Evening star., 1916-11-25
MRS. Mann WINS FINAL
Defeats Mrs. Cameron, 81, for Nc
Cannon Cup Over Chevy Chase
Club Course.

Mrs I. T. Mann yesterday won the
cup presented to the Chevy Chase Club
by Mrs. Ormsby McCammon. defeating
in the final Mrs. l.. O. Cameron, IL
The final match was played in a gale
of wind and the golf was poor
throughout Mrs. Mann won the first
hole and then lost the next three. She
won the fifth hole with s, won the
sixth with a stroke allowance. and the
seventh when Mrs. Cameron missed a
four-foot putt for a half, putting Mrs.
Mann / up. but she misplayed the long
eighth hole and Mrs. Cameron won 1t
with to square the. match The
ninth was haIved and the players were
all square at the turn
Mrs. Cameron got into a bad lie up
against the bank of the bunker short
of the tenth green. and lost the hole
to S. She won the eleventh to square
the match, but got in another bad lie
in the bunker in front of the twelfth
green and lost. The thirteenth was
halved. and both players had hard
time on the fourteenth. Mrs Cameron
topped four shots short of the ditch.
and then put her ball in the hazard.
Mrs Mann was in the same trap one
shot less than her opponent and won
the hole. Both players were on the
fifteenth green in six shots but MIS-
Cameron was down in two puts:
while her opponent was done in z, ana
Mrs. Cameron won the mole ana again
.suyared the match.
Mrs. Mann won the sixteenth hoie
with the last stroke allowed her and
became 1 UP and to play Both were
JrJSf M
-teenth green. but Mrs Cameron top
ped her mashie shot into a ditch to the
right of the green and, falling to get
out IN two shots and with Mrs. Mann
dead to the hole. conceded the match
The United States Golf Association
has decided to allow the professionals
TO PICK their course for the next open
championship of the association II
was learned yesterday that the Profes-
-sienal Golfers Association has been
asked to select at least three courses
for the national title event of 1916 and
submit the list to the delegates at the
annual meeting of the L. $. c. A IN
~New York city in January. 1t rests il
the hands of the delegates to TIE meet.
Ing TO choose the course over which
the championship will be played. ac
-coryiine to The constitution of the gov
erning body. but il is understood tha
II the pros evince a desire for any
-particuiar course, At will be given pref
selected to consent TO hold the tourne!
viii be left to the executive committed
of the L. s. c. A. and the professionals
-ulsgelv will submit their list and ex-
press their preference. Brae Burn ant
Fox Hills already have announced thai
they are anxious to hold the tourney
ard both clubs find favor with the pros
Robert Hunter of Weeburn, Conn.
and Donald Parsons of Youngstown
Ohio. Will meet today in the thirty six
hol~ final round of the annual autumn
golf tournament at Pinehurst- Hunter
defeated d +. Kingsley of New York
s-3. and Parsons disposed of Frank
lin Gates OF Broadacres. 2-1.
Howard r. Whitney. secretary of the
T."S. G. A.. Won the championship ol
the Piping Rock Club yesterday, de.
feat'nr in the final round F. T. Ere.
'finrhuyseE. G-J.
~Fhree of the five women DESIGNATED
by the L. S. G. A to select a cours
-esieable for the holding of the woman
natioaal championship. will meet il
S~w York December > 20 consider thu
Offers already made. Miss Alexa Stir
1irg. one OF the five women appointed
prbsah!y will not come to New York
but will send her vote by mail.