Word: cheney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost to the defending champion, Enid Wilson, while Virginia Van Wie was getting beaten by Susie Tolhurst, champion of Australia, in an amazing match that ended on the 210-yd. 19th hole. Miss Van Wie took 8 to her opponent's 6. That left only Mrs. Leona Pressler Cheney of Los Angeles, who started to play golf seven years ago when she married her first husband, a Los Angeles professional...
...Cheney's game, less powerful than clever, was well suited to the peculiarly pinched fairways and hard little greens of the course at Saunton. In the third round she put out Jean Hamilton, who had beaten Miss Orcutt. Next day she played Beryl Brown, won 3 & 2 for the chance to play Enid Wilson...
...word went out that two of the three remaining Americans were soggily losing, that only Mrs. Leona Cheney, small & blonde from Los Angeles, was winning her match. This news did not rattle Chicago's Virginia Van Wie, 22, who first took up golf to cure a weak back. She has an impeccable style but her specialty of pitching dead to the flag had not been working on Wentworth's sloping greens. She braced herself, squared her match on the 15th, won the next two holes. Mrs. Opal S. Hill, 40, of Kansas City was also a game...
...first division Freshman crew, which is stroked by Timothy Cheney '35, defeated that stroked by William Barnes, II '35 by a length over the three-quarter mile course. The time of the winning crew...
...Allen, R. S. At wood, R. H. Baker, A. W. Barker, J. S. Barnet, C. L. Billman, C. G. Bingham, Crawford Bladgen, Jr., F. S. Blake, F. V. Booraem, J. A. Bovey, P. V. Bray, F. H. Brown, H. H. Brewster, R. O. Carleton, H. f. Cate, Timothy Cheney, D. C. Clos, Roland Cooper, R. R. Covell, J. C. Cowdin, T. L. Dammann, H. S. Derrickson, J. R. Divens, R. A. Dow, G. T. Dudman, R. F. Dur, R. G. Durham, S. S. Durry, R. L. Eastland, Lawrence Edmonds, J. C. Ewer, T. B. Gannett, I. McD. Garfield...