Word: wies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their country. The chore looked harder when chunky Helen Hicks, the defending U. S. champion, failed to qualify with a miserable 89. British Champion Wilson had a neat 79, only two over ladies' par and the tied first-place scores of Maureen Orcutt of New Jersey and Virginia Van Wie of Illinois. (Miss Orcutt won the play...
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...
...word went out that two of the three remaining Americans were soggily losing, that only Mrs. Leona Cheney, small & blonde from Los Angeles, was winning her match. This news did not rattle Chicago's Virginia Van Wie, 22, who first took up golf to cure a weak back. She has an impeccable style but her specialty of pitching dead to the flag had not been working on Wentworth's sloping greens. She braced herself, squared her match on the 15th, won the next two holes. Mrs. Opal S. Hill, 40, of Kansas City was also a game...
...field at The Country Club of Buffalo, N. Y. last week there were Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, defending champion; square-jawed Maureen Orcutt who patterns her game on Mrs. Vare's and on whose game Helen Hicks has tried to pattern hers; and Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie of Chicago, who has never won the championship but has twice been runner-up. In addition to these four, the best women golfers in the U. S. for the last year or two, there was a tall English girl with fair hair and a bashful smile, She was Enid Wilson whose father...
...Maureen Orcutt: the North & South women's golf championship, at Pinehurst, N. C.; after winning the qualifying medal with a 75 (new women's course competitive record) and beating Virginia Van Wie. four times runner-up, by one hole in the final...