Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-12
RED CROSS GOLF
FINE EXHIBITION
Mrs. Barlow and Miss Stir.
ling With Adair and Mars.
ton the Stars
$4,000 FUND IS RAISED
By WILLIAM Fl. EVANS

II you did not happen to be one of
the gallery that followed the Red
Cross matches at the PHILADELPHIA
Cricket Club Saturday afternoon you
missed a lot. for one of them went to
! the nineteenth hole, and it was not until
the seventeenth that the other was de-
clded The three southern youngsters
ana Chlcagos best woman player were
| the guests of the city, and 1t would not
| nave been courteous for the Philadelphia
| teams to have won both. As you are
probably aware, Mrs. Ronald H. Barlow
ana Max Marston, after being down most
of the time, took Miss Elaine Rosenthal
| and Perry Adair to the nineteenth hole
and there the Phiiadelphians won the
| match. Miss AleXa Stirling and Bobby
Jones won their match against Miss Mil
dred Caverly and Cameron B. Burton
on the seventeenth hole.
Adair's Fine Work
Buxton was the only one of the four
men to be more than 80, but in fairness
to the popular Philadelphia champion it
should be said that he is suffering from
| stubborn attack of lumbago, but it
affected his play on the greens more
than from the tee and through the
green. Perry Adair shot the most spec
tacular golf of the day and in view of
| the fact that he never saw the course
before. his first round of 35, one under
fours and two under par. was a par
ticularly fine exhibition. Had 1t not
been for mussng up the tenth he would
have been easily in the low seventies
Marston was not feeling at all well
when he left the first tee and it took
him five holes before he hit his stride.
His home journey, was SO, which was
the best total for the last nine. Mars
ton was having all sorts of trouble, not
only on the tee but on the green. but
later he showed what fine golfer he is
by splendid scoring.
Mrs. Barlow's Superb Golf
There is no doubt that Mrs Barlow
played the best golf Of the women
players. In the earlier part of the match
| she prevented the score from mounting
| by her superb play and her total Of 81
is probably the best score ever made by
a woman player in actual competition on
the st. Martins course
The outstanding feature Of Miss Stir
ling's play was her fine work with the
wood No longer driver of her sex has
ever been seen in this city, and the man
ner in which she makes her tee shots is
| a pleasure to behold Time and time
again she was even with the men, and
there were occasions when her tee shots
were longer.
Miss Caverly may have been affected
by the champions long drives and she
seemed to be pressing with her wood, but
the rest OF her game was good. 1t is
rather disconcerting to be playing in the
same match with such a long hitter as
Miss Stirling.
BOBBY Jones was as great an attrac-
ton as ever, and while he is older, he Is
the same irrepressible youngster who
created such a sensation here at the ma
| tional two years ago. Miss Rosenthal
did some fine work from the tees, but
most OF her troubles were on the greens
She seems to top her puts and they
bumped over the greens. The greens
were slow, and in most of the cases the
players were short on their approach
puts. ~