Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-29
Miss May Bell Likely to Prore
Important Factor in Ma
/ tional Championship: Finds
Gallery Very Stimulating
BY SANDY McSIBLICK

A NEW champion has been crowned in
- women's Philadelphia golf, and the
impressive play of Miss May Tingley
Bell, titleholdcr. during the last week
over the east course at Merton we'll
deserved to win the laurpls for her.
The young Cricket Club player had
70 beat two such national stars as Mrs.
Ronald II. Barlow. eastern champion.
and Mrs Caleb +. Fox, who was at
The verJ top of her game this week.
Both were notable triumphs for Miss
Bell, shooting ~ against Mrs. Bar
low and a Al in the match with Mrs.
Fox.
"Championship golf. were the
words in every ones mouth.
And now the question is whether his
tory will repeat.
The year Miss Frances Griscom won
her first Philadelphia championship she
won tue women championship Of the
United States also
The year Miss Mildred Caverly won
the local title she played memorable
hnals at Belmont Springs. only to lose
on the seventeenth green to Mss AIcxa
Stirling.
Miss Bell has won her first tourna
mont in Philadelphia and the cham.
pionship. She will undoUbtedly play at
MaytirId in the national championship.
Several Points
No discussion as to the relative merits
Of tue games of Miss Stirling and Miss
Bell is about to follow. But many
things can happen IN golf and il is
our opinion that Miss Bell ought TO
make deep impression at the national.
For one thing ..' /, playing a gam"
II not better, then surely equal 10 tho
game of the stars who set the pace in
the national each year
Next. Sh" has an ideal temperament
for the game, which yOu always have to
figure in the per, "ntuge column.
Then. too, She is not in TIE lrn~t
fustered by gallery. Those who feared
she would be "cr" ASSURED tt that
yesterday.
1T doesn I bother me- a bit, stated
the new champion. "Indocd, find
q gallery very stimulating
Lastly, Miss Bell j., a fear ,S player
Ask nearly any star b"fUr, national
match doomed to meet a Miss Stir
ling. Mrs. Gavin. Mrs. Barlow. or
players Of like reputation, what they
expect TO do, and the answers the sam,
every time.
"Oh. sh"u beat me. ri.. reply.
81 only hope il won't 20. l"p hpdly. "
W q ibu ' lhIlfNf Nll~- l''I INl any
such idea in the SCI ii and nuul matches
this week. Sh" knrw tie k.U'A If golf
it would take to win and lead of to
play it.
Yesterday her work on the greens was
superb. Many times she figured there
was no percentage in "A half and went
for the win. the eighth, for instance,
whore she went for the green with a
brassic. Her putts were always up.
aud il was around the green that the
match was decided Mrs. Fox Incl
dcutaly amazed them all with the
length she got of tn" tees on the out
wardN journey and through the green.
II was only near the green that she was
beaten.
The rest of her game was triumph
o7 patient effort to recover from COM
parGtive slump last season.
Few Years
All hail. Miss Bell 4 few years
ago she took up the game in the winter
aud emerged to n springtimc with Miss
Marion Naylor as two newcomers to
the game who surprised them all.
Miss Bell entered the national at
Nassau, but failed to qualify.
Outside of handicap trophy won,
she says she has never won local
tournament,
From the first she has been cORsid-