Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-22
American Ch a mpio n,
Last Year Semiinalist,
Former Finalist, and
City Champion in Co
ing-Geist Doings
By SANDY McNIBLICK

~sor.r talent glittering enough TO grace
r. national women's semihnals was
-,ssrad the one against the other and the
II. against the other. in today's round for
~. psrtheliyn Cup at Huntington Valley
" -. o,,,come of the matches is felt TO
'sor,ethinR in the nature OF an inside
- on how the national, two weeks on.
- ,ho championahip Will turn out Tor
l,srnadelphia. Mrs. Clarence II. Wander
x,rS nresent woman champion OF America,
ls,a,,,nv from the philadelphia Cricket Club,
psun,nced earlier in the season that she
-ould not defend the title on account OF the
.,...s ahe has suffered for the last year
h.csuse OF being overgolfed She played
ssrs caleb Fox, a former flnalist, Hunting
don valley, who most decidedly has a,.te. to be
s~cloned with in anyNtourney she enters
Mrs Fox will play in the national In
~ MINER bracket Miss Mildred Caverly,
,he fair Philadelphia champion, matched
.bo,s with Miss Alexa W. Stirling, At
ianta. -. -. :, .At.
rity for the national, since she mas her
y shots more beautifully educated than nearly
sny other local this season.
Sizing Up
Youthful Miss Stirling, golden-crowned
southern champion. Is touted IN many an,
states as the sure bet OF the national this
YEAR The two young golfers seemed TO
ssve n feeling before the start of the
match today that it had more than ordi-
nary significance.
what are you going to do to meT"
asked Miss Stirling.
.-rhe question is, What are you going to
40 TO me?" replied Miss Caverly.
n sYou bet, I'm going to leave you alone,
laughed the southern golf Minerva.
Then they measured the ranges, Dave
4 cuthbert starter. lit cigarette, and the
fallery struggled after the two stars down
the first fairway.
Mrs q. Henry Stetson, another Philade-
phian who will play in the national this
year. made a plucky stand against Miss
Stirling yesterday.
she conceded the match when Miss Stir
Ing had three puts from twenty feet for
the match on the seventeenth green. Mrs.
stetson was one up at the eighth and all
square at the thirteenth tee.
Reaching for EN-
She was obliged TO play shots from many
-elegant" lies. On the ninth she stood in
the trap and almost had to make a baseball
swing at her ball on the edge.
She had to make the difficult second shot
on the thirteenth from one of the mound
warts. She lost the fifteenth reaching for
her ball below on the eide OF n mound when
Il bounced off the club into the creek.
Mrs. Francis Bradley, Huntingdon Valley,
furnished food for reflection when she was
five down and six to go, and only lost on the
eighteenth. She won five straight holes
from Mrs ]. T.. Tattersfeld whitemarsh.
who finally won up (new combination
term).
The cards were entirely reshuffled for
iocal tourney first sixteens among the men
at Whitemarsh, and unique combination
went Off today in the matches for the Geist
Cup George Klauder, who came back on
his feet in tournament play last year, when
he won his first match in two years, and
finally the cup, was not able to make the
first flight.
Nor was p. L. Corson, Plymouth, youth
ful player who made fans sit up when he
took the st. Martins Cup this Monday.
Only few of the names are those that
regularly make the first sixteen, a very
few.
Much of the real class is in the next
flight.
One-Legged Golfer Wins
The senior golfers held their annual tour
nament on the Apawamis links under per-
feet weather conditions. The most remark
able performance was that of Colonel S. A.
Warrington, Of Chevy Chase, who lost a leg
IN the Civil War. Colonel Worthington In
the Class d section open to golfers of sew
enty years Of age and over turned In a 2o9-
e0-i49.
G. C. Thomas. of Elizabeth, was the winner
In Class A, the Rev. M M. Sheedy, of AL
eNSho III Nldcb ID anu dtOTRe WTlBnI, OF
Wollaston, Mass, the old ball player, tied
with L. X. Passmore, Huntington Valley,
for the honors In Class C.
ID. Clarke Corkran. Princeton, who went
TO the semifinais of the national, had 1t
all figured out that he was easily due TO
win the Intercollegiate this week. 1t must
have been interesting to hear him express
himself after he was licked in the finals.
having been up well along in the afternoon
Lnish of the match.
j. w. Hubbeli. Harvard, had him down
and won, up, Corlxran also had an SO in
tne qualifying round. He was always get
ting what he called rotten 7ss and 79s'
4 IN the national. which should haye been 6ss
II was quite a come-down for the youth
ful Mr.. Modesty.
The Mail Bag
:. SANDY McNiblck--The first fall tournament OF
t1e bogey Club was played today the links
!" 'ne Philadelphia Cricket Club at st. Martins.
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