The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-01
BY RICHARD MvCANN NEA Service Sports Writer

9NCAAApAALop AC1AA'p kCPIs- AAC AhO~ ies should be advised that all of the men they meet here won't be south- ern gentlemen. One is far from being a chivalrous son of the old south.
 They call him Ole Man Par and the ladies will find him a-waitin' for them on the Memphis Country Club course when they gather for the women's national golf cham pionship, Oct. 4-9. And they will soon learn that the old gent is 8 cantankerous cuss, who doesn't aim to do them any good at all, at all.
 The Memphis course, you see, is one of the longest and toughest in the country. It has had its face massaged, hair waved, eyebrows plucked, and finger nails polished for the first visit to the south by the national women's tournament, and as a result the course, from women's tee to women's tee, is 8 back-breaking 6440 yards in length.
 Women's par for the layout is 79, consisting of 10 par 5s, five par As, and three par 3s.
 It may distress the girls to know that only one larruping lassie has ever managed to break par on the course. She is Marion Miley, who got 78 to win the 1887 Marguerite Gaut Invitational Tournament.
 Miss Gaut Brings National South
 You should know Miss Gaut. All of MemphiS-and most of the south -does.
 She's a kindly, active, civic-mind- ed lady who, with Dr. Richmond Mckinney, brought the tourney south for the first time in the 41- year history of the event. For 25 years she has been 8 dominating figure in Memphis golf, and has won just about every southern tournament at one time or another.
 Just recently she won the Mem phis city championship for the 10th time in 19 years, and If she com- petes in the 1888 women's southern it will be the 18th consecutive year she has teed off in this meeG. She has won it four times.
 Her best performance in the na- tional tourney was in 1920 when she stroked her way to the semi-finais before losing to Mrs. J. V. Hurd of Pittsburgh.
 Mrs. Gaut, however, is not the only outstanding woman golfer in Memphis. There will be 40 other local girls entered in this years na- tional, among them Mrs. Marguerite Solomno, who lost to Miss Gaut in the city finals, 3 and 1.
 Mrs. Solomon had the misfortune last year of starting Pam Barton of England off on her successful quest of the championship. Mrs. Solomon met Pam in the first round and the British girl went on to win the title.
 Course is We'll Conditioned
 Pam won't be on hand for the tournament, due to an appendicitis | operation, but Mrs. Glenna Collett Ware, six times winner of the cham pionship, who didn't compete last year, is among the entries.
 The girls will find the local club as tough as Memphis Bill Terry, but | much more to their liking. It IS one of the few in the country com plete with Bermuda fairways and | Italian rye greens. Since 1t is one of the few clubs to remain in good | standing during the depression, the course is the only one in the mid- south with fairway watering sys- tenn.
 The velvet-like top of the fair ways will be 8 handicap as well as an asset. Every shot will have to go the full distance on the carry, any extra roll being out of the ques- tion. The sharpsho of the tee will find this to their liking because each shot will have 8 perfect lie.
 Walter Sherwood, the host club says that the girls will find Nos. s, 12, and 15 as the three holes which will give them the most trouble. No. 5 has both mental and physical hazards. an uphill approach prevents 8 view of the green, the fairway is flanked by deep rough, and the green is we'll trapped. It's 403 yards, par 5.
 No. 12 places a premium on ac- curacy the fairway is as nar- row as a strip of ribbon, fringed by trees, with a long ditch on one side. Par 4 on this 398-yard hole will be rare.
 The 15th--443 yards, par 5-is a dog-leg to the left, and unless the tee shot is just right the girls will be lucky to get away from that one with less than a or 8.
 Yes, suh, miladies, you-all are go- ing to find that MT. Par isn't any southern cavalier. He's an old neanie. he Is.