The New York herald., 1922-06-02
met CHAMPION IS
WINNER AT NASSAU
Shorter From Tee, Atlanta
Golf Star Is Superior in
Short Game.
IS 2 UP AT THE TURN
Lack of knowledge OF Links
Handicaps Providence Girl
in Contest.
IS 2 UP AT THE TURN
BY KERR n. PETRIE.


picked up the metropolitan title for the
first time last week, gave one more con-
elusive demonstration of her worthiness
and fitness still to rule by defeating
Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, r..
T.. 8 UP and to play in an exhibition
match played yesterday over the Mas
sau Country Club links Of Glen Cove,
L.. L.
While il is understood that Miss
Stirling and Miss Collett had practice
game together prior to the national
championship last year. yesterdays con-
test was the first in which the public
has had chance to lay Its plans TO
watch the pair of stylists feminine and
compare their work and their methods.
Miss Stirling won because OF her
greater experience and her steadier
work with the irons and putter In
driving the shonors were decidedly with
Miss Collett, who takes a better brace
than the former champion and thereby
seems to get more power into her shots.
Miss Stirling was not timing her WOOD
we'll for the greater part OF the journey
and she WAS in the rough with slce
from the tee on every hole OF the iirst
eight but the fourth, which Is snort
hole.
Better, with the Mashfe.
But once off the tee Miss Stirling
made the ball behave as a general rule.
she has more of that professional
touch with the mashie than has MISS
Collett and her putting touch at the
present moment is also better. MISS
Collett was handicapped by not know
ing the course. 1t was her first trip
around Nassau and one imagines MISS
Sterling would not have such an easy
time in another match.
Actually the former national cham
pion had her hands full. for after be-
ing three down at the tenth, Miss
Collett came away with pectacular
burst that made 1t look as IL she in
tended to carry off the honors- On the
thirteenth, 1872 yards and of the Redan
formation. Miss Collett laid her tee
shot a clubs length from the cup hol-
ing out for gafter Miss Stirling from
thirty feet had trimmed. And on the
next the Providence girl laid brassie
second about six feet from the pin.
She missed the putt for but won
the hole as Miss Stirling had hooked
her brassie second out of bounds.
On the next, a short hole. both
pitched into the trap guarding the
green, Miss Collett having the misfor-
tune to find her ball In a hole from
which it had to be chopped free. She
took for this par hole and only
lost by a stroke, her opponent requiring
two shots to clear the sand.
This left Miss Stirling up again and
the latter won the match on the next.
holding a long putt for a on this up
hill affair of 451 yards. A par would
have been good enough as Miss Colle.t
found bunker on her brassie second.
Playing out the round Miss Stirling
holed good putt~>op the seventeeth
for and scored on the eighteenth
to give her 40 back arc an approximate
card of So. Miss Collett was 49,
Miss Stirling Wins First.
Miss Collett began by hooking into
the rough and then pitching into a
bunker. Hiss Stirling played a pretty
inashie from the rough on the right and
had an easy 4. On the second Miss
Colle.t again went down the left hand
rough. She was over with her approach,
but saved half by chipping dead.
The third was a remarkable hole.
From this tee Miss Collett hit a ball
that must have been all of 240 yards
The distance Is 466 yards and she
spared her brassie second a mistake
which brought disaster.
Miss Stirling got off another sliced
tee shot which landed in bunker. She
played two to get out and then she
only succeeded in reaching another trap
a trihe more advanced. Getting clear
in her fourth. Miss Stirling sent her
fifth, brassie. to the corner of the
green.
Miss Collett still had to play her sec
ond. Noting the success of her oppo-
nents shot. she hesitated. spared her
stroke and sliced into a bunker, from
which she finally emerged with the bal,
in her hand after playing four shots
without avail. Had this hole gone as It
should there would have been no finish
on the sixteenth green.
instead OF being square. Miss Collett
was now down. She lost the next.
LAG yards. by missing the Oasis" as
the hole is named. and dropping into
the Desert" Miss Stirling played n
masterful iron within eight feet of the
cup and almost had 2.
Gets Home in Two.
II was now up to Miss Collett to re-
gain some OF the lost ground. On the
43s yard fifth she was home, twelve
feet from the cup in two. The next
she also won. but she lost the seventh
through an underplayed approach. A
perfect iron shot across the pond gave
H'fFS othihib AHc tlEltn nOlt III n par y,
and Miss Collett took the ninth, 2s6
yards, with a 3. driving beautiful
ball and laying her approach within a
yard OF the cup.
The tenth was a half in 8. while the
eleventh went to Miss Stirling in 4 to 6,
.fiss Collett overplaying the green and
going out Of bounds. The twelfth was
halved. The subsequent play has been
described
While the match demonstrated that
Miss Stirling still has her championship
brand OF golf IL also proved that Miss
Collett has arrived and that in about
two years more she will be hard to
beat She had the length and the
f'rength and needs only little ex-
oerience and polish. She won the ma
tional qualifying medal last year and
beat Miss Cecil Leitch in tournament
in Philadelphia. The Providence girl
would make worthy champion even
now.
The card:
MISS STIRLING
-, 80 "a 4-42
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Indians Trainer Quits.
CLEVELAND Juno Perry Small
wood. for several years trainer of the
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