Word: glenna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fairfield (Conn.) Country Club ranged some pre-tournament mixed foursomes, wherein National Cham pion Edith Cummings, one-time Champions Glenna Collett (1922) and Marion Rollins (1921), and Mrs. Quentin Feitner, former Metropolitan champion (1920), reinforced by five bisques apiece, would tackle Champion Max Marston, onetime Champions Jess Sweetser (1922) and Francis Ouimet (1914), and French Champion John G. Anderson (all amateurs). Golden golf balls were dangled as prizes for the winning team...
...Cummings in the Intercollegiate Final (TIME, July 7) Taft larrupped Mapes. Women. The long tiled porch of Shenecossett Country Club, at New London, Conn., was all a-titter and aflutter with 175 women, flocked thither for one of the season's larger invitation tournaments. Sober and serious, young Glenna Collett...
Providence, R. I., moved among them, wondering if she could win an other leg on the Griswold Trophy. As the week wore on, the seasoned Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd, of Philadelphia, disposed of her opponents most stoutly, coursing around often under 80. Glenna continued pensive as she brushed her own antagonists aside. Finally the two met; Glenna cracked out a scorching drive, Mrs. Hurd hooked into the fence. At the 15th, Glenna won the leg she so wanted. A newspaper ac count spoke of Miss Virginia Palmer, of Shenecossett, whom Glenna whipped 7 and 6 in the first round...
...Lake Forest, Ill., the Onwentsia links swarmed with 152 golfing Amazons beginning play for the Women's Western title, but Glenna had not rushed out to mingle with them. Champion Miriam Burns, of Kansas City, and National Champion Edith Cummings ruled the scene. Edith, who was raised amid Ouwentsia's daisies and knows every hole on the prairie, including those made by gophers, had little trouble navigating the rainsoaked course in 84, low medal...
Buffalo Invitation. At Buffalo, N. Y., Glenna Collett collected. Since that now-famed Buffalo women's invitation tournament was first held (1922), Glenna has twice collected at Buffalo. Prize packages for Glenna this year were the low medal (won in 80) and pretty Edith Cummings, Empress of the nation's links (done 6 and 5 in the final). Empress Edith shaved the women's course record to 78 in Round...