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The Champion Retains Her Crown
(W. D. Richardson)
FOR the third consecutive year
Miss Glenna Collett, of Provi
dence, R. L, former national
women’s champion, is the holder of the
North and South championship for
women.
In the final of the twenty-second
annual tournament, Miss Collett, play
ing a brand of golf that has seldom,
if ever before, been seen in any wo
men’s championship defeated Miss
Louise Fordyce, of Youngstown, the
Ohio women’s champion and one of
the most notable women players in the
country, by-6-and 5*. The match was
decided before the turn was passed,
Miss Collett leading by six holes at
that stage, out in 36, one over par, and
that in spite of a 5 at the par 3 fifth
hole where her drive landed on the
green, ran down the slope back of it
into the sand from where she took four
to hole out, due to a weak approach
shot.
Queen of the Links
Miss Glenna Collett, who retained her title in the
United North and South Championship last week
with an exhibition of brilliant golf.
During this ravishing brand’ of golf
—golf that caused many of the pro
fessionals who followed the match to
declare was almost as good as they
themselves could do—Miss Fordyce
struggled on bravely and valiently.
She reached the turn in 43 strokes
herself which, under ordinary circum
stances, would have brought her that
s far at least square with almost any
other opponent. But she had lost hole
after hole to the par-playing Rhode
Island star and had won only one hole
and halved another..
Such a situation was sufficient to
break the nerve of almost anyone but
the Youngstown girl who plugged on
stoically, won three out of the next
four holes and carried the match as far
as the fifteenth green. .During these
last six holes Miss Fordyce actually
outplayed Miss Collett but the latter’s
tremendous lead in the beginning pre
cluded anything coming of it except
the knowledge of a game finish. The