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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 18

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PAM BARTON'S BGOK WEARIED OF GOLF. Miss Pam Barton, who at the age of 19 was the first player to win both the Bntish and American golf championships, has decided to allbw her book to be published in spite of the warning of St. Andrews (writes a London correspondent). But she has not made up her mind whether to acce'pt any fees, and so forfeit her status as a competitive player. If she gives any money the book may produce to charity, her position in the game will not be affected. At the moment Miss Barton seems thoroughly out of love with the game. For two years she has both played and thought about golf ceaselessly, and she is qow so weary of it that she has put away her clubs, and vows that she will not play again for six months. The strain, too, has affected her health, and she has been advised to take a long rest. Her experience is a familiar one so far as the champion is concerned, and she is not the first woman player to be driven from- the links through the success she has achieved. Miss Joyce Wethered went through the same agony of mind, and the mobbing she was subjected to by the galleries at championships brought about her retirement some time before she commercialised her skill by undertaking a tour in AmericaMiss Enid Wilson, too, was ready to quit competitive play when the bar was put up agaiast her writing on the game. She was willing at any rate to accept the consequences, and I do not believe that she has ever regretted forsaking the scenes of her former triumphs. Oceasionally she has since played in public matches, usually for charities, but the privacy which she now enjoys is a welcome relief from the turmoil which as a champion she was compelled to endure.