The Archive · 1939

Clubs Bought on Instalment Plan Serve Her Well

Manila, Jan. 28.

A short, stocky washerwoman. whose golfing career reads like a chapter out of Grimm's fairy tales, today became a strong favourite to win her third Philippine women's golf tournament by turning in a card which placed her eighth in the list of twenty who qualified for the championship yesterday.

"The 29-year-old' Miss Domingo Capati, who is employed by two American officials of the Calamba Estate, is the only Filipina entry in the tournament.

She never took a single lesson from any golf instructor. ' She bought her clubs on the instalment plan from her savings and in her first playing year won the Philippine tifle in 1996, Was runner-up in 1937 and champion last year—United Press.

When they're not singing' they're fungin' things at each other!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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