Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-01
Big Shot, in Sports Never Comedies Defeaf
BY C.. WILLIAM DUNCAN.

n BnLTY to come from behind and
; III turn apparent defeat into victory is
~ the distinctive mark Of a big shot"
III in the sport world.
The slightly better than average
player makes his try and fails. He finishes
second and is forgotten. The big shot" makes
his attempt and wins, to be subsequently her
aided as q real champion, money player"
man or woman with color, courage and drawing
power.
Glenna Collect is one. In October she turned
back the challenge Of Mrs. LeOna PreSslef Of
Los Angeles, 4 and 3, in the final of the thirty
third national tournament over the treacherous
Oakland Hills Country Club course at Bfming-
ham, Mich.
One up on her rival at the end of the morn
ing 10-hole round, Miss Collect went out In the
afternoon and won by a brand of golf spec
tacular even for herself, bagging eight biTcseS
IN fourteen holes and then ending the
One-Sided struggle Of her rival by sinking q
putt exactly 80 feet and a inch long for an
eagle on the fifteenth green. She thrE be-
came the first woman to be crowned Queezs of
American golf for the fourth time.
Miss Collect was placed In q position to play
for the title as q result Of her spectacular fight
two days previously, fight never equaled In
national wOmens golf, when she defeated Mrs.
Harley Higbie of Detroit IN the quarterfinaIs.
Her putting at first was miserable. On four
greens, all Of the first nine holes, she missed
puts from q distance Of five feet less, while
ON five more she failed to putt from reasonable
One-strOke distance Mrs Higbie, who never
before had been good enough to reach the third
round Of the national tournament, sank puts
from every angle and distance, one from IS
feet, another from 80 feet and several from 10
or IS feet.
After having the tenth in par the tide turned
all but hopeleSSly against the champion. Her
drive on the eleventh found trap and her Sec
Ond bunker, while Mrs Higbie sank q 80
$Oot IN got I'm klaa
twelfth G3enna seemed certain Of Q half be-
cause Of q birdie 5, but again the magic putter
worked for Mrs Higbie and she sank 35-foot
putt for an eagle T.
MRS. Higbie gained q half ON the thirteenth
and fourteenth to gain dOrmie lead, but it
was there that Glenna started TO fight She
opened her dramatic rush by winning the If
teenth with a birdie 4. Capturing the sixteenth
she cut her rivals lead to dormie 2 with another
birdie 4. On the seventeenth Miss Collett won
with perfect while Mrs. Higbie hooked her
drive to the rough.
On the eighteenth Miss Collect displayed her
fighting caliber Her drive nestled to O tree
while Mrs. HigbieS was on the fatrway. Miss
Collect Clipped out to the fairway, slapped q
brassie shot $50 yards to the green and then
two-putted for S, won the hole and squared
the match.
The nineteenth hole was Glenna's all the
way. She laced her drive 22O yards down the
fairway spun her second to the green and
then mS assured two careful puts for birdie
and victory.
So in the national tournament for women
this year Miss Collett surely proved herself to
be real champion, big shot" in the sport
world
TURNING to the realm of boxing we come
upon Jack Sharkey as one who has made
habit of coming from behind but not in the
same sense as Miss Collett. Sharkey has not
proved himself great enough boxer to get up
from count Of nine and knock his opponent
senseleSs There are many who still consider
him an "in and outer"
Yet he is big shot" in this respect. When