The evening world., 1916-06-17
Constant Practice Has
Enabled Many Mem
bers of Fair Sex to|
Acquire Such Re-
markable Ability on
Links That They No
Longer Need Big
Handicaps From Men
Stars.
BY William Abbott.
.HE Women's Metropolitan Golf
Championship that finished
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"HE Women's Metropolitan Coli
Championship that finished
q yesterday should be a warn.
Ing to men players not to be SO
generous with handicaps to their
lady opponents. The feminine golf.
ers are getting too good. WELDING
drivers, mashies and niblicks. they
have learned the system how to take
a fall out OF Col. Bogey. With scores
in the low eighties for the Baltusrol
course-one OF the stiffest in the
country-certain members Of the
weaker sex no longer require big
handicaps from their gentlemen
golfers, thank you! How many mas
culine stars would really enjoy spot.
ting big handicaps to Mrs. Quentin F.
Feitner, five times winner OF the
Met" title: Miss Marion Hollins.
Mrs. W. A. Gavin or few dozen
other fair players? Only very few.
Golf now with the ladies Is a seri-
Gus matter. once on the links they
are all business. The games no
longer a momcntary fad. In service
able costumes-short skirts sweater
coats and hobnaIled shoes-they Ven-
ture out in all kinds of weather TO
practise. Professionals at all clubs
are kept on the job for hours, so that
the fair golfers may soon learn TO
play the game like men. Golf, ike
other lines OF masculine endeavor. Is
81 - h.A 70 n no n
vasion, The lady golfers eagerness 10
practise Is steadily changing her style.
She's discarded the weak short poke
stroke Of former days The prevail
ing style is the long, vigorous, man
nish swing that gets distance TO the
shots and provides the favorite repair
tee around afternoon tea tables.
This changing tendency IN women's 3
golf Is best seen in the different
playing ability OF Miss Georgianna
bishop and Mrs. Feitner, the tinalists
for the Met" title Yesterday. Years
ago-never mind how many-Miss
Bishop was one OF the most promi-
nent players in the United States.
Her list OF trophies was quite i'm
posing. But Miss Bishop, with her
short. muscle bound chop stroke, met
in Mrs. Feitner one OF the latest type
Of women golfers. girl who plays
the game like "A man. There's Moth
ing particularly delicate about Mrs.
Feitner's golf She stands sauare!y
over the ball and takes long, free.
healthy wallop. and tho ball hies on
an average OF 200 yards from the tee.
Miss Bishop tried pluckily 10 cope
with this long distance game, but II
was too much for her on the far
holes. She did mighty well TO hold
the score TO a 3 and margin.
Mrs. Feitner. who as Miss LILLIAN
n. Hyde previously won the Met
title four times, consistently out
hits all the feminine golfers, though
she has many close competitors. Miss
Marion Holins OF Westbrook, L. l..
is another girl OF the ar-driving
type. IL was the power IN Miss Hol-
lins's shots that won the Metropoli-
tan Championship four times. She
and Mrs Feitner have been fe-long
chums and keen golf rivals, but the
present Champion's tremendous dis
tance has been the deciding factor in
| many OF their matches.
Mrs Clarence Nanderheck. the
present national title holder: Mrs.
Arnold Jackson OF Boston, Mrs Bar
low or Philadelphia and scores Of
| others play the game with surprising
| power and skill Additional recruits
are coming up all the time, like Miss
| Dolores Duncan. Miss Pauline Star
rett OF Baltusrol and Miss King OF
| Englewood
! Then a word must be said of Mrs.
W. A. Gavin, a plucky little English
star, who gave an international fea %
! ture to the Baltusrol. Mrs. Gavin
with her choice assortment OF strokes,
survived to the semi Anal round. She
was offering Il brave resistance "a
| Miss Georgianna Bishop in that round
when her ball dropped into an un-
! friendly ditch on the eighteenth
/ This misfortune so unnorVCd Mrs
Gavin that she intends to seek q
temporary retirement form the links
Nerves are the hardest bunker IN E1,i
for the women players TO overcome.
! The starting list in tho Baltusro
/ championship Mainly showed how
manN ~ 'Nc Cppo site sex were do
veloping INTO tournament uOIfprs
F.vorr one ~ N" l03 Who started thf
qualifying tost we're anxious to land
In tho chamAioushin division or ir
! oaA Of The Arss sixtssnA