New Britain herald., 1924-08-23
GLENNA ID BATTLE
 IN OL' HOME TOWN
Will Strive 10 Regain Champion
 ship Among Women Golfers

Providence. R, !. Aug, E4,=When the galhng women af the country come ta this city september 1 ta de- eide the national championship For their sex they will find K0nns haiiH an of marked ability in The game iai- iiiRg on her home green i0 regain ihe title which sine held as miss af ls, ileRna cAiieit, wh0 celebrated her sist hirihda. at ihe Buffalo Country club last spflng hp defeating the preseRt national wnmen's champion, Miss Edith Cummings 0f nnNsnlsla, 2 nn and ta play, has every hone Of
 speaiing her snr2sss 0f two years
 go,
 on the links af the lthaie island Country club Miss collrti wil. he play .ng on the scene af her earliest pros Wess, In iha course Of inc present S asan she has won tine North and south title. the Eastern champinlH snip and the annual championship al
 he sheneensaelt links ai Eastern Point, Conn, sn that she has a back around hf confidence for her national championship campaign, The long
 lfiling women star has just Fel new record of 7h for the title course
 Mias collett's rise in inc top has been one of the most remarkable in the bnstory ni wnmen's golf, She be- gan her galfins career as q yonngsler s.. years ago. Her early training was receiver from John M, Anderson, then Drofesslonal at the Mctac0mct club, East Providence: from George 'othef- ingham. professional al the Norwood Country club at Long Branch N. J., and from George Gordon, professional at the wanamoisett club here. Her father. George 1T. gollett, himself an enthusiastic golfer, has iutored her between timce.
 Miss Collett glorics in long game and it ia perhaps her greatest asset Her drives have always been remark able for distance and when she went 10 Alex Smith. old master Of the game. for finishing touches. he did not try to change her style but gave her fine points to finish off her game.
 When she was 16, Miss Collett play cd in her first important tournament, the Boston district Championship, where she had & 105 in the qualifying round, taking three puts on IA greens. She was defeated in the sec ond round. In her first national championship at Shawnee, Pa, in 1919. she attracted attention by SCOT ing a 9s in the qualifying round. Again she was defeated in the second round.
 Miss Colett moved ahead rapidly after her appearance at Shawnee. She was third in the qualifying round or the North and South championship at Pinehurst in March, 1920, where she scored an S9. Slhe had not then reached championship form, however, as she was defeated in the Rhode 1s- land state championship the next summer by Miss Elizabeth Gordon of this city. She qualified for the na- tional at Cleveland the next October, but was put out in the first round by Elaine Rosenthal of Chicago.
 Since then Miss Colllett has been playing winning golf She started in by capturing the Rhode Island cham pionship in 1921, then took the Bos- ton district title. In the national that wear she tied for the qualifying round with Mrs. Hall of England and WOE the play-off Miss Edith Leitch was too much for her, however, and she was eliminated from match play. The next week Miss Collett defeated Cecil l .eitch, British champion, for the Behthellyn trophy at Philadelphia.
 In the winter of 1922 she started the Southern season by winning at Belleair, Florida, with a 76. Then came her first big victory, the North and South championship. In June she won the Eastern and in Septem- ber the National at White Sulphur Springs.
 Miss Collett started in well last wear by winning the North aind South, inc Eastern and the Canadian cham but to the surprise of the solfing world she was defeated in the National by Mrs. Clarence Nander- beck of Philadelphia.
 Last winter Miss Collett won all the Southern tournaments and in taking the Eastern at Brae-Burn In June, set course record.