Sport: Two for the Money

The august United States Golf Association had been rumbling for several weeks about the amateur status of its top feminine gate attractions, the photogenic Bauer sisters, Marlene, 16, and Alice, 22. Their barnstorming tour through Florida tournaments last winter had cost money. Where did the money come from? The U.S.G.A., which worries rather more about such matters than the corresponding guardians of college football or even lawn tennis, was about to put a discreet investigation of the Bauers' income into high gear. Last week the little Bauer girls put the investigation into reverse.

They came right out and announced they were...

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