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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joyce Wethered's, last week, was the voice of three silent years. Because a crowd had pushed and howled at Troon in 1926 when she was playing Glenna Collett she decided to play no more for championship golf cups. It made no difference to her that Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume and then Mlle. Manette le Blan thereafter won the British Ladies' Title. Joyce Wethered, whose impersonality sometimes is tantamount to genteel insolence, plays golf for amusement and crowds do not amuse her. But last week on St. Andrew's course in Scotland she played again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Women's Championship | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

That is almost the whole story of the British Open championship which Hagen won for the fourth time (second in succession) last week in Muirfield, Scotland. Diegel had a chance, but Diegel, as he usually does, blew up. Hagen, cautious as a cat, steady as a locomotive, did not blow up. That is usual too. The British entrants, despite their victory as a Ryder Cup team over the U. S. one week prior, figured scarcely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Open | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

From Forest Hills, Long Island, scene of many a tennis championship, came an unusually polished coterie, the Gardens Players, with Sir James Matthew Barrie's piquant thriller Shall We Join the Ladies? This play, long a favorite at all-star frolics, depicts a British landowner of gentle mien and sinuous mind who has gathered about his dinner table twelve persons whom he suspects of the murder of his brother. He informs them lazily of the fact, cleverly casts suspicion on them all, tells them that certain postprandial actions will reveal the murderer. The ladies then retire. Over their wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Little Theatre Tournament | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Last week the Cadets downed the Princeton riders 11 to 2 after the latter had looked impressive by defeating Pennsylvania Military College and Yale. In spite of the fact that Harvard won the National Indoor Inter-collegiate Polo Championship this winter, the present outdoor team is minus the services of the Clark brothers, so that the match bids fair to be a real test for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON POLO TEAM TO CLASH WITH ARMY TODAY | 5/18/1929 | See Source »

...result of Friday's match in which Harvard defeated Pennsylvania, the Crimson players advanced themselves in the ranking of the College Golf League, but Saturday's defeats make their chances of winning the league championship void...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF TEAM DEFEATED BY PRINCETON, GEORGETOWN | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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