The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26

NUM- NV ko'ieis VI TIE M
ton has bi'ome a most popular pastime
In recent years, 80 popular in fact that
even the United States Golf Association
has tried It's hand at the task with more
or less success. The women golfers Of
the United States have thus far strug-
gled along without such institutions as
rankings. but there seems no particular
reason why they should continue to do
q. women's golf IL widespread enough
low to make II possible to compare the
play Of the women In the different parts
Of che country with reasonable accuracy.
and q reasonably satisfactory list of the
leading sixteen women golfers of the
year can be compiled.
In TIE list which follows the two
visitors from England who played here
this year are omitted. Miss Vera Ram
say and Mrs. A. W. Gavin both would
b rated II the list were not confined TO
American women golfers. There are on
the list at least two who were British
born. but they are now and have been
for some time permanent residents OF
his country. There Is another class
wAich has been omitted. that is the
women golfers of recognized merit. who
played so little this year that II is inn
possible to rank them. Mrs. II. Arnold
Jackson, National and Eastern cham
pton In 1914. Is one Of this class. and
Mss Georgianra N. Eiohop. former
holder OF both National and Metropolitan
titles. IL another. Roth are better golf
err than many of those who appear on
the list. and their absence from COM
petition is the sole reason for leaving
them out. The list Of the rrst sixteen
women golfers Of the United States and
some reasons for selecting them follow
How the Women Rank.
No. /. Mrs. Clarence Il. vanderbcck.
philadelphia Cricket Club-Therc Is no
~disput'GG Mrs Nanderbcck's claim to
the title of the best woman golfer of
the year. She holds two big titles. the
national and the Eastern. the former
won at match play and the latter at
medal play. and her entire record FOR
the season IL almost as good as i, pos
e,bly could be
M. Nanierbeck's first great victory
OF >lc year WAS in the championship
tourney of the Wome1's Eastern Golf
Association. rlayed M the course of the
Melon Cricket club III June | ard =.
Il was II thirty-siN hole medal play test.
and Mrs. vandcrbeck really won It when
she made "a ~ IN a driving storm.
Neatly every other woman in the CON-
petition let the wind and rain spoil the
c'r,c. bu, Mrs. Wand rncck stuck To her
task and played renat hahle golf. Her
score for the two rounds WIS $50 and
Sit" led her nearest rival by six strokes,
T'c Eastern title Was well won. In
lie iricrom cup matches. which fol-
lowed. she headed toe Philadelphia team
and won both her matches.
Not loar 2fterward Mrs. Nardcrbcck
''.t her only defeat of TIE year In n hig
w.t,n vhcu she finished one down to
VI :, Ronald u. Barlow in the semi-iinal
touul of The Philadelphia womcns
championship.
Then after a summer spent In play
Ing In minor vents Mrs. Nandcrbcck
went to Onwcntsia for the national
championship. Every one knows what
che did tn, re. In the qualifying round
she won the medal vita an 50. setting
"a new record. and did even better in
the subsequent match play rounds She
went right through to the end and won
the national championship. At only one
time-in the semi-fnal round-was she
in danger OF defeat. and the next day
IN the Anal she beat the British invader
and kept the title on this side of the
Atlantic.
Nlss stirling II M. 2.
No. 2. Miss Alexa W. Stirling. AT
lanta-Thc little elghteen-year-old holder
Of the Southern championship is the
golfer VINO all but eliminated Mrs.
Vanderbeck in the semi-inal round NJ
Onwentsia. That match, which went
twenty-five holes. was the longest ever
played In n women national cham
pionship. and on each of the -four extra
. holes Miss Stirling would have won IL
her long putt had gone down. AZ 1t was
she grew overanxious on the twenty
second green and overran the cup 50 far
that she missed coming back, losing
hole. match and "A glorious chance for
the cha mpionship.
Miss Stirling did not confne her good
golf this year to the Onwentsia tourney.
. Her Southern title was gained by sew
! eral days Of as good golf as was played
by any woman in the country this year
and passed unnoticed only because the
tourney took place so far away. With
gu, the slightest competition to spur
her on-there Is no woman golfer in the
South In her class-she began with AN
SIS In the qualifying round over the
course of the Birmingham Country club.
cut the record TO SO a day Or TWO later
and In the final, which she won by . up
and : TO play. finished out the bye holes,
making the round in 80. Also.
Al onwentsia sine qualified in third
place with n 81, won the first extra hole
Hlht'l sHf ever ntn Deen cdlleu upon to
play in the first round and then went
stIalght through 20 the semi-fnal and
the memorable match with Mrs. Wander
beck.
Since the national championship Miss
Stirling has won both medal and chief
'up In a big women's tournament at the
Druid Hills Golf Club In Atlanta. She
tacks experience. for she IL pretty Young.
nut she plays her shots splendidly and
la r.rirYl .ntf,lng t.. , -, 49,. 49,
Miss hyde Is No. q.
No, 3. Miss Lillian Il. HYDE, South
Shore--The most remarkable woman
golfer i'm the world as far as her long
game is concerned. Miss Hyde's wretched
snort game alon" prevents her from
standing at the top. As IN years past
her 1919 record was checked by defeats
AT the hands of much poorer golfers ana
they make II impossible to put her higher
on the list. She won the Metropolitan
title, again finishing second in the auali-
Tying round and going through without
much trouble. In the Criscom cun
DAiches she was beaten twice, first by
Miss Margaret Curtis and then by Mrs.
Vanderbcck.
In the national championship Miss
, Hyde began brilliantly by finishing only
a stroke behind Mrs, Vanderbeck i'm the
qualifying round. but In the second
match round was beaten on the home
sreen by Mrs. Barlow. II was a match
which Miss Hyde should ave won, but