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...Hawaii that we best liked," remarked Hans-Bernard Michlowski the German cadet from the Kreuzer "Karlsruhe" to the CRIMSON reporter. "There we every night to dances went . . . Ho! ho we liked very much the girls with the grass . . . wie sagt man das? . . . skirts. They danced on beard...
...afternoon before her match with Miss Van Wie, Enid Wilson spent three hours practicing iron shots. She said later that was what queered her. On the first hole she drove badly, took a six. On the fourth, her approach was wild and she took three putts. On the fifth, her iron shot went into a bunker, cost her a 7. She took 44 strokes to the turn to Virginia Van Wie's smooth 37. It left her six down and she was still six down at the 13th green, where the match ended. It set the stage...
...breezy morning round, Helen Hicks missed a two-foot putt that would have made her one up. It looked serious at the time but seven holes farther on Helen Hicks might well have forgotten it because she was four up and it looked as though Virginia Van Wie's game had cracked completely. By lunch time, she had cause to brood about that putt again;.her opponent had cut her lead to two, with a fine four at the 16th and a good putt for another at the 18th. In the afternoon, with the wind dying down, they halved...
...first time in 21 holes. Trying desperately to catch up, Helen Hicks had a good chance at the 9th, until her opponent laid her a dead stymie. A 75-yd. spade shot that stopped three inches from the cup at the 12th put Miss Van Wie three up. On the 15th, both balls were on the green in two, but Helen Hicks's had bitten into the soft turf and picked up a patch of mud. She putted three times to Virginia Van Wie's two and shook hands, grinning, with the champion...
Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (rhymes with "tee") took to golf when she was 11, because her doctor thought it might help the back she had hurt playing football with a team of little boys. D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla. where the Van Wies spend their winters, helped build up her game, encouraged her to enter her first tournament at 16. At 17, Miss Van Wie beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast championship. The 73 with which she beat her again, in the national final last year, was the best round she ever played. Impeccable...