Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-08
coes Three Rounds for
'rity's Glory = Long
Hitters' Day at Merton
, Today kilograms
n. SANDY McNIBLICK

Il. .,rfDN b. BUNIOEN' ioS"i N"''P'''
an ordinary citizen again TO-
,o,,oved along with the thousands
.s,a cranlne their necks to see the
,he sem,nnals for the golf anna
r'r !. ..,,lonshlp OF the United states
~ ~ .ss IN ordinary voting toss.
PIu" -.,,n Ia started thusly for the rea-
Ins I, waa written on machine IN
~ 'n- ..,, asnartment. and all good social
" s'.s,,hs' the costume OF those debut
=. h.s made his bow 10 local game
r"'@.. rav with a vengeance. He Is
.... psiladelphlan 40 stick past first
Ws = ne national championship In many
IA harvest moon
Rins.Tailed Jinx
-. vas only ousted from the going by
u worst kind of a ring-taileu' orange,
". ~. .nosed link. no less, that tuttered
~ ,sr ss dvIne moments Of his play and
ru - ~, avery time he wasn't looking, In
4. mater yesterday.
~. X. vsd nervy, steady uphill game
-, Y. ,he sizzling brilliance of the shots
"..ss corkran. Jewel of Maryland golf
" n ID not unfair to say that the
-. were ali against Buxton,
VI .snnnle Of the golf he had to beat Ia
..-e Az the first holes of the afternoon
IN when Corkrsn got an overwhelming
,.S on the first hole he ran down his
~ spnroach putt from 20 feet away,
~s,>b found a convenient groove. On the
,..rrs hIs drive should have been out of
<.snss Nv all the laws of gravitation. but
/ Z ~ 'the boundary fence and caromed fur
~ ,han 1, would ever have gone straight
| = ~ falfway. on the third he hit the tree
"a d,d identcally the same thing.
" capped the climax by laying a lucky
<,,r,e when he wouldn't have a chance at
a. hole He missed n shot on the fourth.
~ took a fortunate kick and was up for
~ again Buxton was forced to try for
krdes on all these holes after an even
hssk would have given him them all.
k.EIole Route Daily .,
rha strain Of two weeks of steady golf
AID on Buxton, and this, combined with the
~nstant necessity of pressing for brides,
f.d lts effect on his game. Buxton said
1h,f except for the Philadelphia champion
1Ip the present tourney was the first time
| n had ever played S6-hole matches in his
ge deserves the "all hail" of this city for
~ wonderful showing he made. His first
match was the most noteworthy of all and
hovs the stuff Of which Philadelphia's
thmpion is made.
He tralloped bill" Fownes, former ma
uonal champion and conqueror of Francis
oamet last year at Merton. Fownes had
Nt got through winning the gold medal
q the present tourney the day before and
was feeling In an unbeatable frame of mind.
No one figured Buxton had a chance and
he didn't himself. But that didn't keep him
from putting all his courage into the battle
snd fighting every hole of the way The
next day he had TO shoot seventy-five to
The seventy.six of George Small to stay
sven at FIRST and got a thirty-six going out
10 the afternoon. which is going at Merton,
Absolutely.
corkfan, who plays Chick Evans today, is
strongly backed in Dixie, where he Is con.
Adsred as good as any OF this country's
ht On his home course he has been
hanging up seventies, seventy-ones and 30
mFh rssularly. He had his best run of
shots Yesterday, and with a sunny horse
snot on his worst shots, II is little wonder
he proved tartar for Buxton. Buxton
l<avs Philadelphia for Texas next week,
prs he Will come back here for the sum.
ne" and locals feel that he has even
mpt zol glory coming to him in the future
nan he won for himself this week.
fAns have the spectacle today of seeing
ufe players who are among the Longest
1ue7s Ia this country in action in the semi
(. m'Az Jesse Guilford, the giant New
n1hnpshlre farmer lad. big-wrlsted and
-e'eermed. is supposed TO be the longest
~ nah walloper in the United States. He
~ 70 nold his shots in on the Merton
'" on many holes, but when he does
's.es w. ms big frame at the pill in a real
% smazeinent