Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-30
VIRGINIA VAN VIE
BEATEN, IS AND Z
Providence Girl Is Fifth
%!oman to Gain HonorS
Three Times.
BY BRIAN BELL.


wcmen's golf championship OF
tho limited States three times, cap
turing the title by defeating Virginia
Van VIE. l9-ycar-old Chicago girl, Is
nm and u of the 36 holes left to play
Never before in the 80 years OF the
vorsn's championship was Sucn
crushing defeat administered. MISS
CoIlett broke her own record for decisive
Victories for in 1925 at St Louis she
won her second championship from
Mrs. A!exa Stirling Frazer. 9 up ana
8 to play. ~
Predictions made before the cham
pionship began that 1t was Gicnna
vcer" were borne out as 1t closed. she
Won her FIRST title in 1922 at White
Sulnrur Springs. w. Va. less than %
miles from the scene of her third trl.
,n,nh made it two years later ana
tied the record of total championships
with three today. Suggestions we're
not lacking. however. that on the pass
of her sensational form In this week
rlav she will not have to walt three
years to make it four.
Joins Select Glass.
Until today only four women had won
the title three times-BeatriX Holt In
1895 1897 and 1898. Margaret Curtis in
1907, 1911 and 1912, Mrs. Dorothy
Campbell Hurd in 1909. 1910 and 1924
and AleXa Stirling in 1916, 1919 ana
1920.
Miss Collects best golf years were
before her. as she won today, and in
snite of the rush of youthful stars to
the trent she was given great chance
70 dominate woman's golf as BOBBY
Jones rules the mems division. The
man and woman champions are the
same age-26-but Glenna won her first
title at 20. while Rubber Tire" had
tn wait until he was % to mount the
amateur throne. ..
In this championship Miss Collett
was never in danger OF defeat. she
von her first match. 5 and 3, Increased
her margin to 8 and in the Sec
end. took the third. and 2. and won
her scmi-f1nal. 4 and 3.
Final Is Parade.
In the 36-hole final the contest de-
rcloped into parade. Miss Collect
started home after the first nine up.
and increased her margin to 10 at
luncheon. winning the last two holes OF
he morning rounds with brllllant
and hardly less sensational 3. In tn"
afternoon she took the nineteenth hole
I'm the rain, and, after halving the next
three holes. wound the affair up by
winning the twenty-third and twenty
fourth.
The champion lost only one hole IN
the "a plaved. the twelfth. where she
tried to =" cut corner" and drove past
a row of trees. Her tee shot landed
= a water hazard and she had to drop
out with penalty stroke. taking TO
reach the green and 2 puts. Miss Ven
Wie's won her the one hole she CAP
tured sll day. Miss Collect won II
holes and scored half at nine.
Miss Collett was never longer from
the tee than today. The holes on which
she failed to drive we'll past the 200
yard markers could be counted on the
fingers of one hand. Miss Van VIE,
a long hitter in hera own right. had to
play first on every hole but 2 Of the "a.
Gets in Her Game.
The Rhode Island girl came on her
wooden game as the match play started.
She was not hitting the ball as she can
hit it in her qualifying round. when
she was 4 strokes back of Maureen Or
cult. the medalist. with score OF 64
But as the serious competition got un-
der way she began to slam the ball
far down the fsirway and, in the MAN.
straight as a string Her iron game was
good from the first. and for three days
she sent her second and third shots
splitting the pin" as her caddy lubi-
lantly told a group of his fellows at the
luncheon recess today.
Even when she won the crown.
Glenna was not regarded as a good
putter. She did not seem to take
enough time lining them up, and fire.
iv3 1Nnr
again coming back. 1t was not so in
1928 She putted we'll throughout, as
attested by even fours" for the first
nine holes three days in a row.
In a brown SLOUGH hat pulled low
over her eyes. she went about the bust
ness of winning her third championship
in all seriousness. Playing in cold, raw
weather. with the clouds hanging low
over the Allegheny Mountains frowning
on the picturesque Cascades course. she
core two jerseys, discarding one for only
few holes. and paid no attention. to
the weather The first break in the sober
Collect countenance came when the gal
LIANT young Virginia Van VIE extended
Congra tulationS on the twenty-fourth
green with a brave. bright smile
G,enns smiled back. The second was
under an improviScd tent at the first
tee during the presentation of the gold
medal 10 the champion and the an
nouncement that the Robert Cox tro-
ply, emblematic of the womcn's cham
pionship. would be placed in the GUS
tody Of the Rhode Island Country Club
for the next year.
Below Par on Words.
The new champion was embarrassed
when II. H. Ramsay. vice president Of
the United States Golf Association, said
every one would be glad to have "a
word from Miss Collect" The crowd
got only few more than 1.-The word"
mentioned by the golf official for Miss
Collett used only rs to say she was
happy ) Nave won. but sorry Virginia
did not have q better day"
Glenna went one up at the first hole
and nothing Miss Van VIE could do
changed the situation all d.. After
halving the second the Eastern girl won
every hole until the ninth. when an
other half was scored She made one
Of her few mistakes at the ninth, when
she failed to get home in 2, where
q would have given her 35-mcn's
par.
On the second nine after her at
the twelfth. she ran into her other
JinX hole at the thirteenth. where for
the second time in two days she was in
trap. and. in pitching out, went all
the way over the green to take another
6. Miss Van VIE. however. had her
troubles on the same hole and the
hole was halved
The morning round ended in a bIs2e
of glory with two women's brides and
cne Vi them would have been a birdie
Tor any nan golfer At the 459-yard
Ccg-lcg seventeenth Miss Collect hit one
ri her longest drives well past tn
marker indicating $50 yards. She then
sent a sizzling brasse so straight that
it seemed about to hit tho flag resting
in the cup. 1t was Is feet past the
pin and the 4 was a matter Of two
puts. At the eighteenth, 200 yards
and nearly all carry-over water. after
putting her drive to rough. she came