Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
LOOS HAS BEEN PLAYING GOLF
SINCE A BOY OF TWELVE, AND BILL
ROBINSON WAS HIS PRECEPTOR
Bv PETER PUTTER

ny
THE impression has gone abroad tha'
l. Eddie Loos, the very efficient goH pro,
fessional at the Philadelphia Cricket Oiu''
is a golfer of mushroom growth ana t""'
he owes his present position to JACK M'D
mott Nothing is further from the uu'n'
lie has been playing golf since he n's'
became a caddie, at twelve, and Blll ho"'
inson. now his assistant at st MAI ''''''
was his preceptor
Ioos started to caddie when he was
youngster in short trousers at the p"D''I
links i'm Van Courtland Park wheh He
a schoolboy. He really began to play "l'e"
he was fourteen. When he was
he attracted the attention of Robbie WHO
WAS then the professional at Spring Lake
,,bicb he had constructed. Robbie reoulI
his golf form. for he had, like many other
Youngsters. absorbed both good ana o''
and entirely too much of the latter BUT he
would not let him play in tourhdnie"'
matches until he was twenty-one. For t"o
wears he was Robbie's assistant at Sprlns
Lake. and when he went TO Atlahtlc Cty
Loos went with him There he stayeu wv
years, and he spent one winter at oedNle"
with Robinson, :, ,,.sa
against Jerry Travers and he beat the IA
nous amateur one up with a score Oh 10
lie was then in his teens His first pro
fessional lob was at Charlotte, n T. III
the winter of 1915 he won the amateur pro
fessional tournament at Augusta. ana IN the
open he finished a stroke over Mike Brady
A. Deland he led the field the first day
with a 73, scoring the wonderful totai Oh
40 on his first nine holes. But the pest
he could do was to fini-n fifth. He also
,,,or m the preliminary at the western open
lie year He succeeded Alec Duncan as
tho nro AT the Cricket Club in March Of
The first real tournament of national
nature he ever played in was the natlohal
omen at Baltusrol in 1915, which was won
nv Travers. He was so nervous that ne
never got started and failed to quallty. BUT
in the Shawnee open the same year ne
tied with Tom Anderson for first place ana
lost out after fifty-four holes OF play Loos
was five strokes to the good playing the
fateful Binniekill, but the weather was IN
sufferably hot and he was thoroughly played
out.
His Wonderful Playing at Shawnee
This year he won the Shawnee open by
outplaying the best players IN the slI,,y sount,ry,
scoring on the first day a SO and hn!shing
with 29O. or two strokes over tours with
an average of 72.5 a round for the Tour
rounds. He bat out such cracks as
Jim Barnes, Emmett French, waiter hagen
Mike Brady Wilfred Reid, Gil Nlchols,
Fred Mcleod and Charlie Hoffner. He beat
IN, second man. Emmett French, by seven
strokes. 1t YVES a beautiful bit OF scoring
Eddie Loos viii be partnered with Nor
man II. Maxwell in the amateur -ploIes
Cross at the Whitemarsh Valley Country
club on october IL He Freely and
willingly gives all the credit for his goli
TO Robinson, who, he says, taught him
all he knows in golt. .,. go.
There is every indication that thefe VIII
he a record-breaking crowd at Whitemarsh
on the day of the play. Barnes mas Just
returned from an eNhlbltloh Hlatch a.
| Woodmere where he broke the course
record ali TO bits with Barnes ana Loos
| reDrassnting the professional side of the
match there could be no better attraction
| slated Barnes last year had monopoly
of the professional tournament winning
| the first tournament ever heid that was
restricted TO professional players. He also
| won the North and South. This year his
| two greatest victories were in the western
open, which he won by the lowest score
| ever made in seventy-two-hole tourna'
| rnent I'm this country. A week or so ago
he won the Philadelphia open by brilliant
| exhibition of golf.
Our Two Leading Amateurs
Both Buxton and Maxwell may be ex-
nected to aid the professionals, Buck is
not playing as much golf as in former
wears. He threw up his partnership in a
big cotton firm in Dallas. Tex, 10 accept
the position of assistant director Of trans
narration in the United states Food Ad-
ministration, at the head Of which is Her
hert Hoover And this he took without
4 penny OF salary. For years he was one
of the best railroad men In the country.
re has direct charge Of the chipping Of
every BIT ~ food out Of this country abroad
tBnck is getting n nhope foE lhe match