New Britain herald., 1926-09-28
MISS COLLETT IS
 VICTORIOUS TODAY National Wonen's Champion
 Defeats Mrs, Hill Two Up CLOSELY CONTESTED GAME
Contender Was Two Up on Title Holder at One Time But Thrilling Rally and Uphill Fight Win For Providence Girl.

Providence Girl.
 Haverford. Pa. Sept. 2S Gp,-De Tending her title as women's nation. .al golf champion, Glenna Collett O Providence, R. L, brought off 8 stir. ring uphill fight in the first rounC today 10 defeat Mrs. O. S. Hill O, kansas City, two up.
 Mrs. Hill Wins First
 Mrs. Hill opened her offensive against the champion by winnine the first hole in par four to Glen. mas five, the champion reoulrine three puts on the heavy green. but the Providence girl came back tc square the match at the third with safe par three to Mrs. Hills er- ratio four.
 Miss Collett found trouble aplenty on the fourth, where her ball hoppcd into two traps. She lost the hole to 6, but once more she levelled the count by taking the sixth hole. where her approach putt stymied the midwest player.
 The champion then went 10 the front for the first time at the sev- enth, where Mrs. Hills game col lapsed. The Kansas City woman. short on her second, pitched back and forth into three traps around the green before she finally got on with her sixth stroke. She then the hole to the champion, whose third carried her ball within two feet of the pin.
 Champ Is Two Tp
 Approaching dead to the pin at the eighth for safe par four. Miss Collett became two up when her op- ponent dubbed her mashie pitch. Mrs. Hill here spurted to take the ninth and tenth, once more souar- ing the match, the champion re- quiring three butts on both gree IS.
 The cards to the turn:
 Miss Collett. out 56S 765 444-44 Mrs. Hill, out 464666 76S-4S
 Mrs. Hill Rallies
 It became apparent when the battle had been carried to the thir- teenth that Miss Collett would have to brace strongly to beat off the at tack of her mid-western rival. After honors had been divided on the 11th and 12th, Mrs. Hill sllied her mashie shot over the 125-yard stretch to within two feet of the pin and then got down her first putt for a birdie two to Miss Collett's par three, mak- ing the Kansas City player one up again.
 Clever chips from the edge of the green to within a foot of the cup gave each player a birdie four at the fourteenth while they holed out at the fifteenth in par fives, leaving Mrs. Hill still one up.
 On this hole the champion shank ed her iron to the rough. her re- ,overy dropped the ball safely on the green, while the Kansas City woman was in a trap. Mrs. Hill, however. was down in one putt for l half.
 Rally Saves Match
 A determined rally by the cham pion saved the match after she had been one down coming to the four teenth tee. From here on she re- covered command of her butter, after requiring three strokes on many greens in the early part of the duel, and finally evened the score 1t the sixteenth.
 Playing in three under women's par for the last seven holes of the contest, she then won both the sev- enteenth and eighteenth to clinch her victory.
 The champion finally leveled the count at the sixteenth. where she aced a powerful drive fully fifty yards beyond that Of her rival, whose ball hooked into a trap. Miss Collett's perfect second carried her oall to the green, 35 feet from the pin, while Mrs. Hill was barely on he fringe of the carpet with her third. Mrs. Hills attempt to drop her long approach putt failed, while Ilenna was down in the regulation
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