Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
|COLLETT BEATEN
BY BRITISH GIRL
Miss Fishwick Takes Long
Lead at Start as American
FaIters on Green.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FORMBY, England. May 16.-Diana
Fishwick, 19-year-old English girl. to-
day won the British women's golf
championship, defeating Glenna Collect,
American champion. 4 UP and to play.
Miss Collect was S down at the end Of
the first Is, due to her weakness on the
green's, and she was unable to control
her putter.
Miss Collect waged o desperate battle
on the flnal Is holes, but was not able
70 overcome her opponents early lead.
Spectators Are Amazed.
Nearly 1000 spectators looked on in
amazement as the little English girl,
gwen little or no chance against Miss
Goiiett IN advance calculations. more
tnan held her own on the first nine
and then jumped into q commanding
lead on the second, holding her ad-
vantage through the final round to win.
Miss Collett. Off her game in every
department, but especially around the
greens, won only 2 holes of the first
1e-the first ana the sixth.
MISS Collect was not the PLAYER TODAY
That she was as she moved through the
championship to the final nor the
player who forced Joyce Wethered to
play sensational golf to defeat her in
the Championship last year.
Close Fight on First Nine.
Miss Collect was unable to handle her
putter in the morning round. She won
only two holes of the first Is. She and
Miss Fishwick were all square st the
third hole. Miss Collect won the first
hole when the English girl missed m,
easy putt, but Miss Fishwick returned
the compliment on the second, where
Glennas putting was faulty. The third
hole was halved.
The match still was all square at the
sixth. Miss Fishwick won the FORTH
to go up, but the American Champion
squared IT up again at the sixth with
great ntblick from the trap to the pin
that won her the hole.
Miss Ftshwick went into q one-hole
lead at the ninth, where Miss Collett
sliced into a trap and needed s, while
the English girl was getting down In
The outgoing cards:
Collett ...... 45654S L4s
Fishwick ...... sac 446Sz i4i
Miss Fishwick took the tenth and
went up at the twelfth, chiefly because
Miss Collects puts refused to sink.
when the American took q 8 for Miss
Ftshwick's e..
Miss Fishwick increased her lead
when she won the sixteenth and eight
zenith, where Miss Collect needed three
puts In each instance.
The incoming cards:
Collect ........ 65 644S4B I4s
Flsnw1ck ..... 5 8 & "A s +39
GIenna 6 Down at One Time.
Miss Collett reduced Miss Fishvick,s
lead to 4 by winning the Goth hole
when the English girl pitched short.
after they had halved the 18th.
Miss Fishwick won the 23d and Gath
noles 70 go up. Miss Collects ball
found traps at each hole. They halved
the next two.
Miss Collett won the 27th when Miss
F1snwfck missed o three-foot putt
The outgoing card:
Collett. ......... 44,5,z
F1shWick. .......,< 5 5 4 345 4 4-38
Miss F1shwick was UP at the soth.
Miss Collect reducing the lead by q hole
ct the 2Sth, where she dropped an 10
foot putt.
After valiant effort to recover some
OF the lost ground, Miss Collect en-
countered fatal rough at the fifteenth
hole OF the afternoon round and was
forced to give up the golf ghost.
The card:
Collect 500. 44544e
Fishwick .... 5 As ass