Evening star., 1925-02-16

Originally the idea was to have two
man teams represent the various
FLORIDA resorts and play regularly
scheduled matches just s professional
base ball teams do. At first the in
terest of the cash customers ran high
but lately the novelty of regular ap
pearances of ranking stars has worn
off and the receipts have fallen off
accordingly. The professionals are
seriously disturbed over the turn
affairs have taken as it indicates that
exhibition matches, their chief source
of revenue, are being oEerworked.
Golf enthusiasts apparently have be-
come surfeited with exhibition matches
at which admission was charged.
With the Palm Beach Woman's
championship tournament scheduled
to start today at the American Riviera
golfers the country over, are eagerly
awaiting the appearance of Glenna
Collett, Mrs. Dorothy, Campbell Hurd,
Miss Bernice Wall, Miss Dorothy
Klotz, Mrs. Sallie Sterrett. Mrs.
Ronald H. Jackson and other leading
American stars in the first big South
ern tournament of 1925.
Miss Collett. the Providence wonder
golfer. has been polishing up her
game in preparation for an invasion
next Spring. She is training under
the keen eye of Walter Hagen, at
Belleair. and it will be interesting to
note how far she has progressed,
when she arrives at Palm Beach.
The same all-star field of woman
players will compete in the Ormond
Beach woman's championship Febru-
airy 24-2S, and at st. Augustine in the
Florida East Coast championship,
March 1-6.
wright, two of our greatest American
woman swimmers, narrowly escapde
being lost to the sport in which they
excel. They were on the verge Of be-
ing kidnapped by the game of golf,
| but they decided to stick to swimming.
even in the face of expert opinion that
they had it in them to stand among
the national leaders on the links.
Sporting followers know how Miss
| Mary h. Browne, runner-up in the
women's national golf tournament at
Providence last year, was weaned
! from lawn tennis. And rumors are
plentiful that Miss Helen Wills, the
national and International champion
of the courts, is thinking seriously of
| taking up tourney play in golf.
| Just how Miss Wainwright and
Miss Ederle were lured to the links
| is a story told in St. Augustine when
| the Two stars were
| ling feats in the various events.
| The two girls, accompanied by Char
| lotte Epstein. coach of the New York
Women's Swimming Association, were
in Bermuda, where series of exhibit
tion swimming meets was drawing
to conclusion in the Summer of 1922.
Invited to Links.
John Mcdonald, architect of Inter-
ocean course. which was then nearing
completion, happened to have an off
day upon the occasion of one of these
exhibitions at Hamilton. and he drove
| over to view the famous young wo-
men.
| So impressed was he by the strength
and natural athletic ability of the
| girls that he invited them to come to
the Interocean links for a game of
| golf Now, neither Miss Wainwright
| nor Miss Ederle had ever played the
game, but they were were perfectly
| willing to try and accepted the invi-
| tation.
One game developed into several.
| and Mcdonald was amazed at the
| rapidity with which the young swim
merS picked up the game. They had
natural rhythm and swing and made
amazing progress in all departments,