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Even when Medalist Orcutt and U. S. Champion Helen Hicks lost their first round matches (TIME, June 6) three of the ablest women players in the U. S. were left in the tournament. But Glenna Collett Vare lost to the defending champion, Enid Wilson, while Virginia Van Wie was getting beaten by Susie Tolhurst, champion of Australia, in an amazing match that ended on the 210-yd. 19th hole. Miss Van Wie took 8 to her opponent's 6. That left only Mrs. Leona Pressler Cheney of Los Angeles, who started to play golf seven years ago when...
...singles a rain came driving down, it was just England in May, and the English ladies were at home. Observers predicted an English victory in the rain. On the drenched hills and dales of the Wentworth course in Surrey the three ranking Americans were rained under. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare took a routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty Enid Wilson ran into the ground husky Helen Hicks, the gallery's grinning, clowning favorite. Diana Fishwick, a highstrung little fighter, did the same for Maureen...
...Dorothy Vare, daughter of the late Pennsylvania State Senator Edwin H. Vare, niece of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare; and Thomas Read Hulme, son of Vice President Thomas Wilkins Hulme of the Pennsylvania Railroad; at Ambler, Pa. Giver-away: Edwin H. Vare Jr. who married Golfer Glenna Collett (TIME, July...
...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...