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APRIL 3, 1926
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Miss Fordyce Takes Title From Miss Collett
By E. Ellsworth Giles
SNEW North and South cham
pion for women was crowned
for the season of 1926 at the
conclusion of the 18-holes final
played over the No. 3 course on
Tuesday last. Miss Louise Fordyce,
of Youngstown, Ohio, carried away
the laurel wreath of victory, snatch
ing it from the expectant hands of
the favorite and so worthy a con
tender as tlie reigning champion of
these United States, Miss Glenna
Collett, of Providence, Rhode Is
land, by the tender margin of 2 up
and 1 to play.
The newly made champion won
the title worthily and on the merits
of her game, for she not only out
played the national champion but
she returned a very respectable
medal card approximating! 82 which
is the bogey for the course. Here
are the cards:
Miss Fordyce
Out 4 5 5 4 4 3 5 5 5—40
In 5 4 5 5 5 4 4 6 x
Miss Collett
Out 4 4 5 5 3 4 4 6 5—40
In 7 5 5 4 5 6 4 6 x
An intermittent rain fell during
Miss Louise Fordyce, Ohio State Champion and runner-up
to Miss Collett in the North and South event tn 1924,
was more successful this year and defeated the Nation
. - al Champion on the seventeenth green, thereby
; retaining for the West the title won last year
by Mrs. Melvin Jones, of Chicago.
Miss Collett, in the final, was not
the champion of the qualifying
round when she took the medal
with a record 77 through the dis
play of a flawless brand of golf. In
the final she was licked through
her own sins of commission, for she
missed shots through the fairway
at the tenth, eleventh, and fifteenth
holes which in each instance cost
the hole, and in the end the match.
Miss Collett was noticeably ill at
ease after she left the tee at the
turn until the end came at the sev
enteenth green. She got poor value
from a hanging lie second on the
365-yard tenth, and the ball found
the guarding water hazard below.
She essayed a full wood second shot
on the 419-yard eleventh—rather
into the teeth of the mild breeze—
and missed it badly, overreaching
the ball and scalping to the rough.
Her tee shot on the dog-leg, up
grade 340-yard thirteenth was half
topped, but the ball ran well, and
then she showed her appreciation by
playing a magnificent spoon shot to
within five feet of the cup. The
champion was two down at the
time, and this great shot helped.
the final round but it did not deter
a gallery of a thousand or more of wildly enthusiastic gol ers
from hurtling over the rolling terrain in the wake of the
fair contestants. In this gallery were champions of ever>
grade and variety, even including one who h&s often been
hailed as the champion of the world. And this same champion,
Walter Hagen by name, we saw peeping through the human
interstices fti humble fashion much like a small boy statione
at a convenient knot-hole at a world’s series baseball gam
CHAMPIONS IN THE GALLERY
And there were other champions, and golfers galore from
all parts of the world, rushing hither and thither to points
of vantage, and there was also the familiar clarion ca o
“fore,” which we have heard, lo these many years at na
al championships— a warning call which by common
sent is passing in. popularity.
She didn’t need to hole a 3 for Miss Fordyce had pulled her
iron second to the sand trap near the green and could do no
better than 5.
The finalists hashed the 138-yard pond hole, halving it in
5. Miss Collett played a really lovely iron shot dead on the
pin here but it proved a bit too strong and the ball ran to the
trap behind the green. Miss Fordyce pulled to the left
bunker. Miss Collett, away, failed to get out in her first at
tempt and was not pleased, taking a good healthy swing at
the ozone as she stood in the sand. Miss Fordyce let the
champion in on the halve by also failing to get out in her
first try.
THE DECISIVE SHOT
Miss Fordyce really won the title on the over the hill and
far away 371-yard fifteenth, aided and abetted by Miss Col
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