters of the game, began
| To wonder if she could add any ac-
| ceptable word 10 the conversation, or
/ if she would be forced to lunch in ST.
lence, broken by an occasional we'll
| timed "Oh" aud All" She watched
| other women passing in gaudy blaz-
ers and vivid stockings, and wondered
! if they dslikcd her conservative
| clothes as much as she disliked thelr
| snorting ones. She tried to talk ana
! couldn't, because she didn't know the
! terms of the game. and she Wfshed
tile whole afternoon was over and that
| Mrs. Is. had never invited her.
She Thought of Caesar.
pnrase from Julius Caesar began
To run through her head; Il am not
! gamesome. l do lack some OF that
| fresh spirit, which is in Anthony, she
| quoted to herself. and thought OF the
new book she had bought that morn
| ing. and wanted to read Then sud
| denly something happened to that Wo-
| man and to ell the other Watchers
The game began, Miss Dodd ana
| Miss HaIlins started off, and were FOL
lowed by Miss Ravenscroft and Mrs.
Hanford. AS soon as the first pan
| went fying through the air, STEADY
| and sure. a beautiful stroke, the whole
| atmosphere seemed cleared No ofo
| thought any longer of the grayness oil
| the day, it seemed TO be enlightened
| by the bright colors of the women 5
| blazers, and everyone was ailNe TO me
nIaying The Unathletic one ieit
| thrill. andsby the time the last OF tHe
| four balls had been driven OIL, she ilad
| forgotten that she wasn't gamesoiiH'
and didn't know the first thlng apout
| Golf and was running down the mn
| with tbe others to follow every move
ne,4 of the PLAYERS She found her-
| Golf bobnobbing with a green ana yer
low blazer. and didn't mind lts rau-
! oons shade, she didn't mind the green
| stockings that went with 1t, ana sle
| tboueht their wearer the most remark
| ablv alive person she had met. =.
| "Aren't these English girls winners
! t1,a owner of the brilliant blazer was
| ewing They are so young, too MISS
! r,odd is twenty, and Miss RaVenscrolt
t-,ontc-tro or three. They 1--we ABOUT
| f,vo miles apart in England ana are
mo greatest friends. Their part oil tIe
e,.,,ntrv must have something in the
! .ir tbat produces good golfers, for TWO
| -, cbamnions and two women nave
come from within a ten-iniie rd,i'''9'
oh, just look at that beauty VI
drive" at
The I,nathletic One looked not d.
the ball but at a girl with blue eyes
rnd bright color, who was lausIiiii9 90
thoneh one of the best drives oil the
season were not such serious tnlils
after all. Perfect health and good run
were evidently hers, and the unath-
letic one suddenly felt pang Of envy
remembering that she was apt to have
an occasional headache.
1t vas after the game that they all,
crowded up around the English cham
pions on the club piazza.
Doesn't Take Special Training.
mo, l never go in for special train
ing" Miss Ravenseroft was saving.
II mean don't practice fancy
strokes or special grips or anything
like that. 1 Just play. l began to play
when ! was seventeen. I'd alwaysI
thought golf was a mans game and
had stuck to hockey and tennis, butt
once | started out to play | couldn't
stop, and have been at it ever since.
We play about the whole year round
in England, and our links are SO close
together that we have lots Of chancel
for small competitive games between
the clubs.
Some one asked how American golf
enthusiasts compared with English.
why | don't think there's much
difference. said the English player |
I'D heard you weren't as keen about
the game rs we, but | don't see it. Per
hans you are little more serious
about YOUR playing than We are We
go in for the fun of it. YOU know, ana
actually tell little jokes and talk To
each otEer as we go around the course
We aren't dead serious about the
thing, I hear some American players
never speak a word While playing ana
wouldn't dream of joking"
'How long had you played when You
won your English championship
some one asked.
II won it the fourth year | played.
The Urnathletic One frightened Visl
hlv. -Four years isn't so very long,
she said to herself, perhaps IL | get
some clubs tomorrow and come up
bare from two to five and then from