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...club in Florida, stood a group of Eastern citizens, sunburnt, risible, reading the list of entries for the annual women's golf championship of Belleair Heights. They read with respect the names of Mrs. Dorothy Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield of Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Klotz of Chicago, Mrs G. H. Stetson of Philadelphia. Suddenly, one of their number pointed to a name, emitted a snicker. Others, following his shaking finger, perceived the joke, began to titter, to cackle. Soon a hysteria of amusement possessed the group; they laid hands upon...
...play progressed, the mirth of those individuals who dedicated their waking hours to walking around the course after Miss Wall, distinctly lessened. Miss Glenna Collett was put out by Miss Hadfield with a 20-foot putt on the 19th green. The field dwindled. At last there were only two golfers left. One was Mrs. Hurd and the other-Miss Wall of Oshkosh. No laughs disturbed her while she, with alert composure, played stroke for stroke against the veteran in the final round. She had redeemed the name of Oshkosh, but Mrs. Hurd, more experienced, defeated...
...soon seen that the putts of Miss Collett were serpentining round the gaping cup, that her mashie shots were bounding too hard across the greens. The gallery marveled. Such golf would never win for her against a sturdy opponent. They looked curiously at the little-famed Miss Hadfield. But as for her ball, it looped in even stranger parabolas from her putter, sprang from her cleek in bounds even more rash. Miss Collett won, "3 and 2." Next day she defeated Miss Cummings...
...business department, Daniel Berkeley Bianchi '26 of Newton 'Centre; to the publicity department: George Robert Russell '27 of Milton and Barnabas Burrows Hadfield '27 of White Plains, New York; to the electrical department: Otis Radcliffe Rice '25 of Springfield; to the art department: Louis Simon '27 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Charles Leo Boutilier '25 of Lowell
...Entry--B. B. Hadfield...