New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-25
Miss Marion HOllins Leads
Field Over Soggy Links
with Good 81.
THOSE WITH 107 GET
IN FIRST DIVISION
Miss Hyde, the Champion, and
Mrs. Rossin Finish Second and
Third in Testing Round.

II any doubts existed as 70 the test
ing nature Of the links of the Sleepy
Hollow Country Club they we're dis
PEELED yesterday during tho quail
flying round Of the championship
tournament Of the Women's Metropolis
tan Golf Association when Miss Mari.
on Hollins, Of the Westbrook COLI
Club, led the field with n score Of 81.
Furthermore, only three of the
seventy-two actual starters got round
better than a hundred. Following
Miss Hollins were Miss Lillian b.
HYDE, Of the South shore Field Club,
the title holder, and Mrs. a. s. Rossin,
Of the Century Country Club.
Last year in this championship Mss
Hyde won the medal with an 50, while
those with scores of lo2 tied for the
last three places in the championship
sixteen A. the Nassau Country Club
in 1913 Miss HYDE again showed the
way, This time breaking the course
record with a round OF s. The last
scores TO qualify were l02, quite dif-
ferent from Sleepy Hollow, where 1OI
brought up the procession.
Possibly had conditions overhead
and underfoot been MIRO favorable the
scoring this time would not have suf-
fered quite so severely by comparison.
Rain pelted down so hard that several
of the women refused TO st-It, and the
course naturally became slower and
slower. the ball getting little or no run
after the carry.
Because Miss Hyde made An Sc in
practice round last week there were
those who looked 70 see her walk off
with the medal. but IL was Miss Hol-
ho "a
Westbrook girl is almost as long the
champion, and yesterday she was much
steadier with her irons.
After going out in n fine 81 Miss
Hollins kept up the good work on the
more difficult inward journey, and 10
began to look as if she would return an
IS or better. The sixteenth hole Is BIO
yards, and IL cost the Westbrook player
:. Even with that, she had 90 beaten II
she had not grown careless while ap-
preaching 10 the home green. The tall
bunker which crosses the course
caught the ball, which failed 70 clear
by few inches. After having trouble
In getting out, Miss Hollins overplayed
tn green and took for the hole.
Her card was as follows;
Miss Marion lloUns Westurook.
2 % .. .............ss 1919 -
Miss Hyde did not consider that she
was playing any too well. She rarely
rot into trouble, but her approaches
often left her far from the pin. Like
Miss Hollns, Miss Hyde took for the
difficult sixteenth hole. "I'd like TO
play this course on clear day just
once. Every time I've been here II has
rained." remarked Miss Hyde after her
round.
Her card read rs follows:
Miss Lillian r Hyd.. South shor.
2 % . ............:s ; 3 Z :G3-os
The score card calls for a playing
length of 6,131 yards. with the last
nine holes totalling more than 1900;
but as If realizing the difficulties
bound 10 overtake the women, the COM
mittee had the forethought to move
some of the tees forward This was
done at the first, second, third, fifth,
seventh, eighth, fourteenth. fifteenth
and sixteenth holes, thereby reducing
the yafdage TO about $500.
Mrs. +. +. Donohoe, Of the Mont
clair Golf Club, might have had
good score had it not been for the fact
that she took three puts on each or
the first eight greens. As it was she
qualified well up with lO3. On the
other hand, Ms. II. r. Stockton, Of the
Plainield Country Club, a frequent
gross score winner in the one-day
tournaments, and Mrs. VI. D. Paterson,
former president of the association,
looked as gloomy as the day when
they finished.
They had scores Of 106 and 107 re-
spectively, and for time 1t looked
as If these would not be good enough
TO qualify. Oddly enough, when the
draw was made Mrs. Paterson and
Mrs. Stockton were bracketed for the
first round.
As the names were drawn out OF
hat there was the usual excitement
until the women found out whom they
had 10 meet, and when Mrs. Swift
heard that she had been bracketed with
Miss Hyde she groaned.
The draw follows: Mrs. Irving vs..
Miss Holins, Mrs. Paterson VS.. Mrs.
Stockton, Miss Hyde Us. Mrs. Swift,
Mrs. Whitney VS.. Mrs. Morgan, Miss f.
pjckhardt w. Miss Robertson, Mrs.
David vs.. Mrs. Shoaf, Mrs. Barclay vs..
Mrs. Faith and Mrs. Rossin vs.. Mrs.
Donohoe.
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