"Pam"

Until recently, U. S. golfers made a habit of winning British championships as well as their own. This season, the situation has been reversed. Scot Jack McLean was a finalist in the U. S. Amateur at Garden City last month. Last week, at Summit, N. J., England's Pamela Barton was a finalist for the U. S. Women's Championship.

At Garden City, McLean's bad putting lost him the title when he had apparently won it. At Summit last week, this situation was also reversed. "Pam" won her match, 4 & 3, against square-jawed Maureen Orcutt Crews when, after putting brilliantly all week, she sank a 35-footer.

"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 in the U. S.

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.

When U. S. 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. . . ."

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