The sun., 1919-03-25
MISS FOWNES BEATS
MRS. HURD BY 1 UP
First Match Round for Pine.
hurst North and South
Title Exciting.
Special Dssnoteb 10 T1r sur.

PfNEHuRsr. N G.. March 24.--At tho
end Of one OF the most exciting and hard
fought matches that have been played
here In long time Miss Sarah Fowres
of the Oakmont Club defeated Mrs.
Dorothy Campbell Hurd. the North and
South Champion, by 1 up to-day in the
first match round OF the North and South
tournament for women.
Miss Fownes started by winning the
first hole In par. but played the second
poorly. lost the third to Mrs. Hurd's par
4. and won the fourth with a par I OF
her own. The NTH was halved, the best
ball Of the two players being one stroke
over par at that stage and the score
all even.
Mrs. Hurd then won the sixth, but lest
the next three In succession, the ninth
going to Miss Fownes when she evaded
a partial stymie and sank the putt for
a remarkably fine three. This made
Miss Fownes up at the turn, where
both arrived in +6.
Mrs. Hurd Three Down.
Coming IN Mrs. Hurd>took the tenth In
par. but lost the next two holes and was
then . down. The thirteenth went to
Mrs. Hurd and the long fourteenth was
won by Miss Fownes IN par &. The
North and South champion. who was
then down with only four holes stili TO
play, won the fifteenth and sixteenth
and would have squared the match at
the seventeenth save for a fine recovery
by Miss Fownes from a trap into which
she had driven In n daring attempt to
reach the green. The hole was halved
In fours and Mrs. Hurd was still down
on the way to the eighteenth,
Miss Fownes was a long way from
the eighteenth green on her third but
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cup. Mrs Hurd. who was near the edge
Of the green In three. tried for a win.
and although her ball stopped a few
inches short OF the cup II came to rest
in the line OF Miss Fownes's putt and
made an almost perfect stymie
Part OF the gallery had already moved
over toward the nineteenth tee, antiei-
pating an extra hole match, when -
great burst OF applause announced the
fact that Miss Fownes had evaded tho
difficulty and sunk the dinicult putt for
halve, thus winning the match by
up. The cards:
Mrs, Hurd, out. 8 ) SSSIY6 f-ts
M M.' H hS~h' ln, IN: aSS9Sssss Gts-Si
Miss Fownes will be opposed by her
cousin. Mrs. NJ J. Scammell of Pittsburg
and the Baltimore Country Club, in to-
morrow's semi-finals. Mrs. Scammell
played against Mrs. John d. Chapman
of Greenwich to-day and won by / UP
on the home green.
stymie Winning Feature.
The match was all even at the turn.
tho winning factors being a stymis
which deprived Mrs Chapman Of . win
at the thirteenth and putt by Mrs
Scamnell from of the green for q win
vi
| qualified I strokes ahead Of Mrs. Scam
nell on Saturday.
There were no surprises In the lower
! brackets. Miss Elaine V. Rosenthal. the
Western champion. and Mrs. J. r. Price
OF the Oakmont Club both went out IN as
in their match and Miss Rosenthal led
by up at the turn despite a birdie 8 To
the credit OF Mira Price on the fourth
and another on the ninth,
The Western champion was 80 for ths
iltst eight holes. but took n ON the
ninth, whore she drove into the wood
lands Coming In Miss Rosenthal was
still up going to the sixteenth and won
the match thereby. 3 and 2.
Mrs. Ronald Fl. Barlow OF Philndel-
phia. who will meet Miss Rosenthal to-
morrow, went out In 90 against Mrs
Myra Helmer Pritchard, a former West
ern champion. and won by up and . TO
play.
The summary:
Championship Elsht--Mrs NJ. J. Scam
nell, Baltimore, beat Mrs. J. n. Chapman
Greenwich, up; Miss Sarah Fownes. Oak
mont, beat Mrs J. V. Hugd. Westmore-
land, up; Miss Elaine Y. Rosenthal.
Ravsloe, heat Mrs, ]. r. Price. tOakmont
3 and 2; Mrs, r, II, Barlow. Merton, bsst
Mrs. J. $. Prltchard. Midlothian, 4 and 3.
second Fight--Mrs. William West Hunt
ingdon Valley, beat Mrs. J n. Hathaway,
Kanawanki, Montreal, 5 and !; Mrs, H.
H. Rackham, Detroit won from Miss
Eleanor T, Chandler. philadelphia, by de-
fault; Mrs. A. J. Harris JanesvtiIe. beat
Miss Ka,hryn l. Bomann. plainneld,
beat Mrs :. ., Armstrong. Bunaio.
and {"
-h,r4 Eight y Mrs. Eberhard Fab.r.
Eng ewocf. won from Miss Louise y. e.
Sins oakmout, hv default; Mrs Donald
pqrson, Youngstown. beat Mrs. p. II. ware.
Whitemarsh, and .; Mrs. J. p. Doyle,
North H!.ls, beat Mrs. I. I: Adams Phila.
dclph'a. up Mrs W Turrbull white
wnrsh. hHnt Mrs. @. r, Vehe'acker. Hack
snsaCk. ana 2