MISS JOYCE WETHERED

Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 20

MISS JOYCE WETHERED

INTEREST IN HER ENGAGEMENT The announcement of the engagement of Major Cecil K. Hutchison and Miss Joyce Wethered has been received with the greatest interest wherever golf is played throughout the world. No happier marriage could possibly have been arranged, or so all golfers will think (writes the golfing correspondent of the ‘ Morning Post ’), Miss Wethered is, beyond compare, the greatest woman golfer of all time, Bobby Jones goes still further and declares that she is the finest golfer living, without distinction of sex; and he ought to know. Since the war Americans have challenged and wrested supremacy from our best golfing men in no uncertain fashion, but whenever the best .of women transatlantic golfers have come over to try conclusions _ with Miss Wethered they have invariably had to return discomfited. Miss Wethered’s gentleness and personal charm are perhaps misleading. In a tight comer nobody can fight with greater determination than this amiable lady, although she always contrives to hit hard without ruffling her own composure in the least. Her fiancee, Major Hutchison, late of the Coldstream Guards, is also a very well-known golfer. He represented Scotland in international matches against England nine times, and has won enough gold medals and cups to stock a museum. But the best achievement of his golfing career was to take Mr Robert Maxwell, who was then well-nigh irresistible as a match player, to the thirty-sixth hole in the final of the amateur championship at Muirfield in 1909. Major Hutchison is_ a graceful and effective player, and his strokes are always made in perfect style.