| Show MRS MRSS SHRIVER WINS MISS BOTTERILL BOTTERILL EXTENDS MATCH TO GREEN Women Play Ore Great Creat at Contest Under Blazing Sun for City Championship By FRANK K BAKER Telegram Sports Editor While Mrs L L. G. G Shriver was winning winIng winning win win- ning Ing the women's city golf goU charn cham Friday she also was proving ng mg that Miss Betty Botterill will be bea a strong contender hereafter for tor any and md all feminine golfing crowns i ithe ip ii the ic state Mrs Shriver is from Forest Dale Dalend and nd has won the city title before as asell aswell aswell well ell as' as the state tournament in 1926 and nd 1927 Miss Botterill is from the Country club It was a tense battle that these two feminIne stars waged on the treacherous erous rous Bonneville course under a blazing lazing sun A nip and tuck match from rom the beginning it carried carded its drama rama right down to the ver very last hole ole of their hole 36 grind Better golf gol has been bem played but seldom eldom has more interesting competition compe compe- lion been produced in a championship champion champion- ship hip match even by the masculine devotees SQUARE QUARE ON HOLE DOLE Down virtually all aU the way to her veteran foe Miss Botterill proved beyond a doubt that she has rounded Into nto a tournament player layer when she squared the match on the thirty thirty- second hole She had never been in inthe he the lead On nine occasions she was two wo down and Mrs Shriver twice had her three down There was a feeling in the gallery that hat the end was near when Mrs Shriver won the twenty seventh togo to togo togo go three up with only nine more holes loles to play The Country club miss would not be dismissed so 60 easly ease ly ily however Doggedly she won No 28 after a fine tee shot and a dandy brassie from the middle of ot the fair faIr- way Mrs Shriver was in line for a win winn winan m an n 29 but s she thre three putted putted and Betty salvaged a halve They halved the next hole Came then the 1 yard drive over the creek on Bonneville's No 4 Mrs Shriver topped her tee shot hot and tooka took a penalty Betty drove to the far edge of the green and played safe with a four to win wip She was only one down Both had well wen hit balls off oft No 5 tee lee but Mrs Shrivers Shriver's second shot was in the trap and she took two strokes s to get safely on the green Bettys Betty's second shot was was on the edge of f a bunker but she played up well welland welland and nd won the hole to square the match All even 32 holes It washer was washer her first cha chance ce to forge torge ahead since the seventh reventh early in the day A rivalry that had been exception exception- ally lly keen since the very first day of the he tournament when Mr Mrs Shriver nosed the Country club player out for tor or honors burst forth In all I possIble tenseness Mrs Shriver ou out out- drove Betty on the No 6 but missed her ler second nd shot and seemed beaten on n the hole as Betty was straight on the pin with all aU her shots Then Mrs Shrivers Shriver's tournament heart eart survived its first big test Her putting utting had been her weakest factor all ill day long She w was 40 feet away from rom the cup Her try rimmed the hole lole and stopped six lx inches inches' away for or a halve II HALVE A LVE SEVEN WITH BIRDIES Both women responded to the chal hal lenge enge like champions They halved No 7 with par threes Mrs Shrivers Shriver's Shrivers Shrivers Shriver's Shri Shri- vers ver's putt seemed to hesitate on n the v v very lip of the cup A group of ot late gallery arrivals Uttered tittered just as Betty addressed her ball baiL She walked away from it ftc th then n came me back and rammed it home J Wearily the rivals rival trudged dup up the steps to the lofty No 8 tee Their second shots were 30 yards short of the he green green Mrs Shriver rolled her r approach to within two f feet t of the pin Here was the Betty sensed it and It-and and in the strain barely hit the ball half way to the green All over ot b by a long ong way Bettys Betty's next shot skimmed along the thc cups cup's lip and arid stopped a foot beyond the pin Mrs ShrIver missed her putt and the hole holc was halved l leav leav- av Ing ng the match all even iOne i One could not help b but t wish both women could win They were going to o their looth hole In five days over the up and d wn fairways fairway on the east bench Both had played good golf They drove Into the rays ray of the lowering sun There was little to choose between their tee shots Mrs Shrivers Shriver's second was to the right side of oZ the fairway ten yards short of the canyon Betty was 20 yards short and nd directly In lii the thc middle of the fairway airway Then came the heartrending br break alc k for Miss Botterill Her third shot flashed straight into the canyon while Mrs Shriver was over the yawning abyss in safety In one last desperate effort Betty I climbed down th the c canyon nyon wall to where her ball ban had lodged To stand there here was a problem in Itself Still she he planted one shoe a afoot a f foot ot ab above ve the other and called caned for her caddy Far down out of sight from the green she pitched a beautiful one that sailed well wen up over the canyon rim and halt half way to the green A beautiful out but it was wasted in inso so far faras as the match was was was' concerned for Mrs Shriver was down with a 11 apar apar par 5 to win Cards Cards' for the morning round Par 34 38 38 Shriver 44 44 Botterill 4 5 47 47 Shriver 41 44 41 41 44 25 25 Botterill 3 5 3 42 n 42 47 89 9 The afternoon cards Shriver SOU 41 41 Botterill 43 43 Shriver 87 46 46 41 87 Botterill 45 43 45 43 88 It was a hard match for both stars Mrs Shrivers Shriver's comeback after being caught on the second hole was most com commendable to for the sentiment favored As ever th fans vere were pulling a against the favorite They felt Mrs Mr Shriver had ahead already won von a good Share hare of nf titles that thal Miss was was' a new figure in circles The new champion couldn couldn't help but f feel she was playing a lone Ion 3 hand as the gallery aUery kept applauding her opponents opponent s victories on the final nine III Every competitor knows that feelIng feel feel- Ing at some time or other Mrs Shriver came through with flying colors Miss Botterill need have no regrets So long longas as ns she plays her same came strong game and nd remains s so pl plucky to the thelast thelast thelast last hole shell she'll win her share of titles too |
