Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-03
ATLANTIC CITY WILL HAVE ITS BIG
FALL GOLF TOURNAMENT AS USUAL,
THE DATES BEING OCT. 25, 26 AND 27
War Has No Terrors for the Golfers at North
field-Norman Maxwell Breaks Record for
Nine Holes at Berkshire
By PETER PUTTER

DHlLADELPHIA golfers will be glad to
L learn that the fall tournament of the
Country club of Atlantic City will be held
as usual, and the days selected october
25, &c and p for the usual number of cups.
There will be four flights. with prizes for
the winners and runners-up in each winning
fight and for the winners of each beaten
eight
Last year the club changed the dates of
the fall tournament from November to Oc-
tober, and the result was that the weather
throughout the entire tournament was de-
lightful. the turf was in the very best of
condition and the greens were excellent.
Owing to the calling off of the ST. Martins
and the Gest Cup tournaments, the entry
list promises to be unusually large.
1t is to be hoped that Atlantic City will
defer its spring tournament to a later date.
the weather last spring cold
that the golfers actually felt the need of
winter overcoats.
Course in Use Every Day
In many ways the course is public. Any
one can play over it by the payment of
So as long as he conducts himself properly,
and fortunately the golfer is a wel-behaved
citizen. In view of the fact that the course
is played over 365 days in the year, it is
remarkable that it is in fine condition
as the golfer finds it from day to day.
Some of the turf, particularly on the
meadow holes, is as fine any we will
find on our best Philadelphia courses.
The course is very much better trapped
than it was two or three years ago, and
the holes offer some very fine golf. There
is a flock of motor and horse propelled
grass-cutters continually at work and
big host of workmen are busy the year
round keeping the course in playable con-
dition. The club house can readily ac-
commodate large number of visitors.
Thousands of dollars taken in every
month as hardly any golfer who visits the
famous city by the sea fails to play at
least once over the Northfield course. The
greens fee is now 50 day and this big
income has enabled the club to make many
improvements and to ensure that the course
is always in the pink of playing condition.
Maxwell Breaks Another Record
Norman II. Maxwell one of the young
est golfers who ever won the North and
South championship at Pinehurst, broke
another record last week. Inside Of one
week he set up new figures for the Aroni-
mink and Lansdowne courses. j. II. Parker,
vice president of the Carpenter Steel Com
pany of Reading. asked Arthur NJ. Wood
to bring another good golfer and play over
the Berkshire Country Club which is on
the outskirts of Reading. So Arthur took
Norman Maxwell up there with him.
When they arrived they found that the
match had been advertised among the club
following them. When Mr.. Parker learned
that Maxwell was the other good player
he made a rapid change in his plans and
they played against Joseph Higgins the
club professional, and Alex F. Smith, one
of the very best of the Reading players and
who for years has played in Atlantic City
and other tournaments in the Philadelphia
district.
Berkshire is only nine-hoe course. but
very sporty. and the distances are de-
ceptive as the course is on the top of a
hill These distances fooled Maxwell, and
on the third he shot a seven, while on his
second round he had four, which is
bird for that hole The Reading players
got a Jump on the Aronimink men and at
the end of the eighth hole the men from
Reading were three up. Wood holed a bird
three on the ninth and reduced the lead to
two. Eventually Maxwell and Wood won,
by up and l to go.
Maxwell Sets New Record
The par of the course Is "a, and Maxwell
made the course in the same figures and
broke the record for the round with "a, or
one stroke over the professional record held
bv Higgins. As 1t was. he trimmed three