Evening star., 1925-05-03

This morning, paired with Miss
Joyce Wethered,. the British woman
champion, she was victorious in a
foursome over Tolley and f. f. Storey,
the latter being last years runner.up
in the British amateur championship.
The score was up, Miss Collett sink
ing long putt two-thirds of the way
across the expansive eighteenth green
to clinch the morning match.
Makes Thrilling Finish.
In the afternoon the American
player made an even more thrilling
finish, SO far as fighting goes. She
was down with 3 to play
against Tolley, and then, without hav-
ing to use these strokes available to
her on the even-numbered holes, she
won the sixteenth and the eighteenth,
while, on the seventeenth Tolley beat
himself by sending his first tee shot
out of bounds and his second drive
under tree only a few feet from
forbidden ground.
The finest shot of the day out of
Miss Collett's bag was her approach
to the home hole in the afternoon,
when her match with Tolley was all
square. The eighteenth at Stoke
Poges is 426 yards. mostly uphill and
over undulatlng land.
Miss Collett used her brassie for
the second shot and whipped the ball
full 200 yards squarely on the green,
while her hard-hitting male opponent,
who never during the day had used
anything more powerful than a mid
iron for his second shot, was Off the
green with his approach. His chip
shot left him still away from the
green. and, although the American
missed the 5-foot putt which her
brassie shot had left her for a birdie
8, she nevertheless won the hole
and the match without using her
stroke allowance, for Tolley. who
never is too reliable on the green, re-
quired to finish.
The large gallery, never very dem
onstrative here. clapped hands and set
up cries of Good shotr' when Miss
the pin and thus defeated the ponder
GUS and popular Toiley, who at the
sixteenth tee had been up.
Makes Good Impression.
The morning match, in which Miss
Collett and Miss Wethered were part
ners, offered the first opportunity for
observers to compare the play of the
two women, who are conceded to be
among the best golfers of their sex
in their respective countries. The
comparison was not unfavorabfe to
the young American although there
are some few Britons who as yet dc
not concede that she has much chance
of beating the British champion IN
singles, unless Miss Wethered is
slightly off her best game.
Both women played steady, sound
golf during the forenoon, with only
one serious slump, and, fortunately
they slhmped together, SO that the
lapse cost them the loss of the one
hole only. For the rest Of the time
Miss Collett drove quite as far as Miss
Wethered; indeed, at times she drove
as long a ball as the prodigious Tol-
ley. Her iron approaches were as
clean, crisp and accurate as Miss
Wethereds, and her putting, although
nothing to get excited over, due prob
ably to her timidity and seeming
nervousness in new SURROUNDINGS, was
fully as good as Miss Wethered's
who, 1t should be stated in all justice
to her, was not putting as well as she
is capable of doing.
During the whole day Miss Collett
had hardly more than half a dozen
shots to which the most exacting
critics could object. Twice she missed
her drives, twice she pulled her sec
ond shots too far to the left and found
the rough, and two or three times her
approaching was weak. But nobody
played perfectly.
In the afternoon Tolley, who play
ed exceedingly well, except at the
seventeenth, took n for the S,669-yard
course. and Miss Collett had a gross
score of so, her net return being 8
less, or IL. She had only one s, while
Tolley probably would have taken
or 8 at the seventeenth.
Miss Wethered Is Winner.
Just behind the ollett-Tolley match
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