STEADY “PAM”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 264, 7 November 1936, Page 4

STEADY “PAM”

FEATURE OF HFR GOLF HER UNITED STATES WIN The value of persistent steadiness in golf was p/oved when Pamela Barton, only 19 years old, yet already a veteran in British play, succeeded in doing what has not been accomplished since 1913. She has carried the Cox Trophy, emblematic of the United States womens championship, home with her for the coming year, to be placed beside the British championship trophy, which she won last summer, says the Christian Science Monitor under date of October 5. The steady, chunky little British star has been striving since the start of her teens for the honours, and her play over the diflicult Canoe Brook links stamps her as one of the finest of the many who have held the title. Even in her final match, against another persistent aspirant for the title Mrs. John D. Crews, who has been close to victory since her early teens as Maureen Orcutt, the little blonde British girl had to persist against odds at the start, and not until the very last hole of the morning round, when a perfect chip on to the green laid the way for a single putt, did Miss Barton get ahead. But this ended the chances of the American, as the British girl scored two birdies at the start of the afternoon, and came to the turn with a lead of five, aided by another birdie on the long eighth hole. Still another on the thirteenth placed her dormie six, and though Mrs. Crews started right in to win the remaining holes, a 25-foot putt on the thirty-third gave the match to the British player. The most notable feature of the play of the new champion is her calmness under all circumstances. Never once has she shown any strain through the week of difficult competition, and even when her opponents, as they did on various occasions,! staged rallies to overtake her, did she; falter or show signs of strain. She plays much faster than most women, and her attitude is almost casual in its poise. Even when plowing through mud and wet in the middle rounds, she simply kept on her way and attended strictly to her strokes.