Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-05
Cobb's Creekers Take
Million and Half Wal
lops in Nine Weeks
This Schieffelein
By SANDY MeNIBLICK

TToRNsBY II. L. DE vEAzY, poet, lin
i i guist and statlstician, besides being
fond of cutting holes in his straw hat and
refusing to wear tongues in his shoes, also
liked to remark that figures would prove
anything.
This is allbi for the statement that golf
ers at the municipal Cobbs Creek course
have hung UP a worlds record for two
months of play over new course. As
nearly as approximate figures can diagnose
the situation, nearly one million and
half shots have been hurled at the flags
so far These stupendous figures have been
reached after the following arithmetic
The average number Of players at the
Cobb's Creek course every day, according
to figures given out recently, Is 1875. This
is low estimate. The weekly average
would be S75.
The number then, on paper, that have
played the public links 80 far is 1875.
Figuring the strokes per round, accurately,
Is almost impossible but from admitted
statements, destroyed golf cards found torn
up on the links, and from observation,
137 strokes has been placed as the low
average speed.
Free Hitters Present
There is an enormous number of free
hitters now disporting in the Cobb's Creek
pastures. who care nought for the number
OF strokes, the main idea being to wallop
the pill
The majority OF golfers there admit
that they have hard time doing better
than so strokes. Many of the feminine
beginners go around in about twice that
number of strokes. Scarcely a handful of
the best players there can reach 30 and
only two have broken 80.
These scores wouldn't drag down the
average much and 1877 seems reasonable.
The overwhelming shot-total now reaches
fha ufa nj 1 strokes.
This is picked as a worlds mark for three
reasons. To wit. as the saying goes, first
the public course is one Of the hardest
public courses in the country: second, av-
erages at other courses are universally
lower than this and third, the attendance
is nearly as strong as that of the average
public course.
The 1,O7s,S75 strokes is a fair estimate
of the recorded strokes. Then there are
drives taken over and not counted" There
are great hordes Of penalty strokes lost
in the waters of the creek and in situations
of which the beginner ofttimes does not
even wot.
1,5OO,O01 Strokes
There are the short puts that he car
| put in "the second time" There are
many shots forgotten at other times.
Beginners are alike in this respect the
| world over.
A fair estimate of "unrecordsd shots
would seem to be 421,126. This would
make the grand total of shots at Cobb'I
| Creek for nine weeks 1,500,O01. something
| of n record. what?
| Word comes down from Schenectady thai
| the present Mohawk tourney there is th'
| first tournament that George Schefrelein
| of the Mohawk Club, ever has partic
| pated in.
| All he did was trim Max Marston,
| and g. who was semifinalist in the ma
| tional last year, and Is one of the bis
four thought to have the best chance this
| year.
| II SchIeffelein can do feat like that IT
| his first tourney, we await with interest
| to hear of his accomplishments in his sec
| ond tourney.
c.. II. Williams. Aronimink, lived UP &c
| his former records In the tourney despite
| the increased speed of the field this year
| He always seems to show his greatest
speed at Schenectady, and gave Sherril
| Sherman. national semifnalst, fine bout
yesterday.
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