MISS WETHERED CHAMPION
EXCITING FINAL IN ENGLAND WON AT 37th HOLE. Reuter’s Telegram. LONDON, May 22. At Troon, in the women’s golf championship final, over 36 holes. Mias Joyce Wethered (Worplesdon), the bolder, beat Aliss Cecil Leitch (Carlisle), at the thirty-seventh hole. (Received Alay 24, 5.6 p.m.) The match was the most thrilling ever played in the women’s golf championship. At the end of the first round Aliss Wethered was 75 and Miss Leitch 76. . The second round was oven keener. Miss Wethered was two up at the twelfth. The next four were halved, but Aliss Leitch won the next two. Th< game went an extra hole, which Alls! Wethered won by four strokes to five.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12146, 25 May 1925, Page 11
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116MISS WETHERED CHAMPION New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12146, 25 May 1925, Page 11
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