DEAF & DUMB GOLFER
SOUTH AFRICAN GIRL VISITS ENGLAND.
Miss Beryl Lang, aged 27, the most popular personality of the South African golf team who arrived in England recently, has been deaf and dumb for 25 years.
Her disabilities have helped her golf, given her extra concentration. Now there is hope that she may recover the power of speech. Beryl, tall, Junoesque, with soft brown eyes and a shy smile, had measles when , she was two. She has been deaf and dumb ever since.
On her father’s lonely farm in Cape Province she learned lip-reading and sign language. But she did not meet many people, except on the little golf course near by, where the girl outdrove them all. Miss Doris Chambers, the veteran champion, when she captained the English team in the Union was impressed with her play, and suggested Beryl should be included in the South African team, the first ever, to tour England.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1938, Page 9
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