Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-31
Public Golf Course Of
ficials, "Boss" to Cops,
Set Up Quarantine on
Gouging Heels
By SANDY McNIBLICK

DRINTED rules were scorned as being
i devlltry of the Demon Male and moth
Ing more.
Golfers of the other sex at the public
Cobb's Creek course have merely shifted in
the past at the black-and-white mandate
of the Park Commission that high heels, :"
including long heels. sharp, French, corset
square, triangular, gouging. thin. bulging
and all other kinds of hole-makng heels,
are distinctly not "au falt' when worn
a-golfng on the municipal course The rule
prohibits milady. with said heels attached
from the greens, and therefore from play
ing golf there (snce 1t is assumed that
sooner or later in the course of her shots
she will arrive at the greensl
since feminine golfers have Jared forth
so attired. Rule regardless. Superintend.
emf Harry C. Hunter has issued orders
making every attendant at the public
course a "high.heel inspector"
What's a High Heel
Despite indignant feminine protests, the
dragnet of the law will be tightened and
every green quarantined against the tres
mass of the gouglng footgear. Starter
Rogers is chief inspector. He Is the judge
as 10 whether heels are really high"
"Show your neelS hauame' h' soy
cheerfully to each fair golfer who would
tee off at No /. Starter Rogers's mas
culine eve takes in the height of the sus-
pected heel
.ryon't do" he may say, and the flip
of his hand banishes another pair OF tiny
heels to the clubhouse.
''Too high?" cried one golfer whose foot
gear had been censored. why these
aren't even high a heels,
When another immobile censor refused
IN heed a golfer threatened to submit to
the Park Commission whether her shoes
were high-heeled or not
The censoring of heels begins with Super
intendent Hunter, who handles the registra-
tion tickets 1t advances to Miss Mary
Quinn, the matron of the womens locker
room She has sympathy as we'll as knowl-
edge of what really constitutes high
heel. If she passes the heels Caddy
Master Coughlin looks 'em over.
Then they are passed along to Starter
Rogers. who may be hurried and let them
aim through But the guardians OF the
law are scattered over the course.
Perhaps It will be the eagle eye OF
Mounted Sergeant Eldrich OF Sergeant
Rirkhead that finally brings the eulprit
heels TO earth. But to earth they are
brought II they are not low heels. For
shlgh heels is high heels" regardless.
The Littlest Club
w, II. west, GnudueipHlA SouhtiJ SiuOi
ia having little indignation conference with
his putter these days. He has been sam
plIng every style OF tool, from plain blade
10 the wooden type affected by Max Mar
ston. West is determined to get back the
tricixle shots before the heavy work OF fall
sets in.
Max Marston had his hands full In the
annual summer classic at Manchester, VT,
in the finals Saturday against Nat Wheeler,
of Brooklawn Marston has serene con-
adence in his game that makes him sauntsr
casually through the first few holes in the
LATEST OF shots.
II the other fellow is husllng Marston Is
liable TO wake up and fnd himself down
Then he generally uneorks a few shots that
make the other fellow realize just about
what chance he has OF winninE-sald chance
being nil This was the story OF the finals
match, though Wheeler had Just a little
more stick than most players that have
tackled the big Jerseyite.
The Query Bag
Sandy Niblck-Will you please tell me
what sectional golf association the Asheyille
Country Club, AsheYille, n. c.. belongs to-
II any? Also who won the last champion