The sun., 1919-10-03
MRS. VANDERBECK
WINS GOLF MATCH
Defeats Mrs. Barlow, 1 Up, in
Feature of National
Title Tourney.
MRS. GAVIN A VICTOR
Scores Over Mrs. Byfield, 6 and
5, on Shawnee Links
Semi-finals To-day.
MRS. GAVIN A VICTOR
by INNS BROWN.
Special Despatch, TO The Sun.

SHAWNEE ON DELAWARE, Oct g.
The turn Of affairs in the third round
of the women's national golf champion
shin tournament here to-day left the
stage set for a revival of probably tho
most noted match recorded in the annals
OF the event. A little more than four
years ago Miss Alexa Stirling of At
ianta and Mrs. Clarence II. vanderbeck
of Philadelphia fought prolonged
struggle through twenty-five holes be-
fore the Philadelphia woman got a de-
cision over her youthful opponent from
Dixie.
In that eventful match on the links
Of the Onwentsia Club of Chicago the
two met in the semi-final round. To-
morrow wthe same two are entered for
battle In the upper half of the bracket
in the semi-final of the current tourna-
ment It is the first time they have
met in tournament pay since their Chi
cago battle Since that former meeting
Miss Stirling has won the championship.
Mrs. Vanderbeck was not in the field
when she won in 1916
In the former meeting Mrs. Wander
beck was the choice to win and carried
through true to form, but only after
the longest match ever played in the
women's championship. Tomorrow, IL
there is preference either way, It win
lie with Miss Stirling. With the latter
holding the championship the burden of
proof will be up to Mrs Vanderbeck
Her case would appear to demand a deaf
Of substantiatory evidence. Mrs. w. A.
Gavin, South Shore. plays Miss Irene
Peacock, Thousand Islands, In the other
match.
To-day's round wrought considerable
devastation in the ranks of the PhiladeI-
phia players who held over from the sec
ond round In this blasting OF Philadel-
phia hopes Miss Stirling elaborated
successfully with Mrs. Vanderbeck.
leaving the latter as the final standard
bearer of the Quakeress representatives.
Miss Stirling Wins Easily. A.,
In prolonging her march toward n re-
newal OF her claim on the crown Miss
Stirling took a fairly easy victory over
Mrs G. Henry Stetson of Huntington
Valley. But Mrs. Vanderbeck encoun-
tetsd full days work in nosing out
MN Ronald H. Barlow of Merton for a
place in the semi-final round In the
racing parlance the Philadelphia Cricket
Club entry came over a winner by the
proverbial eyelash.
An adverse finish on the eighteenth
hole prevented Mrs. Barlow from having
her praises sung in the resonant tones
that hailed the brilliant winning rally of
Mrs W. a Gavin in her match With Miss
Mildred Caverley on Wednesday. Fin
ishing the ninth hole, Mrs Barlow found
herself five down as did Mrs Gavin on
the previous day. She came strong, du-
plicating the South Shore players per-
formance, to square the match by the
tlme the two came to the squirt through
me stretch on the last three holes But
the verdict went against her by the
very narrowest of margins on the
eighteenth green. SOS
Mrs. Nanderbeck played a brand of
golf but seldom displayed by women
golfers in the first nine holes of the
match. She hustled along to the half
way mark with the very compact total
of Al strokes. Her work on the second
hole, which she lost. was open to criti-
cisn1, but otherwise there was little room
for fault finding. They halved the first
In 4. Mrs. Vanderbeck was short all the
way along going to the second, taking
TO reach the green. and lost with her 6.
Thereafter Mrs. Barlow didn't win a
hole on the first half of the triaA
Three puts ran Mrs. Barlow's total
TO on the third Mrs. Vanderbeck
holed a fifteen foot putt to win with a
par 4'on the fourth. She got the next in
when Mrs. Barlow fell short OF the
par 5. Mrs. Vanderbeck then divided
the next three with par in 4. and g..
winning each.
Mrs. Barlow Starts Rally.
Taking the turn Mrs. Barlow began
her rally. Mrs Vanderbeck was short
right from the tee to the green on the
tenth taking to get on. Mrs. Barlow.
Just off the edge IN 5, Clipped on and
holed a single putt to win. The second
was split in s. The short twelfth went
10 Mrs. Barlow easily when she pitched
TO the green and hold a five footer for
her 2
Luck played a prominent part in
handing the thirteenth to Mrs. Barlow.
Both took three 70 reach the green.
Mrs. Vanderbeck's approach putt stopped
a yard from the hole. Mrs. Barlow's
effort was badly directed, but hit her
opponents ball and carromed in for a
winning 4. A bunkered second caused
Mrs, Vanderbeck to take four to reach
the fourteenth green and she lost and
!. She dropped the fifteenth by the
same score. Both played feebly through
the fairway, taking four to get on. Mrs.
Barlow ran down an eight foot putt to
win.
They were then even The sixteenth
across the river netted no advantage
"hen both drove the green and holed
par 3s Both needed four to reach the
seventeenth green. and 1t was halved in
o. Then came the finish. Both were
snort TO the left with their tee shots,
with Mrs. Vanderbeck away. Her pitch
shot stopped two feet short of the green.
mrs Barlow was no more than a foot
nearer, the two balls lying within two
teet OF each other. Mrs. VanderbeclS
chipped two feet past the cup. Mrs
Barlow was a bit timld and stopped four
ieet short. She failed to get her putt
the ball stopping on the very edge OF
the cup. Mrs. vanderbeck sank hers
Tor a win,
Their cards follow:
mrs Ysnderbeck. out 4654554s5-41
AIRS Barlow, out. ...4 65e55 $500
MSrs' yanderbeck. in..6 6636 4--45-ss
Afs' Barlow, in.....5 5245536 5-4O-St
Miss Stirling Takes Lead.
Miss Stirling took the lead at the
sixth hole in her match with Mrs. Stet.
son and went on TO and victory
On the earlier holes they had snapped
wins on the first and third by counts OF
and Q, and on the fourth and NTH 4 and
o. Miss Stirling had a six foot putt for
on the sixth, when Mrs. Stetson con-
Seded the hole after having played 8
me next two were halved; then Miss
surfing got the ninth with par 5, to
turn up.
-, She made 1t by taking the eleventh