Golf

National Women's. The luxurious Westchester-Biltmore links at Rye, N. Y., were cut, swept, raked, rolled. Golfwomen flocked thither with shiny clubs, with new balls, with costumes befitting their national championship

Qualifying:

Alexa Stirling, Atlanta & N. Y 44 40 84 (National Champion 1916, 1919, 1920)

Mrs. C. H. Vanderbeck, Philadelphia.. 43 44 87 (National Champion 1915)

Mrs. C. L. Anderson, New York 45 43 88

Mrs. Ronald S. Barlow, Philadelphia. 43 46 89

Edith Cummings, Chicago 46 43 89

Glenna Collett, Providence 47 42 89 (National Champion 1922)

Matchplay went as expected until in the third round Mrs. Vanderbeck, with inexorable short work, wore down and defeated the long-hitting champion, Glenna Collett, 2 and 1 Miss Cummings, Miss Stirling, Mrs. Goss of N. Y. were the other semi-flnalists, Miss Cummings having to deal in succession with Mrs. Feitner of Chicago, Miss Faust of St. Louis, Miss Leitch of England.

Miss Stirling made nimble work of Mrs. Goss and entered the finals. Miss Cummings pulled up from dormie two after a ragged round and caught Mrs. Vanderbeck at the 20th hole.

Sport writers heralded a " dramatic" finale, but Chicagoan and Atlantan were alike erratic when the day came. They went in to lunch with Miss Stirling 2 up.

Reinforced, Miss Cummings uncorked winning golf on five of the first six afternoon holes, hung to her lead, won the title 3 and 2.

Miss Cummings never before passed the semi-finals of the national, but her rise in local and sectional play has been steady. Her trophy will glisten beside the intercollegiate cup, won in June by her brother, Dexter Cummings, Yale Sophomore.