New-York tribune., 1921-06-25
Mrs. Gavin Is
Again Winner
OF Golf Title
RellecIaire Club Player De-
feats Miss Bishop 9 Up
and 8 to Play at Nassau
By Raw Mccarthy

by Kay Mccarthy
Mrs. William A. Gavin, Of the Belle
claire Country Club. playing superb
golf, romsed of with the wornen's
metropolitan championship at the Mas
sau Country Club yesterday, defeating
Miss Georgiana Bishop. cf the Brock
lawn Club, by the cne-sided score Of
up and TO play. This was the s~5t time
the final was played over thirty-six
holes. Miss Bishop has held the title
several times previously, as we'll as the
national championship, and Mrs. Gavin
was metropolitan champion in 1917.
The Belleclaire Club woman was
playing in top form the whole day yes-
terday, making but few mistakes and
went wrong. Especialiy was her short
game and her putting skiifuily and ef-
fectiveiy weH done. On the greens
Mrs. Gavin was vsritable demo@, get
ting down long shots as well as most
of those within eight feet.
Her driving was generally good, al
though in the later stages, when she
was visibly tired ard fatigued, her tee
shots were not so good. Miss Bishop
kept pace with her rival for a short
distance only, and then. as Mrs. Gavin
DCHasA SA4AGaktJ ~ Qt1W AWAY tlAS
Brcokiswn Club player lost confidence
and poise, and performed very errati-
cally. In addition she lost her putting
touch, and her efforts on the greens
became quite feeble-so mach so that
she lost several opportunities on the
velvet, where recoveries are impossible.
Equals Course Record
In the morning, playing easily and
with an easy, natural swing that char
acterizes her play in general, Mrs.
Gavin went around in IS, which equals
the course record for women. She
might have bettered that mark had
she not slipped up on couple Of easy
puts.
AS it was that pace was sufficient to
give her commanding lead and she
finished the first half Of the long
journey six holes to the good. smiss
Bishop was not playing poorly by any
means, moving along as she was at an
50 pace. But that did not enable her
to- hold her rival IN check Mrs
Gavin went out in SIS, just missing
81, while Miss Bishop, getting medal
Of AZ, was three down at the turn.
Mrs. Gavin continued her good work
coming in, and with a fine display of
rare courage and good golf reeled off
a 40 for a 70, while Miss Bishop was
taking q A3 for an IS. That left Mrs.
Gavin six up, and there was little doubt
as to how the contest would end.
Mrs. Gavin went right along in the
afternoon, showing the same exqaisitely
fine game she had exhibited in the
morning. Both played the first hole
perfectly on this round, on in two and
down in four, Miss Bishop getting a
fine out from the rough on her sec
ond. Mrs. Gavin sliced her drive to
the rough ON the second hole, but got
on in three and was down in FIVE, while
Miss Bishop, playing over the green on
her third shot, took three more to re-
turn and hole out.
Miss Bishop Wins Hole
Miss Bishop got that hole back on
the third by sinking a 20-foot putt
both being on the green in three. Miss
Bishop duplicated this feat on the next
hole, sinking a putt of % feet, but
Mrs. Gavin came right back and was
6 up again at the fifth hole, where she
got s, being on In and down in 5.
Miss Bishop took three puts here.
AT the sixth hole Mrs. Gavin. whose
putting had been brilliant all the way.
sank 20-footer, which left her up.
She went right on adding them up and
won the seventh hole also by sinking a
l0-footer. Both got As at the eighth,
Mrs. Gavin being in a trap, while Miss
Bishop was in the rough
Mrs. Gavin fell down on the ninth
hole and missed a fine opportunity to
better her outgoing morning score
The eighth and the ninth holes, al
though they didn't cost the Belleclaire
woman any loss on her match. hurt her
chances of betteriDg her outgoing score
in the morning round At the ninth
she caught trap on her drive and got
a poor out, but sank a fine 1e-foot putt
for a half after Miss Bishop, we'll out
from the trap, had apparently won the
hole
Mrs. Gavin clinched the issue at the
tenth hole, swhere Miss Bishop was
trapped. Mrs. Gavin got two fine long
shots on this hole and an easy for
the victory.
The cards were as follows: