Show FINE GOLFERS t wILL CO COMPETE IN ENS EN'S SERIES Mrs Irs Dorothy Hurd Rules Hules Favorite F Over Field Fieldin in Tournament By FRANCIS FRANCIS' J. J POWERS Special Sp hl Correspondent of The TheS Standard S rd n er CopyrIght 1927 1977 Consolidated Press Association LEVELAND Sept 10 When 10 When the CLEVELAND C ladles of ot the bunkered clan go goforth goforth goforth forth in quest of the women's nation nation- national al golf gol championship at Cherry Val Val- Valley Valcy ley I cy Long Island next week one of ot the he t strongest candidates for the title Ulle will be be Mrs Dorothy Campbell Kurd Hurd of ot the Merlon Mellon Cricket club Mrs Kurd Hurd deserves to be ranked as one of the really great golfers goUers of ot all n time She was champion before many of ot the youngsters who will contest contrat agaInst her on the Long Island links were bom born and she he still sun plays plas a II game that is strictly of ot championship qualIty ity ty I Twenty summers ago age when the Gib Gib- Gibson Gibson Gibson son girl rather than the girl represented the American Ideal of pulchritude Miss alias Dorothy Campbell of ot North Berwick England began to climb the championship heights heights- which she subsequently has scaled more often than any other woman golfer Twenty years ears Is a long time timeto timeo to t o remain in the championship class cl s of any sport but Mrs Hurd still plays as close to par as many man of the spright spright- sprightly ly l y girls who are many years rears her Junior FIVE TITLES Five times Mrs Hurd Kurd has won a national championship two two championship two of her victories being scored in Great Britain and three In America This is more championships than any other wo wo- woman woman man has ever held It tops the rec tee record record ord of Cecil Leitch the great English player by one As Miss Campbell she first found her way into the rec rec- record record record ord books in 1903 1003 when she went to the finals of the British championship and was beaten by Miss at St. St Andrews The following year she not only won the tho British title but also Invaded America and took home both the United States Slates and Canadian champ champ- She won the British crown at Port Rush Ireland and the thc Amer Amer- American AmerIcan Amerlean I ican lean at Merion Merlon Cricket club her club her present golf ol home She repeated at Homewood In 1910 and then In 1911 went back to Eng Erig- England England land to win the British title for the second time at Port Rush Then came a long interim before she achieved another championship but butIn In 1924 1124 after atter her previous exploits had almost been forgotten she won again gain at Providence Mrs Hurd will be but one of many Great players that will gather at Cher- Cher Cherry Chery ry y Valley and the odds are long against her winning the American championship ons for the fourth f ur I time and g g 8 h thereby hereby establishing a new record c d But she Is playing fine golf and earlier arlier this summer went through a aIne atine afIne tine fIne field to win at de- de defeating eating Maureen Orcutt in the finals Miss Glenna Olenna Collett twice champ- champ champion champon ion on probably will be the favorite when the he championship starts The Provi Provi- Providence Providence dence girl Is by all odds our best golfer but frequently her putting goes astray Were Miss Silas Collett as good a putter jutter as Joyce Wethered she would be e the finest woman golfer In the world AFTER HONORS Mrs G. G H. H Stetson will be on hand hando to o defend her title but few champions are able to repeat rep t In hi this age of the sport port and there are so many fine young players pla ers that the odds favor one of them breaking through this year ear earIn In addition to these young players Maureen laureen Orcutt Bernice Wall Helen Payson Virginia Van WIe Marie Jen- Jen Jenney Jenne Jenney ney ne Marlon Marion Turpie and Mrs Wright Goss up runner-up last year may be expected ted to go a a. considerable dis dis- distance dis- dis distance tance lance In the fight tight Miss Orcutt Is bound sound to break through in the near future and it may be at Cherry Val Val- icy ley ey She has a powerful game but bu bua buta a tendency toward unsteadiness that tha thalas has las cost her many matches match But when whenn In n a scoring mood she is almost un Un- beatable Womans Woman's golf golt has improved greatly since the resumption of play follow follow- followIng followIng Ing ng the war Prior to that it was considered sensational golf when a woman broke 80 but now It is done don with regularity by many Only recently Glenna Olenna Collett Colleti had hada a 73 3 and early In the summer Vir- Vir Van twice scored over ove midwestern courses from the mens men's tees Any Anyone one of ot a dozen of th the youngsters in the field is likely lIl ly t to reel off oft a score under 80 without warning and that usually is La enough poison polson to dispatch a rival Cherry Valley is well suited to th the omens women's It is no not too long nor too severely se trapped t to tc offer them a fair test and the greens green are arc excellent The course has th the thone the theone theone one true hazard of golf the golf the wind The variable breezes that whip over ores overLong Long Island can quickly change an ar L Leasy easy par four hole to a hard five an and I discount strength in favor or of rea real I golfing Bolting skill The course measure yards from the back tees an and women's par Is 82 a 82 a figure that like like- likely likely ly will be shattered several times I It II I should be b a crest ireat reat championship am and and I the probability of ot a new champion be beIng be- be beIng Ing log returned is strong |