Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-28
Zen die Dissatisfied
With Cobb's Creek
Club - Miss Caverly
Wakes 84-Levis There
By SANDY MeNIBLICK

MOTHER golf club may be formed at
~ Cobb's Creek, the new municipal links
~ Arthur Edgecomb Rendle, II enough
arter members can be marshaled to-
9ther.
It's true he just did form the cobb's
.creek Golf Club.
Ts true he was elected It's treasurer.
But he is not In favor of the name or
he new club in the first place, and in the
cond place he Is very much opposed TO
policies
30 his soul sings Of a new club that shail
# as much the essence of his ideas OF u
&fof organization as the present club is
'h1t He has broached the subject OF MS
lew club and with encouragement VIII go
head. Meanwhile the Cobb's Creek Golt
Club Is vigorously busy trying to Keep OUT
4 81 the llmelight. 1t has veiled In secrecy
~ Intention, as decided on at the Adeiphla
meetlng, Of appointing Mayor Thomas b.
tmith It's honorary president ana thus
wedding all future pitfalls.
Friendship" the password, tremoles
daily in its socket as the keynote OF the
g G. G. c. The main purpose OF the ciun
was to promote sociabllity and friendship
among the users of the new public course.
Most Alarming
But from the fact that the founder and
Treasurer already threatens to secede, ana
from the alarming terms In whlch some OF
The members openly discuss certain mat
ftrs OF the club we take It that all Is not as
harmonlcal as might be.
.s1ts pity, because club among the
Mayors at the municipal course might nave
had real value.
\ r. ]. Lewis, Aronimink, has had his ham
6icap clipped as close as the wool of
French poodle in the hot spell Lewis
dropped from 16 to IL this year, and when
he shot an 81 for a prize in club event
lately the handicap committee decided TO
get busy.
4 Lewis now walks about the links with
oniy negllgee strokes handicap to cover
bis golf modesty.
4 They say in New York that there's no
what records might have been
hung up over the 5400-yard Van Courtland
public course in the newspaper open tour
iey recently If the putting green's had been
,f the best. Jim Barnes, the brilliant play
ng pro of Whitemarsh, is said to have
,een on nearly every green in one or two
jtrokes. AS 1t was, his final round of 70
vas the only one he had above 60. Some
DOOR buffers would have an awful time play
ng IS perfectly plain 30-yard holes in
10 strokes.
Mrs. Clarence H. Vanderbeck, Philadel-
,hia Cricket Club, is playing golf regu-
arly now over local courses to get In
orm 70 defend her title in October as
woman champion Of the United States. Her
;ame 10 naturally a little wobbly after her
phg lay.on because of illness. But she
las had some rounds that plainly show
10 has not lost her last seasons skill. She
Nays twice week these days in a four
'all match with Miss Mildred Caverly,
youthful city champion. Mrs. Caleb Fox
nd Mrs. G.. Henry Stetson.
speedy Going
The four experts play turnabout at the
,riclSet Club and Huntingdon Valley,
ounting two points hole n la Scotch. SO
ar the count is all-square. according to one
f the quartet who did not wish to be
uoted.
fe this year and is expected to be a real
actor in the national championships at Bos-