Florida Women's

Three famed and mighty women marched out upon the links at Palm Beach, prepared to do semi-final battle to find out who was the woman's golf champion of Florida. These three women knew each other well; they have succeeded one another for the last three years as national champions -- Miss Glenna Collett (1922), Miss Edith Cummings (1923), Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd (1924). But it must not be supposed that they were merely competing in a friendly three-cornered way among themselves for the Florida championship. There was another with them--one Miss Frances Madfield of Milwaukee. She was not, as they were, famed; was she as mighty as they?

Miss Collett undertook to find out, while Miss Cummings stood up to Mrs. Hurd. Round the course they went. It was soon seen that the putts of Miss Collett were serpentining round the gaping cup, that her mashie shots were bounding too hard across the greens. The gallery marveled. Such golf would never win for her against a sturdy opponent. They looked curiously at the little-famed Miss Hadfield. But as for her ball, it looped in even stranger parabolas from her putter, sprang from her cleek in bounds even more rash. Miss Collett won, "3 and 2." Next day she defeated Miss Cummings, "6 and 4."