The Washington times., 1916-10-05
Miss ROSenthaL PLAYS
Miss Stirling Today
Feature Match In Women's National Golf Champion
ship Due At Belmont Springs-Mrs. Gavin Shows
Shows Fine Game In Defeating Mrs. Stockton.

WAVERLY. Mass, Oct. 6.-That
honorable company known as the last
eight came into being as a result OF
the playing of the second match round
of the women's National Golf Cham
pionship on the links Of the Belmont
Spring Country Club yesterday. II is
composed of two New Workers, two
Philadelphians. two Chicagoans. one
Albanian and an English woman who
at present makes her residence at Will
Jamestown in the Commonwealth. OF
Massachusetts,.
Named in the order in which they are
bracketed the eight survivors are Miss
Laurie Kaiser, Flossmoor; Mrs. Thomas
Hucknall, Forest Hill; Miss Mildred
Caverly, Philadelphia: Mrs. Caleb F.
Fox. Philadelphia; Mrs. Charles c.
Auchincloss, Piping Rock; Mrs. William
A. Gavin, Taconic: Miss Eleaine Rosen-
thai, Ravisloe, and Mrs. Alexa W. Stir
ling. Atlanta.
All ewes today are on the match be-
tween Miss Stirling and Miss Rosenthai'
for these two young stars have never
met before.
The best golf OF yesterday was
played by Mrs. Gavin. whose machine
like style overwhelmed Mrs. l.. Z.
stockton. Mrs. Gavin won the hrst
hole with a good 4. halved the second
and third after driving into bunker
and became 2 up when she won the
long fourth in to T., she TOOK three
puts on the short fifth. halving 1t
in I, but played the sixth perfectly perfectly
This victory made her up. and she
was still up at the turn, although
she lost the eighth when her third
shot up the hill to the green MT
short and rolled back almost to the
spot from which she had played 1t.
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 1t 8 up
again by capturing the thirteenth
with q L..
The fourteenth was halved In 6. and
on the fifteenth green an incident oc-
to mako trouble. In trailing her
putter behind her Mrs Gavin touched
Mrs. Stockton's ball without moving
It 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 1t in Mrs. Gavin's favor the match
pIOCeeueu. II pTOCeeueu 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 "A, 39-S3 for the round-while
Mrs. Stockton's was A, $50.
From the match play standpoint the
struggle between Miss Caverly and Mrs.
Fred c. Let's, of Cincinnati. was the
best of the day. Both are champions,
for Miss Caverly holds the Philadel-
phia title. while Mrs. Let's wears the
Western crown, and they played like
real champions In a match that was
carried to the nineteenth green.
The third big match" of the day.
! from the viewpoint of the watchers In
the gallery, was that between Miss
Stirling and Mrs. G. II. Stetson, OF
Huntingdon Valley. The latter was
generally expected to put up a good
| fight against the little Southerner but
she failed to do 80 and Miss Stirling
had no trouble in winning by up and
| 4 TO NAV.