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1902 Western Championship-Bessie picture at Onwentsia-2.jpg

 “If anyone had said that a sweet, shy, modest little girl could merely by her sportsmanship, her splendid skill, and her pluck arouse such a feeling of admiration and respect in the minds of the prosaic and businesslike gentleman who control the destinies of the United States Golf Association…he or she would be called insane…

Nevertheless, this is what Miss Bessie Anthony has done.” – October 18, 1903

Cornelia Powers and her great-great-granddaughter Bessie Anthony at the same spot, spaced 115 years apart

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