Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-22
Beat York Road for
Bunting, Then Issue
4 Def = Some Grea t
Matches
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

ApTA1N FREDERICK BRICKER, Of
,be champion Huntingdon Valley caddy
..ar ordered the other six little fellers on
Z, team today to take a rest and light
..or,,out for the rest Of the week.
.rsnr Bricker is not quite as high as
...o medium putters, but he's about the big
.,., and oldest member of the team, be-
.,a.s playing No. 1. so his word Is law.
cartain Bricker said today he would give
.cs consideration to the aspirations of any
club team of caddies which might wish to
~ to take the caddy championship title
sysv from his team, but looked for his
s.rd 10 give all comers a severe trallopins.
t,,s GOOD men were equally confident.
,srbev amt no bunch in the city kin
-. he /" clamored several of the midget
s.srisra at once. THE faster they come
~ ouicker we kin lick en-
The age limit is set at is years. the
,,r,her of men on a team at seven, and the
so,,rse to be decided by the flip Of a coin.
Crown Changes Brows
tf,ntingdon Valley won the blue bunting
,..terday after a bitter struggle with the
IA YORK Road caddes by the score of four
matches to three and by wide margin
Of points.
York Road had previously claimed the
championship by a victory over Philmont,
mich had beaten some other team which
mad beaten some other team. and so on.
THUS. the title comes to the Noble cad
alas by straight succession. Some fine
matches were brought out when the crown
changed heads yesterday at Huntingdon
Valley
The big match was that between Cap
tsin Brlcker H. v. c. c., and Captain Louie
Rlddell. O. Y. r. C. C. Riddell came touted
as one Of the best caddy players in Phlla-
dslphIa. He was said to have shot a rs at
York Road when he beat the champion of
ths club. and 5. But BriclSer, missing
about six puts of less than two feet
Knocked out an 81 and laid York Roads
prde by the heels, and 3.
A sample OF their play may be had from
the b25-yard third hole. Bricker was home
n three shots but far from the pin Rid
ds was in the bunker to the left in three.
He laid his ball from the sand, over an
other Dit dead to the hole, and got his
PAR 5. Bricker ran up his long putt in a
game try for bird, but got a half The
best Of players often take 6 or worse on
this hole. The caddles' cards with the bye
holes. follow:
Bricker-
Ss' is T.: ;: ! tss : 30 s-tt-,7
Riddell-
out = s-.5 ..
Another hot match was that which
ended on the nineteenth hale when Jimmie
o'Connell, a round-eyed Irish ripper of the
Huntingdon Valley team, was put out by
william Kelly, another emerald rebel
The York road carrier was three down
at the turn, but showed the stun that starts
revolutions when he came back on the last
nine He was even on the fifteenth with
par 4 when o'Connell took three puts.
E.E Double L-Y
Kelly, who carried almost a whole shop
full Of clubs put his drive to the sixteenth
In the creek. He was about to draw even
On the seventeenth when O'Connell ran up
neat stynlie. Kelly was two feet away
and had TO sink his putt for half or lose
!. The match
0Connell got set to shake hands.
But Kelly calmly took his mashie, walked
up to his ball, and without any waggle or