Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-26
Could Purchase War
Bonds With Cup
Money Remedy for
Blistered Hands
By SANDY McNIBLICK

THREE Of the Big -Four golf districts Of
l. the country have more or less cast ,he
die on their schedules and what to do with
| them.
| Philadelphia has not come to ANYTHING
| eNactiy DEFINITE, the matter of canceling the
| schedule being in the hands of the military
| authorities. The executive committee of tho
| New York golf district has abandoned three
| of its four championships and has asked the
| clubS not to hold invitation tournaments.
| Boston ana Chicago continue putting every
| thlng on war-fund basis presenting
| diplomas and medals to the winners instead
OF the useful or otherwise silver plate of the
| past.
| Phladelphians discussing the problem to-
| day in tho golfng ralto were decidedly in
favor of the Boston-Chicago scheme rather
than that of the metropolitan district
| Golf 10 the thing" exclaimed one nestor
of the rank, "and the golfers would will
| llngly turn the money usually paid for silver
| mugs for winners over to the Government,
| particularly the losers. Golf will be PLAYED
| anyhow, and don't see how any one would
| benefit if we cut out tournaments par-
| ticularly war-fund tournaments"
| How about each club holding tourna-
| ments to buy some of the war bonds?"
was the happy thought of another stroller
| a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. golfer. THAT would
| help everybody at once and would send the
| tournaments booming"
The New York district seems to have
| gone around in a circle somewhat when it
| proposes in its tourney -thwartng mandate
| that Memorial Day tourney be played,
the proceeds of which going to ambulance
buying for use in France.
1T certainly brings German frightful-
| ness right to our own hearth" frowned one
of our best golfers, this being asked to give
up our golf events"
Big Leaguers
hna aud
developed overnight for the Old York Road
team of women, entered for the first time
this year in the competition for the Phila-
delphia. team championship. 1t stacks up
against Merton on Tuesday, and the others
teams in the championship league are all
a-gQg to scan the box-score.
Merton Is the champion, has its strong.
est lineup in mid-season form and meets
the newcomers over it's own course
The showing that the Jenkintown
feminine golfists made this week against
the Cricket Club seems unbelievable when
the dope sheets are brought into play. The
York Roadettes went to the tees without
their captain, Mrs. j. S. Ely, which meant
that the three veterans of last years sec.
ond-tlight quintet had to move up a peg
This looked like gloomy weakening of
the lead. Added to this was the fact thai
the Jenllintonians led forth four new players
who had never played in a team match be.
fore, IL was said.
1t looked like cre-ool slaughter and the
feminine fans present hid their faces from
the terrible sight. The Cricket Club, in
stead of spreading the whtewash all over
the course just did come through by 4-3
margin, the same coming under the head
of q narrow squeak
Mrs. Georgd1A Elsasser, Jr., Mrs Scott
Fowler Mrs. II. Perpall and Mrs. II. De
Groat We're the brand-new players, and all
did well, The reason the latter didn't win
seemed to be because she couldn't sink her
thirty forty and fifty-foot puts. She tried
out long one at the ninth, which hit the
back of the cup. perchance and stayed out.
ever see anything like it?" she wished
to know. That's the way they've been
doing at every hole"
Not meaning any disrespect to prohbi-
tionists their efforts seem a little untimely
for the reason that this is the season of
sore and blistered hands from gripping of
the golf clubs, and IL recalls a remedy i'm an
old book on golf. The player suffering from
sore hands should simply give them good
bath of whisky couple of times a day,
rubbing the likker weK in.
1t makes the hands hard,
The likker should be used plentifully, ac-
cording to the book.
Pros Have Busy Time of 1t
These are busy times for the pros at
local clubs Most of them state that the
demand for golf lessons is greater than
ever, particularly among feminine players.
and that 1t is difficult to find time for all
the lessons that club members want to
book.
This applied during the winter too, at
the indoor schools. Gimbes had three
professional constantly busy, and the rec
ords show that Dave Cuthbert for one,
gave about 500 lessons, all of which shows
that interest in the royal and ancient game
is ever waxing. Demand for lessons I'm
Baltimore has increased 80 rapidly that
the price is now quoted at 50 the hour, ana
still the bookings pile up.
Alex Duncan. who was one of the in
structors at Gimbels and whose place at
the Cricket Club has been taken by Ed
Loos writes from Rockford. ILL.,. where he
now is, that he has the best berth of his
life. like so many other local pros. Alex
felt that he was being treated unjusty
here when sales privileges Of golf supplies
were taken away from him. He now has
ciub-olnani4g TiQhts: with ~ sale of balls