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...Vahey. She won the next two holes and the match on the 19th. The other came when she was 3 down to Dorothy Traung, a 20-year-old San Franciscan, on the tenth hole in the final. By this time, Defending Champion Van Wie had defeated "Glenna" (Glenna Collett Vare), who had had her second baby in two years three months before the tournament started. "Maureen" (squarejawed Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J.) had been beaten in the third round, and all but one member of the British Curtis Cup team had been put out the first day of match...
...Championship the next year. With Glenna, Maureen and Helen Hicks, whom she beat in the final of the National last year, Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie, now 25, was a member of the group of four women golfers who shared almost all the major prizes of the game until Mrs. Vare went into semi-retirement two years ago, and Helen Hicks became a professional. Slimmest of the four, with brown bobbed hair, brown eyes, she pronounces her last name to rhyme with "tee." lives in Chicago, prefers basketball to golf...
Died. William Scott Vare, 66, merchant, onetime Congressman from Pennsylvania (1912-27) and later its famed Senator-reject, longtime boss of Philadelphia's Republican machine; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Elected to the Senate in 1926, he was refused his seat because of excessive primary expenditures ($785,000). His grip on the Philadelphia machine was broken in last May's primaries...
Born, To Edwin H. Vare, Jr., 38, nephew of onetime Philadelphia Republican Boss William Scott Vare, and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. 31, five-time U. S. women's golf champion: a son; their second child; in Philadelphia...
...Pittsburgh, for Governor; pugilistic Eddie McCloskey, Mayor of Johnstown, for Secretary of Internal Affairs. So badly disorganized was the Republican State Committee that it failed to back anyone's candidacy for the governorship. Chief contender appeared to be Attorney General William A. Schnader, endorsed by the Mellon-Vare machine. His motto: "I refuse to sell you a gold brick." Among the rash of twelve other Republican candidates, most promising was Lieut. Governor Edward C. Shannon, a conservative out-state farmer with veteran backing. For Senator, Joseph Guffey, Democratic boss of the state, was whooping up his own candidacy...