Laughter And Tears.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19119, 11 July 1930, Page 14

Laughter And Tears.

(Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, May 17. Miss Diana Fishwick, a gay, laughing, nineteen-year-old English girl, sent a large gallery of golf fans hysterical with joy at Formby, Lancashire, yesterday. when, playing for the first time in the final of the British Open Championship, she defeated Miss Glenna Collett, America’s greatest woman golfer, by 4 and 3. At the same time the Prince and a crowd of 8000 saw America win the Walker Cup at Sandwich by ignominiously beating the mere men golfers of Britain seven games to one in the singles. It was Diana’s day. Miss Fishwick comes from Broadstairs. Only two years ago she was playing in the Girls’ Championship. And yesterday, when she strolled on to the course at Formby to play the game of her life against the terrifying Miss Collett, she remarked, “ I am England’s last hope. What a lark! Her feat is made all the more remarkable by the fact that America has never known such a brilliant woman golfer as Miss Collett. At the end of nine holes Miss Fishwick was one up. The crowd gasped. At the end of eighteen holes she was 5 up. and the crowd went mad. She clung to her lead like a champion, and at the thirtythird hole she was four up, and the game was over. Amazing scenes followed her triumph. The crowd seemed intent on tearing her to pieces, but Diana only laughed and said again. " What a lark! ” Then for a feu.' dent seconds, she cried quietly.