New-York tribune., 1921-10-06
Chicago Player Victor in
Dramatic Wind-Up; 9th
err Favorises Advance

pion has suffered in women's competi-
tion since 1914. Small wonder the
crowd cheered Mrs Let's 80 vocifcr-
ously and SO furiously.
IL was figured Cecil Leitch. who
twice has beaten the United States
champion, Miss AIeSa Stirling, would
meet Miss Marion Hollins tomorrow.
Miss Leitch also has beaten Miss Ho'-
Inns, but many were counting cn the
American girl TO stop the British phe
nom this time, as she gave Miss Leitch
6 hard match on the other side.
Mrs. Let's Starts Poorly
Nobody figured on Mrs. Let's, who
has been playing so we'll and so UNI
concernedly since the opening of the
tournament. But the little Chicagoan's
victory was not g Guks. She has the
game, as she has amply demonstrated
by winning the Western womens
championship three times This year
Mrs. Let's lost her title 20 Mrs. Melvin
Jones, who, incidentally, was elin.i
mated to-day by Mrs. Latham Hall, of
England.
A sweeping gale that galloped over
the course at pace Of sixty miles an
hour, while it did not seem to bother
Miss Leitch very much, was OF no help
whatever TO the plucky Mrs. Let's.
But whatever she lacks in physique is
Offset by her wonderful nerve and
gameness.
Mrs Let's was slightly nervous start
ing out That was only natural.
This, coupled with the wind, lrandi-
capped her considerably, and be-
fore she scarcely realized what was
taking place she was three down, Miss
Leitch playing the first three holes ex
Qu:sitely. BY the time the fourth hole
WAS seached Mrs. Let's had Gained
her futtering nerves and immediately
settled down 10 ilay the kind of golf
OF which she is capable
The remainder OF this round was
nip and tuck affair. At the turn Miss
the tenth hole, but lost the eleventh.
so that at the thirteenth the British
title holder was still two holes to the
good. And two holes at this stage of
the journey looked like victory to
everybody but Mrs. Letts. She never
let up.
Chioagoan Shows Gameness
Jndaunted, she played on 81 that
same serene, casy-golng manner. Miss
Leitch, Of course, was not playing up
70 her usual standard. but at that her
game today would have been good
.tacugh~to beat almost anybody except
uch an aggressive performer as the
CElc1goan.
At tie thirteenth Miss Leitch missed
4 short putt and lost the hole. She Was
c14y one UP then. Then the excitement
began. MISS Leitch got a wonderful
..l.ve on the fourteenth, and although
Mrs. Let's also had good drive mere
che pvt her second into the ditch that
guards the green. 10 droJ5 back and
lose g stroke meant the lpss Of the
hole. Mrs. Let's could not. afford to
lose any more holes at this ste stage.
She quickly made her decision. TAX
lug niD.ick in hand she ciiN.oed down
iG.o the brook. whion is cxtremely nar-
Aow ard about six feet deep. and
2 ayed g beautiful sho. thsC landed
short o. tAe green. But the Next shot
she Dubbed.
Meantime Miss Leisch, after playing
o~ec the green, Was having just as
.l4 trogb.e in reaching the dup Her
,D.r, aea sho. struck the nouads ana
!ynEed -: TIE edge CT the green. Her
ArprcacA putt ran seven feet past The
gin and she missed coming back, so
hat Mcs. Let's was able to halve the
hoe in 8.
lies Match on the 18th Hole
Mrs. Let's on the next hole, which
measures I65 yards. used spoon, and
landed on the fsr corner of the green.
Miss Leltch dubbed her tee shoe, and
her second landed in the deep pit in
front Of the velvet. She got out nicely
and her Iult h.ng on the very l.p OF
tie tin. Another turn and it would
have dropped. Mrs. Letts had a putt
VI about iour feet fer q 8, 50 that Miss
I.cltch conceded the hole. That squared
ne match.
-. che sixteenth Mrs. Let's got off
L wonderful drive and was ahort of
tie bunker in the middle Of the fair
way On fer second. Miss Leitch also
had q hne drive nere. and reached the
sreer easily IN three shots. Mrs. Let's