Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-05
GOLFING WOMEN SHOW
THEIR PLUCK BY GOING
OUT TO CERTAIN DEFEAT
Seven Had Virtually No Chance of Winning, but They
Went Into Local Championship Hoping
Against Hope
By WILLIAM Fl. EVANS

HNE Of the discouragng things in
" golf or any other sport is to play
against some person with the certain
knowledge that only through miracle
can a victory be won and that was
the situation in which seven women
found themselves yesterday. women
are not so apt 10 be influenced as men
Under these conditions. Hope springs
eternal in every feminine breast, so the
seven women went to the first tee OF
the Huntingdon Valley Country CUB
where the wumen's golf championship is
being fought out this week, hoping
against hope.
An hour later the pairs began their
homeward journey. Some of these
plucky women went only as far as the
twelfth. where they stopped long enough
to shake hands with their victors. tucked
their putters away i'll their bag ana
wended their way back to the club TO
take up knitting socks for the soldlers
until it was time for luncheon. few
more fortunate ones continued on over
the course but of the brave seven VINO
went forth to almost certain defeat only
ono reached the eighteenth green and
that was Mrs. J. ". Turnbull. of White
marsh, who carried Mrs. c. II. Stetson
of the home club to that point before
sho expressed her congratulations.
Limited Corporation
This battle of tire links that is waged
yearly for the women's championship
has been this way for 10 these many
years. And so far as the championship
is concerned II IL a more or less or n
tight corporation with very limited
membership. Between them Mrs Ron
aid II. Barlow, of Merton. and Mrs.
Caleb F. Fox have won eleven chare
pionships and the others have been we'll
scattered. Even as fine player as
Miss Mildred Caverly has won the tit,e
but once Mrs Clarence II. Fanderbeck.
of whom Chick Evans has said that she
has the best golfng form of any woman
in this country, Is one of the two women
who have won the national title. but she
has never been able to win the local
championship.
Year after year It has been toss-up
whether Mrs. Barlow. Mrs Fox, Mrs
Vanderbeck or Miss Caverly would win
the title. Fourteen other women were
in the chase. but few of them ever
reached the sem!finals. Miss Eleanor
Chandler dld last year ana ueied'eu
Miss Caverly. but in the final match she
was easily beaten by Mrs. Fox. Mrs
| G. s Munson and Mrs. G II Stetsor
| have come rapidly to the fore In tho
past two or three years so that the quar-
| tet is no longer intact, as Mrs Van
derbeck is playing no competitive gol'
| this year.
Five in the Struggle
The struggle this week will be bs
tween five women unless there is SOM
unexpected upset, and these five are Mrs
Barlow. Mrs. Fox. Miss Caverly, Mrs
Stetson and Mrs Munson. And a
least one of these will be eliminated to
day, for Mrs Barlow and Mis-. Munsoi
are drawn together.
One thing is apparent and that Is tn
women are improving each year, and |
is only a matter of a few years wheI
Il will be impossible to say that on
or two or three women are superior Il
the rest of the women golfers of Phil
| adelphia And It might follow tina
i some one Of the eight women playini
today who- no one Is really figuring a
: possibility may WIN the city titfe .ol
Friday, Golf u Z nQak uncerfatn -