Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-02

GTNHE ordinary eishteen-hole golf course
Il has either four one-shot holes and those
courses which are limited TO nine holes
have two one-shotters. In arranging these
one-shot holes the idea ls to get four holes
Of varying length so that each hole calls
for a different shot The most popular OF
all these holes Is the real short one where
either a mashe niblic or a mashie Is uscd.
Types Of this hole are the ninth and twelfth
at Whitemarsh, the ninth at Bala' the
seventh at the Country Club and the tenth
at Pine Valley. Then come the longer
holes. where either the mashie or jigger
or midron is used. The second at Phil-
mont the ninth at Springhaven. the thir-
teenth at Merton and the third at Pine
Valley are examples Then there Is the
hole where the iron men use a midron
and the other chaps a cleck or spoon. The
ninth at Merton, the old tenth at Hunting
don Valley, the sixth at Overbrook will do
as types Finally there is the one-shot
hole which requires any club from "A cleck.
spoon or brassey to driver The seventh
at Merton, the fifth at Pine Valley, the old
second at Huntingdon Valley, the thirteenth
~ Philmont the old third at Aronimink
and the second at Overbrook are holes of
this sort.
OF course it all depends who Is playing
the hole. Some men use a nibic where
others use a mashie or a iiggcr. A jigger
shot to others means a midron or cecR
10 others and so on down the line The
wind is also n factor
But to get down to something else How
many times have you made one Of these
one shot, three strike par holes in one
stroke? Not one, you say. Well. then. how
many holes have you seen made in one
shot?
Case of A. c. Alexander
Perhaps the case Of \. G. Alexander. one
of the leading cracks at Bala may be in
teresting. Alexander has seen two Of these
one-shot holes made from the tee and in
both instances the other fellow put It over
on him. And even at that he did not see
the ball roll into the cup, for the feat was
done on the ninth hole at Bala and the
green is mostly blind from the tee. 1t used
TO be longer shot than II Is now, but
In the last year or two the tee has been
moved forward so to do away as much
as possible with this blind shot He was
playing George Klauder in one match and
II was the first trip around Both made
pretty pitches to the green, but when they
got there Klauder's ban could not he found
Then the idea occurred that possibly il
might be in the cup and sure enough there
1t was Later he and L. 5 BiCking were
playing match and Blck dropped his tee
shot into the hole
Three times has this occurred on the
ninth at Bala and the other time Herb
Newton did the trick in the Bala invitation
tournament. He had won the eighth from
Walter Reynolds with an eagle two to
Reynolds's bird three and then TO make Rey-
nolds feel even more uncomfortable he shot
his nibliCll shot into the cup at the ninth.
while Reynolds easily negotiated a bird
two 1T is not very often that "A man shoots
two birds in row and loses both holes.
Young Phil Corson during the play for
the junior championship at the Philadelphia
Country club holed out from the tee on
the short seventh. This hole is somewhere
between 10 and 125 yards and is com
pletey surrounded by traps, except mar
row entrance in front.
One-ShOtters at Whitemarsh
They have several shot holes at
whitemarsh, notably the fourth, ninth,
twelfth and sixteenth The Whitemarsh
men say that the only time the ninth was
ever holed out from the tee was when
j. f. Hubbell did it. This is the hole
that cost Whitemarsh much money.
Formerly il was a blind pitch and when
the midsummer daYs cnme II WAS nhNsi-