The New York herald., 1921-10-04
GIRL OF is IN TIE
FOR TITULAR MEDAL
Miss Glenna COllett and Mrs.
! Latham Hall Of England
4 Score 85.
TOP MISS CECIL LEITCH
Favorites Survive in Qualify
ing Round for National
Championship Tourney.
TOP MISS CECIL LEITCH
ny KERR N. PErRIE.

by KERR N. PETRIE.
Svscsog Despatch to THE NEW YoKK HERALD
DEAL, N. j., Oct. 3.--With a majority
Of the favorites playing reasonably close
20 form, taking into the consideration
the breaks that are to be expected In
the course of round Of eighteen holes.
and England sharing with America the
honors Of the qualifying play, the ma
1ional women's golf championship tour
nament was begun to-day on the Holly
wood Golf Club links under most favor
able auspices save in only one respect. the
weather. Intermittent showers In the
forenoon gave place to pitless rain
that drenched all but the very early
finishers. but despite 1t all the women
played on, extracting glory from adver-
Isity as a general rule.
The end Of the day found Mrs. Latham
Hall of Mid-Surrey. England, tied for
the medal with Miss Glenna Collett of
/ the Rhode Island Country Club at S5.
these two topping Miss Cecil Leitch,
Gsolder Of the British, French and Cana
dian titles by two strokes.
Right behind Miss Leitch were Mrs.
Thomas Hucknall of Forest Hill and
Pn6iss Elaine Rosenthal Of Ravisloe. Chi
IScaRo at 88, while in the 80 column were
Miss Marion Hollins Of Westbrook.
~. L. and Miss Alexa Stirling of At
Santa, Ca, the national title holder. Mrs.
E1Clarence II. Vanderbeck, the 1915 cham
Expion, finished at 90, while hole behind
Miss Bessie Fem Of Portland. at 81.
swere Mrs. Melvin Jones. the Western
tnhampion, and Mrs. r. G. Let's, Jr..
kbrmeY holder Of that honor.
Tlna Playing by Demure Miss.
As between eighteen-year-old Miss
scollett and Mrs. Hall it is difficult to say
kWhich n entitled to the great share OF
The glory. The safe and sane plan would
b to draw an even line. This Is the
third week that the demure miss from
9yhode island has forced herself into the
public gaze through her prowess with
club and cleek. The week before last
uhe won the Rhode Island championship.
and this success sh3 followed UP last
week by clinching the Boston distr;ct
championship, which Is an event eQdiva-
lent to the metropolitan championship.
Mrs. Hall was runner up for the Brit
dsh women's champ. ,rsLip in 1913, her
conqueror on chat occasion being Miss
Muriel Dodd. It was as Miss Evelyn
Chubb, however. that Mrs. Hall was
known to the golhng world In those days,
the present tournament Mrs. Hall might
have been allowed TO play the role of
dark horse in this. M
AS 1t is, Mrs. Halls performance can
be set down In the category Of the
superlative. considering the period that
has elapsed since she figured in cham
pionship golf. Only by the merest
chance is the former British champion
ship runner-up in the tournament at all,
1pr she and her husband were headed for
Canada from the Argentine without any
thought Of the American title play when
Illness in the family necessitated a delay
in the vicinity of New York. Mrs.
Halls entry was almost an eleventh hour
affair.
! Miss Collett would have won the medal
outright had she not taken on the
last hole, the consequence OF shot out
OF bounds Mrs. Hall had z at the
third to mar her card. this being, as she
afterward admitted, the result Of an
error of judgment in trying to carry
with her second shot the trap which was
causing most of the contestants to use
iron for safety shot instead OF wood.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Hall had to attempt
this forcing stroke from a lie on that
part of the course rendered treacherous
by the ravages Of the devastation grub
which on certain parts of the links has
eaten away the roots of the turf and left
the surface like so much picked cotton.
The shot met n sad fate in still
worse lie than the first, and the third
went into the bunker. Mrs. Hall had
started her round with an excellent
and steady 5. In view of that the 7
was not such tragedy. At the third a
fresh start was made, and when Mrs.
Hall turned in "A she was doing practi-
cally as well as any.
On the incoming stretch. which Is sup
posed to be stroke or two easier, Mrs.
Hall scored a fine Al. her worst hole
probably being the twelfth. where she
was bunkered on her second shot. Her
card: