In County Down

Hundreds of red-cheeked British women carried their "brollies" (umbrellas) around the golf links at Newcastle, in County Down, Ireland, last week. A few of them pursued small white balls over the humid turf, for the women's championship of Great Britain was in progress.

Miss Virginia Wilson of Chicago, the only really proficient U. S. player present, was eliminated in the third round. Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume, strapping 19-year-old, who belongs in France but spends much time in the moist islands, took the championship away from Miss Dorothy Pearson of Tunbridge Wells, thus depriving England of her sole remaining British title.*

Notably absent from play were Miss Joyce Wethered, champion 1922, 1924, 1925, and Miss Cecil Leitch, champion 1914, 1920, 1921, 1926. Miss Leitch, however, marched with the "brolly" brigade, carrying her shelter in her left hand. Down from the Irish skies shot a bolt of Irish lightning, ran down the spines of Miss Leitch's umbrella, knocked her flat on the grass, put her arm out of golfing commission for a fortnight.

*Robert T. Jones Jr. of Atlanta holds the British men's open title; Jess Sweetser of New York, the British men's amateur.