Senior Golfers

Four maiden ladies and 71 wide-hipped matrons, who looked as though their lives revolved around lemon pies and peonies, gathered around the first tee of New York's Westchester Country Club last week, chattering like magpies and nervously fanning the air with their drivers. Stretched ahead of them were 36 holes of golf, a two-day tournament to determine the best U. S. lady golfer between the ages of 50 and 70. Those with handicaps of 14 or less competed in Class A, those handicapped at 15 to 25 in Class B, from 25 up in Class C.

The first day only one lady broke 80. She was Mrs. Edward L. Howe of Princeton, N. J., who posted 79. The following day, while the majority of players were dampened by an annoying drizzle (only four broke 90), Mrs. Howe ran away from the field. Her 36-hole total of 159 set a new record for the U. S. Women's Senior Golf championship.

Setting records is nothing new for Mrs. Howe. As Dorothy lona Campbell, she won the U. S. women's golf championship in 1909, the year she came to the U. S. from her native Scotland. As Dorothy Campbell Hurd (after marrying Clubman Jack V. Hurd of Pittsburgh), she established the greatest record of any woman golfer in the world: three Scottish championships, two British championships, three U. S. championships, three Canadian championships, and winner of an average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell Kurd Howe, 55, is still as British as tweed, plays golf three times a week, knits stockings, rides a bicycle, helps her husband raise Jersey cows.

Last week's prize (in her first competition with the seniors) was her 761st. Some of her prizes have been given away as wedding presents, others have been exchanged for sweaters, golf shoes, stockings.

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