Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-02
RAINS AND SUN
PUT LAST TOUCH
ON GOLF GREENS
Greens Keepers H a ppy
Again With Firm Turf
for Players
ROTARY GOES A-GOLFING

Rays OF warm sunshine that have
sprayed over the golf courses of the 10.
cality for the last three days have been
like tonic, both to the courses and also to
the greens keepers. Late winter and un.
kempt weather conditions have laid back
the fairways later than ever this year, but
the thorough drying-out that has taken
place will do wonders for the turf pro-
vided, the experts say, there is something
else in the way of rain to be sprinkled in
with it.
The last of the courses figuring on 4
formal opening day held their golf parties
on Saturday. Most of the clubs have de.
clared winter rules all off. An exception
Is Bala, where mo trespass" signs are ON
all the greens. Temporary holes have
been laid in the approach fairways De.
spite the rough putting. players find some
degree OF satisfaction in the shortening
or the route, and the spring drive of golf.
ers began in earnest there.
AT Huntington Valley there isn't SO
much love for rain as at some courses
The course is notoriously heavy in wet
weather A big improvement this wear la
on the 11th hole. which in the past always
developed swampy tendency in rainy
weather This year 1t has been mado
sloping and mound.shaped SO that Il will
cast Off the water like the back of n duck
The putting Is little more peslxy, but
that is small matter.
Big Day at Aronimink
Twenty-Five prizes will be placed in the
happy hands of winners today at Aroni-
mink when the Rotary Club gets through
It's semiannual tourney there this after
noon. Fifty members took part in the
tournament, and it was a joyfest all the
way to the end The players were grouped
into five classes, according to handicap,
and the winners of each ten got a silver
cup. Besides that was miscellaneous
collection of prizes as, for instance a fine
prize to the golfer to turn i'm the eleventh
best card; prizes for freak scores. etc
The winner Of the medal play will have
his name inscribed on the Rotary Cup"
When won three times this cup Is to be
the permanent property of the winner.
Between and after the golf, fun and
stunts Of all kinds kept the players in
good humor.
Fair Sex in Action
Today is the setting of another round
of milady's golf in team competition for
the Philadelphia, Suburban and Walling-
ford Cups, The feature match Is that
between the Huntingdon Valley team and
Merton, For the first time these two
teams found opposition. in the real sense
of the word.
Sidney Sherwood will be among the
entries at Atlantic City for the annual
spring tourney there at the end of the
week If he is able to get away from
pressing business cares. If he shows the
same shots that he did at Lakewood he
will be bad news to even such golfers as
are expected to enter from the metropoli-
tan district. In his present form Shar-
wood will likely head the class of Phlla-
delphians that will make the trip, though
several of the local experts are capable
of smoothing the path for him in the
way OF ousting the opposition
The entry list for the tourney is piling
up higher than ever and a fine opening
for the golf tournament season is pre-
dicted.
Five sixteens, or 80 golfers, will quail
ify and there will be prizes for the de-
feated eights as well as medal play for
players out of the tourney on the last
day.