New Britain herald., 1926-08-02
.GLENNA COLLETT
 GIVES INTERVIEW
At 23 She Is Twice National
 Woman's Champion

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 ! (Glenna Collett, golf champion lamong American women, joins Bob by Jones, Bill" Tilden and Helen Wills in telling through the Associ- ated Press how they reached their championships Miss Collett ex- plains her game in detail to Miss Ethel NJ. Halsey, of the Associated Press, tells of her tournament tenn Iperament even to the extent of ad- hitting an occasional "cuss" word. telling how women golfers should dress, and lists the more promising of younger players among women. The Associated Press copyrights the linterview)
 Eastern Point, Conn, Aug. ? Pl- The girl who was hailed when she first held a golf club nine years ago as "a girl who can drive ball like a man." today, when she is Ameri ca's woman champion for the second time declares that all a woman can hope for is to be as good a golfer as she can be with the handicap of being a woman"
 1 She is Glenna Collett, at 23 twice national woman's champion, winner of international honors, and she holds this view in spite of the fact that she has just won the Griswold trophy here by playing golf which sport writers describe as "a game that would have held a male star" In September, at Philadelphia, she will once more defend her national little. She loves the sport, and sin- Icerely believes it is the best there Is for women; although she recognizes clearly it's limitations for her sex. Her own story of how she worked out the best woman's game brings "nerve' hard work and good temper into the formula, as well as the sub stitution of skill for strength and above all the assurance that not cups and titles make the game worth while, but only the pleasure you get from swatting the ball"
 Often Feels Nervous
 "Sometimes when I get up to drive I off the first tee I am so nervous that II want to lie down and die,' said the woman champion. ' feel as though couldn't possibly hit the ball. think what price glory ?" and "why suffer all this for game of golf? and then l hit the ball, better than ever, and get real thrill out of it, and everything is all right, and I know why l play golf" But aside from this personal feel ing of mine, I have four reasons for thinking golf Is the best sport TOT women; first, 1t doesn't mean sacrl- fees that a girl would not like to make" said Miss Collett, who swims, drives a car, rides, dances. enjoys bridge and the theater and owns host of friends off the links as well as on them
 "second, golf Is a sport in which one plays one's own game, regard less of partner or opponent, man or woman. and this is important Tor the athletic woman, since she IS thus relying on her own strength, stand ing on her own feet and feeling the joy of independent achievement.
 .Third, golf is a game as well as a sport, and as such it teaches women a wonderful lesson in broad mindedness. It cannot help making women more sportsmanllke. u IS like an honor system in school IL develops the best side Of a glrls character, teaching her implicit hon- esty with herself. generosity to an opponent, fairmindedness and sell control,
 "J,ast. which I might have put first golf is splendid exercise Tor woman. It keeps her out In the onen air. in the sun and the wind, makes her walk many miles day. and in it's drives and other strokes develops body muscles tending to strengthen and make more grace ful her whole body"
 A Pretty Picture
 Her face, neck and arms tanned a smooth olive, her bobbed curly hair sunburned little more golden over her forehead, her slender figure 1.-the and easy of movement, Miss Collett is an unconscious poster of her four points. Unconscious IS q word essential in any description of her, for more modest. unassum- ing "star" it would be hard to find'
 She doesn't look or dress the part of champion. In her simple sport clothes = white Shantung SIX dress, q white and grey and tan- navajo sweater to which she had e. come attached as sort of super stition. thin grey wool stockings and white and black saddle-strap shoes-Miss Collett looks the college girl rather than the honor graduate of the golf school she has chosen. Her sport has neither hardened her, nor made her indifferent or exag- gerated. Her story of how she learned the game Is full of human signs of struggle, or defeat, or dls- appointments and enthusiasms:
 .The first time I ever held club in my hand I had a lesson,' she said. starting her story where she thinks everyone should start. John Anderson, the professional Of the Metacomet golf club, in Providence, | started me off. I was fourteen.
 Was I promising? heavens, no! I could drive a long ball, but that's all I could do-a long ball, but a crooked onel At that time l played tennis and swan a great deal, and though I liked golf and played it fairly often, was my worst sport, and I played it terribly. My short game was appalling.
 Still, that first year, encouraged by John Anderson. played in my yrNiS