Remarkable Golf Career

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1009, 27 June 1930, Page 9

Remarkable Golf Career

FRENCH GIRL’S SUCCESS

len Times Champion at 22

Mile. Simone de la Chaume, the very : i popular and charming little girl, who is engaged to Rene Lacoste. i J cne of “the three musketeers” who ! have taken France to the head of the * lawn tennis playing countries, has. however, just won the French golf i championship for the sixth time since ! she was first successful in 1925. In ■ doing so she is on the way to making ! a record for the number of interna- ! tional honours gained at golf bv unv I woman At the time she first came over here, in 3 924, writes C. W. Packford in London Sporting Life,” when she won the girls’ championship at Stoke Poges. I was told by my friend, Aubrey Boomer, that there was a sixteen-year-old girl playing frequently St. Cloud who, with anv fortune at all, might one day seriously challenge the skill of those two sreat players, Miss Joyce Wetliered and Miss Cecil Leitch. As Aubrev is a very fine judge of a player, and'not inclined to exaggeration. I awaited the : ar Sr'*Jj °J tllls £ irl with some interest. V» ell. from that day she has gone : from triumph to triumph. In the ! following seasons she won the French ! women s championship every year, the : French “Open”—which attracts all the i best of our own players—three times, once defeating Miss Lcitch in the final, til© British women’s honours in 1527. She has thus captured 10 national championships, and. has yet, to anextent. only just commenced her golfing career! At this rate she will soon pass the records of all other players, for she ' other worlds to conquer Which are within her capabilities. As far as I can trace there are onlv two other players who have exceeded the : number of national championships won by her. These are Miss Cecil Leitch i 'T. nC M*ss Dorothy Campbell, or Mrs. L. D. Hurd, as she now is. The victories obtained by Miss Leitch have been live French, four 1 British, two English and one Canad- j lan, while Miss Dorothy Campbell, the : Scottish international, won three A me- j rican, three Canadian, three Scottish » and two British. As a matter of fact, I Miss Campbell is the only lady who has won the British. American and i Canadian championships. There are quit© a number of women •

1 '■'* twenty-two years ol age to win a nationa i championship at any sport is an accomplishment not a all ot a commonplace character. For the same girl to hav prevailed in the contest for the sixth consecutive season i one of a remarkable character.

have gained more than one na- ! i Tonal distinction. Miss Molly Gour- | lay. for instance, has won British. T.nglish. French and Belgian chamnship medals; Miss Gladys Ravenscroft, now Mrs. Dobell. has been the British and Canadian champion: Miss Muriel Dodd, now Mrs. Alan Macßeth gained similar victories: Miss Rhon.-i Adair won four Irish and two Brit:«! suceeses: and Miss May Hazlet th: eBritish and five Irish. MISS WETHERED’S CAREER It may be noticed that Miss Jovce

\> othered is not included among these worn Qii. As it happens, she has not competed for outside honours, although in 1921 she played for and reached the final of the French championship. being defeated by Miss Cec.. Leitch; but she has won the English J. ltle *? ve in succession, and the ’open” on lour occasions, and could have added considerably to the number had she cared at all for the excitement of contests which attract the attention of hundreds of excited spectators-