Word: gino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (rhymes with "tee") took to golf when she was 11, because her doctor thought it might help the back she had hurt playing football with a team of little boys. D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla. where the Van Wies spend their winters, helped build up her game, encouraged her to enter her first tournament at 16. At 17, Miss Van Wie beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast championship. The 73 with which she beat her again, in the national final last year, was the best round she ever played. Impeccable...
Thus far the. tournament's heroine, Charlotte Glutting soon saw her fun ended. Smiling, pert-nosed Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (to rhyme with "tee") was too much for her (4 & 3) and the final gallery gathered around to watch a match often played before. Miss Van Wie v. cool, collected Glenna Collett Vare. five times the champion, twice Miss Van Wie's mistress in national finals...
Died, Harold George ("Gino") Watkins, 25, British explorer; by drowning; near Angmagsalik, Greenland. In 1927, aged 20, Explorer Watkins accompanied an expedition into Labrador's interior, later commanded a Cambridge University Arctic expedition. In 1930 he headed a Greenland expedition, this year was surveying a possible route for Pan American Airways...
...Midwest. The Bowser group also includes Gus Sonnenberg, Jack Sherry, Don George, Henri De Glane (champion). Londos is champion for the most profitable of the three groups, operated by Promoter Jack Curley in Manhattan and the Midwest. Some of his stablemates are Richard Shikat, Jim McMillen, Leon Pinetski, Gino Garibaldi, Sandor Szabo. De Vito was allowed to wrestle Champion Londos because he professed to have severed connection with the Bowser group. Promoter Curley, sure that Londos could beat him anyway, was inclined to doubt this. He said: "I think he [De Vito...
...doubt. In the field at The Country Club of Buffalo, N. Y. last week there were Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, defending champion; square-jawed Maureen Orcutt who patterns her game on Mrs. Vare's and on whose game Helen Hicks has tried to pattern hers; and Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie of Chicago, who has never won the championship but has twice been runner-up. In addition to these four, the best women golfers in the U. S. for the last year or two, there was a tall English girl with fair hair and a bashful smile, She was Enid...