Word: collett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Popular 36-year-old Glenna Collett Vare, who, still playing a superb game-although golf clubs are now secondary to her two children, her bird dogs and her shotguns-was eliminated in the first round of match play by a schoolgirl named Marion Brown...
...upset golf's famed medal jinx by winning the tournament. Patty Berg made national headlines two years earlier when, as a 17-year-old unknown, she reached the final of the U. S. women's championship in her first try, and then gave her opponent, famed Glenna Collett Vare, a few anxious moments before yielding the title, 3 & 2. Last year Patty Berg came through to the U. S. final again, but was trounced by Mrs. Page...
...Westmoreland last week, in spite of the presence of six-time-Winner Glenna Collett Vare, onetime British Champion Diana Fishwick Critchley and six of Britain's top-ranking lady golfers who came to the U. S. for the biennial Curtis Cup matches fortnight ago, phlegmatic Estelle Lawson Page and temperamental Patty Berg reached the final for the second year in a row-some-thing that had never happened before in a national golf championship...
...medalist in the women's national tournament. Mrs. Page refused to be flustered, stayed calm even through such matches as one in which her opponent after a lusty swing lost her skirt. So last week Mrs. Page met 19-year-old Patty Berg, runner-up to Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare in the national tournament two years ago, in the final...