Word: glenna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monte, Calif., Glenna Collett and Marion Rollins beat Johnny Farrell and Walter Hagen playing golf. Their handicap was six strokes...
Within 48 hours the Woman's National Committee for Hoover was talking over the telephone from Manhattan to Hot Springs, Va. Out came another quotation: "I am going to cast my vote for Mr. Hoover because he's a dry"-Glenna Collett, three-time women's golf champion of the U. S., four-time Eastern Women's champion, twice champion of Canada...
Maureen Orcutt broke 82, women's par, three days running; Glenna Collett played the first nine in even fours, three days running, last year's woman champion; Miriam Burns Tyson, went out in the first round; Marion Hollins and Dorothy Campbell Kurd stayed for the third round. A mob of female golfers failed to qualify and spent the ensuing days of the Women's National Championship Tournament waddling around the course at Hot Springs, Va., patrolling the gallery. This last was composed largely of strangely corpulent old men. There was nothing very exciting about the first days...
...onetime champions in the medal play and several more future champions. One of these many favorites, it was safe to say, would win the finals. Such proved to be the case when Virginia Van Wie, who uses a mashie better than any other woman golfer, came up against Glenna Collett in the last round...
...born in 1903 on the day her father, a famous bicycle rider, won his greatest race at the Paris Velodrome. Some of the women at Hot Springs would doubtless have liked to be cool to the daughter, my dear, of a man who used to be a bicycle jockey. Glenna, however, dressed more smartly, had better manners than many a woman whose fathers won their money without the aid of their sporting instincts. When she drives about in her blue Mercer, a police dog named after a wolf in a story by Ernest Seton Thompson, Lobo, sits up beside...