Word: collettes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Miss Glenna Collett of Providence was defeated for the British Women's Open Golf Championship a month ago, she hurried to Switzerland and to Italy, rode on trains, looked at lakes, "forgot golf...
...steamboat cuts through billows, Miss Collett attained the finals. Her ultimate opponent-wide-eyed, 17-year-old Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume-kept step with her for 18 holes, then "cracked," lost four straight holes, became dormie two, eventually lost, 3 and 1. Miss Collett's last round was played...
...Miss Collett and Miss Kathleen Fairbanks, daughter of the U. S, Consul at Dieppe...
...member of a famed golfing family, the Smiths: Alec, George, Jim, Willie,* MacDonald. Thirty, years ago, Alec, the eldest Smith, came to the U.S., was three times open runner-up, once champion, won 19 important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing, he is sombre, sanctimonious, a slow putter, a silent walker...
...kept every one of them from being a big champion. Had a Scotchman been inclined to bet against Miss Wethered this year, he would probably have chosen either braw Cecil Leitch, unbeatable just before and just after the War (1914, '20, '21), or Glenna Collett, of Providence, R. I., a girl quieter than most of her countrymen, who had turned up with the Canadian and an old U. S. title (1922) in her record. A bye, a tidy win from the Welsh champion and, one misty morning, Miss Collett had her chance. They floated the Stars and Stripes...