Glenna Collett Vare, five times national golf champion, who suffered the ignominy of a 10 & 8 defeat in last month’s national finals, felt better last week. Winning the Berthyllyn Cup at Huntington Valley (Philadelphia) from Edith Quier, she dropped two strokes at the second hole and then, after two pars, made a hole-in-one, her first. Her 144-yd. No. 3 iron shot landed seven feet from the cup, bounced twice, plopped straight in. The match ended on the 12th green, 8 & 6 but Mrs. Vare played out the bye holes because her first nine score was 33. At the short 17th she dropped two strokes again but finished with one of the few rounds below 70 ever scored by a woman, one under men’s par and only two over the men’s course record. Her card:
Out
Par 35
Mrs. Vare 33
In
Par 35-70
Mrs. Vare 36-69
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