Evening star., 1927-12-02
ntes N0,u Are in Mood to Start An0tl
BY q. II. KELLER,


~ UT of the thirty-first ma
4 tiOnal wOmen's gOlfing
championship at Cherry
~ Valley came a sprlghtiy
and determined young
woman with an oddly composed lit
tie face under the big crowil-a
composition of juvenile irresponsI-
bility and mature ambition; a
whimsical, pretty little face, easy
to look at and worth studying. 1t
Is the face of Mrs. Miriam Burns
Horn of Kansas City, our new
woman champion at "a years of
age.
Hers has been i'm existence not
lacking i'm event. At the not very
extended age noted above she has
been playing i'm national golfing
competition eight years; has been
married: has become a mother, and
has gained a divorce. Her only
season out of golf since she was 16
came something over year ago,
when she took time out for the far
greater achievement of motherhood.
Mrs. Horns victory at Cherry
Valley was not altogether uneX-
pected by those who had not al
really conceded the championship
to the brilliant French girl. Espe-
cialIy i'm Kansas City. So impressed
were the critics i'm her own home
tOwn-thus setting up an OppOsi-
tion to the Scriptural estimate of a
prophet-that they were predicting
Miriam's success before she ever
started for Cherry Valley.
Two matches featured her march
to triumph: her defeat of Mrs.
Alexa Stirling Fraser. three-times
champion some years ago, and. nat
urally, the final bout with Miss
Maureen Orcutt. These are select.
ed as being antithetical. She de-
feated the capable and experienced
Mrs. Fraser, always able to give
= good account of herself, by shoot
ing the first 10 holes i'm two strokes
above masculine par, wllcih was
very hot golf, especially against
girl who had just defeated Glenna
C0llett and MademOiselle Thion in
grueling matches and was thereby
bled white. She defeated Miss
Orcutt i'm a real scramble contain
ing only flashes of the golf Of
which both girls are capable.
One shot stands out i'm my mind,
perhaps the turning point of the
match, though it was SO eccentric
of performance that any single
pivot is difficult to establish. At
any rate, i'm the morning round
Miriam had got herself a One-hOle
lead and was sticking to it like fly
paper as they reached the eleventh
tee. Maureen couldn't seem to
close with her. At this juncture
both mussed up their seconds, and
Maureen further missed her third
and was off the green, Miriam be-
ing on, but Is feet from the pin
with a slanting, curving, borrowing
putt.
Maureen chipped exquisitely and
the ball came on with beautiful
rainbow arc and tricISled into the
cup-she had hOIed from 120 feet
for par A, and the applause came
out of n sixth.ffOOr window.
Almost before the echo had died
away the little nbatrOn from Kan
sag City stepped up to her ball,
studied the line-and curled it i'm
for the half, by all odds the most
brilliant exchange of the match.
She's q good putter, is Miriam,
and chips well with startIingly
"choked" club and an unorthod0x
wrist-strOke. And she has taken a
championship quickly, as she took
life. She wanted to get married
while yet a schoolgirl the roman
tic story gOeS), so she elOped and
got married. The venture turning
out not to her liking, she got I'M
married. She wanted to win
championship, so she won cham
pi0nship.