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National Champion and the ablest player in the country. "Gino" is Virginia Van Wie, champion from 1932 through 1934. "Maureen" is square-jawed Mrs. Maureen Orcutt Crews of Miami who has been runner-up to the other two more often than anyone else. Last week, it became apparent that this exclusive little cabal was henceforth to be enlarged by "Patty." Patty is Patricia Jane Berg, a snubnosed, redhaired, 18-year-old from Minneapolis, whose doings on golf links for the past eight months have caused her to be recognized as the most promising recruit to the U. S. troupe...
There were two moments at Chestnut Hill. Pa., last week when it looked as though Virginia Van Wie's forebodings about the U. S. Women's Golf Championship were likely to be fulfilled. One came in the third round when she was 2 down, with 3 to play, against a Massachusetts girl named Rosamond 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...
Virginia Van Wie started to play golf at 11, to help cure an injury to her back incurred playing football with a team of small boys. Coached by D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla., where the Van Wies spend their winters, she entered her first tournament at 16, beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast 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...
Among the British and American top-liners who will tee off at Chevy Chase are Virginia Van Wie, Chicago, twice national women's champion; Maureen Orcutt, four times Metropolitan champion; Mrs. Opal S. Hill, Kansas City, present trans-Mississippi title holders and Lncille Robinson, present western champion, all members of the American team...
Married. John North Willys, 60, automobile manufacturer, onetime (1930-32) U. S. Ambassador to Poland; and Mrs. Florence E. Dolan, 37, of Fieldston, N. Y.; in Miami, Fla. The marriage immediately followed a Miami divorce granted Mrs. Isabel Van Wie Willys, whom he married 37 years ago, on a charge of "extreme cruelty...