Includes a scrap book with approximately 60 leaves within, each with pasted newspaper clippings for the most part, but also with the occasional original photograph of Mrs. S.J. Anink (3 photographs in the scrap book), score card or other ephemera. Newspaper clippings begin in 1938. Photographs of Anink, include her Hole-in-one in 1940 at Lincoln Park in San Francisco. Includes many pieces of ephemera from the 44th Women's Amateur Championship of the USGA at Del Monte Golf & Country Club, 1940, including a 4 pp. pairing sheet, an unused scorecard, a "get-together" invitation with envelope, a 4 pp. rules & regulations with instructions for contestants, a receipt for the $5 entry fee, Women's Golf Association schedule of activities, and a small green pamphlet of Rates at Hotel Del Monte for September 23 to 29. Another program within for the Del Monte Championship for Women, 1942 (plus a 3 pp. typed pairing sheet), plus other Pebble Beach ephemera: Pebble Beach Golf Championship for Women March, 1942, 4 pp. program, plus an entry blank for said championship, and an invitation to a cocktail party at the Del Monte Lodge. Plus a typed letter from the USGA acknowledging receipt of the entry fee of $5 for the 1948 Women's Amateur Championship to be played at Pebble Beach.
In addition to the scrap book which has the most detailed record of Jean Anink's professional golfing career, the lot contains 24 loose sheets with attached ephemera, including: used score cards from: Alameda Municipal Golf Course, Annual Del Monte Championship, the Olympic Club (SF), Beresford CC (San Mateo), Claremont CC, Crystal Springs GC (Burlinghame), Diablo CC, Ingleside Public GC (plus a hand-written runner up badge for Ingleside Women's Championship Aug 1940), 1940 Pebble Beach USGA Women's Amateur. In addition to score cards are other items of ephemera like: Official Parking pass for the SF Women's Open Match Play Championship, benefit of the British War Relief, 1941; and then lots more used score cards including one from when Mrs. Anink played Babe Zaharias on March 18, 1941. Also 4 original tickets for the 48th USGA Women's Amateur championship, and a score sheet (filled out), plus a participants badge (with original safety pins) - she was number 108, an entry notice, score card and original photograph.
Newspaper clippings and related materials about this San Francisco Bay Area golfer Mrs. S.J. (Jean) Anink. Even her sister shows up golfing at some of the same tournaments. She was quite active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, playing at tournaments and championships all over San Francisco, Alameda, Oakland, Del Monte, and more. She also participated in the 1940 and 1948 USGA Women's Amateur Championships in the 1940s, this archive with several ephemeral pieces from those two appearances. The archive/scrap book was composed by Mrs. S.J. Jean Anink, with her notes and captions to nearly all the contents, which are pasted to leaves.