Evening star., 1934-09-28

%HEIR backs to the wall, facing
a strong British team that
played them to a standstill in
the opening matches, America S
leading woman golfers needed to win
at least 3l2 points in the decisive
singles matches for the Curtis Cup at
Chevy Chase today to keep the old
mug in the United States.
The holders of the trophy-the
United States team-are in a far more
serious position as they enter the final
phase of the matches today than they
were two years ago at Wentworth,
England, when they won. Two years
ago they rolled up a lead Of three
points in the opening doubles matches.
Today they have gained no better
than an even split in the doubles be-
cause the redoubtable British lassies,
scrapping from the opening tee shot
to the closing putt, were able to rally
and win l p points for a tie.
Three clear wins and a split point
today for either side will decide the
temporary ownership of the trophy in
the singles matches which were to
start again over the rain-soaked Chevy
Chase course, already soggy and made
softer by the torrential downpour of
midafternoon yesterday, which all but
washed out the matches, drove the
gallery to shelter and ruined svelte
sports clothes.
Up to Second U. S. Trio.
"HE BURDEN of keeping the old
mug donated by the Curtis sis
tiers of Boston in this country,
seems to depend on the lower half of
the American team, on Charlotte Glut
ting, the tall Jersey miss; the steady
Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City and on
slim, handsome Mrs. Frank Gold
thWaite from Fort Worth, Tex
The top half of the defending side
seems little stronger than the British
side and allowing for an upset in the
first three matches the winning or
losing of the cup is sure to depend on
what happens in the last three
matches today.
Neither Miss Glutting nor Mrs.
Goldthwaite have had experience in
these international contests previously,
while Virginia Van VIE, at No. l for
the American team; Maureen Orcutt,
at No 2, and Mrs. Leona D. Cheney at
No. 3 are veterans of international
golf.
Pairings today were as follows: Vir-
ginia Van VIE, U. S., VS.. Diana Fish
wick, Great. Britain: Maureen Orcutt,
U. S., VS.. Molly Gourley, Great Britain;
Mrs. L. D. Cheney, U. S., VS.. Pamela
Barton, Great Britain; Charlotte Glut-
ting, U. S., VS.. Wanda Morgan, Great
Britai n;Mrs. Opal S. Hill, U. s., VS..
Diana Plumpton, Great Britain; Mrs.
Frank Goldthwaite, U. S., VS.. Mrs. j.
B. Walker, Great Britain.
Orcutt, PIumpton Star.
NUT OF the melee that was the
~ open matches yesterday rose the
sturdy figures of Misses Orcutt
for the American side and Plumpton
for the British. Maureen, the bud
ding politician from Jersey, it was who
came through with a couple of the
finest golf shots we ever have seen to
enable her with Mrs. Cheney to win
the lone match annexed by the
Americans.
Diana Plumpton's gallant and steady
golf fitted in admirably with the
sound play Of Mrs. Walker to win the
contest scored by the British side.
1t looked for all the world like an
American landslide at the eighteenth
hole, where Miss Van VIE and Miss
Glutting of the United States came
to the last hole l up on Molly Gour-
lay and juvenile Pam Barton. But up
there at the green Miss Glutting made
q bad pitch and then missed a 6-foot
putt to halve the hole, enabling the
British side to win the hole with
ave and split the point.