The New York herald., 1922-05-23
Miss Alexa Stirling Makes
Card of 90 in Metropolitan
Qualifying.
TIES MRS N. X. TOERGF
Mrs. c. n. Fowler, Jr., Is Fifth
and Mrs. Thomas Huck-
nall Sixth.
BY KERR N. PETRIE.

II the play in the qualifying round is
any criterion the womens metropolitan
golf championship which began yester-
day at Morris County is to be as inter-
esting and open a tournament as any
ever held under the auspices of the local
body, and this despite the fact that such
stars as Mrs. w. A. Gavin, the cham
pion; Miss Marion Hollins, the national
title holder Mrs Quentin Feitner and
Miss Georgianna NJ. Bishop are not en-
tered There was feeling at the outset
that the championship this year would
be Just another t-iumphal march for the
popular Miss Alexa Stirling, national
champion from 1916 until last fall, and
now a New York business woman. Miss
Stirling may prevail in the match play.
There is no denying that she is the
favorite But there was nothing about
the qualifying round to indicate that she
is to have a walkaway with the honors-
With card of 90. the Atlanta star
was quite close to the top. To be exact.
she was in tie for third place with
Mrs. Norman X. Toerge of Piping Rock
However, the fact that she did not -omp
away with the medal and that by a big
margin, leaves the gallery on the tip toe
Of expectancy and with the feeling that
any laurels she may annex will be bit
terly won.
AS remarked, Miss Stirling was very
much in the race. A instead OF
on the last hole would have put her into
attriple tie. With that and card of
90 she was two strokes behind Miss
Elizabeth Hardin of Baltusrol and Mrs.
H. Arnold Jackson OF Greenwich, who
therefore will have to stage tourna-
,nent of their own to determine when
OF the two is to take home the medal
90 clIDrpmaCV
Twice National Champion.
Mrs. Jackson needs no introduction for
she has twice held the national crown
AS for Miss Hardin, this player may be
said 10 have the peculiar lInacl< of doing
the unexpected. Two years ago at
Greenwich she went through to the met
ropolitan semi-final, but having thus ap-
parently taken her place among the
stars she unexpectedly passed out OF
the picture for a spell. Miss Hardin
was prominent in Vassar athletics sew
eral years ago. 1t was just like col
lege athlete TO upset the applicant when
everybody was busy watching Miss
Stirling.
Had the Baltusrol representatives
kept down the center of the fairway
at the 435 yard tenth she would have
had the medel without any trouble.
Miss Hardin marked up an here
chiefly as a result of her explorations
among the buttercups and wood violets.
which some of the contestants declared
were simply irresistible. She had gone
out in 45 despite at the seventh.
Nor did an disturb her equanimity
home coming. Miss Hardin had 500
hole TO face Immediately after that s.
Careful play gave her 6. as against
the mems par of 5. After that there
was flash of real golf that brought
the player home In 43.
AS she climbed up the slope from the
home green to the scoreboard Mrs.
Jackson was not certain whether she
had made an IS or an SO. While maxi
ing her last approach her rubber core
had moved during the address. but. as
It transpired. not sufficiently to come
within the scope of the rule which
penalized a player a stroke. In other
words the sphere did not leave it's posi-
ton. Mrs Jackson almost holed that
last approach for 3. The par was
good enough to place her in a tie with
Miss Hardin. The former champion
came home In Al.
The cards of the leaders: