New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-18
British Golf Champion Beaten by Miss
RapenscroH in Play for National Title Here
Miss HoIIins Also Defeats MISS
Harriet Curtis, but Only
After Hard Twenty
Hole Match.
FINAL TEST COMES TO-DAY
English Girl the Pavorite, but
Many Pin Their Faith to the
Metropolitan Title Holder
and Expect Ter to
Save the Cup.


and Expect Ter to
Save the Cup.
From a sta1 Correspondent of The Tribune.l
Wilmington, Del, oct. 1.-Two ex-
tremes were shown and one stunning sur
prise in the sem-1nal round of the wom-
ems national golf championship tourna-
ment at the Wilmington Country Club to-
day. Miss Gladys Ravenscroft won as
she pleased ever Miss Muriel Dodd. while
Miss Marion Hollins had TO fight It out to
the twentieth green before gaining the
verdict at the expense Of Miss Harriet
Curtis of ESSEX County.
To be exact. Miss Ravenscroft defeated
the champion Of Great Britain up and
to play. and surprise is hardly the way
10 express the feelings Of the gallery.
Various reasons we're advanced and eX-
,plaratons given for this one-sided con-
test. but after all is said and done the
two outstanding causes were the brilliant
golf by the winner and the indifferent
,playing of the loser. When IT is stated
that Miss Ravenscroft made the outward
tourney covering a playing length of BIOS
wards, in forty strokes, an idea Of the
'c.ass of golf DISPLAYED may be the better
appreciated.
Strict par going out Is g. and the
strokes dropped by Miss Ravenscroft in
cluded an extra putt on the first green.
Miss Dodds iron shots were nowhere near
her usual standard. yet. even so, it is
difficult TO realize that not once during
the match was the British champion able
ITO win a single hole.
When II was over and as she was walk
ing across the links 10 the clubhouse,
tniiss Ravenscroft modestly said: "Muriel
was very much off her game" and then
continued: You know. she defeated me
recently in Canada, and 1t was time for
inc 10 do something. We know each
others game so well, having played to-
,gether a hundred times. our clubs at
home are only about two miles apart
Miss Ravenscroft and Miss Hollins will
meet in the final round tomorrow, and
the English girl is the favorite here to-
night, although some good judges express
the opinion that Miss Hollins will make
good fight, and perhaps save the title and
cup for this country.
British Girls Play for Fun.
A notable feature Of the match between
the British girls this morning was the
evident good feeling that existed between
them at all times. Robert c. Watson,
president OF the United States Golf As
ISOLATION. who acted as referee, declared
he never saw anything like 1t before in
an important golf match. Several times
during the round the contestants, chatting
almost continuously. told him amusing
stories They also went on the links sup
piled with refreshments such as apples
and candies In direct contrast was the
seriousness with which Miss Hollins and
Miss Curtis went about their match.
Throughout their struggle. lasting for two
and a half hours, smiles were as scarce
as white crows.
II isn't often that golfer in cham
pionship tournament loses a hole as the
result of a penalty. yet that was what
happened twice to-day, and, oddly enough.
at the same hole. From the tee at No. IL
Miss Curtis drove into trap, and while
playing out the ball rebounded from the
side of the bunker hitting the player.
That of course, cost her the hole.
few moments later Miss Dodd did prac-
tically the same thing, except that the
ball in bounding back hit her club.
The weather was ideal made to order.
as II were, not a breath of air stirring.
Miss Hollins and Miss Curtis were the
first away. the metropolitan champion
having the honor and driving long ball.
Her opponent topped. and It didn't look
as II she would he able 10 carry the
bunker on her next but the Essex County
player decided to take a chance and
with a fine COWARD brasse reached the
green Miss Hollins made the far edge
on the like with an iron and had to work
hard 10 get a halve IN 4.
The metropolitan champion became one
up when her opponent took three puts
on the next green, but the match was
SQUARED at the fourth, where the West
brook golfer took an extra stroke on the
green.
Miss Rollins Long OH Tee.
Miss Frances Griscom and Miss Mar
garet Curtis, who were watching this
match with interest, were impressed with
the long game of Miss Holins, when the
last named reached the fifth green with
an iron for her second shot. This hole is
373 yards long. Miss Curtis never had a
chance there as after being short on her
second she over-approached on the next.
After two halved holes Miss Hollins
grew unsteady for a time, taking three
puts on the seventh green and slicing
70 the rough at the eighth, so that losing
both, she became one down. Had ii not
been for an able recovery the metropoli-
tan title holder would have lost the ninth.
as her drive landed In trap in such an
awkward place as TO make II impossible
for her to do more than barely get out.
From there she laid a rnashie shot on the
green and got a halve in 8. That left
Miss Curtis up at the turn. Both went
out in a.
The incident referred to at No. IL, where
Miss Curtis forfeited the hole, made the
match all square again The Boston
player should have won the twelfth. but
took three puts. She then became /
down by driving into trouble at the thr-
teenth, but Miss Hollins topped her bras
sic to a bunker at the next, so that IL
was once more a case OF all square.
Miss Hollins should have won the hf-
teenth hole after getting home with a
drive and an iron, but her short game
wabbled and a halve in resulted. Miss