Sport: First at 15

At the Philadelphia Country Club last week, girl golfers under 18 competed in the first national Girls Junior Championship. They broke no course records, but the best of them would have given any adult male ten-handicapper a tough scrap.

In the finals, Marlene Bauer, a pretty blonde 15-year-old from Los Angeles, was pitted against Barbara Bruning, 17, of White Plains, N.Y. Marlene won on the last hole, carding a neat 77. Daughter of a former golf-range owner, she hits 200 yards off the tee, has other strokes to match.

Delighted with the tournament, the sponsoring U.S. Golf Association promised to have one every year.

Other winners last week:

¶ At Mamaroneck, N.Y., a team of U.S. golf amateurs, defending the Walker Cup against Britain’s best, snowed the challengers under, 10 matches to 2.

¶ Over a lightning-fast track at Chicago’s Washington Park, Calumet Farm’s four-year-old speedster, Coaltown, clipped two-fifths of a second off Equipoise’s 17-year-old world record for the mile. Time: 1 min. 34 sec. (38 m.p.h.).

¶ In Philadelphia, the New York Giants took a game from the Phillies on an assist from Philly fans. Outraged by an umpire’s decision in the ninth (with the Giants leading 4-2) fans tossed bottles and tomatoes for 15 minutes, roused Umpire Al Barlick to hand the game to the Giants by the forfeit score, 9-0.