Word: alexa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garden City, L. I., with a 77 to win the qualifying round. In the second round Mrs. W. G. Fraser, Canadian, defeated Glenna Collett, twice national champion, 2 and 1. Spectators said that Mrs. Fraser was in form again to win the title, which she held three times as Alexa Stirling of Atlanta. Spectators approved their surmise the next day when the heavily-heralded Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion of France, champion of England, lost the first three holes to Mrs. Fraser and the match 3 and 2. But something happened. Mrs. Fraser fiddled away her next match...
...There is no outstanding figure in women's golf comparable to Helen Wills in tennis. Alexa Stirling dominated ten years ago, winning in 1916, 1919, 1920 (no tournament 1917 and 1918). In 1921, Marion Hollins won the championship ; 1922, Glenna Collett; 1923, Edith Cummings; 1924, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd ; 1925, Glenna Collett; 1926, Mrs. G. Henry Stetson...
...golf course is built. Summer homes grow up around it. Parents take up the game, turning their offspring loose to paddle for themselves?until some of the offspring (Alexa Stirling, Perry Adair, Rob Jones) can beat the parents. Then comes the problem of developing young talent without letting it become infant-prodigious. Rob Jones's paternal grandfather refused, even when discovered in galleries, to admit to any interest in the 13-year-old club champion, the 14-year-old state champion or the 15-year-old Southern chaimpion. Not until 1923 when Jones Jr. was 21 and about...
...player, was, in my experience, an almost sure indication that he would not be a good instruction coach. I saw it tried again and again with the same result. A similar situation has proved more or less true in golf. The teachers of such great players as "Bobby" Jones, Alexa Stirling, and others have not been tournament winners themselves, and I believe I am safe in saying that the outstanding professional golfers can point to few, if any, of their pupils who have also risen to great success. A rough and ready sort of reasoning seems to fit this condition...
Other putts, of course, had contributed to this result, particularly some made by Edith Cummings, Mary K. Browne, Dorothy Campbell Kurd (late titleholder), Bernice Wall of Oskosh, and Alexa Stirling Fraser. It was by deadly putting that a certain Mrs. Letts of Illinois put out Mrs. Hurd. Miss Cumming's uncertainty with her littlest club was her only demonstrable inferiority to Miss Collett in a semi-final match so close that neither was at any time more than one up, but by that score Miss Collett won. Mrs. Fraser, as Alexa Stirling, three time national champion, long ago demonstrated...