Word: shenecossett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shenecossett Invitation. Battalions of babbling women assemble annually on the cool porches and breezy links of the Shenecossett Country Club (New London, Conn.) for an invitation tournament. Among them there always moves, subdued, almost morose, a Foregone Conclusion. Last week the Conclusion won the qualifying round from the babblers with a 78. Up stepped lank Dorothy Klotz of Chicago; the Conclusion settled upon her 4 and 3. Up stepped Helen Payson of Portland, Me., a nervy novice; the Conclusion finally rested at the 18th green, 1 up. Along came pouring rain and sure-putting Mrs. H. D. Sterrett of Hutchinson...
...Taft Jr., of Dartmouth College and Montclair, N. J., and J. J. Mapes, of Harvard University and Easthampton, L. I. Recalling how those Greenwich hills had seen him larrupped by Dexter Cummings in the Intercollegiate Final (TIME, July 7) Taft larrupped Mapes. Women. The long tiled porch of Shenecossett Country Club, at New London, Conn., was all a-titter and aflutter with 175 women, flocked thither for one of the season's larger invitation tournaments. Sober and serious, young Glenna Collett...
...often under 80. Glenna continued pensive as she brushed her own antagonists aside. Finally the two met; Glenna cracked out a scorching drive, Mrs. Hurd hooked into the fence. At the 15th, Glenna won the leg she so wanted. A newspaper ac count spoke of Miss Virginia Palmer, of Shenecossett, whom Glenna whipped 7 and 6 in the first round, as a "frightened opponent." Few, indeed, face Glenna without a tremor...
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