Patty Berg Gets Some Rest

Liked the campaign, but likes to get home to her own bed.

FRIENDSHIPS While Playing More Fun Than CHAMPIONSHIPS, Says Patty After Her Biggest Year

She has fashioned the greatest win streak in the history of women's golf in these United States.

She has started 13 times this year and come home a winner 10 times.

She performed a feat Saturday equaled by only two others.

She won the National Women's golf title by a 6 and 5 score just after turning the corner into the adventuresome twenties.

At age 20, Patty Berg hoisted a trophy that looked more like a beer stein after winning the U.S. Women's Amateur title at Westmoreland Country Club in Wilmette, Ill., in September 1938. Tomorrow she will move to the university along with some 1,500 others and become a full-fledged freshman.

That's her big moment right now and, relaxing at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Berg, 5001 Colfax avenue S., for the first time in five weeks, she was far more excited about that than being the first Minneapolitan to win the women's title.

She's going to enroll in the College of Science, Literature and Arts. Her favorite study is history. She's just a bit dubious about her university interests, however, because most of her pals are at private schools. But from now on it's classwork, with golf only in interludes.

Wednesday night she'll be honored by her home club, Interlachen, at a victory dinner. On Oct. 5 the junior Association of Commerce and other civic organizations will toast her at a citywide celebration.

Then she will settle back and forget pretty much about golf until she swings into the winter play. The extent of that depends upon her dad and "coach." She knows she won't play in as many tournaments as she has the pasy year.

Playing All Year

It has been just one endless round of tournaments for her since she started competitive play soon after the first of the year in Florida.

And no that she has established such a phenomenal record, has the whole business palled on her?

"Not at all," she explained. "I wouldn't care if I won another thing. I still would be as thrilled. The winning is only incidental.

"The real kick I get out of the tournaments now is the opportunity to get together with my golfing friends, meet new ones, and the sociability it all means. I like the thrill of competition and like to win as much as anybody, but friendship right now is more important.

"You can emphasize that luck, too. I just happened to have more of it this year than the rest. Or maybe it was my faith in '13.' I was born on Feb. 13, you know, was playing in my 13th tournament, won on the 13th hole Saturday."

While winning 10 of 13 tournaments, including 45 match play rounds and three medal meets. Patty is 45 strokes under women's par for the whole distance. In the National Women's meet last week she was 11 under women's par in the match play rounds and five under regulation figures for the entire week.

The young lady has taken on remarkable poise since she won the state women's tournament at Rochester last June.

The personable Patty has lost 11 pounds, is down to a low for her of 124, which she intends to build up.

School Has Thrills
But now it's school – and one more thrill, her biggest to come. She's looking forward to seeing her "kid" brother – six feet one – play football at Washburn high school.