Evening star., 1927-09-25

pulled a deadly accurate
nlashie niblick from her bag
to win the national women's golf
championship. defeating Miss Maureen
Orcutt of Haworth, \. j., 5 up and
10 play, over the final stretch of SO
holes.
Miss Orcutt was much the longer
from the tee and had a very slight
edge in the putting, but Mrs. Burns
was able TO place her approaches
much closer TO the cup. The Mis-
sourian also had a less intimate
acquaintance with traps. although the
winner and the loser inspected many
of the sand.infested hazards during
the day. Several times they showed
superiatiVe sportSmanship by going
into the same trap. They started the
day off in the same one on the first
of the So holes played.
The match required hours and Is
minutes to play, the Is holes of the
morning using up 3 hours and
quarter and the / 4 i'll the afternoon
taking hours fat. The players were
taking their time, and an enthusi-
astic gallery of close to 2,000 persons
also slowed the performance.
Mrs. Horns First Chance.
Mrs. Horn, the pew champion. took
full advantage of her first real
chance TO win the title. She never
before had progressed TO a final al
though she won the Western women's
championship in 1923 and was runner
up the next year. Miss OrCutt, too.
was a national finalist for the first
time, but holds the Metropolitan
women's championship for the second
time.
The Western player was out in front
at the third, but Miss Orcutt got the
hole back on the fourth, and became
/ up by winning the fifth. The match
was squared at the eighth, and when
Mrs. Horn won the ninth she made
the first turn / up.
Thereafter she never was down.
She picked up another hole on the
second nine to make the situation ,
in her favor at luncheon. She gained
another hole between the nineteenth
and tWenty-seventh and took the two
last holes played with snappy pars
when Miss Orcutt found herself in
trouble at both
The play was not sensational except
at rare intervals. Mrs. Horn sent
many booming brassie' shots roaring
through the fairways. and Miss OrCutt
contributed perhaps the best individ-
ual shot of the day when she fired
great iron fun on the seventeenth to
make par 4 certain beyond al ques-
tion when she needed the hole.
Mrs. Horns steadiness stood out
most prominently on and near the
green's. She took as many puts dur
ing the day as did her opponent, but
the way she dropped the ball in the
cup when she had to was impressive.
Putting from ; and feet, time after
time she raped the ball straight to
the middle of the cup when to have
missed would have weakened her posi-.
ton materially.
In pitching distance the new cham
pion from the West always was for
midable. She did not leave herself
many long puts, and only once did
she miss a short one. Then she saw
her ball stay out from . feet, when
she would have had a win il it had
gone in.
The sensational double putting per-
formance of the day was at the
eleventh hole. Mrs. Horn was Is feet
from the cup in 3, while Miss Orcutt
was barely on the edge of the green,
40 feet from the cup at the same
count. Tricky landscape on this hole
required the most careful execution,
but Miss Orcutt caught it exactly
and sent the ball spinning up the
green with just the right twist of the
wrist TO bring it back on the down
grade in the exact groove for the
cup. The cheers at this remarkable
performance still were echoing
through the "out of bounds" woods
beyond the nearby fairway when Mrs.
Hcrn did the same thing from her
closer position for the half of the
hole in As.
The end of the thirty-second hole
was a double triumph for Mrs. Horns
mashie and her putter. The players
had driven only a few feet apart
with Miss Orcutt away for one of
the few times when she had to shoot
first after the tee shots.
The 20-year-old New Jersey girl
then down and only five holes left
10 play. seemed to be a bit nervous
and she sent her second spinning and
twisting into a trap guarding the
green.
Mrs. Horn, who is only three years
older than Miss Orcutt but much older
in golT, almost reached the green with
her second and then rolled 5 feet
from the cup. Playing from the trap
Miss Orcutt was far past the pin, but
she came back strong and her ball
rested but foot away from a sure ).
Mrs. Horn then had to get her ball
down to win the hole and with it the
championship.
It's a stymie" the gallery gasped
a. il had errOroneously suggested on
half Il dozen holes. 1t wasn't a stymie
although the ball was close enough to