Sport: Pam

"You must concentrate, dear," purred a U. S. woman spectator to freckled, 18-year-old Patricia Jane ("Patty") Berg last week as they strode down a fairway of the seaside golf course at Southport, England. "I am concentrating hard," tearfully replied U. S. Golfer Berg, "but nothing happens." In spite of concentration, by the 18th hole Patty had missed five putts of less than five feet, lost her second-round match to Elsie Corlett of Lancashire. Other favorites fell even more quickly than Patty, whom British bookmakers had backed as the No. 1 U. S. entrant in the Women's British Golf Championship, never won...

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