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Engaged. Rene Lacoste, French Davis Cup tennis player, and Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion golfer; at Paris, France...
Joyce Wethered's, last week, was the voice of three silent years. Because a crowd had pushed and howled at Troon in 1926 when she was playing Glenna Collett she decided to play no more for championship golf cups. It made no difference to her that Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume and then Mlle. Manette le Blan thereafter won the British Ladies' Title. Joyce Wethered, whose impersonality sometimes is tantamount to genteel insolence, plays golf for amusement and crowds do not amuse her. But last week on St. Andrew's course in Scotland she played again...
Both girls were thinly dressed, showing that they were foreigners. One was Glenna Collett, the other Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume who won the tournament last year. They were the two most interesting personalities in the tournament and the people of England wanted to see them play. What was a little rain? It would be good for the greens, the cheery faces of the Britishers seemed to say. Mlle. Thion de la Chaume shivered, hooked her drives into the long tough grass, Miss Collett shivered, took a nine in one hole, but tied the match at the ninth...
...Fraser, Canadian, defeated Glenna Collett, twice national champion, 2 and 1. Spectators said that Mrs. Fraser was in form again to win the title, which she held three times as Alexa Stirling of Atlanta. Spectators approved their surmise the next day when the heavily-heralded Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion of France, champion of England, lost the first three holes to Mrs. Fraser and the match 3 and 2. But something happened. Mrs. Fraser fiddled away her next match to a little-known Kansas City wife, Miriam Burns Horn. Mrs. Horn, once western champion, won 1 up. Meanwhile...
Miss Virginia Wilson of Chicago, the only really proficient U. S. player present, was eliminated in the third round. Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume, strapping 19-year-old, who belongs in France but spends much time in the moist islands, took the championship away from Miss Dorothy Pearson of Tunbridge Wells, thus depriving England of her sole remaining British title...