The New York herald., 1921-10-26
Miss Hollins and Mrs. Gavin
Win From the Misses
Leitch l Up.
yICToRs 4 UP AT SIXTH
British Champion Makes
Brilliant Rally and Wins
Score Prize With IS.
, BY KERR N. PETRIE.

IeaHlng SO Well et the outset thdt
they were enabled to win the first three
holes and to lead by 4 up with no more
than six played, Miss Marion Hollins
OF Westbrook. the national champion.
and Mrs. w. A. GAVIN OF Belleclaire,
succeeded in holding something of the
initial gain right through to the end
OF best ball match on the Baltusrol
links yesterday against the Misses Cecil
and Edith Leitch. thereby giving
America victory over Great Britain
The margin In favor of the home side
at the finish was only one hole, thanks
to the brilliant play OF the British
champion. Miss Cecil Leitch, from the
eighth to the end of the round.
There were even visions of a halved
match as with Miss Holins out of 1t
through hooked drive and a bunkered
second Mrs. Gavin was left to hold at
bay the eager British girls on the last
hole. With all three on in two and
Mrs. Gavin and, Miss Edith safe for
their fours. Miss Cecil was left with
a. ten foot putt for u ) to bring mat
tersi back to an ever basis. In her
eagerness the British star overran and
found herself with quite a sixeable putt
for a 4. The stroke vas successful.
Although defeated IN, match play Miss
Cecil Leitch came out of the fray with
honors as great as If she had won.
because Of the fact that she easily
led the medal play scoring for q special
prize and also that she virtually had
played the better ball OF her opponents
throughout the, round,
From the way she played the first
eight holes 1t aid not look as if Miss
Cecil would better 80 or that the British
girls could stave off defeat that would
approximate a rout in Its severity. The
sinister shadow of that disadvantage OF
four holes still was looming above the
British triple crowned queen Of the
links as she laid her iron shot on the pin
for the 159 yard ninth. Miss .Leitch
had been finding that the newly cut cups
were DETECTING the ball at the crucial
moment. On this ninth she gave the
ball the club from a distance of thirty
feet and almost bent in the back of the
rim. UP jumped the rubber core, but
its force was spent with the impact and
down 1t came again, to rest an inch or
two from. the cup. Miss Hollins and
AirsS Gavin each required 4, and thus
was the long lane Of adversely turned
for the British pair.
British Champion Fights Back
On the 4l0 yard tenth Miss Cecil was
over the green on her second, but pitch
ing back to within less than fve feet OF
the hole, she sank the only made here
The match was into the new part of
Baltusrol by this time. The next Is
plateau affair Of 1873 yards. With the
tee shots It looked bad for the English
pair. While Miss Hollins. was nicely on
the green and Mrs. Gavin at The gate
way between the sbunkers, Miss Edith
Leitch was in sand trap on the left
and her sister down on a clay roadway
on the right. And yet 1t was Miss
~. tz(Ia frv xyI1i la
Mrs. Gavin was running UP trtre too
wide for her 8 and Miss Holllns taking
three puts. the British champion sank
In twenty footer for 3.
This left the British pair only one hole
to the bad Miss Cecil should have
evaned the score at the next. but She
closed the door upon opportunity with
one of those tantalizing extra puts af-
ter Miss Hollins had wasted a stroke
sicing out Of bounds and Mrs. Gavin
had got .into trouble through the fair
way. However. for the English pair 1t
was merely a case OF hope deferred.
Tho match actually was squared at the
next hole by very brilliant and unex-
pected fash of play on the part OF the
British Champion.
1fiss HoIlins started by topping and
then on top OF this she overplayed the
green. The distance of 202 yards ap-
pearsd to he little bit too much against
the wind for Mrs. Gavin and Miss Edith
Lcitch, for bnti were short and In the
rough. Driving all the way to the
green. but having her ball detected by
the wind Into trap. Miss Cecil had a
lie close to tho bank of the bunker, with
frontal explosion shot her only hope OF
salvation. That bunker stroke proved
10 DO one OF the features Of the match,
for Miss Leitch's ball came to rest only
a clubs length from the cup. A treach-
erous downhill putt still had to be made.
but the champion accomplished this by
laying back the blade of her putter,
touching the ball ever so lightly and
piioting It straight for the centre Of tho
cup. sa
Chnnce Lost at Sixteenth.
OF the remaining five holes all werc
hnlved save the first, where Miss Hollins
won with after slicing her tee shot
between tho out OF bounds stakes. An
iron shot that was caught IN the corner
OF the bunker proved the undoing OF
Miss Cecil Leitch on this hole. With
hc- sister picking UP on every hole
fron the fourteenth 10 the sixteenth, the
British champion carried on alone She
should have had the match squared at
the sixteenth, but after playing mag
nifcently on this $50 yard hole and
getting home with drive. brassie and
iron she took three puts and allowed
Miss Hollins TO come In for half, even
after being In the bunker with a sliced
iron
II was found In the final analysis that
Miss Cecile Lcitch had. won the low
score prize by a margin of sev,n strokes.
BEST BALL.
Miss Hollns and Mrs Gavin
pS' i% .....:st. ....::s,. : tsss - .-ss-s.
Misses Cecil and Edith Lcit~li--
OF ......... s <5 q Att
In .......... 3 o 4--4i-s5
INDIVIDUAL. SCORES.
Miss Cecil Letch-s
Out ....... . y g 3-4f
Mrs. Gavin
Out ......... st57s 4--,7
IN ......... 90 o. Z ! S-i5-os
Miss Yfollins--
Out ...,'.~. sIssstes So II