Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
The Golfers Aftermath

vSy fSySS coSG,rT Etb cab % had 0 PS PstRer anasua
ment at St Martins last week Mr. Elkins
has been playing excellent golf lately, cover
Very low eishtics hGit He Was going Well at St.
Martins, and when he came to the fifteenth
hole pISEed hts partners ball. He Of course; hno
annoying, as he had card of 50 after he
had played out the remaining holes.
The Cape May Golf club during the past
summer has proved to be a source of con-
siderable SRioyment and proft to many local
which, by the way, Is soon to be lengthened
10 cghteen holes, attracted many Philadci
phlans during the hot months, and the weekly
polnt-scorins handicap contests were of such
interest as to crowd the course every. sat
urday. The quality of golf was Of the highest
slass, as gross scores in the seventies We're
not at all uncommon Many local players
who spend the summer at the seaside have
70 foregp the pleasures OF the links and are
quite out of form when autumn comes. To
those who spent the summer at Cape May the
pleasure was the greater, as they were able
to enjoy their fayorite sport and also keep
in condition.
Those who have long admired the supreme
Sktll and the Vcnial personality. Of GIL
Nichols, the well-known professional at the
learn that thu injuries he suffered during the
iast summer vii! not prove as serious as
]. F. Sonseman, of Atlantic City, himself a
golfer of considerable ability, and there Is
every reason to believe that one or the greatest
g2!teFf that this country has ever seen Will
with the advent Of another spring, be able
70 swing club with all OF the vgor and skill
OF FORMER days.
The seyentI hole at the Rala Golf Club has
and most difficult long hole in this vicinity.
us length alone makes II terror to all c&-
cert me unusually long and accurate driver,
ana even he must play with extreme care.
Measuring, as It does $50 yards, the golfers
Who can get home in two are few and FAR
INT average player is We'll pleased II he
reaches the green safely in three. deep
bs1ssr1 eN,ehi'hs % yarus IN tbhon' tbraa
iEaps on tho left which guard the sixth green
20 . is a cross bunker with deep trap; no.
= Is the boundary along the right No Is
the rouGh and the woods ON the far left; No,
is deep pit about 10 yards short Of the
green, and 40, is the pond beyond the
green. In addition, the green is partially sur
rounded by deep trap.
=, The sixteenth hole at Huntington Valley IS
Eslei AS being five yards longer than the
bala terror, and while its length has been dis
Puted. it Is undoubtedly a long hole. IT. Is,
however, an easier hole to play. because shots
that are not exactly straight are punished by
hnlng the rough instead Of being out Of
Rirway IS narrow. The brook and THE Alps
az Noble are formidable hazards, and SO is the
Trap behind the green; but they can be evaded
oy sParng a shot, while at Bala no such pro-
eeeains Is possible.
Perhaps no tournament held for many sea-
sons past Is of such tremendous importance
70 Philadelphia and local golf as the junior
tnainpoIShip now in progress at the Merton
Sfeket club. Golf is a game for old anu
young alike hut our experiences in the ma
tonal title play, in which Quaker city golfers
Aahe annually gone in quest OF the crown
olly 10 return without glory, would indicate
mat We must look to the younger element for
'uIuFe conquests.
such players as Howard Mccall, former
ttnn golf captain; Clement h. Webster, Jr,.
'he 'he present Red and Blue leader, and OF
teuFse' the golf juniors, who have been show
tns 80 well at Merlon, will uphold the local
.hq IN golf In more than one big tournament,
a feature Of the juniors tournament this week
vas the TACT that six Of the eighteen who
ltauhei for the championship are or have been
s'uleh'S at Episcopal Academy.
JACK Thorngton who has qualified for the
Stml-hnal round, Is sp undergraduate, and
a5,aS EPsS.pa[ may well !, 1alm 10 the golf title
anstohs me schoolboys, Tor NJ. NJ. Jack, who
nfflealed Ihorington yesterday 10 decide which
nnaStl should enter the final flight, Is also an
- tIElal4ale In the other semi-hna C. b.
sttnsleI, u. Who upheld the Friends Select
bgr0ol b5r1 ln TINS event viii meet L. NJ. Wash
'-'n' also Irom Episcopal,
oy9gh; lhorngt0n and Whidden were a trio
FDfJ-ill'tS entered who are undergraduates at
q fl 'tSL tolket graduated last spring and
leff townsend, Overlook, in 1911. Hayes
Tho pitrIL,i, anu is present at Haverford.
e0urse "a a. many aents on the cane May
the LI1i 1inl VINO "yte expected 10 be among
Mere 1,'EEs tonlenders Tor the title, but who
Eplss,S5'It % 'uAately, unable 10 enter, also
ing bsss academy boys, NJ. NJ Jacks show
youtb ne Deen remarkably good The Episcopal
yesfest,, previous 10 his match with Thorugton
tsaFasmss,,, had not lost single hole IN The