The New York herald., 1921-05-08

aomen's, or forward tees and Hilton the
back, mems, tees.
In another handicap match played against
Abe Mitchell. December IA. 1919, in which
she also received a half, Miss Leitch was
scarcely so successful the professional win
ming by and over thirty-six holes Such
apses on the part of this wonder girl of
the links are rare however for usually she
can give the best male players stern battle.
asking no more than the odds that would be
necessary to bridge the factor of physical
strength of the two sexes. Sometimes shs
does not even require that. For at Stoke
poges the other day she defeated Cyril
Tolley. the British champion. by and 4, and
on another course she asked but four strokes
from the local professional and beat him
J and 2.
Among her own sex she frequently is
rampant. as note the defeat Of 10 up and
s 10 play I'm eliminating Mrs. Temple-Dobell
(nee Miss Gladys RavenscrofD in the Eng
iish championship Of 1919. That tourney
was played at st. Annes- on Sea and in
edition to winning the championship Miss
Leitch also won the medal with a card of "a.
In April Of the same year she played Walton
Heath James Braid's course. in So this be-
ing under the womens par
1t Is worthy to mention also that Miss
Leitch has never lost for England in the
international matches To win her first
British championship she defeated Miss
Ravenscroft I'm the final and 1, and to
retain the crown last year at Newcastle.
County Down. ireland, she defeated Miss
Mollie GrifIiths by and s. repeating against
the same player in the final Of the French
championship al Ia Boulie by s and 5. She
wor the British. English and French cham
pionshps IN 1914 In April of last year Miss
Leitch took the Ranelagh challenge gold
al
Americans recently have had their atten-
ton directed toward this Ranelagh by the
fine play Of the women In the tournament
held there with Miss Stirling as a com
petitor This is where Miss ,Leitch. after
standing tied with the American champion
on the first day at 78, forged to the front
Tn the second with card OF 20. A card or
60 was handed in by one contestant. but
even this does not constitute a record seeing
that in the international tournament in 1914
Miss Cecil Leitch played the course in 81
She had to do it to be anywhere. as her
sister May the first day had handed in a 50.
Not only that but in the long run the
thirty-six hole gross prize went TO still
another OF the Lcltch sisters. Miss Edith.
who played around in IL. 7O-141.
An account OF that tournament has this
10 say OF Miss Cecil Leitch's 67:
"shc started by driving almost on to
the first green, which Is 23S yards. and
both there and at the second she nibbled
for threes in fact when the g. was
handed in Il was possible to say with
truth and Justice that the play. so TO
speak, was well inside those figures and
that a little luck would have made her
even less. 1t Is great deal shorter 70
enumerate tho mistakes than the good
shots, so we viii only say that az the new
hfth her second did not quite find the
green: that there were three puts on the
seventh. and that at the seventeenth. after
driving into bunker gao yards from the
tee she took three puts and with them
a five. Otherwise II was splendid golf
long. straight and punctuated ~ thor
oushly reliable putting"
Miss Lcitch has her own way or doing