Word: glenna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women's golf in the U. S. have been going to four young women of whom three--Virginia Van Wie, Helen Hicks and Maureen Orcutt-were in the field for last week's national championship at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park. Ill. The fourth-Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare I-was more interested in her new baby than in golf. But there was someone to take her place: angular Enid Wilson, a tall, plain, extraordinarily placid English girl who has won her own national championship regularly for the last three years. Trying to win the U. S. title...
...Born. To Glenna Collett Vare, five-lime national women's golf champion, and Edwin H. Vare Jr., nephew of Pennsylvania's Boss William Scott Vare; a daughter, Glenna; weight: 7 Ib.; on Mrs. Vare's 30th birthday: in Philadelphia...
...Flush," the water spaniel who was in The Barretts, were pitched into the river when the dock collapsed. She has a grip of iron, plays a fair game of tennis, a much better game of golf. Ernest Jones, professional at the Women's National Golf Club, who trained Glenna Collett, worries about her because she will not give up the stage, says that in six months he could have her in tournament form. "She doesn't know what she is missing," he says...
...Glenna Collett Vare, five times national golf champion, who suffered the ignominy of a 10 & 8 defeat in last month's national finals, felt better last week. Winning the Berthyllyn Cup at Huntington Valley (Philadelphia) from Edith Quier, she dropped two strokes at the second hole and then, after two pars, made a hole-in-one, her first. Her 144-yd. No. 3 iron shot landed seven feet from the cup, bounced twice, plopped straight in. The match ended on the 12th green, 8 & 6 but Mrs. Vare played out the bye holes because her first nine score...
...withered nor marriage staled the crisp, brainy golf of Glenna Collett. But this was Van Wie day. Men's par over the short, tricky Salem Country Club course is 72. In the morning Virginia Van Wie shot a 73, putting Mrs. Vare's perfectly respectable 83 eight down. In the afternoon at the 22nd Miss Van Wie sank an eagle 3. At the 27th Mrs. Vare was still nine down. At the 28th, when Mrs. Vare's chip stopped ten feet short and she missed the putt, she conceded Miss Van Wie two putts from four-feet for hole, match...