Word: glenna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when she was 16, she played in her first major tournaments. The next year she won a match against Marion Hollins, who was national champion in 1921; won a driving contest with six tee shots between 220 and 240 yd. The year after that she played National Champion Glenna Collett for the first time, in the semi-finals of the Florida East Coast Championship, won her match, 2 & 1. Since then it has been clear that Billie Hicks would one day be Women's Golf Champion of the U.S. She outdrives any woman opponent and most men. Two years...
...Married. Glenna Collett, 28, five-time (1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930) U. S. women's golf champion; and Edwin H. Vare Jr., 35, of Philadelphia, son of the late State Senator Edwin H. Vare, nephew of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare; in the garden of Mr. & Mrs. George Wallen, friends of Golfer Collett, in Greenwich, Conn. Maid of honor was Bernice Wall, golfer of Oshkosh, Wis. Bride & groom, who met while golfing ten years ago, went off to honeymoon at Murray Bay, Canada. They plan to live in Overbrook, Pa., to continue golfing...
...Engaged. Glenna Collett, 27, five-time (1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930) U. S. women's golf champion (a record), one-time (1925) winner of the French championship; and Edwin H. Vare Jr. of Philadelphia, construction engineer, golfer, son of the late State Senator Edwin H. Vare, nephew of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare...
Though wily John Chapman is the only oldtime bicycle rider who has become important in promoting races, many other men now-famed in quieter trades were once pedalers. Some are: George Collett, father of National Woman's Golf Champion Glenna Collett; the late Albert Champion, A. C. Spark Plug man; Howard ("Poke") Freeman, cartoonist on the Newark Evening News; Worthington Longfellow Mitten, Davenport, Iowa, builder of bicycles. And many men still famed above everything else for their cycling days have done well in quieter trades. Frank Kramer, 18 times U. S. sprint champion, is police commissioner of East Orange...
...annoying barranco and plenty of trees. The California women who had been paying their fares eastward year after year were to be given a chance at home. Nevertheless, impartial critics did not give them much chance against the little group of top-notch players from the East-National Champion Glenna Collett; broad-shouldered, jut-jawed Maureen Orcutt; chubby, thick-muscled Helen Hicks; Virginia Van Wie of Chicago...