Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-06
MISS STIRLING and
CHICAGO GIRL IN
GOLF CLASH TODAY

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A courageous golting girl of Chicago,
Miss Edith Cummings, pushed her
way into the final round of the
women's national golf championship
today by overcoming an almost
hopeless handicap and defeating Mrs.
c. II. Nanderbeck of Philadelphia,
conqueror Of Glenna Collett l up in
twenty holes. Dormie two, the Chi
cago girl won the 18th with perfect
golf, squared the match al the
eighteenth with an eight foot putt
down hill, and won at the twentieth
when her opponent missed her tee
shot.
In the final round tomorrow. a
gruelling test at SO holes, the Chi
cago girl will meet AleXa Stirling,
three times a champion, who eli
minated today Mrs. Elizabeth Hard
ing Goss of Baltusrol, y. j., ? up,
after a close round in which Mrs.
GosS always was pressing on her
heels. Miss Stirling, the experts be-
lievc is the worlds greatest woman
PLAYER over the So hole route. but
Miss Cummings is at the height OF
game that has been improving
through the wears.
Mrs. Nanderbeck, national title
holder in 1915. is said to be one OF
the best match players of oil gOlilng
women. Up to the final hole of today $
match. she had the advantage all
the waHand it seemed that she was
certain to win when they halved the
10th. leaving her dormie >.
The seventeenth, 426 yards long
requiring a long and accurate drive
to the joint of an elbow and
tickHsh mashie pitch over a lake
whose surface is covered with lily
pads is known to Scotchmen IS Ile
"Deukin dub" which freely trans
lated. means a terrible hole for a
poor player. A.,
Miss Cummings drive on the
straightavav carried about so yards
further than that of her opponent
Her iron over the lake was past the
cup but lying we'll for the usual two
nutts Mrs. Nanderbeck' second was
4 BIT short off the green. Miss cum
mings' approach putt was ctose
enough to assure her a par four.
Rut Mrs. Vanderbeck had not made
\ poor approach putt all day and II
anpeared certain that she WouId
hajvc the hole. Yet she struck 100
hard and the ball rolled "A feet be
yond the pin. She missed THIS long
putt. Miss Cummings sank heIS' an"
was one down. one to &c.
The Chicagon sank an eight footeF
to square the match at the 18TH hoe.
Miss Cummings might have Won on
tho first extra hole as her drive was
inst to the edge of the green, Whlie
Mrs. Nandcrbeck's was hooked lhIo
an adjoining fairway, - yards OIL.
They halved this hole. however,
when Mrs. Vanderbock's second
made the green and Miss CUMMINGS
looked up on her chip shot ana
dubbed if. on the twentieth MISS
Cummings with driving iron car
ried over the ravine to the green;
Mrs. Vanderheck used spoon ana
sliced into a cinder path to the right
and missed her second. She was on
in three. but had a long putt for
half and missed.
Mrs. Goss was defeated un. the
MAY was rather ragged for both up
TO the 14th where the former chain.
Mon shot twice into taps ana iost
tho hole. evening the match. Mrs.
Coss won the 18th through MISS
Strings poor putting and was one
down. one to go. Her tee shot on
the 18th went awry, however, ana
she made a bad pitch over the green
into a sand pocket to lose.