The sun., 1916-10-05
Mrs. Hucknall and Mrs. Au.
chincloss Win Way to Last
Eight in National Event.
MRS. GAVIN CONTINUES
TO PLAY FINE GAME


into being a. a result Of the play
Ing Of the second match round Of the
women's National Golf Championship on
links OF the Belmont Spring Country
Club to-day. 1t IL composed Of two New
Workers., two Philadelphians. " Chi
C agoans. one Albanian and an English
who at present makes her resi-
dencs At williamstown In the Common
Of Massachusetts.
Named In the order in which they are
b~racketed the eight survivors are Miss
Laurie Kaiser, Flossmoor Mrs. Thomas
Hucknall. Forest Hill Miss Mildred
Caverly, Philadelphia Mrs. Caleb +.
Fox. Philadelphia Mrs. Charles e.
Auchincloss. Piping Rock Mrs. William
A. Gavin. Taconic Miss Eleaine Rosen-
thai. Ravisloe. and Miss Alexa W. Stir
ling. Atlanta.
As was the case yesterday. the best
golf OF the day was played by Mrs.
Gavin. She had ~ her opponent Mrs.
L. {. Stockton. the conqueror OF Miss
Marion Hollins. and realizing that she
a another hard match on her hands
the Eastern champion lost no time In
settling down to the machinelike golf
that Ia her greatest asset.
Mrs. Gavin Takes First Hole.
She won the first hole with a good
Z, halved the second and the third after
driving into . bunker and became 3 up
when she won the long fourth in 9 to 7.
She took three puts on III short NTH.
halving II In I, but played the sixth per-
fectly. getting a I and winning the hole.
This victory made her 3 up and she was
still 3 UP at the turn. although she lost
the eighth when her third shot UP the
hill TO the green hit short and rolled
back almost to the spot from which
she had played II. Despite a Z on the
eighth she was out In a.. excellent golf.
Mrs. Stockton won the tenth with a
4 when Mrs. Gavin was trapped. but the
Eastern champion made It 3 up again
by capturing the thirteenth with a 4.
The fourteenth wal halved In S. and on
the fifteenth green an Incident occurred
which for a time threatened to make
trouble. In trailing her putter behind
her Mrs. Gavin touched Mrs. Stockton's
ball without moving IL and the latter
thereupon claimed the hole.
After considerable discussion the mat
ter was referred to NJ. Lewis Crosby Of
the executive committee OF the United
States Golf Association. and when he
ruled II In Mrs. Gavin's favor the match
proceeded. 1t proceeded just one hole.
however. for Mrs. Gavin made her 3 on
the short sixteenth. and by so doing won
both hole and match. They played out
the bye holes. Mrs. Gavin getting a score
OF ~. 3?-s3 for the round. while Mrs.
Stockton's was ~. <2-s9.
Two Champion Meet.
From The match play standpoint the
struggle between Miss Caverly and Mrs.
Fred c. Let's Of Cincinnati was the best
Ntss ca,. rou' 49, ~,
title. while Mrs. Let's wears the West
ern crown, and they played like real
champions 'o-day In a match that was
carried to the nineteenth green.
Miss Caverly began as though she In
tended to end the match In short order
and after winning the first hole with a
4 placed the second to her credit also by
chipping up to within a foot OF the pin
after overdriving the green. She halved
the third in 5. but on the long fourth
got into all sorts OF difficulties. and the
little Western champion had no trouble
In winning the hole In 6 to I. Miss Cav
erly made 1t 2 up again with a well
played 4 at the sixth. but lost the next
two. and the match was all square for
the first time. They halved the ninth
and turned for home on even terms, Mis-:
Caverly being out in 43 and Mrs. Let's
In -.
1t was the same stubborn kind OF igh'
coming in, beginning with two halveC
holes. Miss Caverly finally taking thu
lead again with "A 4 on the twelfth. Their
followed two more halved holes. and OF
shots to the green, winning the hole II
: 10 D ana auar'hs inc """" ~"
hore'
Mia. C.v.rlx r.lter..
They halved the snort sixteenth IN :
and on the seventeenth MISS CaNerly
courage seemed to desert her. sh'
played the hole miserably af'er beginn'n'
II with a good drive. and II was an cas-!
matter for Mrs, Let's to win In 3 to
and place herself in the comfortable po
sition OF being dormie with only one holt
left.
As ~ she realized her foolishness II
,hrowIno away the seventeenth, Mis-
Caverly played the home hole In IRE
nroacha bic s,yIe. Two good shots pu
nor on tho green and she finished b,
ho,,np n four foot nut, for a 4 afte
49,. 49, haa sunk a slx footer for
M's, 50 nj, Nod n 90, that mutt I,
~ no cana 60 she got n.
say ~ vas a rather lucky AZ
var,y Her drive wa
ia'. y saar,ad destined for n,
pau!y s"e.u 80, g., the rouyh I'm
UNPLEASANT ioon'"e ~. hacL I'M,
vi IL nv d ro'n -, ~, har n,
the fairwa'. ~. hole an,
the NJ. a,ts took three putts
match when MIS- Le''S 'ooN '' '
r..x y,ctor.
Miss st'riihs E"A' '
Tbs third "b!g match Of the day
from the viewpoint OF the watchers Il
~. ,,o,iar, uaa that net WecQ MISS SUI