Evening star., 1936-05-15
us. WOMAN LEADS
|. ON BRITISH LINKS
Mrs. GoIdthWaite's IS Tops
Field in Qualifying for
Title Event.
BY the Associated Press.

SOUTHPORT, England May l5.-
Ignored in the selection of the Ameri-
can Curtis Cup team II days ago, for
gotten by the galleries today, Mrs.
Frank Goldthwaite, Fort Worth, Tex,
championship over the Southport and
Ainsdale course this bleak, windy day.
Putting with a magic touch, Mrs.
Goldthwaite toured the course in even
par rs. one shot in front of three
Britishers. Diana Ffshwick. former
British women's champion; Elsie Cor
lett, who went to the semi-fnals in
this tournament in 1884, and VIVIAN
Lamb.
Every member Of the United States
Curtis Cup team was virtually assured
Of qualifying. The other American
in the field. Deborah Very. Worcester,
Mass, needed 80 strokes and will prob
ably have to do better tomorrow to
get into the select 81, who start match
play Monday.
U. S. Stars Back on Games.
Today's play indicated that two Of
Americas players who were of their
games in the Curtis Cup matches are
back. They are the veteran Mrs.
o. s. Hill, Kansas City, and Patty
Berg, the 18-year- -old member of the
American squad. Both had 79s today.
The American champion, Mrs.
Glenna Collett Ware. Philadelphia
was In good form. She shot II and
was tied for third place with Mrs. j.
B. Walker, the Australian champion,
and Jessie Anderson. the little Scotch
girl who beat Mrs. L. D. Cheney in
the Curtis Cup matches to give Great
Britain a tie.
The British champion. Wanda Nor
gan, was one shot behind, tied with
Bridget Newall at 70.
Rallies on Home Nine.
Mrs Cheney. the California veteran,
started poorly today, but made a great
recovery on the home nine. Driving
poorly. she reached the turn with a
struggle in 43 strokes, and then she
turned about and played perfect golf
on the back nine for a 37 one under
par. She was bracketed at 80 with
Marion Miley, Lexington. KY, who
played steadily and scored 40 on each
nine.
The other Americans-Mrs. Maureen
Orcutt Crews, Coral Gables, Fla, and
Charlotte Glutting, South Orange
N. finished with S2s and were in a
safe, II not an entirely satisfactory
position.
Other players who were virtually
sure Of qualifying and their scores
follow: Rhoda Morgan and Miss Rob-
ertson Durham, 9: Gwenn Craddock-
Hartopp7, Mrs. Marjorie Ross Baron
and Mrs. J. H. Todd, 80, and Pam Bar
ton, runner-up the last two years, "a.
Misses Four Footer.
Mrs. Goldthwaite literally burned
up the green's, holing a putt of 20
feet at the fifteenth, and making 10
footers at the fourth and the eleventh.
The Fort Worth star needed only one
putt at the seventeenth also. but she
missed 4-footer on the home green
for a "A.
AL ! can stay Is that 1t was one
Of those rounds you dream about, u
said Mrs. Goldtnwaite. II probably
won't be able to hit the side Of a barn
tomorrow"
Every time she was in trouble, she
recovered brilliantly. At the second
hole she Clipped dead for birdie 4.
She got her par 5 at the 450-yard
seventh after her ball was buried deep
in a sand trap, and at the tenth,
though her ball stopped in a divot
hole, she managed to scrape out with
another par.
Her only really bad hole was the
sixteenth, where her drive was in the
sand. she was short of the green with
her third, and took a 6.
Her card: ..
Out -.-----344 554 534-37
In ----- 544 442 645-3s-37-7s