The New York herald., 1922-09-26
PROVIDENCE LASSIE
! IS LEADER With 81
Sets New Mark for Fixture on
White Sulphur Springs
Course.
REPEATS 1921 VICTORY
Miss Hollins Is Around in
4 83-Triple Tie for Third
Place at 85.
REPEATS 1921 VICTORY
BY KERR n. rETRIE.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. W. Va,
Sept. o5.--By annexing the qualifying
medal in the national women's golf
championship to-day over the Green
brler links with a card of 81. Miss
Glenna Collett, the -year-old
Providence girl forged another link
in the chain OF circumstantial evidence
which for some little time has been
promising TO attach her name TO the
highest honor that the game holds for
her sex. Miss Collett last year won
tho card and pencil prize after a play
off with Mrs. Lythan Hall, the Eng
lish trained star. To-day she went
over the Greenbrier course in a capital
81. and this card, Notwithstanding that
II was posted In early afternoon, held
q field OF 1874 contestants at bay.
Next best was the SO made by the
present title holder, Miss Marion Hol-
lins OF Westbrook. while after that came
trio OF S5s, one by Miss Alexa Stirling.
other by Youngstown's promising player.
Miss Louise Fordyce. and still a third
bv Mrs. Norman X. Toerge of Nassau
Country Club. who, duplicating the feat
performed earlier in the day by Mrs.
Caleb F. Fox. the wonder woman" OF
The tournament finished with fine 2.
In winning the medal on this occasion
Miss Collett has established n new
qualifying mark for woman's national
golf championship. The best previous
card was the 50 made at Mayfield in
1920 by Miss Hollins. Last year Miss
Collett and Miss Hall tied at IS, but, OF
course, there is vast difference be-
tween Hollywood and the course over
which the women are now competing
for their premier prize OF the links. The
yardage of the Greenbrier course is
6.205 and drought has laid quickening
touch upon its surface, giving the play
ers the advantage of considerable roll.
Then again, there Is not the same stern
bunkering at Greenbrier as is cncoun-
tered at Hollywood
Ideal Sport for Tourney.
Everything considered, it is doubtful
af more ideal spot for a woman's
championship than this could possibly
be found. The course is nothing more
than merely interesting. With It's many
water shots it becomes exhilarating in
the later reaches and the water also
has to be crossed before the player gets
away in search for the first par. Then
there is the lure of a magnificent pano-
rama OF wooded hills through which the
autumn tints flash and squirt like tongues
OF flame
Greenbrier in. many ways recalls
Ekwanok, or, come still closer home.
Iuxedo. Like the latter circuit. it
nestles in a basinlike depression formed
ny the tumbling hills. And to add to
the illusion. there is the stream meander-
ing playfully throughout its fairways.
Beneath the bridges as one crosses from
tee TO green can be seen some tempting
looking trout Laying among the rocks
Ia the brilliant sunlight.
In the Greenbrier reservation there
arc some 1000 acres, most of 1t given
up to animal nature. Deers and wild
turkeys gaze down from their mountain
Businesses wonderingly but unawed upon
the moving mass of golfers and gallery.
While, no such incident ever has been
reported, it is not inconceivablc that
some day a player may find himself
aiming q flashing niblick at a golf ball
.fnpaled upon the antlcrs of a monarch
OF the forest.
Charles Blair Mcdonald laid out this
course, and the finger of the designer of
the National Links and Lido, to mention
only these two masterpieces can be
traced at many stages Of the Journey
over the eighteen holes. There is not
apparent at any stage OF the course the
demoniacal ingenuity that has been dis
played on the wind swept. bewhiskered
Lido. Nor is there any of the rugged
ness of tho National. But there is a
"redan," a punch bowl" an "alph," a
"cape' and an eden"