| Show f e f GLENNA COLLETT TELLS HOW SHE WORKED WAY TO AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPIONSHIp Women Never ever Will Compare With Men in Golf Golfi I I Declares ears Holder aller of omens Women's Ii Honors I 6 y a Mary Browne Gave Miss Collett Toughest Contest EASTERN POINT Conn Au Aup Aug 2 AP The AP-The The girl who was hailed when she first held a golf gol club nine years ago as a girl who can drive a ball like a man today when she is Americas America's woman champion forthe for forthe forthe the second time declares All a woman can hope for isto is isto isto to be as good a golfer as she can be with the handicap of be being being be be- ing a woman She is Glenna Collett at 23 twice national womans woman's champion wInner winner winner win wIn- ner of international honors She holds this view in spite of the fact that she has just won the Griswold trophy here by playing golf which sport writers describe as a game that would have held a male star In September at Philadelphia she will once more defend her national title She loves the sport and sincerely sincerely sincerely sin sin- believes it lt is the best there is for women although she recognizes recognizes recognizes clearly its limitations for her sex Her own story of how she worked out the thern best womans woman's game brings nerve hard work and good temper Into the formula as well as the substitution of skill for strength and above all the assurance that not cups and titles make the game worth while but only the pleasure you get from swatting the ball Some ome times when I get up to drive off the first tee I 1 lam am so nervous nervous nervous ner ner- that I want to lI He lie down and anddie anddie die lie said the woman champion I feel as though I 1 couldn't possibly hit the ball I think What price glory and Why Whys suffer all this for a game of golf golf and then I 1 do hit the ball better than ever and get a real thrill out of it it and everything everything everything every every- thing is aW all right and I 1 know why I 1 play golf golf golf- BEST FOR WOMEN i But aside from this personal feeling of mine I 1 have four reasons for thinking golf Is the tAe best sport fO for women I fOFI FIRST FIRST It FI It doesn't mean sacrifices sacrifices sacrifices that a girl would not like to tomake tomake make said Miss Collett who swims drives a car car rides dances enjoys bridge and the theatre and owns a host of friends off the links as well as on them SECOND SECOND Golf Golf is a sport In which one plays ones one's own game I regardless of partner or opponent man or woman and this is important important important tant for the athletic woman since she is thus relying on her own strength standing on her own feet feeling the joy of independent achievement THIRD Golf Golf is well welI THIRD a game as as a sport and as such it teaches women a wonderful lesson in broad- broad mindedness It cannot help making women more sportsmanlike It is like an honor system in school It develops the best side of a girls girl's character teaching her implicit honesty with herself generosity to toan toan toan an opponent mindedness fair-mindedness and self control FOURTH Which FOURTH Which I 1 might have put first golf is splendid exercise for a woman It keeps her out inthe in inthe inthe the open air in the sun and the i wind m makes kes her walk many miles milesa a day and In its drives and other strokes develops body muscles tending tending tend tend- ing inS to strengthen and make more graceful her whole body Her face neck and arms tanned a smooth olive her bobbed curly brown hair sunburned a little more golden over her forehead her splendid splendid splendid did figure lithe and easy of movement movement move move- ment Miss Collett is an unconscious unconscious unconscious poster of h her lo four points Unconscious Unconscious Unconscious Un Un- conscious Is a word essential In any description of her foa for a more modest modest modest mod mod- est unassuming star it would be hard to find She doesn't look or dress the part of a champion In her simple sport clothes clothes clothes-a a white shantung silk dress white and gray and tan Nav- Nav |
