Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-19
HICKS AND CIRCUIT
PROMISING RIVALS
GIenna Two Strokes Better
Than Nearest Rivals,
Hagen Declares.
BY WALTER HAGEN.
British Open Coli Champion.

w YONIEN golfers are going to
IA have their day of prominence
wv at the end Of this month,
when Glenna Collett defends
her championship at the
Oakland Hills Country Club, Detroit.
Golfers who follow national competl-
ton will remember that Oakland Hills
was used for the open championship
in 1924, when Cyril Walker won over
a baked course and lightning greens.
Cyril had touch in that championship
that he never could quite regain.
Miss Collett has not been playing
any competitive golf this Summer, her
last important engagement having been
the great match with Miss Joyce
Wethered at st. Andrews, in May, the
36-hole final for thes British woman's
championship. Miss Collect won seven
matches before she had the chance TO
meet Miss Wethered.
II Miss Collett plays as we'll in De-
troit as she did in England, she should
Retain her title. For years now she has
been the class of woman golfers N
America, rating at least two strokes
better than her nearest rival. have
no reason to believe that after the in
f1uence. of CALIFORNIA; Summer, with
Del Monte, Pebble Beach and Cypress
Point to practice over, Miss Collett Will
~N~'
game.
But the competition gets keener each
year, with a great improvement III
woncn's play.
Maureen circuit, metropolitan cham
pion for four consecutive years. and
Miss Helen Hicks, recent winner OF the
Western women's medal play champion
ship, are outstanding rivals for Miss
Collects title. They have been play
ing rounds under 80 this Summer. and
when a woman golfer does that well she
can beat any other woman upon occa-
sion.
I shall watch the play of Marion
Turpie New Orleans. with great inter-
est. Although few realize it, her de-
feat in the first round of the British
championship at st. Andrews was a
tragedy for her. Her birthplace is st
Andrews. Shortly after she was born
her father came to America, and he
has been professional in New Orleans
for many years.
Miss Turpie has won all the State
and sectional golfing honors open to a
young woman of the South and num-
Der of years ago her father, who has
been her teacher, told her that when
he believed her game sound enough he
would send her back to Scotland to
play in the championship and to visit
her grandparents. So this Spring Mr..
Turpie sent Marion along on the same
boat the Ryder cup team sailed on.
We were all very much interested in
her play at st. Andrews, and 1 know
the Ryder cup players will watch her
in Detroit. She is a fine player, and
may upset some of the Metropolitan and
Chicago district stars.
Virginia Van VIE and Virginia Will
son Of Chicago. and Mrs. Harry Press
Ter, Los Angeles, are winning competi-
tive golfers, and Mrs Dorothy Campbell
Hurd is probably the most consistent
winner of them all. Although the former
British, Canadian and American cham
pion cannot hit the ball as far as
some of the younger women, she has
the greatest short game ever developed
by a woman, as we'll as the most deter
mined competitive temperament.
The new Southern champion is Mar
garet Maddux. Atlanta. have never
seen Miss Maddux in action, but O. B.
Keller, Atlanta sports writer, says she
is promising and take his word for It.
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