Champion at 13

On the score cards was printed, in small type: "Children under 14 years of age are not allowed on the course." Last week the rule was not enforced. Against a field of 61 adults, the winner of the Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship was chubby, blue-eyed Marlene Bauer. Her age: 13.

Unsmiling and unexcited, she walked rapidly from tee to green, hitting the ball with care, but without fuss. Determined to make her the world's best, her father, a former golf-course owner, had started her golfing at four. Usually Marlene considers golf fun, but a few weeks ago she had balked at practicing. Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition: to beat National Champion Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who is 32.

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