Word: pam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's pert Pam Barton, 22 and already twice British golf champion, who won the U. S. title three years ago and looked as if she were going to repeat until she met New Jersey's slick-putting Charlotte Glutting in the third round...
Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn) and her sister Flora (Elizabeth Allan) are daughters of a mid-Victorian prig (Donald Crisp) who, to punish them for disobeying their governess, can think of nothing more suitable than to marry them off. Flora soon weds a young officer in the Navy. Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother. When an accident kills off Flora's ensign, Flora, also pregnant, dies of the shock. Painful but convenient, the circumstances of her death - in Italy where both sisters are holidaying...
...Pam" is to English golf galleries what "Patty"- redhaired, stocky Patricia Jane Berg, put out last week in the third round - is to golf galleries...
Husky, snub-nosed, 19, she started to play golf seven years ago, got instruction from her father and Edward VIII's favorite professional, Archie Compston. Putting - the department of golf in which women are most noticeably inferior to men - is Pam's strong point. She practices it two hours daily, does it better than any other girl golfer in the world...
...golfers were winning British titles, the Women's Championship was one they never got. Cecil Leitch and Joyce Wethered together won it seven times in eight years. Last British golfer to win the U. S. Women's Championship was Gladys Ravenscroft. She did it in 1913. Pam Barton's victory last week establishes her clearly as No. 1 golfer of her sex. She won the British championship, with most of America's best players entered, last May. Said she last week: "I'll be back next year...