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...eastward year after year were to be given a chance at home. Nevertheless, impartial critics did not give them much chance against the little group of top-notch players from the East-National Champion Glenna Collett; broad-shouldered, jut-jawed Maureen Orcutt; chubby, thick-muscled Helen Hicks; Virginia Van Wie of Chicago...
...thing to a surprise was when Mrs. Hill put out Maureen Orcutt in the quarterfinal. In the semifinal Miss Collett had her first real competition, but made it easy by winning the first three holes and outdriving Helen Hicks, said to be the longest-hitting woman alive. Miss Van Wie put out Mrs. Hill by being the steadier in a match in which neither was very steady. In the final, with a great crowd billowing over the course, Miss Van Wie played good golf all through, good enough to win if Miss Collett had not achieved a spiritual imitation...
...Glenna Collett, women's national golf champion: The North & South championship at Pinehurst, winning 1 up in the finals from Edith Quier, handsome golfer of Reading, Pa., after Miss Quier had unexpectedly put out Virginia Van Wie and Helen Hicks...
Collett Trounced. Square jawed, broad-shouldered Maureen Orcutt surprised everybody by putting out National Champion Glenna Collett in the semifinal, but Virginia Van Wie, who had put out Helen Hicks, beat her in the final of the Florida East Coast Women's Golf Championship, 5 up and 4 to play...
Golf. Like men professionals, most good women golfers go to Florida every winter to play the flat, windy courses at Palm Beach, La Gorce, St. Augustine. In the State Championship at Palm Beach last week, Virginia Van Wie won the medal. Bernice Wall lost to Mrs. J. F. Trounstine after an argument because Mrs. Trounstine had lifted Bernice Wall's ball by mistake on the 16th green. Maureen Orcutt equaled the women's course record, 77, to beat Virginia Van Wie in the finals two days later...