The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-30

Thursday afternoon at the home of
the Misses Kiedaisch. They will be
assisted by Mrs. Lindner, Mrs. Duer-
kop. Misses Writ and Schard.
How Much Golf is Good for Women!
Frances Hooper, writing in the Chi
cago Herald on the above subject, dis
cusses the women's western cham
pions, and, in connection, mentions
the fact that Mrs. Let's may be able
to come back next year. A part of
her article appears below:
I'm this western tournament at
Grand Rapids neither of the finalists
were ex-champions or titleholders.
They were very evenly paired and put
up thoroughly interesting match.
Miss Laurie Kaiser of Flossmoor, the
runner-up, had made the low score Of
the tournament, 80; record-breaker
since the Kent links have Deen
changed. Such score called for a
par excellent player. The Kent links
are a championship test for man.
To be runner-up Miss Kaiser just
made 95, the lowest medal qualifying
score. Then she had to defeat Mrs.
Melvin Jones of Glen Oak, Chicago
city champion; Miss Louise Fergus of
NAShfiOWs WIN put 4uIo.
out; Miss Vera Gardiner of Glen Oak,
the promising neophyte who put out
Miss Marjorie Edwards and gave the
golf world a sudden start.
Mrs. f. G. Let's, Jr., of Cincin-
natl, the champion formerly Dorothy
Dodd, who gave much promise last
year at Midlothian), qualified in So and
then, in turn, had to defeat Miss
Ethel Chatfield of Kishwaukee, in a
hard, uphill game OF twenty holes;
Mrs. w. France Anderson, western
champion, 108, who turned in second
low qualifying score of 90; Miss
Elaine Rosenthal, the western cham
pion for 1915, who is playing better
golf than ever, and Miss Laurie
Kaiser
Both Mrs. Let's and Miss Kaiser
had had hard matches, Mrs. Let's
perhaps the hardest, but Miss Kaiser
had been setting records as well as
playing matches. When they came
up against each other neither of them
was playing her best. The wear and
strain of the week showed more in
Miss Kaiser's game, but now and
then in Mrs. Let's especially when
she, the accurate, almost infallible
putter, missed one or two of the puts
which the day before she would have
sunk into the cup as straight and
sure as dart. The weeks hard
matches told on the players. Next
year will Mrs. Let's be so expert
enced' and feel the added strain of
the titleholder that she will not be
able to keep her title, or will she play
a game of golf psychology with her
self this winter, and when the next
western tournament comes win again?
With all that has been said to
show that golf under condition is
not good thing for women, it will
have to be admitted that a healthier
set of women than these tournament
golfers as a whole would be hard to
find. The point is that big tourna-
mer IS do not come every week, and
this overstrain even then only comes
to the experienced and the poor old
titleholders. Women have a tendency,
however, to take their golf and their
matches too seriously and to become
too easily discouraged and worried by
their game. If golf in itself were not
the healthiest, most wholesome sort
of game the golfers would not be
able to bear this golf strain, which
most of the players have, but which
is absolutely unnecessary! Learn to
play the game the right way-and the
right way is without strain or tour
nament nerves or golf nerves, or
whatever it is in playing the game
that annoys you"