Sodden

The winds arose and the rain fell and the Sokie River flooded forth over the Onwentsia Golf Course at Lake Forest, Ill. The draggled women who were playing there for the Western Championship cleaned out their lockers at the clubhouse, bundled their powder puffs, dry stockings and extra hairpins over to the Shore Acres Club, farther up Lake Michigan, held their second and third round matches on its higher ground.

Onwentsia's tees and greens having emerged from the angry waters, the surviving players trooped back to finish the tournament. Miriam Burns, defending champion, took dangerous Dorothy Klotz in hand and shot the sodden first nine in 37. Coming in against a north wind, Miriam was 45. This round, the lowest of the meet, was keen enough to subjugate Dorothy, 3 and 2. Edith Cummings, whose third match had been a 5-and-3 win over well-seasoned Mrs. Dave Gaut, of Memphis, took the measure of Mrs. Lee Mida, another of golf's warhorses, and became the other finalist.

In the finals, Miriam, griped (literally) beyond endurance by ptomaine poisoning, was no match for Edith, faded away before perfect golf, 12 and 10.