The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
MISS A. STIRLING
HAS FINE RECORD
Woman Golf Champion Has
Not Lost a Contest in
Five Years.

Miss Aiexa Sterling OF Atlanta, Ga.
who has not lost a golf match since
the national championship of 1915. when
she was beaten on the twenty-second
hole in the semi-final round by Mrs.
Clarence II. 'Vanderbeck of the Phila-
delphia Cricket Club, who won the title
that year. and who since then has won
the national championship three times,
the. Southern championship the same
number and the Canadian championship
once, chatted on women's golf at. the
Huntingdon Valley Country Club yes
terday. where she has been playing in
the Berthellyn tournament.
There may be some question as to
whether Francis Oulmet or Chick Evans
is the best American amateur and there
is considerable difference OF opinion as
to whether Jim Barnes. Walter Hagen
or Jock Hutchinson Is the best Amer
lean professional player. but the women
are all agreed that there is no woman
In this country who can beat the auburn
haired champion. The women PLAYERS
have called her the Glorious Golfing
Girl and her record bears this out.
Miss Stirling is only "a years old and
was only 20 when she won her first
national championship. Unlike most
than any of her rivals.
THE one thing am proudest Of" she
remarked at Huntingdon Valley yester-
day. SIS that last year in only one match
was l down to an opponent, and that
was in the national at Shawnee, when
Mrs. G.. Henry Stetson of the Hunting
don Valley Country Club beat me OH
the first hole. This year the same has
been true. for in the national only one
III IL
Western players. had me one down.
Playing in the Canadian championship
/ was never down once. Here in the
Berthellyn I have been down in my
matches with Miss Marion Hollins, Mrs.
Quentin Feitner and Mrs. w. A Gavin.
Intends to Take Rest.
after this tournament and the South
ern championship will not touch my
golf clubs until next summer. i do not
play golf during the winter months
Last year after the Southern champions
ship. which was played in May. 1 did
not take up golf again until five weeks
before the national championship. This
year | started bit earlier. / have a
regular routine in getting into condi-
ton. and the most important thing is
that L do something each day. L usti-
ally devote two hours a day for prae-
tlct. fSOift Gays II Is Win my WOODEN
clubs. other days with the iron. and still
others on the putting greens- vary
this with work in traps. playing out OF
the rough. and on other days l combine
this work. On other occasions play
around the course. but there is always
two hours Of good hard practice.
"One reason why the game of some
women players does not improve is that
they will not take the trouble TO prac-
tice. Most women, like the men, prefer
to play practice rounds or get into four
ball matches. All this is very pleasant,
but 1t does not tend to improve the
game.s
what is the weakest thing in q
,woman's game? Too long a back swing?
That fault is readily overcome. No, the
weak thing is the iron work, Womens
wrists and forearms are not developed
like mems, and for that reason the
women fail to get results with thei.
iron shots. Not altogether a lack OF
distance, but a lack of precision and
the inability to control their iron shots.
The iron shot of the average woman
player Is not compact 1t Is weak. The
women do not put what you call stuff
into their shots.
IT have never had any particular
trouble with my iron shots, and this is
due largely to the fact that even when