Evening star., 1935-09-01
G[ENNA WINS, 81,
OVER PATTY BERG
Bests 17-Year-0Id Before
Record Gallery of 5000
in National Meet.
BY PAUL NICHOLSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Nu 3l-Genna has done it again. !
V For the sixth time in IA
4 4 years of competition, Mrs.
Glenna Collett Ware won the ma
tional women's golf championship to-
day, turning back the sensational
Minneapolis freckle face, 17-year-old
Patty Berg, 3 and 2, before a record
gallery of 5000 spectators.
Determined to prove to golf that
q champion can marry, raise two
children and still come back to climb
the loftiest heights, Glenna climaxed
q drive that twice left her beaten in
the finals Of 1881 and 80 to sweep
through q great field that lacked only
the defending title holder, Virginia
Van Vie of Chicago. to score a VIC
tory that was probably the sweetest
Of them all.
Her triumph, gained against a sor-
rell-top youngster who fought her
with sub-par golf in last desperate
rally over the closing holes, added
to one of the most amazing records
in the game.
Betters Jones' Amateur Mark.
CNCE she first competed in the
- national at Shawnee-on-the-De
ware, Pa, in 1919. Mrs. Ware has so
clearly dominated feminine competi-
tion in America that she has won the
title six times, lost in the finals twice
and been in the thick Of the title rush
almost every year except in 1888
when maternal duties forced her to
pass up the big show.
In winning her sixth national Glen
ma scored one more victory than Bob
by Jones did in the mems national
amateur. Her victory today was
achieved at the Interlachen Country
Club, Pattys home course and the
same layout that Jones scored the
third trick of his grand slam" in
1880 by winning the national open.
Cool, calculating and precise with
her beautiful iron shots, Glenna, wife
Of Edwin H. Ware, jr, of Philadelphia
and mother of a girl and a boy born
in 1888 and "a, was far too steady
for her red-headed little rival today.
Mrs. Wares Iron Shots Tell.
T TSUALLY out-driven by 10 to 20
yards, she repeatedly broke up
Patty's brilliant rallies with irons that
split the pin from all angles and dis
tances. On the final two holes, after
Patty had rallied to reduce her ma
gin from to up by scoring par
and birdie, Glenna shut her out by
matching her birdie 4 on the 3o5-yard
thirty-third and then ending the duel
by banging a five iron only feet from
the cup on the thirty-fourth to COL
lect another birdie.
Over the distance Glenna was only
three over par. For the 10e noles she
had to travel to beat the field she was
l3 shots over perfect figures on one
of the games most difficult courses.
Morning Round Tells.
PATTY, fighter right down to the
finish, lost the match in the
morning, as Glenna. shooting a 79,
or one over par, raced away to 4-up
lead. The queen of queens broke the
starting deadlock by capturing the
third and fourth holes as Patty missed
the third green and three-putted the
fourth and went around the quarter
turn up, after swapping four of the
five outgoing holes. AS Patty sudden
ly grew erratic with her woods Glen
ma rushed away to a 4-up lead, whicn
she held on the home green by laying
her iron third within feet of the cup
to match Patty's birdie, score with a
10-foot putt.
The afternoon round, which saw
Patty playing superbly. was a heart
breaker for the little freckle face who
has been playing golf only three years.
She won the first hole as Glenna
three-putted and then reeled of five
straight pars without Winning hole.
Stymied on the twenty-sixth, she lost
1t to fall 4 down again, lead Glenna
retained as she struck out for the
final nine.
On the twenty-eight and twenty
ninth, Glenna left the door open with
short shots but Patty couldn't cash IN,
joining her by slipping shot over par
on both holes.
Comeback Is Futile.
ON THE thirty-f1rst green, still four
down and only six to go, little
Patty opened her final futile come
back. She won the thirty as
Glenna muffed a three-foot putt and
trimmed her disadvantage to only two
holes by canning a 10-footer for
birdie 4 on the 447-yard thirty
second.
Patty, fighting before q wildly ex-
cited hometown throng, shot another
birdie on the thirty-third with the aid
of q six-footer, but there Glenna
stopped her comeback by banging a
beautiful iron second to the green for
q duplicate four. Then she ended 1t
on the next hole with her trllsty six
iron, arching her ball 100 yards to
within six feet Of the can for birdie
three.
Patty went down fighting in true
spectacular style on that hole, too, as
she, of the green with her second,
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