Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-12
WORK ON GOLF COURSE
FOR PUBLIC BEGUN:
TOURNEY AT SEAVTEW
Engineers Begin Task To-
day; Ready for Play in
September-To Tournament
at Seaview This Week.
Ouimet May Play.

Work on the public golf course in cobb,.
| Creek Park began today under the Al
rection of Chief Engineer vodges. Of M.
Park Commission. If present plans ara
carried through without a hitch. tbs
course will be thrown open to the publlc
about the first of September
When completed, Philadelphia will hava
public course the equal of any. ana
perhaps better than the majority. II will
have a total length Of $3.50 yards. and
par of approximately 70. Most of tbs
work in connection with the laying on,
of the course and the planning OF tho
holes has been done by George C. Klau.
der, Aronimnk; a. II. Smith, Hunting.
don Valley; Robert w Lesley, president
Of the Golf Association of Philadelphia
and william Flynn, greenkeeper at the
Merton Cricket Club.
Whether or not Sunday play will ba
permitted is a question that has not been
decided, but as the majority OF thosa
who will use the course can do SO only
on Saturday afternoons, holidays and
Sundays, It is to be hoped that the Park
Commission, usually so very strict about
matters of this kind, will make an OK.
ception in this case.
The season for tournament golf in thi,
section of the country gets under way
on Thursday Of this week with the unioua
event announced by the Seaview Golf
Club. For the first time in the history
of the game in this country the high
handicap golfers are catered to on a
large scale.
This event, the qualifying round for
which will take place on Thursday, fol.
lowed by match play rounds on Friday
and Saturday, is open only to members
of clubs affiliated with the U. S. G. A..
having handicaps of Il strokes or moro
AS close to 80 per cent. of the country's
golfers are in that class. 1t can be readily
seen that the tourney will have its appeal
and that 1t will be a success goes with
out saying.
Last fall the Huntingdon Valley Coun.
try Club held tournament for women
with handicaps of IS or over. but that
was purely n local affair with an entry
list of about 90 players. Seav!ew Is the
first organization to attempt an event Of
this kind on such a large scale, and to
Clarence H. Geist and his merry asso-
cates must go the credit for originating
something in golf.
One week from Thursday Seaview will
be the scene of another tournament open
TO members of clubs affiliated with the
u. S. G. A, regardless of handcaps
Unfortunately the dates conflict with the
annual spring tournament of the Country
Club of Lakewood. That does not make
much difference FOR SeaView VIII attract
all the local golfers and Lakewood will
take care of those from the Metropolitan
district.
Francis Ouimet may play at Seaview
next week. for before he left there last
Thursday he promised Mr.. Geist that II
1t was at all possible he would take part
in the tournament If he decides to take
the trip. he will be accompanied by his
bosom friend, j. II. Sullivan. Jr., and W.
nfCnr,,aT .1n No. 3 -
at the Absecon Club last week. To each
other Ouimet and Sullivan are the Ely
ing Frenchman" and the wild Irish
man." and those who know the pair are
frank in admitting that their nicknames
are appropriate.