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DECEMBER 20, 1924
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Carolina Tournament For Women
. FTER getting off to a
Z\ somewhat indifferent
start in the qualifying
round, M;rs< Dozier Loundes,
of Atlanta, soon settled into
the steady stride that once won
her the Georgia State title and
carried off the first division tro
phy of the annual Carolina
tournament for women last
week after a spectacular final
round victory over Mrs. Jack
son Boyd, of Southern Pines, in
a match that had to go 19 holes
to decide the winner.
Mrs. Francis T. Keating, of
Pinehurst, led the field in the
qualifying round and won the
medal with a card of 45-48—93,
but succumbed to a splendid
brand of golf displayed by Miss
Ann Merrill, of Brookline, in the
first match round and had to
drop to the consolation division
which she Subsequently won.
Following Mrs Keating in the
qualifying round were Mrs.
Boyd, 94; Miss Merrill, 96;
Mrs. Horace H. Rackham, 97;
Mrs. D. B. Arnold, 97; Mrs.
Loundes, 99 ; Mrs. C. M. Reid,
99, and Mrs. Jame» D. Hath
away, 101.
The draw for the first match
rounds brought together Mrs.
Loundes versus Mrs. Rackham;
Miss Merrill versus Mrs. Keat
ing ; Mrs. Boyd versus Mrs. Reid, and Mrs. Arnold versus. Mrs.
Hathaway. All of the first named came through victoriously
and the semi-finals found Mrs. Loundes against Miss Merrill,
whom she defeated in a very close match, while Mrs. Boyd
eliminated Mrs. Arnold, 6 and 5.
The semi-final match between Mrs. Loundes and Miss
Merrill was productive of a contest almost equal in closeness
to the one between the finalists. Miss Merrill made the turn
1 up, after neither player had been more than that distance
ahead at any stage of the game, and made it 2 up with a rattling
good 3 on the eleventh. Mrs. Loundes retaliated with a 3
for a win at the thirteenth and evened the score at the fifteenth
when the Brookline golfer tried to carry the bunker on hef
second shot and got into diffi
culties that cost her a stroke
and the hole. The next two
holes were halved. Then the
Atlantan laid a' beautifully
played third shot within three
feet of the cup at the eighteenth
and went down in 4 while Miss
Merrill missed her approach
and required a 5.
The final round match be
tween Mrs. Loundes and Mrs.
Boyd was one of the most even
ly contested and one of the
most spectacular that has been
witnessed here between women
golfers in some time. After
see-sawing for the first nine
holes with the sight of victory
first in favor of one and then
the other, Mrs. Loundes made
the turn 1 up, but lost the lead
immediately when her second
shot for the tenth was bunker
ed. The eleventh was halved
and Mrs. Boyd went into the
lead on the twelfth when the
former Georgia title-holder
sliced to a trap, but she over
ran her approach to the thir
teenth, which Mrs. Loundes
won, and the cards read all
even again. Mrs. Loundes
drove to the woods at the four
teenth, losing two strokes and
the hole, but she came through
with a screaming twenty-foot
putt at the fifteenth to square matters. Extra putts cost Mrs.
Boyd the seventeenth, but a fine 4 on the eighteenth halved
the match and the pair started for the extra hole, which culmi
nated in a most spectacular victory. Mrs. Boyd played her
usual steady game onto the green and had a sure putt for a
5, while Mrs. Loundes, third shot was forty feet short of the
green. But the Atlanta golfer was equal to the occasion and
lifted a splendid chip shot that landed just over the near corner
of the green and trickled into the cup for a winning 4 and the
match. '
Mrs. Albert McDonald, New York, won the second division
trophy, Mrs. A. S. Higgins, Yonkers, N. Y., consolation. Third
division trophy, Mrs. B. V. Covert, Lockport, N. Y.
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