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...section. Last Sunday, a photograph appeared therein of five people smiling at the cameraman through the glare of a midday sun from a piazza of the Westchester Biltmore Country Club of Rye, N. Y. The Tribune printed four names, from left to right, MacDonald Smith, Miss Maureen Orcutt, Miss Glenna Collett, Walter Hagen. Now behind this foursome of renowned golfers, on a step that made him clearly visible above their heads, stood a gentlemen. His well-brushed hair glistened in the sunlight. He wore an amiable expression, as if gratified that his face-a face known, doubtless, to thousands...
...ball, only a short span to go for a birdie, a tie, an extra hole. The putt was missed. Then the Griswold trophy was presented to its winner, for keeps, since it was the third time she had won it, and the babbling battalions wended their way, murmuring: "That Glenna Collett...
After Miss Glenna Collett of Providence was defeated for the British Women's Open Golf Championship a month ago, she hurried to Switzerland and to Italy, rode on trains, looked at lakes, "forgot golf...
...brilliant member of a famed golfing family, the Smiths: Alec, George, Jim, Willie,* MacDonald. Thirty, years ago, Alec, the eldest Smith, came to the U.S., was three times open runner-up, once champion, won 19 important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing, he is sombre, sanctimonious, a slow putter, a silent walker...
...year (as in 1922), kept every one of them from being a big champion. Had a Scotchman been inclined to bet against Miss Wethered this year, he would probably have chosen either braw Cecil Leitch, unbeatable just before and just after the War (1914, '20, '21), or Glenna Collett, of Providence, R. I., a girl quieter than most of her countrymen, who had turned up with the Canadian and an old U. S. title (1922) in her record. A bye, a tidy win from the Welsh champion and, one misty morning, Miss Collett had her chance. They floated...