Word: onwentsia
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...winds arose and the rain fell and the Sokie River flooded forth over the Onwentsia Golf Course at Lake Forest, Ill. The draggled women who were playing there for the Western Championship cleaned out their lockers at the clubhouse, bundled their powder puffs, dry stockings and extra hairpins over to the Shore Acres Club, farther up Lake Michigan, held their second and third round matches on its higher ground...
...Onwentsia's tees and greens having emerged from the angry waters, the surviving players trooped back to finish the tournament. Miriam Burns, defending champion, took dangerous Dorothy Klotz in hand and shot the sodden first nine in 37. Coming in against a north wind, Miriam was 45. This round, the lowest of the meet, was keen enough to subjugate Dorothy, 3 and 2. Edith Cummings, whose third match had been a 5-and-3 win over well-seasoned Mrs. Dave Gaut, of Memphis, took the measure of Mrs. Lee Mida, another of golf's warhorses, and became...
...Lake Forest, Ill., the Onwentsia links swarmed with 152 golfing Amazons beginning play for the Women's Western title, but Glenna had not rushed out to mingle with them. Champion Miriam Burns, of Kansas City, and National Champion Edith Cummings ruled the scene. Edith, who was raised amid Ouwentsia's daisies and knows every hole on the prairie, including those made by gophers, had little trouble navigating the rainsoaked course in 84, low medal...
Married. Mrs. Irene Castle Treman, dancer, 29, to Major Frederic McLaughlin, 45, coffee merchant, formerly Captain of the Onwentsia Club polo team, in Chicago...
...Byers. On July 26 Egan covered 36 holes at Ekwanok in 151, thus equalling the record made last season by A. L. White '06. On August 4 he established a new amateur record of 151 on the Homewood Country Club, and a week later won the Mayflower cup at Onwentsia by defeating R. E. Hunter, Midlothian Country Club, 5 up and 4 to play. W. E. Egan '05 won the Onwentsia medal play cup with a card of 150 for 36 holes, thus equalling the record held by H. C. Egan...