The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-30
MRS. GAVIN AND
MISSSTIRLING IN
TIEATSHAWNEE
Divide Honors in Qualify
ing Round of Women's
: Golf Tourney.
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No Favorites Scheduled to
a. Meet in First Round of
Match Play.
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80 BY INNS BROWN.
!sHAwNEE, Pa, Sept. 2e.--In the par
lance Of the race track, the toplfners
IN = the ranks of women golfers OF
,he. country ran true to form yester-
cay in the qualifying round for the
t,venty-third national championship on
the course OF the Shawnee Country Club.
After eighteen holes Of play, Miss Alexa
Stirling of Atlanta, the present cham
pion, and Mrs. w. A. Gavin, South Shore.
regarded as one of the real tough prob
lens for tho Atlanta miss to solve in
holding her title for another year, I'm
isfed on even terms with 81 each That
score was the best of the day.
Following closely in the wake OF this
raft came a retinue OF other good ones.
fofmer champions and near champions
N<A. Ronald H Barlow of Merton
Cricket Club, Philadelphia, who has
been knocking at the door to the
throne on more than one occasion, pulled
in with SO. Miss Elaine Rosenthal. an
other runner up in the past, chalked up
90. Just above her were two more or
less newcomers in the ranks of the top
ndtchers. Miss Elizabeth Gordon OF
Providence, member of a golfing family.
which include two or three brothers of
the professional clan, handed in 80.
Miss Edith Cummings of Onwentsia also
scored 80.
Failing in slightly behind this group
came such an array as Miss Marion Hol-
Inns, Westbrook; Mrs. Quentin Feitner,
South Shore Mrs, f. c. Let's, Jr., In
dian Hill, and Miss Mildred Caverley,
Philadelphia Cricket Club. Each of this
quartet has figured largely in former
tournaments, three of the four having
been runners-up. Each reported in with
% yesterday.
q Young, Players Score Well.
sTwo OF the younger players figured
well up after the above group. They are
Miss Glenna Collette of Providence, one
of abe youngest players in the big field.
Thb Rhode Island miss brought hons q
fine performance with a SO. Miss Bea-
trice Lounsbery of Bedford was but one
stroke behind her. They had a good
wide margin over quite a number OF
the older and more experienced players
Mrs Caleb F. Fox, Huntington Valley,
aand Miss Fanny Osgood, Brookline. two
familiar tournament figures, each had
a., Mrs. Thomas Hucknall, Forest Hills
scored -.
Mrs. II. A. jackson of Chicago, who
won the tournament at Nassau in 1914
played her round in 95. Mrs. c. II. Van
derbeck, Philadelphia Cricket Club, title
holder in 1915, scored e6. The showing
of Mrs Perry Fisk of Kishwaukee was
something of a surprise. The recently
crowned Western champion could do nc
better than 100 and missed qualifying
by a considerable margin. Mrs d. G.
Gaut, Memphis. former Southern
champion, took los.
nf n dx-in a
start in her round with bird on the
FIRST hole. She ran down a twenty-five
foot putt after dropping her second or
the green. She took five on the second
due chiefly to a sliced iron second shot
to- the rough. On the third, which IL
40 yards long, she sliced a brassie sec.
ond to the rough, and could do no better
than G. On the next she avoided a slice
only to fall victim OF hook that carried
her into a stream of water, and she tool
another six. On the short eighth the
champion dropped her tee shot on the
green, but took three puts holing ou
In 4.
Miss Stirling Hits Stride.
Turning for home Miss Stirling settled
down to a display of fine golf. She
failed to get home in two on the eleventh
and took for the hole. The next three
she halved with par, making no mis-
takes. At the fifteenth her second found
q trap guarding the green, and she tool
another 8. On the sixteenth, across tn,
stream. she avoided the mistake of man,
in. being short. In fact, she was owe
the green into the rough, but Clipped
on and scored 4. The long seventeenth
cost her 6. due chiefly to the fact tina
her brassie second landed in a trap anl
she needed four to reach the green.
Here Is her card:
Out. 6 5 SIS &c
H.. 8 6 4-41-S
Mrs. Gavin started out nicely will
par As on the first two holes But on thu
third her second landed her in troubl,
and she needed six to score. The fourtl
and nth were hoied in IS, the distance
being too great for her TO reach tn
green in two. She counted a par OIL
the sixth. and did the $40 yard seventh
iu<4. She failed to hold the green oil
the short eighth. and took another
there. Her second found the rough a
the ninth, and she took 6.
ON the return half she played YER
ane golf except for the tenth. This hol
is SOS yards long. Her second sho
'anded in a trap, and her third was GU
into another. By the time she ha
overcome these difficulties along tn
route to the green she had run her tots
to six strokes. The hole finally cos
her 8. From then on she managed :
keep a fair pace with par, finishing
with a fine s on the home hole.
Her card follows:
out............,.4 tes5B ia
In.............s 5 643 8-44-S
Mrs. Barlow encountered most Of he
difficulties on the first nine holes. Sh
took the first with a par 4, and was bu
one over at the second with 5. But tn
next five proved tough tests for her. Sh
took IS on four Of them and ran to
on the other of the quintet. She ha
the eighth in a par and scored a Dir
on the ninth. Tho tenth proved al
most as disastrous for her as 1t did 70
JrF. Gavin. She needed z.
Here Is her card:
Out. 6s63 4-47
InA..............7 s 8 3 Is 4-42-S
sixteenth Hole Troublesome.
THE sixteenth hole across the Binnle
kill proved a troublesome proposition