Word: championed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Husky, 24-year-old Fay Crocker of Montevideo, four times golf champion of Argentina, whose long drives fascinated the galleries, convinced them that she is the Sam Snead of women golfers...
Since that time many able women golfers have swept over U. S. fairways-in swishing skirts, in hobble skirts, in knickerbockers, in shorts-have gradually whittled their scores: first to break 100 in national competition was New York's Beatrix Hoyt, thrice U. S. champion (1896-97-98); first to break 90 was Boston's Margaret Curtis, who won the national title three times (1907-11-12); first to break 80 was Providence's Glenna Collett, national champion six times...
...Fortyish Mary K. Browne, national women's tennis champion in 1912-13-14 and runner-up for the national golf title in 1924, who, playing for fun while on vacation from teaching tennis in an Ohio school, got a 79, fifth best score in the qualifying round...
...England's pert Pam Barton, 22 and already twice British golf champion, who won the U. S. title three years ago and looked as if she were going to repeat until she met New Jersey's slick-putting Charlotte Glutting in the third round...
...nerves and menacing bugaboos were: San Antonio's 20-year-old Betty Jameson and Atlanta's 19-year-old Dorothy Kirby. Youngest finalists in the history of the national tournament, they were nevertheless old hands at the game. Willowy, green-eyed Dot Kirby was women's champion of Georgia at 13, champion of the South at 17, had twice reached the second round of the National. Sturdy, stolid Betty Jameson was champion of the South at 15, won the Texas championship four times, reached the third round of the National last year...