Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-13
SHAWNEE BEGINS
ANNUAL TOURNEY
All Leading Women Golfers
From Here and New York
Start Play Today
AN ALL STAR CA IT

The golf fight now shifts TO Shawnee,
where the feminine followers of the ancient
game are playing in the qualifying round
of tho annual invitation tournament today
Shawnee has become the mecca Of golfers
during tho northern season and many play
ers call tho river resort course the Penn
sylvania Pinehurst" Whether it can COM
pare with the big Carolina golf garden or
not is an open question, but at all events the
tournaments staged by tho hotel folks are
popular and probably attract more OF our
local golfers than any other resort links.
The women flock TO Shawnee and today
the list Of starters in the qualifying round
of the annual fixture is bigger and better
than ever All OF the highlights in Phlia"
delphla's list of feminine players have been
given starting times and they will meet with
some active competition at the hands OF
many of the better players from Gotham,
Mrs Ronald II. Barlow Miss Mildred
Caverly, Mrs. Caleb T.. Fox, Mrs G.. Henry
Stetson and many others from this far city
are in tho medal race, The list OF PhLa-
delphia delegates in the competition bears
a close resemblance to the first flight for
tho city championship.
Other Stars
Mrs. Quentin F. Fetner, Metropolitan
champion; Mrs, william A. Gavin, semi
finalist in the Nationals, and other players
from the New York section are on the
starting list.
Mrs. Barlow is very enthusiastic about
Shawnee. The former Philadelphia cham
plon is so keen about the course that she
usually leads the field in all of their tour
naments Last year she won tho medal,
tournament. and then with Richard Hanson
as a partner, came in with the low gross
score for the mixed foursOme event. Mrs,
Barlows win in 1915 was repeat as she
easily carried off the classic the year be-
fore.
The contestants are making the present
tournament serve as n trial test for their
efforts in October when they will once more
meet at the resort links to play in the Ma
tionals Whether the championship Will be
awarded or not is on open question ana
there have been numerous contrary re-
ports regarding the matter Regardless
OF the passing Of the title there will he
great turnout for the event in october, and
many of the women who are playing In the
nresent tournament are tuning up for the
greater event Of the future.
Big Problem
lust why the three big events in the he
golfers schedule should be squeezed into
| one week is a problem. The present week
| Is an open one in the matter of golf tourna-
| ments for tho men, while from Monday until
| Saturday Of next week there will be con-
| tinuous, conflicting mass Of events to at
| tract tho players.
| Monday opens tho Lynnewood Hall at
| Huntingdon Valley, and the first day or
| the National Open at Whitemarsh clashes
| with the wind-up Of the big amateur event
| Then, on Thursday. the second day Of the
Open, the fourth annual junior meeting will
| be launched at the Country Club. Three
| big Journeys all horned into six days will
| probably be responsible for frost bites, and
| the attendance Of one or two of them will
suffer. There are golfers in this district
| eligible for both tho Lynnewood Hall, the
| Open and the Junior, and many of the crack
| amateurs that have passed the Junior dead
line would like to play in the Open. What
ever results, there is sure TO be great
quantity of competitive golf spilled in thi;
district during the coming week.