Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-11
NO AMERICAN WOMAN-HAS
WON BRITISH GOLF GROWN
Miss Marion Hollins's Vic-
tory Today Boosts Her
Stock for the Title
BY SANDY McNIBIIICK
Tn THE. list of winners Of the Iadi,

Tn THE. list Of winners of the ladies
L golf championship of Great britain
since the play for this title started
twenty seven years ago. there appears
no name that sounds like au American.
except that Of Miss Dorothy Campbell
now Mrs. j. V. Hurd, Of Pinchurst
and Pittsburgh L. s. A. But she was
an EngIiShwoman at the time.
There is a different story in the list
Of winners Of the American women :
golf championship. Miss Campbell in
vaded our shores in 1909 rs the cham
pion of Great Britain and won the t..
s. championship, thus completing n
record no woman has pQualed since {;
that Of winning the British, Canadian
and American championships, all in the
same year. Miss Campbell entered the
American event the following year from
Hamilton, Ont, and won.
In 1918 Miss GLADYS Ravenscroft
an Euglishwoman who had won her
home tide the year before. visited this
pionship. In 1918 Mrs. w. A Gavin
another English star. came from Shirley
Park. England. Mrs. Gavin went
down to the finals. whore she was beaten
by Nanderbcck.
Mrs Gavin aud Mrs. Dorothy
Campbell lIurd are now both Americans,
but the records will show that no Amer
lean woman. playing rs such. has ever
won the British championship. though
records in this country are haZy aS TO
whether an American cntrant ever be
fore this year teed of for the British
ladies' championship.
American records show that in three
invasions the lone British entrant in Il
I. s. championship won the title. and
the fourth time finished as runner up.
Two Former Champions =.
In what seems TO be America first
sincere invasion abroad for the women :
championship, there arc two rhiladel-
pha and one New York woman.
Mrs. &. II. Nanderbeck is a former
eastern and Philadelphia champions
as well as a former national
champion Miss Mildred CavcrIy
won the Philadelphia championship
in 1916. her first real golf triumph
when she was scarcely in her twputicS
The same year she went to the finals Of
the national and was only beaten at the
seventeenth hole by Miss Alexa Stirling.
Of Atlanta. after Il thrilling match. That
year, Miss CavcrIy had first put out on"
after another Of The stars, inrluding the
western champion. Mrs. +. e. LcrtS.|
Miss Caverly had a poor year in 1919.
not winning single first prize or tour
ncy of any sort. Her mashio play was
weak. but she has been concentrating
on this one shot ever since. Mrs. Van
dcrbeck plays sound game throughout
though her wooden shots. particularly
through the green. are not 50 long as
those of Miss Cavcrly.
Strong Wrists
Miss Marion HollnS, metropolitan
champion and former national runner
up, has astoundcd the British"rS in her
preliminary play abroad with tn" length
Of her wooden shots. Miss Holin~ !,
given by many the best chance Of the
four American to win this work. After
her victory today in the first round
! her stock rose still higher. IIor
physique Is best suited to the British
play which calls for 3G holes Of golf u
| day, with only an hour for lunch ant