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...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...
...Helen Hicks, chunky Long Island girl: the New York State Women's golf championship, trouncing National Champion Glenna Collett 3 & 1 in the semifinals, Maureen Orcutt in the final by one hole...
...Diana Fishwick, small, angular, 19-year-old British golfer: the British women's championship, beating Glenna Collett, who was putting badly, 4 up and 3 to go in the finals at Formby, England...