New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-11
Mrs. Vanderbeck and Mrs.
Gavin Will Battle for
Title To- day.
GALLERY DRENCHED
AS MATCH FINISHES
Miss Stirling, of Atlanta, Fights
Grimly-Meets Defeat on
Fourth Extra Hole.

Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, H.,
Sept. l0.-With lightning playing aboat
them and the thunder crashing. Mrs. G.
II. Vanderbeck. Of the Philadelphia
Cricket Club, and Miss Alexa Stirling,
the Atlanta girl, finished a sensational
match in the semi-hnal round of the
women's national golf championship
tournament az the Onwcntsia Club to-
day.
Mrs. Vanderbeck won after four ex-
ira holes, and as result will meet
Mrs. A. ". Gavin. from the Shirley
Park England Club, in the eighteen
hole final tomorrow. Mrs Gavin won
handily over Miss Ernes.ine Pearce, Of
Flossmoor, by and 3 margin.
The missing OF putt Of not moro
than yard by Mrs. Wand, beck on the
seventeenth green came within an ace
Of costing her the match, and incl
dentally cause all sorts Of trouble.
That putt remaining above ground gave
Miss Stirling another chan .. as it left
Mrs. Vanderbeck dormie instead of
winner by and /. When he Southern
champion squared the match on the
home green by Bringing of fin. 20
foot putt II had begun TO rain, but so
intense had the interest become that
the gallery, needless of the approach
ing storm, rave themselves the right
about face and trudged toward the first
tee.
The match was easily one Of the best
va -, q L.
try. Both players appeared a triiie eX-
cited at the start, Miss Stirling pulling
her approach 10 a sand trap, and her
opponent taking three puts, with the
result that they halved in s. From the
next tee Mrs. Vanderbeck topped her
drive and sliced the next TO a trap,
thereby enabling the Atlanta gill TO
win in 4 and become | up.
Although both players found trouble
going to No. 3, Mrs. Vanderbeck won
in ). thanks TO a putt Of three yards.
Again, at No. 4, Mrs. Vanderbeck won
the hole in 4, getting down a ten
footer That made the champion OF
the Women's Eastern Golf Association
| up, but she made hash Of the next,
topping her drive and getting trapped
on her third shot. Miss Sizzling won
the hole, in TO 7.
They halved the next three holes in
good figures, Miss Stirling bringing OF
fairly long putt for her p he
eighth. The Southern champion then
took three puts on the ninth green, so
that the other woman, getting a )
there, turned for home / up. Both
went out in i6.
topped drive cost Mrs. Vanderbeck
the tenth hole. They were all-square
then, but Miss Stirling became down
again at the eleventh when she took
three puts. The match remained that
way until the Southern girl took her eye
off the approach going to the thir-
teenth, thereby allowing the Philadel-
phia woman to win in 5 and become
2 up.
The girl from Atlanta got a hole
back with a fine at the fifteenth,
where she ran down long putt. They
halved the short sixteenth in 3, but
Mrs. Vanderbeck threw away a chance
TO win the match by a and 1 margin
by taking three puts on the seven
teenth green.
Evidently feeling the strain. both
players drove badly 20 the home hole,
Mrs. Vanderbeck showing her tee shot
to the rough and her opponent pulling
the fairway. The Philadelphia woman
being away, made her approach and
the ball brought up on the far side OF
the green. Miss Strings ball was
lying badly and partly stymied by 4
tree. IL did not look as II she could
get through, but the way she tore the
ball out caused gasp of approval
from the gallery. The ball stopped
- he
"A wonderful recovery" exclaimed
Mrs. Caleb F. Fox. THAT girl is a
wonder with a mashie."
zone OF the best I've ever seem" de-
clared Tom Vardon.
The applause that followed when
Miss Stirling holed the putt for a 3
must have cheered her up, and tho
wonder is that it didn't shake the
nerves OF the other woman. To the
extra holes it looked like Miss Stirling
right up to the last For instance,
after they halved the nineteenth in 5.
Mrs Vanderbeck drove to a shallow
trap in front of the next green. Her
recovery was half topped. yet the bail
found a resting place on the green. and
she halved in l. To the third hole.
the twenty-frst Of the match, both got
home in 4, not bad considering tho
half gale at that time blowing in their
faces. They halved in 6.
Miss Stirling had the better Of the
next hole up 10 the green. for Mrs.
Vanderbeck began by slicing her drive
20 the rough and had to play out short
of the bunker, whereas the other with
a fine brassie carried the hazard, the
ball coming 70 rest near the green.
Mrs. Vandcrbeck only reached the
green's edge on her third, and then
her opponent clipped well inside. Mrs.
Vanderbeck ran her approach putt up
dead. and then the Southern champion,
instead of being content with a half
tried 20 sink a ffteen-foot putt for a
(, but the ball overran a clubs length,
and il was the old, old story, a miss
coming back.
The card was follows:
Mrs Yanderheck'
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