BRITISH GOLF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 264, 7 November 1936, Page 4

BRITISH GOLF

STANDARD COMING BACK FOUR TITLES HELD WHAT OF UNITED STATES With the victory of little Miss Barton, of London, in the United States women’s golf championship tournament on the Jinks of the Canoe Brook Country Club, British golf assumed a position in the world of sport that it had not previously held since the World War. says the Christian Science 'Monitor. Taking the six major chamI pionship titles—the British amateur and open and women’s amateur and the United States amateur and open and women’s amateur—we find Great Britain holding four of them. And in every one of them, with the possible exception of the men’s amateur, the British players were faced with serious opposition from United States players, and won the titles through superior playing. It may, therefore, be said that the amateur and professional golfers of Britain are coming I back to those days when they not only replied all foreign invasions, but were successful in their own invasions for foreign countries. • Miss Barton Great Player. I That Miss Barton is one of the best women golfers in the world to-day jwill not be questioned by anyone who | saw her during the United States women’s championship. Despite the I fact that she is only 19 years old, she must be ranked as a veteran at lhe I sport, and, what is still more, she .'should be a champion for several [years to come. One of the chief features of her game is steadiness, and | that is a quality usually lacking in a player so young. Her stroking is all that can be desired, and it might be * said that she is now to women’s golf what Bobby Jones was to men’s golf [when he was her age. She is only the [second woman to hold both the Bri|tish and United States championship titles the same year, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd having been the other one when she turned the trick in 1909 as Dorothy I. Campbell. Who Mill Retrieve the Title? The question now confronting the United States Golf Association is who will be able to retrieve the United States title and the Cox Trophy. Miss Barton so dominated the championships this season that there does not appear to be any American player who gives promise of defeating her next year. Patty Berg, the young Minneapolis Miss of whom so much ’was expected in the British tournament, the Curtis Cup matches and the United States championship, has not come up to expectations, and will have to show marked improvement ever to win the championship title. In fact, it looks very much as if the United States authorities would have to call on the services of two women who have retired from the game. I refer to Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare and Virginia Van Wie. And these two would have to be at their very best in order to take either title from Miss .Barton. That Mrs. Vare is still capable of championship golf was clearly shown recently when she turned in a par-equalling card of 75 in the Berthellyn Cup tournament.