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Right—Miss Virginia Wilson, hard-hitting little Chicago golfer, who was defeated by Miss Van Wie after a sensational battle. Left—The defending champion, Mrs. O. S. Hill, who was elimi nated in the first round by Miss Edith Quier. (Hemmer Photos.) Glenna Wins North and South Title Continued From Page Three two women players, by the narrow margin of 1 up. The gallant stand of Miss Turpie won for her the admiration of the great throng of spectators. In the other half of the semi-finals bracket, Miss Van Wie defeated Miss Miss Edith Quier of Reading, Pa., by a 5 and 3 margin, to win the right to face her opponent of many final matches in the title bout. Miss Quier, who, the day before, had eliminated Mrs. O. S. Hill of Kansas City, defending champion, in a remarkable battle, was far off her game, flub bing her tee shots and playing generally indifferent golf. For the first nine holes of the championship struggle, the match between Miss Collett and Miss Van Wie was a closely-fought contest, but after the turn was reached the match developed into a rout. All that kept it from paralleling the Hot Springs holocaust last September when Glenna defeated Miss Van ^Vie 13 up and 12 to play in the finals of the national, was the unsteady putting of the champion. Miss Collett should have been tat least four up at the turn, but her putting blade, more recalcitrant today than at any time during the championship, was missing putts of from two to four feet. The gallery, always looking for the sensational, received moi*e than the usual quota of thrills on the outward nine. First Virginia would stage a brilliant bit of golf, such as sinking a putt from 15 yards off the green edge, and, not to be outdone, the champion would come right back with a shot that would trump her opponent’s previous effort. Glennas 75 Wins Medal Covering the outward nine in 35 strokes, to set a record for the first nine holes of the difficult No. 2 layout for a woman player and a nine-hole mark for the tournament, Miss Glenna Collett was back in 40 to lead the field in the qualifying round. Trailing the leader by seven strokes came Miss Martha Parker of New York City, who was out in 42 and back in 40 strokes to take runnerup honors. In a four-way tie back of Miss Parker with 84 each came Miss Marion Turpie, Miss Louise Fordyce, Miss Virginia Van Wie and Mrs O S Hill The Metropolitan district champion, Miss Maureen Orcutt, came next with an 85, and she was followed by Miss Helen Hicks, the sensational star of the recent Florida tourneys from Hempstead, L. I., who carded Miss Collett, paired with Miss Turpie, crashed out her record round of 75 with a gallery of close to a thousand interested spectators closely i following. She started sensationally with birdie 3’s on the first two holes, due to excellent tee shots, followed by well-nigh perfect seconds and long range putting. Taking a 5 on the third, due to misjudging the distance on the approach and going over the green, the next two holes were coveted in par, and a birdie 4 was caught on the sixth. She drove the next green and holed out in two more strokes for a par three. A hooked drive and trap trouble sent her to one over par on the eighth. On the ninth, she sent down a perfect drive, was near the green on her secondhand was down in two more for a par 4, to complete the record-making round. Coming back, the champion started off with par 4’s on the 10th and 11th. Missing a seven-foot putt on the next green cost her five strokes on the par 4 hole. On the 13th, she drove 220 yards, and her second stopped fifteen yards from the green in a trap. Hitting the ball out cleanly, she was on with her third and down in two more. After a terrific tee shot on the fourteenth, she found traps on her next two strokes to finish with a six. She took four strokes on the par 3 fifteenth, but she made up for this loss on the next hole by registering a birdie 4, the fourth of the round. The seventeenth was holed out with a par 3, and after over-pitching the green on her third shot on the final hole, she carded a five to finish the round. Not in the least disconcerted by this display of golf, Miss Turpie was swinging into the game which made her one of the outstanding players o the tournament. Her unfamiliarity with the course caused her continu a m*sjudge distances, and she followed well-hit tee and fairway shots with much uncertain long-distance putting. Better work in the vicinity of t e greens would have given her a score somewhere in the upper seventies. Out in 44, she improved her green work on the inward round to finish with a 40. Tournament Topics Continued from Page Five c°llett plays each shot carefully and as perfectly as possible. But not so wit t e 8-year7old Helen. The temperament of youth, impatient with t , resu ts in a certain carelessness which causes her to waste many valuable strokes. re tournament experience is bound to result in a more careful game, t Wf fn S f.,.aS convince^ herself that she must play each shot to the . °. |Cf f 1 lt^> t^len t^lere be no doubt as to the threat which she o es in er aS* Good-natured and ever smiling, hers is the temperament which should go far in the realm of championship golf.
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