At Interlachen

In the uproar about Mrs. Helen Wills Moody's performance at Wimbledon two months ago, a phenomenally large amount of misplaced attention was devoted to the fact that she won her first U. S. Women's Singles Championship in 1923. Last week at the Interlachen Country Club near Minneapolis, sportswriters failed to get similarly excited about a sportswoman whose apparent immunity to the effects of time surpasses Mrs. Moody's. She was Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, who won the Women's Golf Championship of the U. S. for the first time in 1922 and won it last week for the sixth.

There were only two moments at Interlachen when it looked as if Mrs. Vare might lose. One was in her semi-final match with 18-year-old Beatrice Barrett of Minneapolis whom she defeated 2 & 1. The other came the next day when she was playing a 17-year-old, freckled-faced tomboy named Patty Berg, whose father persuaded her to take up golf three years ago, hoping it would make her lose interest in playing football on a neighborhood boys' team. Four down when the match reached the 31st hole, Minneapolis' Berg had suddenly won two holes in succession, halved another and dropped a 15-ft. putt on the 34th green for a par 4. Now, if Philadelphia's Vare missed a tricky six-footer, the match would stay alive and chipper little Patty Berg would have an excellent chance to win. Her small, earnest oval face set in serious lines, Mrs. Vare leaned over her ball, tapped it with her putter. When it dropped into the cup, she smiled, walked over to shake hands.

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