VOL. XX, NO. 13
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1917
FIVE CENTS
ELEANOR GATES
Wins St. Valentine's Tournament from
Dorothy Campbell Hard on 20th Hole
Mm. llurd Takes the medal; Mn.
Daiifortli, Airs. Splane and Mn.
Ilrmpstone Lead their Divisions
A LARGE and en
thusiastic gallery of
golfing fans fol
lowed Miss Eleanor
Gates and Mrs.
Dorothy Campbell
Hurd .over the ter
rain of Number One Course of the
.Finehurst Country Club last Sat
urday to view the final round in
the President's division of the
Annual St. Valentine's Tourna
iment for women. And they were
'richly -rewarded. Not only was
the contest sustained and doubt-
ful "for" twenty mortal holes, but
the diversity of style and game
; between these two champions
made the playing of every indi
vidual hole an exciting and inter
esting spectacle. Miss Gates,
runner-up to Mrs. Hurd nr this
same event last year, has won the
championship of the Nassau Club
since, and developed a phenome
nal accuracy .on the putting green
to assist her long balls from the
tee; Mrs. Hurd is still in her old
championship form, and since
their last meeting had won the
Qualifying round both of the
National and this tournament.
Mrs. Hurd's long suit is in her
approach shots, which are clean
and true. In consequence from
nearly every tee Miss Gates took
the advantage with a powerful
drive Mrs. Hurd, recovered on
the midiron shot, made one of her
famous mashie. shots and lay
dead at the pin with Miss Gates
struggling on the fringes of' the
green. And fortune having thus
shifted in the anxious gaze of the
partizans, the Nassau girl would
retrieve her fortune with that
magic putt.
It was an even struggle the
whole way, Mrs. Hurd taking
the lead by a margin of one most
of the time, and Miss Gates stay
ing with it and putting for dear
life. The old champion took the
lead on the first hole, lost the
second to a five, tied the third,
and was given the fourth. The
fifth and sixth were halved in
bogey, Miss Gates won the
seventh and squared the score;
the eighth was halved and Mrs.
Hurd got into trouble on the
ninth, leaving Miss Gates one up
at the turn the only time she led
Zit all until the last putt was sunk.
Miss Gates still practicing ap
proach shots in the offing. The
short and treacherous 18th alone
remained to settle the day.
And here the Nassau giri
showed her staying power and
her qualities as a tournament
player. She won this with 4, and
began all over again. There was
no let up now. Mrs. Hurd made
the 19th in 5, one better than her
first round, and Eleanor Gates
duplicated. And then the end
came in startling and dramatic
manner. Mrs. Hurd lay dead for
an easy 5 which is bogey on the
20th; Miss Gates had sent a
splendid 200-yard ball from the
tee as usual, and also as usual was
RODMAN WAN A MA KER II WINNING THE ST. VALENTINE STEEPLE CHASE
Mrs. Hurd came home in 48,
steady and consistent and Miss
Gates missed exactly one putt.
The game was all . even again on
the 10th. Mrs. Hurd took her
lead on the 11th and held it with
even fives to the 15th, which she
lost to a five, and so they drove
from the 17th tee with a clean
slate, but the odds still in favor of
Pittsburgh.
These increased into long pro
portions on the 17th, an intermin
able hole 505 yards up hill among
innumerable pit" falls, which can
be neither driven nor putted.'Mrs.
Hurd rolled home safely in 6, with
a long way short of the pin on the
third shot. It called for a putt of
at least 15 feet to win. But she
did it. She knows how to do it,
and she did it, and won a victory
as creditable and as hard fought
as any. ever seen on the famous
links.
The card. Numbed one course :
MISS GATES
Out 7 5 6 8 5 4 4 5 650
In 7 5555567 448 5 i
MRS. HURD ' .
Out 6 6 6 5 5 4 5 5 7 49
In 6 4555666 548 55
In the qualifying round Mrs.
Hurd had led her field by the sub-
Concluded on page eleven)
WAHAUAKER'S UOMEY
Whisper Bell Wins from Little Horn
Oyer the Hurdles
Bachelor and Hurd Take a Fall.
91 Us Abbe and Pearson Wla
the Cuesis' Cups
w W
GENTLEMEN, that
was a horse race.
Miriam H., the pride
of the Pinehurst
Stable s , was
J scratched, being out
of shape, and the
world was divided into two con
fident camps one-half backing
the Little Horn, Hurd's great
jumper, ridden by Smith, and the
other half swearing by the Whis
per Bell from the Meadow
biook Stables with Rodman Wan
maker II in the saddle. The
afternoon was bright and warm
as a day in June ; the stand and
the track was lined with the bril
liant purple and red and orange
colors the girls wear nowadays.
The thoroughbreds danced
against the deep green back
ground of the pines waiting for
the signal. All nature was tuned
for a great moment. Both horses
wheeled at once.- Colonel Swigert
dropped the flag, and they were
off for a mile and a half over the
hurdles.
Wanamaker took the lead un
willingly .it seemed, both riders
turning the first bend almost at a
canter, as a great runner swings
casually into his stride at the be
ginning of the marathon. For
both knew that the race need not
go to the swiftest. Such a ven
ture is a campaign, a stratagem;
requiring both head and heart,
and a wise husbanding of re
sources. So they set off easily, in
reality both working might and
main to be in last place. The
fresh and eager mounts struggled
at the bit, and they soon settled
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