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...Beaconsfield Club in Montreal last week Virginia Wilson of Chicago, defeated Peggy Wattles of Buffalo, 5 up and 4 to play for the Canadian women's golf championship. Dora Virtue, of Montreal, was triumphant over Edith Quier, of Reading. Pa., in the second round. The Quier-Virtue score was 2 up, i to play...
...opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only women who have won the singles title five or more times. Mallory won it seven times officially, an eighth time in the 1917 "patriotic" (unofficial) tournament...
...CHILDREN - Edith Wharton - Appleton...
...Author. Distinguished disciple of Henry James, Edith Wharton fills her pages with lucid psychological analyses. She does so with much of the master's charm, none of his diffuseness, some of his greatness. Like him she lives mostly abroad, and writes of the U. S. Daughter of a Rhinelander, she was brought up to winter in Manhattan, summer in Newport, travel in Europe. Her most brilliant work reflects Fifth Avenue society of the '90s (in her House of Mirth, in her Age of Innocence), but oddly enough her masterpiece concerns the passion and remorse of a New England...
...Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, effective Nov. 12. He will be the first bachelor to have held that office for 150 years. Randall Thomas Davidson, present Archbishop of Canterbury, has been married 50 years. November 12 will mark the golden wedding anniversary of his wedding with Edith, second daughter of the late Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1868 to 1882. For that sentimental reason he last week asked his King to accept his resignation. His resignation was without precedent. Heretofore archbishops of Canterbury, ever since Augustine first held that seat (597-605), have quit office...