Word: vares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tournament's heroine, Charlotte Glutting soon saw her fun ended. Smiling, pert-nosed Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (to rhyme with "tee") was too much for her (4 & 3) and the final gallery gathered around to watch a match often played before. Miss Van Wie v. cool, collected Glenna Collett Vare. five times the champion, twice Miss Van Wie's mistress in national finals...
...last U. S. player, Bernice Wall of Oshkosh. Wis.. in the semifinals, then went on to whip Mrs. Charles Eddis of Toronto in the final. 3 & 2. Square-jawed Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J. was not there to defend her title. Neither was Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, champion...
...their third convention. They raised their party's vocal tone, but those to whom attention was paid were chiefly the wives or relatives of well-known men. Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the Saturday Evening Post's editor, was alternate for sick Boss William S. Vare of Philadelphia, "hero" of the 1928 nomination of Herbert Hoover; Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, sister-in-law of Michigan's football coach, directed the women's division of the national committee; Sarah Schuyler Butler was a New York delegate with her father Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler; even Ruth...
Even when Medalist Orcutt and U. S. Champion Helen Hicks lost their first round matches (TIME, June 6) three of the ablest women players in the U. S. were left in the tournament. But Glenna Collett Vare lost to the defending champion, Enid Wilson, while Virginia Van Wie was getting beaten by Susie Tolhurst, champion of Australia, in an amazing match that ended on the 210-yd. 19th hole. Miss Van Wie took 8 to her opponent's 6. That left only Mrs. Leona Pressler Cheney of Los Angeles, who started to play golf seven years ago when...
...singles a rain came driving down, it was just England in May, and the English ladies were at home. Observers predicted an English victory in the rain. On the drenched hills and dales of the Wentworth course in Surrey the three ranking Americans were rained under. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare took a routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty Enid Wilson ran into the ground husky Helen Hicks, the gallery's grinning, clowning favorite. Diana Fishwick, a highstrung little fighter, did the same for Maureen...