Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26

IUA the golf course and believes in
L a the old adage, "a tooth for a
tooth" So when he was
trounced by DR.. William B. Mason two
weeks ago in the final round Of the
Presidents Cup tournament at the
Chevy Chase Club. he looked ahead to
the playing of the Liberty Cup event
with the possibility that he might meet
Mason in that tourney and avenge the
medico's victory over him.
Strangely enough, they were paired
In opposite halves of the draw again.
and, even more strangely, they met in
the final. And this time victory went
to the Army man, and by no small
margin. DR.. Mason was obliged to con-
cede Maj. Albright seven strokes, and
the major quickly put them to good use.
So well and so determinedly did he
play that he reversed the verdict OF the
previous match, winning the final OF
the Liberty Cup tourney yesterday by
and 3.
Senior golfers at Chevy Chase are
nearing the end of their last tourna-
ment of the season. They have COM
pleted the fourth round in the Hal
loween Cup event and now are ready
for the final. Results in the fourth
round follow: DR.. w. B. Mason defeated
Hugh M. Southgate, and s.; Gen
Charles G. Treat defeated Gen. D. c.
Shanks, z and 5; Admiral r. H. Jack
son defeated Col. Joseph Wheeler, 5 and
A. Col. G. B. Drake defeated E. 0.
Wagenhorst, and /.
Mrs. John N. Hodges, wife of CT
j. N. Hodges Of the Army, today We
the women's championship golf crown
of the Middle Atlantic Coli Association,
won by her only after the most stub
born kind of fight yesterday at Column
bia in one of the finest and certainly
the most spectacular golf matches ever
staged about Washington. The margin
between Mrs. Hodges, who succeeded to
the throne vacated by Virginia Holz-
derber last Wednesday, and Mrs. Hugh
T. Nicholson, the runner-up, was one
Of inches, for Mrs. Hodges holed her
mashie chip shot from a bunker at the
nineteenth hole for q winning 4, and
Mrs. Nicholson's putt for the half
missed the cup by a margin no wider
than a gnat's whisker.
Never before in the long history OF
rugged struggle against overwhelming
odds been staged as that put up by Mrs.
Nicholson yesterday. Facing the almost
| impossible handicap of being 6 down
with to play, she fought back pluckily
and, playing the last seven holes of the
| Columbia course in four strokes better
than women's par, she finally squared
the match on the eighteenth green and
went on to the nineteenth, where Mrs.
Hodges holed the chip shot that meant
victory.
Meanwhile, Mrs Hodges, fighting tc
hold a slipping game and watching hole
after hole of her long lead slip away
from her, fought back gamely but un-
successfully against the tide of victory
! that seemed to be swinging toward
| Mrs. Nicolson from the moment she
sank 10-footer for birdie a on the
twelfth hole. That the new champion
holed the chip shot that brought hel
the crown on the nineteenth hole was
fitting climax to the most spectacular
match ever seen about the Capital
And that the courageous uphill fight Of
! Mrs. Nico'son was ended by such ar
unusual circumstance as holing a chip
shot from a bunker meant as muct
credit to her as to the victor.
Mrs. Hodges Confident.
Playing all her shots with unboundet
confidence, Mrs. Hodges piled up {
four hole lead over the first nine, which
she played In AZ strokes, notwithstand
course. Mrs. Nicolson was putting
poorly and had no fewer than foul
3-putt greens on the first nine. Mrs
Hodges sank curling putt for a
TO win the tenth and another length,
one to win the eleventh, and stood
up with 7 to go. At this point Mrs
Nicolson looked like thoroughly heater
g1lfer.
She was hitting her shots badly ant
became a fighting golf machine, striking
back with all the skill of Bobby Jone
and whiting away at Mrs. Hodges lon
lead until IL became question whethe
MRS. Hodges could survive the .pnslaugh
! Of her younger, opponent. Mrs. Nicho