Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-14
NEW GOLF CHAMPION,
VERY GIRLISH AT 81,
TELLS SEX TO PLAY
Mrs. C. H. Vanderbeck, of Gym
wvd, Titleholder, Says Game
Makes Health, Grace and
Beauty for Women
st1T CAN'T BEAT THE MEN
Bv M'LIss


ut,n YOU see her on the torch at
r..wvJ. IN her pink afternoon frock and
s.,r,v French-heeled slippers, 1t is hard
4 r.spze that Mrs. c. II. Vanderbeck
,ha woman who returned triumphant
u. other day from Chicago with the
,.u,.ls Of the woman's national golf
-,.rponship crowning her head are one
and the same person.
:, fact the girlish vision that rises to
-, vou and the dimpled smile that well
,omes YOU are distinct shock after the
...n,a, picture you had formed based on
c.r,sin newspaper photographs that have
,,.n taken from time to time of this
.hsrming philadelphia golfer in action.
according to Mrs. Vanderbeck herself,
,hsse pictures make her out a sort of
,ross between Carrie Nation and whirl-
ing dervish.
I,ut when YOU hear her talk of her ia
vo,ite sport and of her bout with the re-
soubtahle English player whom she beat
n the finals in the tournament in the
west YOU begin to feel that 1t isn't neces-
sarp TO look like a hoary veteran,
edulnty-eyed and fiat-footed, in order to
had in game which presidents and
statesmen regard as worthy OF thelr au-
eust consideration.
Of course. il Is little terrifying to the
anxious interviewer, whose editor has
wav of expecting her to have at least a
vorkine knowledge of all known sub
jects to try and keep up with Mrs
vanderbeck's careless way of mentioning
mashies and brassies, niblicks and iggers
= l.. T.. gal
10 the mathematically inclined mind
seems a perfectly impossible feat to
achieved. But, merdAully, golf is not all
technicaities. 1t has its popular aspects,
too. and very soon Mrs. Nanderbeck was
talking along in a way that the most
simple-minded could not fail to under
stand.
"ff every woman could play golf three
or four times a week." she said enthusi-
astically, speaking of the public links
nearing completion at Cobb's Creek, "I
think 1t would be one of the finest things
for the race and for the women them
selves that could possibly happen.
There is no more healthful sport than
this 1t is a game which, once begun,
cannot fail to interest. And once having
Interested, the player is forced to forget
an petty worries. Indeed, even the cob
webs Of large business worries are swept
golf Is like jealous woman. 1t demands
the entire attention of it's devotees.
Every year more and more men-the
tired business kind and the professional
men whose work is harasslng-are be-
ginning to realize the value of golf in
fitting them for the next days work, and
II nervous women could only find the
leisure for a few games now and then
the benefits derived would. 1 believe, be
incalculable'
Mrs. Vanderbeck has been playing golf
for IA years, and she started she saws.
when she was II. This in itself is another
way Of calling the golf link the fountain
+ Of youth and ought to cause to surge
within the breast of every woman who
cares for anything at all about her youth
and her looks an irrepressible desire to
play the game. Even a harsh critic would
not put the woman champions age Mt
more than a.
Her 1.-the. boyish figure, her clear
Drown eye and her wholesome tanned
SKIN testify fully to all of the delightful
oenehts she attributes to the game.
Did you know" she asked by way