The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-17
MRS.. FEITNER WINS
HER FIFTH TITLE
Metropolitan Champion Is
Victor Over Miss Bishop
in Final Round.
LITTLE BRILLIANT PLAY

SHORT HILLS. ". j.. June is.-Mrs.
Quentin =. F'eitner won tho womcn's
metropolitan golf cha mpionship for the
nth time to-day by defeating Miss
Georgianna bishop by 3 up and . to
play in the final round on the links Of
the Baltusrol Golf Club. BY gaining her
NTH victory to-day Mrs. Feitner did
what no other metropolitan woman
golfer ever did before. Miss Gencvieve
Hecker, later Mrs. Charles 7. stout.
held the title four times. in 1900, 1901.
1905 and 1905. hut Mrs. %f'eitner now
has ou,stripped that record. She gained
her first victory in 1910. repeated in
1911 and then after u lapse OF two
years ~regained her crown in 1914 and
successfully defended II last year. All
of her four previous victories vcro won
when she was Miss Lillian u. Hyde.
The runner VI to-day also has hooG
metrop rlitan champion more that once.
Miss Bishop. who was national champion
IA 1909. won the metropolitan TILE in
1905 and 1906.
1t began as though 8, would 10 a
splendid match carried right I" the last
green or perhaps beyond. fog ct the out
set Miss Bishop set tie pace and those
VINO had picked Mrs. Feitncr "a an easy
winner began to worry a littlo. They
remembered Miss Bishops victory over
Ms W. A. Gavin. the British cu,.aut.
Yesterday. and were apprehensivc hat
she might do the unexpected again to-
day.
Miss Bishop sIuWps.
A. It turned out their fears and asp
prehensions were tdrowu away. for
after a couple Of holes of good golf Miss
Bishop 'apsed into d long session %
poor play aud Mrs Feitncr. PLAYING
none too well herself. picked up "A !,ll
That carried her through to victory. ~
the match neared its end Miss bishop
began 10 play golf like a champion again.
hut the regeneration came too late t.
save her from defcat. She carried the
match To- the sixteenth green and tina,
Was ali.
The first hole was one OF the bes:
played during the match. FOR both
reached the green In three shots. MIR.
Feitner approach putt was several feet
sfort and II looked as though Miss
Bishop would win the hole. until the
champion surprised nearly every one in
the gallery by running down her trying
putt for a half in ). Neither Played the
80 'ond well. Mrs. Feitner driving into
one trap, playing ont well and then put
ting her third sho, into another. She
nfaily got out but Mss blsAop won me
hole . to 4 and WAS | up.
When sse oNerplaycd The third green
MIS- Feitner seemed doomed to los" That
hole TOO. Tor MISS Bsh"p Was on with a
sure s IN sight. AIRS feitner played a
fne shot out OF the r"usn ana then
halved te hole IN = when MISS blshop
TOOK three puts After "otA'"s 'a'u o.
get a chance for a b on the .oig i'urth
she missed another putt OF no great
'''!s'n anu 'he NAV" W." -" .'tt' =.
bot1 were buhke'ed on IN. Nun ""t
Mrs. Feitner got the better shot out and
holed a good putt, winning The hole IN
az, ,,tiry ~. load Tor ,hc Mr..
, -. -, ~
time. she made ), Wy on 'ne SN,1,
where Miss Bishop putting aeslh 'a'!'i
hooksa among some trees The seventh
a., ~. . victory .or Mrs Fei,uor IN
80 vtss Rtshon visiting two trans on
,ha 49, I'm too !, green. and 4, began
" 80 ror. ,,ke n nrore.sion than a
,na,,h
=, Looked little more so when Mrs.
ra,,,er ,ooL tho eighth in ; to and the
r,r,b IN 4 10 !. The string NJ SIX Sue
cos.iye wins left her : up AZ the turn.
,,na,rh ~, ,iayinr hrilliantly. she was
N''"'uN. ...
out III ~ I" MISS n'"''e
$685.. >s.L.. pluckx RALLY.