Golf

Canada. On the 18th green of the Beaconsfield course at Montreal, Que., a golf ball nestled close to the hole. Since sailing off the first tee it had been smitten only 68 times. Up walked A. H. Murray, professional at the Montreal Country Club, proprietor of the ball. He seized his putter, twitched his wrist, the ball rolled askew, missed the cup. Undismayed, Murray whisked it in on his 70th stroke. He had won the Canadian Professional Championship (open to Canadians only) by a two-stroke margin. Nicol Thompson, of Hamilton, "ran up" with 146 strokes.

P:U. S. golfers were not barred from the Canadian Open at Mount Bruno, Que., three days later. Galleries flocked after slouching Leo Diegel of Washington, D. C., and Gene Sarazen, "grinning runt" of Briarcliff, N. Y. Leo ticked off a 285 for the title, Gene 287 for second. Other Americans in the annual border raid: W. Macfarlane, Tuckahoe, N. Y., 288; J. Farrell, Mamaroneck, N. Y., 291; W. E. Melhorn, St. Louis, 293; Clarence P. Hackney, Atlantic City, (1923 winner), 295. Ablest Canadian: A. Kay Lambton, of Toronto, seventh with 297.

Greenwich. Toiling up hills, jolting down, amateur guests of the Greenwich Country Club, Conn., qualified behind Reginald M. Lewis, one of golf's imps. He was at home among all the blind shots Greenwich presents, literally and in the figure 71. The match players dwindled away, including Imp Lewis, to two juveniles--W. H. Taft Jr., of Dartmouth College and Montclair, N. J., and J. J. Mapes, of Harvard University and Easthampton, L. I. Recalling how those Greenwich hills had seen him larrupped by Dexter Cummings in the Intercollegiate Final (TIME, July 7) Taft larrupped Mapes. Women. The long tiled porch of Shenecossett Country Club, at New London, Conn., was all a-titter and aflutter with 175 women, flocked thither for one of the season's larger invitation tournaments. Sober and serious, young Glenna Collett, of

Providence, R. I., moved among them, wondering if she could win an other leg on the Griswold Trophy. As the week wore on, the seasoned Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd, of Philadelphia, disposed of her opponents most stoutly, coursing around often under 80. Glenna continued pensive as she brushed her own antagonists aside. Finally the two met; Glenna cracked out a scorching drive, Mrs. Hurd hooked into the fence. At the 15th, Glenna won the leg she so wanted. A newspaper ac count spoke of Miss Virginia Palmer, of Shenecossett, whom Glenna whipped 7 and 6 in the first round, as a "frightened opponent." Few, indeed, face Glenna without a tremor.

P: At Lake Forest, Ill., the Onwentsia links swarmed with 152 golfing Amazons beginning play for the Women's Western title, but Glenna had not rushed out to mingle with them. Champion Miriam Burns, of Kansas City, and National Champion Edith Cummings ruled the scene. Edith, who was raised amid Ouwentsia's daisies and knows every hole on the prairie, including those made by gophers, had little trouble navigating the rainsoaked course in 84, low medal.