Word: collettes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become one of the best women golf players in the world by imitating her friend Maureen Orcutt. Miss Orcutt, shy and broad-shouldered, with a jaw like a prizefighter's, became good enough to be the idol of Miss Hicks by trying to be as good as Glenna Collett. Thus the three most famed of the competitors who gathered at the Oakland Hills Club in Birmingham, Mich., last week to decide the Women's National Championship composed a sequence with Hicks at one end and Collett at the other. People who understood the respect determining this sequence expected...
...comfortable leeway under Virginia Van Wie of Chicago who managed to rush up from ninth to second place by finishing with two 79's. Other competitors included the Midwest's seasoned Mrs. Lee Mida and stocky Maureen Orcutt of the East. Conspicuously absent were Glenna Collett, Edith Cummings, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, Edith Quier, Mrs. Harry Pressler. The tournament, called variously "The Derby," "The Inaugural" and the Western Women's Medal Play Championship, may be made a national fixture, with hard-hitting Helen Hicks as first defender of a title comparable-although there are no known women...
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...
...morning of the finals, Glenna Collett took fours on every hole of the first nine, except on the eighth where she only had to hit her ball twice. Thus she broke a woman's record for St. Andrew's. By lunch time Golfer Collett was two up. But Miss Wethered, after a lunch of salad and cold chicken, had not lost her confident one-sided smile. Her drives were long, her irons had sting. Miss Collett suddenly became nervous, uncertain. Calmly Joyce Wethered advanced to lead. It was on the 15th that she definitely stopped the last Collett...
Miss Glenna Collett, of the Westchester Biltmore Club, women's national golf champion, is ranked first among the 1,237 feminine players of the metropolitan district in a list made public last week by the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association. Miss Collett is given a rating of plus two. Miss Maureen Orcutt, of White Beeches, is ranked second at plus one. In third place are three players, Miss Marion Hollins, Westbrook, Miss Martha M. Parker, Westchester Hills, and Mrs. Courtland Smith, Glen Ridge, at scratch...