The New York herald., 1922-05-27
ALBANIAN BECOMES
met TITLE HOLDER
Triumphs in Thirty-six Hole
Match at Morris County
by 5 and 3.
is 4 UP IN THE MORNING
Former National Champions
Give Fine Exhibition of Skill
and Endurance.
BY KERR n. PETRIE.

BY KERR n. PETRIE.
that tried both the skill and the endur-
ance of the contestants Miss Alexa
Stirling. former national titleholder. but
now representing the North Hampstead
Country Club of Long Island, yester-
day annexed the women's metropolitan
golf championship by defeating Mrs. II.
Arnold Jackson of Greenwich Country
Club, another former u. S. G. A. honors
holder, by UP and to play.
1t is no exaggeration to say that
the match was the best ever played III
the final of this tournament Such 4
statement. II fact. Is easy to prove. as
never before have two former national
champions contested the last bracket for
the metropolitan honors. Mrs. Jackson
has two national titles to her credit.
while Miss Stirling has three. When
Mrs. Jackson won her last u. S. G. A.
championship in 1914 at Nassau. Miss
Stirling still was a year from her first.
so in way this match was an egage-
ment between the representatives OF
the old and the new schools.
And what a battle 1t was. Miss
Stirling won, but she had to work every
minute and right up to the thrty-third
green. In the morning the former AT
lanta representative went out in ~ and
came back in Al strokes, to equal the
course record for the second successive
round Actually it was an 50, for on
the very first hole of the morning she
was stymied foot from the hole.
There was a great deal of sympathy
wasted on Miss Stirling following this
incident She did not require bit of 1t.
Along about the fifth green those who
had been gravely shaking their heads for
Miss Stirling were working industriously
for Mrs. Jackson. For beginning with
the first Miss Stirling had opened up a
blast OF white hot golf that would have
withered anything opposed to it. This
continued for four holes and at the
conclusion of this string the Dixie lass
was 4 I'D.
Playr Brilliant Golf.
She had pair of brides and as many
pars in this, and 1t represented women's
golf at its hashpoint. Miss Stirling
holed puts. of course, ten footer at the
second, a five footer at the third, a six
footer at the fourth and twelve footer
at the fifth. But while puts are puts
and invaluable, these merely were the
perfect finishing touches of superlative
golf.
Early in the game it looked as if Mrs.
Jackson were to be rushed out of the
final In short order. She was down
at the seventh. but instead of going all
to pieces the reverses only steeled her
heart, and before long she found herself
playing right up to her opponents bril-
liant game.
Winning the eighth. the Greenwich
representative turned for home down.
Two holes further on she was again 5
down. but from there on she played Miss
Stirling at her own game and was
actually outscoring her until she overap-
preached the home green into the trees
and ran up a 6 against Miss Strings
magnificent par on a 405 yard hole.
Mrs. Jackson had brought the odds
against her back TO three at the six
teenth. where she herself holed a nice
was halved in A. On the eighteenth Miss
Stirling hit 4 magnificent brassie shot
that climbed the hill and looked down
upon the green. a pitch and putt and
she had her 4. Mrs. Jackson had an
awkward stance beside a tree on her
fourth and even her Nth. long putt,
left the ball still bit wide.
Both had come home in Al. so that
Miss Stirling had her So and Mrs. Jack
son an Ss, a really fine score, consider
Ing that she had taken AZ to cover the
first nine. On Monday Mrs. Jackson had
led for the medal at SS.
Fsnalists Feel the Strain.
Play in the afternoon was not quite