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...ranking Americans were rained under. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare took a routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty Enid Wilson ran into the ground husky Helen Hicks, the gallery's grinning, clowning favorite. Diana Fishwick, a highstrung little fighter, did the same for Maureen Orcutt. The matches were even at three for England, three...
...Edmond Cecil Harmsworth, handed her a contract for all her writings, a check for $50,000. Besides Riflewoman Marjorie Foster, other heroines present included Miss Winifred Brown, aviatrix who won the King's Cup for a race round England (TIME, June 14); Ivy Hawke, Channel swimmer; Diana Fishwick, golf champion; Joan Manning Saunders, exhibitor at the Royal Academy when she was only 16; Sylvia Thompson, novelist...
...Diana Fishwick, small, angular, 19-year-old British golfer: the British women's championship, beating Glenna Collett, who was putting badly, 4 up and 3 to go in the finals at Formby, England...
...Springfield gathered disgruntled delegates from eleven of the 20 U. M. W. districts. They came in third-hand automobiles, on freight-car rods, by hitchhiking. Theirs was a vindictive mood. Leaders who had summoned them?John H. Walker, Illinois Federation of Labor president; Harry Fishwick, president of Illinois U. M. W.; Frank Farrington, past president of Illinois U. M. W.; Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas U. M. W. ?they treated with rowdy distrust. Suspicious of "steam roller" methods, they insisted that the most trivial proceedings be openly transacted on the floor before them. A tremendous uproar occurred when...
...week at Broadstone was little more than a series of illustrations of how well or badly England's golfstresses had mastered their copybook. Mrs. Herbert Guedalla, who as Edith Leitch sometimes used to give Miss Wethered a close match, seemed formidable until a red-cheeked girl named Diana Fishwick put her out in the semifinal. In the final Miss Fishwick played Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath whose game, like her name, moved with the jolly confident rhythm of a country jingle. Inexperienced. Miss Fishwick's efforts to surpass herself kept a niblick in her hand a good...