Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-16
GLENNA COLLECT
WINS SEM|-F|NALS
Earns Place in Finals for
British Women's Golf Title
Over Scotch Girl.
b. the Associated Press.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May 10
Glenna Collett, American womans golf
Uiisinpion, won her way into the finals
of the British wo1nc7:s championship
this afternoon by defeating Miss Doris
Park, Scotland, up and 3 to play.
Joyce Wethered, three times woman
champion of Great Britain, followed the
American tine nc~~,r inI0 TIE 36-hole
finals, to be played tomorrow, by defeat
ing Edith Leitch Guedalla, 5 up and 4
to play
twenty-five hundred persons started
out with Glenna Collett and Doris Park
in their semi-final match. Miss Parks
brassie was 10 feet inside Miss Collects
iron to the first green. Glennas down.
hill putt stopped II feet from the cup,
but she dropped the next one for
half in As.
The second hole also was halved, in
par SIS. The American champion got
a putt down from feet after her first
from IS feet had overrun the cup. The
British girls putt for four was only
4 feet away.
Takes Fifth Hole.
After the third and fourth holes had
been halved with as, Glenna went l
her opponent needed 6.
The sixth hole was halved with As
and Miss Collett was still / up. The
American was outdriving the British
girl from 10 to 80 yards on every hole.
At the sixth. however. Miss Park pitched
dead from 80 yards for the half.
At the seventh, Miss Parks brassie
was half buried in a deep bunker. but
she exploded it out and was down in
puts, Glenna Clipped on in 3 and
took puts for half at 5, missing
short putt for a win.
The eighth was halved with As. Miss
Collect missing another short putt.
The American champion won the
ninth hole and started home up.
Miss Collett took par at the ninth,
while Miss Park required S.
Takes Eye OFF Ball.
Glenna looked up on mashie niblick
approach at the tenth and the ball
We t only 10 yards. She then pitched
feet from the cup. but Miss Park
sent her long approach putt dead and
won the hole with a 4 when the Amer
lean missed the putt and took 5.
Miss Park squared the match at the
eleventh with par on difficult
Sloping green where Glenna TOOK three
puts from 80 feet.
Miss Collett again went l up at
the twelfth, where she took while
Miss Park needed 6. The British girls
ball skidded across the green on her
approach putt while the American
Clipped dead from the green's edge.
Played Steady Golf.
In the quarter finals, Miss Collett
played steady golf to down Mrs. j. B.
Watson of Scotland; Miss Parks scored
, surprising victory over the young Eng
lish champion, Enid Wilson, at the
nineteenth hole: Miss Wethered played
brilliantly to crush Molly Gourlay I'M
der lands score, and Mrs. Guedana
conquered Barbara Pyman, and 2.
Despite her generally good play, Miss
Collett did make some mistakes, but
Mrs. Watson could not take advantage
of them. The American saw her four
hole lead at the eleventh dwindle to two
up at the thirteenth. The American
was in danger of losing the fourteenth
as we'll. but fine recovery shot from
a bunker, coupled with the three
puts Mrs. Watson needed, gave her a
ME 8 and halved the sixteenth for
q 3-and-2. victor.
Miss Collett ended her match just
In time to rush with her gallery of
1000 spectators to the nearby first
green and see the totally unexpected
elimination of Miss Wilson by Miss
Park, slightly-built Scottish girl. Miss
Park carried her opponent to the nine
tenth hole and won this hole and the
match when Miss Wilson missed an
18-inch putt.
Miss Wethered Wins.
While Miss Collect and Miss Park were
gaining their hard-earned victories Miss
Wethered was administering her daily
drubbing to an opponent. In beating
Miss Gourlay, and 5, the famed Eng
lish star played IL holes in two under
Is, with only one on her card.
Mrs. Herbert Guedalla, the former
Edith Leitch, became the fourth semi
finalist by defeating Barbara Pyman,
and 2.