Word: golfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from them by Mary K. Browne, of Los Angeles Country Club. In 1912, 1913 and 1914, Miss Browne had U. S. tennis women breathless with her mistressful national title play. But, having conquered the tennis world, Miss Browne did not, like Alexander, sit weeping. She turned her hand to golf and last week all but conquered another world...
Little was said when Miss Browne qualified for her first national golf championship with a 96 (rather high) over the Rhode Island Country Club links at Providence, R. I. Eyebrows went up when she eliminated Louise Fordyce, Ohio State champion, in the second round. Eyebrows went higher, exclamations were heard, when she entered the semi-finals at the expense of Bernice Wall, of Oshkosh, Wis. When she carried Glenna Collett, ex-champion, to the 18th hole, squared her match with a deadly spoon-shot through trees, won at the 19th with a 15-foot caromed (lucky) putt, then jaws dropped...
...Britons were then invited to test out a new departure in golf balls, designed fatter and lighter* than the present standard to cut down on the distance attained by terrific hitters and punish half-hit shots. They found little difference in the new ball, save that it flew higher and a few feet less far than the old. Ponderous Tolley averaged 272 yards with four tee shots...
...that will challenge the U. S. for possession of the Walker Cup, brought themselves and their links-gear ashore, set off for practice at Garden City, L. I., where the International Matches are to be played Sept. 12 and 13. Their ponderous leader, Cyril Tolley, "siege gun of British golf," French Open Champion and onetime (1920) British Amateur Champion, declared that they might be a stronger team had they with them E. W. E. Holderness (British Amateur Champion, 1922 and 1924), Roger Wethered (British Amateur Champion, 1923), Robert Harris. Tolley's nine are: O. C. Bristow, Major Charles O. Hezlet...
...Mamaroneck, N. Y., Cyril Walker, National Open Champion, and Joe Kirkwood, famed Australian freak-shot maker, gave golfdom cause for mild astonishment by failing to qualify for the Professional Golf Association Championship Tournament to be held at French Lick, Ind., Sept. 14 to 20. Fifteen district qualifying rounds were going on throughout the country to determine a field of 64 starters for this event. The Metropolitan District, for example, was allotted 14 places to fill and 150 applicants teed off for 36 holes at the Quaker Ridge Course. Low score...