PAN! BARTON BEATEN.
FRENCH OPEN FINAL.. DAVIS CUP PLAYER'S WIFE WINS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, June 1. At Chantilly, in the final of the French women's open golf championship, Madame Lacoste beat Miss Paul Barton, 2 and 1. Madame Rene Lacoste, wife of the famous French Davis Cup tennis ace, won the British championship in 1927 at Newcastle. County Down. Ireland. She was then Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, and beat Miss D. M. W. Pearson., an English and British international, in the final, 5 and 4. Mine. Lacoste had reached the British semi-finals in 1926, in which vear Miss M. Gourlay beat Miss E. Corlett, 6 and 4, in the final at Woodhall Spa. The French player had previously won the open championship of her country in , 1926-27-30-3 J. Miss Barton was the 1934 winner, at 17 years of age, and was runner-up in 1936. when Miss Jessie Anderson (Scotland) beat her at the thirty-seventh.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 29
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