The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

'champion of the worid. We might'as 1 vvu, Ilon a 'yn e nm wvell claim this distinction for ber a pion stroke for stroke. T'here was no ornn hs abeter lai toth nothing to chose bètween the'm off f0 womevn tbags etedaimt otiethe tee or througb the green, but tihe eBeitih ogb shte.osno.hod when it carne to the little pitches and feated Miss Enidi Wilson, British chip shots Miss Wilson siniply could Schampion, in the ýsemi-final hot get b er golf bah er h hl women's and Miss Van Wîe won by 6 and 5 'round at Exmoor, and then went on1 Miss Hicks seemed to have a bit of> to in er ecod cnseutîe U & an e dge on Miss, Orcutt. She won G. A. women's titie by defeating Miss the second bol .e with a birdie 4 and: Helen- Hicks, of Lido, Long Beach, Mis rutÉsure_ hemac*wt LI I., by.4,u p and,-3.to play in the Mass o tfth.Missthe*Âmch wonth thrysxhl ia oundls atu-a4onteffh i£Hcs'ýnte thiay-si hVa nalriur- tS sixth, seventh, and ninth. ,She wa 'day- 3 up at the tr adneyer. gave Ms Wîe..plaed he mst rcutt a chance to catch ber. consistent golf of the tournameënt. The finals between Miss Van Wie Her 73.made during a practice round. and Miss Hicks carried a thrill at established' a new women 's non- every hole. Miss Van' Wiegave, the competitive record for the course, finest exhib itionà of ernergency putting 'andherscoes urin th enîrewe eversaw and she owes her win to tournantment were, of. championship ber putter.-' During the morning class. In ber march through the field round-Miss Hicks' play ivas faultless. Miss Van Wie defeated Miss Ehizam She was out-driigMs a i beth. Dunn, of Indianapolis,,,7 and 6; cosistentîy'd rivn io-ss Van Vi 11rs. Leo Federman, o-f Great Neck, tce' grée' wr"ms y)ees h L .1., 4 and 2; M rs. L. D. Cheney, of high wind made approachingex San Gabriel,, Calif., 1 up; Miss Enid tremeîy dflt n Mex'iksws- XV'ison ofEngand 6 n'd5, nd"cîearly playing the best golf. Miss Miss Helen Hicks, of Lido, 4 afl& 3. Van Wie's -approach putting was bad. Miss Van Wie played through the 'rime after time she ran ber balh tenri toughest part of thed'raw and berorftefetatthcuanonhe' win was clear cut and decisive. o'ite etps h u n nteS Braisi Theç Fals jthird, fourth, seventh, twelfth, and M Inret i thr pay nturilfifteenth greens - she holed putts of t' Ineetn teerl lynaualy ten 'feet or more. -an centered in- the plyo isEi-it Wilson, British paof h mio ndMiss Hicks' 4 Up t and in' the golf oMenssAch apion issHicks. was 4 uip at the four- S Kenzie, Canadian %voren 's champion. teenth 'and tbey halved the fifteenthS Miss Wilson won the quali'fying 111 4. Miss H-icks hiad been playing medal witb a card of 76, and the easily and Miss Van WVie plainly British women's champion proved sliowNed that she was carrying the tai berseif to, be a real golfer and a load. We might almost accuse Miss pi sports-woman of the, bighest 'cîass. Hicks of carelessness. 'She missed 'a îf Her golf up to the semi--flual round littie 14 'inch putt on tbe seventh CI was flawless. She is exceptionaîîy green and aga"In0on the eighteenth adc long off the tee, plays her irons 1sle imissed a short putt from directly beautifullY, and is' an 'except ion ally. beIow the. cup that she should bave ex] sound putter, In ber match with. Miss mpade. ' iss Van Wie wôn both the Van Xie she lost al sense of touch sixteenth and eighteenth holes and -, on ber shortz approaches 'and' this>wsol onwe hysopd9 fault wa-s responsible for ber defeat. ýfor -lunch. Miss Hicks topped ber Miss Ada MacKenzie ýqualified. weîIl spoon. shot at the.sixteenth, putting sp with an 85 but was defeated by NI[-ber baIl in' a 'trap, but there was no 'aî Peggy Wattles, of Buffalo, 3 up and excuse for ber losing the eighteenitb Vit 2 tô play in the first round of match and she should bave been 3 up at da), play. This disposes of the two in-' the end of the morning rouind.- 'terntiona entres\'e asked Alex Stupple wbo he R ich.ard Barthemess. ivho gives another great port rayai of1 an "un- der dog" character. Titis tinie h's. starred in. "Heroes for Sale," at- tractonî at ihe linite thcah'r Supidayý and Monda y. Mrs. Vibe K. Spicer of 312 Essex DaKenilworth, who is spending the ,ummer at hér home at Westport Point, Nfass., bas been giving, ber gardeii alks tbrough 'the east. Mrs. Spicer is Ln experienced gardener and hier lec- ires are both delightful and instructive. ;he is giving one in Newv Bedford on ;eptember 20. -o- Robert E. 'Pickard of Exeter, On- aro, is visiting Dr. and Mrs. E. C. ickard of 111 Centrai Park ave.nue. Ir. 'Pickard's son,' Allan, came on to 'hicago f rom.bis home iin Regina, 'Caîî- da, to visit A 'Century uf Progress :position with bis father. -o-' :Bob Zech and bis brother, Arthur, 8. Forest avenue,: left. Monday to' ,end a week 'at the Four.easns lj -Mescauno Island in Xiséonsin. 'Don- A Zech and Edwardý Thurston. and iicent Daly of Chicago lef t Wednies- ty for Ishpeming, Mich." right to appeal unjust taxation were demànded by George F. Nixon, a member of the Board of Appeals, in' a' talk to an overflow meeting of the Chicago 'Real Estate board and civic leaders recently at the board,:head- quarters, 32- W. Randolph stre.et Chi- cago. "I have been thunderstruck," 'M r. 1Nixon stated, ."with the patience of the 'Public. Hundred.9 of persons, 1who. have Ilost almost everything they ever owned, came' to the Bcard of j ppeals and- patiently pleaded for a. little relief from overburdening and unfair taxation. They were not mili- tant.' They were orderly. I arn sur- prised they were îlnot hard-Iboiled." Mlr. Nixon. declaredi that ' 105,000 complàîin. cases already have been ,heard by the Board, of Appeals. He said: Muet Revive Confidence "MNany claimed, it could flot be done. Others said i t should not be done. But I arn glad to say now. that ~it- has txeen dône! And it had' to be done, if' the confidence of the 'people in their 'local government was to be revived. .'"From these complaints 'we. have iearned t«wo things. 'They are: that taxes miùust be kept within the abilityý of:people to'pay thein and- the right of appeal to unfair taxation must be pre served." Mr. ,Nixon also re%,ieived the de- Inand of the Board of Appea ls for a 15. per cent tax cut on. aIl homues and sm'all apartrnent buildings Uind.er the 1931 asses'sment, and in 'addit ion the order 'for a 20 .per cent tax reduction ,on al properties. under the 1932 as- sessment, Thiese recommiendat ioýnsle declare&, were made only after "x tremely serious conisideration of al factors i, ove. Must Stop Overf1oW He attacked the srnall ',special. priv- ilege class. attenîpting to defeat the 15 per cent tax' cut and pointed out that the B3oard of Appeals could flnot beheld responsible for any tax col- lection delays caused by this agita- tion. goinnxg, aurm of ax'y woman we ever Dest ShOt -uOfuthecîay at tih saw, and. there was not a tbing in thirteentb. She bad .pulled 1 their play on wbich to pick an out- shot to a trap at the left of th standing preference. Al' were ex- and her recovery with a nibl ceptionally long off the tee. Al bit a rnasterpiece. It won ber a b their irôn shots well, andalil putted and they :halved the. fourteen, Kwas 1.biljp wV go on recou ýf in 3, tournament in the in 4.1 event. s caionitf- H-enry Gi Zander, Jr., of Keni1- the greatest worth president of ýthe Chicago Real ry of 'the Estate- board, presided at the meet- ing. t Up. 'r' I i