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...fact that she won her first U. S. Women's Singles Championship in 1923. Last week at the Interlachen Country Club near Minneapolis, sportswriters failed to get similarly excited about a sportswoman whose apparent immunity to the effects of time surpasses Mrs. Moody's. She was Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, who won the Women's Golf Championship of the U. S. for the first time in 1922 and won it last week for the sixth...
...exhibition matches to exploit Wanamaker's golf supplies. At the Women's National Golf & Tennis Club, Miss Wethered proved that she was thoroughly off her game by shooting a 78, which gave her and Johnny Dawson an 18-hole match-play tie against Gene Sarazen and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. Two days later Miss Wethered and Mrs. Vare, with a handicap of six strokes, lost to Sarazen and Jess Sweetser...
...Joyce Wethered first won the British Women's title in 1920, held it for the next four years. She won the British Women's Open four times, last in 1929, when she retired because she found women's competition tedious. She beat Glenna Collett Vare the three times they played each other-once at St. Andrews in the British final when Glenna Collett, with 34 for the first nine holes, was 6 up at the 12th. Joyce Wethered played 18 consecutive holes in 73, had a lead of 4 up at the 2 27th hole. For years...
...girl named Rosamond Vahey. She won the next two holes and the match on the 19th. The other came when she was 3 down to Dorothy Traung, a 20-year-old San Franciscan, on the tenth hole in the final. By this time, Defending Champion Van Wie had defeated "Glenna" (Glenna Collett Vare), who had had her second baby in two years three months before the tournament started. "Maureen" (squarejawed Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J.) had been beaten in the third round, and all but one member of the British Curtis Cup team had been put out the first...
...started to play golf at 11, to help cure an injury to her back incurred playing football with a team of small boys. Coached by D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla., where the Van Wies spend their winters, she entered her first tournament at 16, beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast Championship the next year. With Glenna, Maureen and Helen Hicks, whom she beat in the final of the National last year, Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie, now 25, was a member of the group of four women golfers who shared almost all the major prizes...