Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-16
Miss Stirling Here.
Rain Calls Off Golf
Tourney-First Time
in Years
Nv SANDY McNIBLICK

DI.AsHING Of cymbals and others sounds
" will greet the official curtain raising
next Tuesday on the opening Of the
women's fall golf tournament schedule. The
classic Bertheilyn tournament at Hunting
don Valley. the biggest feminine event on
the local schedule, is the start-of tourney,
and events continue after that till late In
October.
Special interest Is attached TO the Ber-
thellyn matches this year for the reason
that Mrs Clarence II. Vanderbeck Is en-
tered and. though she has almost definitely
decided not to defend her title this year as
womens national champion. It may be that
she will change her mind, provided she Is
able to go through the weeks play without
a furry
Her most notable opponent in the series
will be Miss Alexa w. Stirling, the sensa-
tional young lady Of seventeen summers
who halls from Atlanta. that kindergarten
of young golf wizards. which showed Bobby
Jones and Perry Adair to the world in the
national last week at Merton.
Miss Stirling is the southern champion
and her chances in the national this year
are given great boost all over the country
In Semifinal
Last year she carried Mrs. Vanderbeck to
the twenty second hole before she would
agree to being ousted in the semifnals of
even better than last year The tourney
will be much In the way of a tryout for
the feminine players hereabouts who have
thoughts of entering the national.
There are about dozen women in the
city entirely capable OF qualifying in the
national and II their golf encourages them
next week il is likely that most of the Phil
adephia eligbles will be In Boston at the
starting tee when this years title play IS
put on.
There will be three sixteens in the Ber-
thellyn cup matches, and already the entry
list is well over fifty. All of these play
golf well enough to qualify, and, there
ought to be a great struggle to enter the
first flight. The rain puts Huntingdon
Valley IN great shape for the play. Among
the out-of-town players who have a good
chance is Miss Louisa Wells. of Boston
She played on the Boston team in the
Griscom cup matches.
The play starts Tuesday. After the quail
flying round there will be driving and ap-
preaching contests On Friday there will
be mixed foursomes in the afternoon. and
they always bring out very fast field.
Rain Comes Merrily
For the first time in years hereabouts
golf play has been called off on account of
rain Francis b. Warner secretary of the
Golf Association of Philadelphia, and chair
man of the committee in charge of the an
nual invitation tourney at the Philadelphia
Cricket Club, squeezed into corner of the
straw-covered stand az the starting tee yes
terday to keep out of the driving rain. held
up his hand and called off the play
The course was flooded. 1t was the only
reasonable thing to do A bevy of water
logged golfers, the water oozing from their
shoes, their sopping hair hanging over their
eyes, gave vent TO moist and solemn cheer
and then broke for the locker rooms.
Back in 1911 or thereabouts the Penn
sylvania championship was called off at
Whitemarsh when the course was flooded
so badly that it is said the players had to
carry their clothes over their heads and
swim for their lives. An invitation tourney
was once postponed at Shawnee, when the