Powerful Pauline

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 106, 1 November 1930, Page 19

Powerful Pauline

SturdyjMiss-Pauline Doran,.a Jiftecn-years-okVNorbury,! Surrey, girl, and the youngest competitor,-, stolidly fought her way to •victory'in" the'final round of the girls' [ golf- championship at' Stoke Poges, . -states the "Daily; Mail.'' ..She-beat Miss '-Dorrit Welkins, \aged"; seventeen, of Chigwoll, Essex, at :the'.ninete'enth hole. . It was a triumph.of physique and temperament. Throughout"the' match- iliss Boran outdrove -the- sliin-.Miss Wilkins, and, when she .was .bunkered she .merely smiled: Her self-possession was in. sharp contrast to~ the traces- of nervous -shyness shown by her opponent. After the ■ eighteenth hole had been halved excitement ran high in- the crowd of. young women that followed the- two girls to the nineteenth. "Powerful Pauline,", as some admirers christened Miss Doran, was the least, excited' person. , : Shcehatted unconcernedly to her caddie as she.walked-to the -tee, then rolled up the sleeves-of her blouse in businesslike manner before she drove 200.yards down the fairway. ■ Powerful Pauline accepted : tlte;congratulations that were showered on her with a smile. "I.can-,beat:father," she said a few' minutes'later, as- she unrolled hersleeves, "bnt.l did not expect to beat all these.girls. ;, I. have been playing serious golf for?about-two years, but I first swung a club when I was ten. In addition: to • playing, at; my club, North Surrey, I■ have 'been coached for the last' few months; by "Michael Daragon at South1 Lodge.; I'm-of Irish extraction and he is Irish-too; so he is very enthusiastic • about, my win." Miss Doran's home'at'Norbury overlooks the jS Torth Surrey course. -She--is at school a,t Streatham Coliege:for Girls.