Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-25
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TIIE Philadelphia Golf Association mas
i made up its mind that there is no use
holding further tournaments without OF
fering prizes. II has tested out the Original
plan of having the tournaments ana turn
ing over everything to the golf fund lot
war sufferers. and It has not worked out
at all satisfactorily.
On Thursday of this week there will be
the one-day midsummer handicap, and on
the same day there will be the qualifying
round for the class tournament. Prizes Tor
the midsummer handicap will be given to
the player who turns in the best net gross
and the runner-up, while there will be
prize for the man who makes the low
gross score.
There will be three sixteens to qualify
for the class tournament, and the winners
of each fight and the runners-up will get
prizes And the more entries the better
the prizes. The prizes will be paid out of
the entry money, so 1t is natural that the
greater the list Of entries the greater the
money the association can spend on the
prizes Both tournaments will be played
at Aronimink.
No Prizes for Qualifying
There will be no prize for the low qualify
ing score, as II would be necessary to give
three Of them. because each player must
qualify in his class or the one above, and II
in the two higher flights to give n medal to
the low scorer in the first flight. So there
will be nothing doing in the qualifying
scoring.
In the earlier part Of the season there
was some talk about cutting out the tourna-
ments entirely. and the matter was put up
to the presidents Of the various clubs. They
in turn held a meeting and advised the
Golf Association to go ahead and give the
tournaments as usual. The Golf Associa-
tion then turned the affair over to the ex-
ecutive committee and after much ponder
Ing and thinking the executive committee
thought the best plan would be to hold the
tournaments, but not give any prizes
There was much talk Of war and the
country was full of hysteria, and the
opinion seemed to be that it would be the
correct thing not to give anything in the
line OF prizes but to turn over not onIy
the entry money. but the money usually
spent on prizes. and devote 1t to- this golf
fund for war sufferers. One of the first
events that came along was the interclub
championship. and the interest in this was
so slight that really only three teams ouali.
ned ana the Country Club did not even nut
a team on the field. The fourth team got in
after one Of the players had torn up his
card. Later the final in this event was
called Off
Small Field
Then came the local championship. and
when IT became known that there was to he
no title awarded or any prizes the golfers
stayed away AS matter of fact there
were only about ten players beyond the
who qualified for the title And
while there was some very fine golf the
tournament was more or less of a frost
So when the time came to hold the mid
summer handicap and the class tourna
ment the executive committee thought n
should do one of two things, either call off
the tournaments or award prizes So there
Will be prizes for both tournaments and
now that this glad news is being |
circulated. there will be a large entry LIST
Entries will be received as late as tonight |
so that those who have not already entered
should send their entries as early as possi-
BILE to Francis B. Warner, 214 West wash |
lngton Square. 1t may be even possible TO |
make post entries |
FOR those who play a game between 85 |
and l2O there is splendid opportunity. If |
you happen to have a handicap ranging
rom eleven strokes to fourteen you have
l chance to qualify in the first sixteen, If
t runs from fifteen to eighteen, there Is a
second sixteen, while If it is nineteen