Word: glenna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bulletin board of a golf club in Florida, stood a group of Eastern citizens, sunburnt, risible, reading the list of entries for the annual women's golf championship of Belleair Heights. They read with respect the names of Mrs. Dorothy Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield of Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Klotz of Chicago, Mrs G. H. Stetson of Philadelphia. Suddenly, one of their number pointed to a name, emitted a snicker. Others, following his shaking finger, perceived the joke, began to titter, to cackle. Soon a hysteria of amusement possessed...
...play progressed, the mirth of those individuals who dedicated their waking hours to walking around the course after Miss Wall, distinctly lessened. Miss Glenna Collett was put out by Miss Hadfield with a 20-foot putt on the 19th green. The field dwindled. At last there were only two golfers left. One was Mrs. Hurd and the other-Miss Wall of Oshkosh. No laughs disturbed her while she, with alert composure, played stroke for stroke against the veteran in the final round. She had redeemed the name of Oshkosh, but Mrs. Hurd, more experienced, defeated...
...women marched out upon the links at Palm Beach, prepared to do semi-final battle to find out who was the woman's golf champion of Florida. These three women knew each other well; they have succeeded one another for the last three years as national champions - Miss Glenna Collett (1922), Miss Edith Cummings (1923), Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd (1924). But it must not be supposed that they were merely competing in a friendly three-cornered way among themselves for the Florida championship. There was another with them-one Miss Frances Madfield of Milwaukee. She was not, as they...
...Hamilton, Ont., pensive Glenna Collett, of Providence, toyed with Canada's linkswomen, kept her Canadian women's open title...
...Rhode Island Country Club links at Providence, R. I. Eyebrows went up when she eliminated Louise Fordyce, Ohio State champion, in the second round. Eyebrows went higher, exclamations were heard, when she entered the semi-finals at the expense of Bernice Wall, of Oshkosh, Wis. When she carried Glenna Collett, ex-champion, to the 18th hole, squared her match with a deadly spoon-shot through trees, won at the 19th with a 15-foot caromed (lucky) putt, then jaws dropped, gasps were heard, tongues wagged long and loud. Such prowess in a comparative novice was unheard of. In the final...