Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-12
Left-handed Players
Given Chance to Argue
in 36-hole Handicap.
Woodbury. Has Boy
Marvels
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

BY SANDY McNIBLICK
MO ONE up to the present ever has
IN stepped forward in all the thousands
Of years during which the globe has been
on revolution to offer to the world
southpaw golf tournament, The North
Hills Country Club, a bustling local band,
gets the honor of being the first club. so
far as Is known, TO hold a left-hand tour
nament, The fame of the tourney has
spread all over the country and 1t is prob
able that many other clubs will hold similar
events during the season.
The North Hills event will he held to-
morrow. About so southpaws will be In
the going. according to the committee In
charge. Among them will be several stars.
r. G. Maxwell, of Trenton, who labors
under a national handicap Of only five
strokes. will he one of the early starters.
and the Jersey portsder is expected to give
the field fine run
II. Wellington Wood. formerly of Old
York road, but now playing from Atlantic
City, is entered. II. wellington Wood had
a fine AZ at Lu Lu last week for the nine
holes and II he has one of his sunny and
congratulatory days, he will surely make
things hum for the other sidewheelers.
Malcolm Dyer and Charles "A. Boden are
two other prominent entries who have
turned the course in good figures. Only
three left handlers from North Hills will be
in the going.
Steam Roller Got Tourney
There are only FIVE there altogether, con-
trary to the general impression that the
tourney resulted from the fact that there
were so many southpaws at the club.
| Two of these are members of the Golf
| Committee, w. w. Dudley and l.. w.
| Brown. which overwhelming majority on
| the committee of three may have had
| something to do with the decision to run
| the tourney.
The tourney Is open to all members of the
| Golf Association of Philadelphia. A 36-
hole contest will be held for those that can
spend the day at the Edge Hill course
| There will also be an 18-hole tourney In the
| afternoon.
| The going will be handicap medal play.
Some particularly handsome prizes are on
display for low net and low gross In each
| event. The committee announce that 1t VIII
| have the greatest collection of southpaws
| in captivity" at work tomorrow The only
restriction Is that right-handed balls must
| be used.
H b. Prest is chairman of the committee.
| It will be impossible to play over any OF
the many new holes at the course, but the
| regular links are in the finest of shape, and
| there ought to be some good scoring, even II
the contestants do work sideways
Jerseys Terrible Boy Trio
The woodbury. Country Club has tri-
be hard TO beat. Any one of them would
have been good enough to play No. in the
suburban tournament that ended in the title
going to Woodbury..
Walter wilkins, Jr., Is only n little more
than II years old. He laid low the mighty
Herbert b. Newton lead-off man for Frank
ford who played Walter Reynolds in the
finals at Lu Lu on Saturday Newton is q
veteran of long standing and is one of the
hardest of the locals to beat in match
| nlaVs In beautiful form
though he has not the strength as yet &c
play a long game. wilkins piled up points
in a terrific manner over his home course
against invading suburbantes in the recent
tourney, and great future Is predicted fol
him In the realm OF golf
Another tartar at the Jersey club is
George Hoffner, a brother of the phenom-
email pro Charlie. Experts claim that George
would be as good If not better, than his
brother II he had the same amount OF time
to put into golf. for he is steadier, His
employment keeps him away from golf till
after o'clock, and by the time he has
knocked few balls around the course II
is dark.
He showed his class in the finals in the
suburban, when he walloped Maurie Jones'
of Frankford, after the latter had him
down at the turn. Jones was one OF the
shinest of the local stars last year. Either
George Washington or Charles Green would
make "A good third corner to the trio.
Both are players JUST In their 20s and
are burning up the Jersey sands with their
golf They laid very healthy shoulder To
the wheel in getting the championship for
| Woodbury..
Edward c. Clarey, a young rookie whose
| glitter this season has set all the local vet
eran experts to blinking, forms a circle In
himself as leader of the Woodburyites The
young man is blazing a new path through
local Journeys this season. He has shown
in them all.
Tomorrow he will go forth to do battle
with Sidney Sherwood. of Merton, to play
OFF the tie at the Cricket Club for the
Joseph Henry Patterson Memorial Cup, He
will play a practice round at the Cricket
Club this afternoon by way OF getting In
form and thinks he will be In shape to
run away with the trophy tomorrow.
Clarey has practically no time for goli
except the time he takes out for tourna-
ment play He gets home from his othce
at $3.50, snatches up his bag and HES torth
to two big fields near his home There he
| lines out drives, brasses and iron shots un
IN the kid he has on duty can't find the
balls I'm the dusk.
That's why my putting Is SO poor says
CIarey. II never get a chance to practice
Was schoolboy Golfer
CIarey is also in his twentles.
He started his golf as caddy' and gave
| nm caddylng 10 play while he was IN hlgh
school His first tournament was In the
interscholastic fve years ago Wheh ne "as
beaten out by Gardiner White.
re gave up the game till last year, when
he ioined the woodbury. Club late in the
season He came near winning the At
| lantic City tourney this spring He was
beaten at Lu Lu by Walter Reynolds wheI
he missed his shot across the quarry foi
the first time in the tourney. The mater
ended on the 18th hole. after his ball, hook
ing for the green. got mixed in tree
Ciarey hoped a stymie game 10 the end
! hut Reynolds sank his putt for the match.
Clarey In the morning had Hugh VII
| Ionghbv champion of Philadelphia ane
Florida State champion, down when HI