Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-21
By a staff Correspondent

EE-ON-DELAWARE. July Fl.
GO FAR as the gallery is today concerned
- it will be tworing circus in the semi
finals and finals Of the matches OF the BUCK
wood golf tournament being played here
This morning the feature matches VIII De
between Harold Mcfarland ana Reggie
Worthington and in the other end or the
bracket there will be Ed Clarey and Aleck
Coles But to offset all this, ChicK Evans
will arrive this morning, and he ana r. VI.
Grace, the biggest man In the Bethlehem
Steel Company next to Charles Schwap' VIII
play in a four.ball match with b. warren
Corkran and Mr. Mackell. the sales manager
of the b ,tnlehem Steel Company,
Evans and Mackell to Team
Evans and Mackell will play against
Corkran and Grace, and the national open
and amateur golf champion of thls couh-
trv and his partner have agreed to give
Mr.. Grace and Corkran four strokes ana
Corkran who Is one of the lowestrateu
golfers in this country, say II Is not ehouen,
hut even at that the gallery does not KNOW
what to do 1t Is the first time that Cnick
Evans has ever played at Shawnee, ana IN
snite Of the fact that there is more class
IN the samifinals than for some years the
gallery is like the small boy at the cir
cus II does not know what ring 10 Watch.
few DAYS after winning the amateur
championshp at Merton last SepteIhpel'
EVANS went up to the Northampton CouIi-
try Club, which is situated midway oetWue
,be Rethlehems and Easton, on the invita-
IT, 30 Mr. Grace, and the double crowned
chomnion gave them a shock, Tor whlIe 'he
amateur record of the course Is a 20 anu
the professional record Is a slrohe '"ei'
Cbiclk who had never seen the course oe
fore in his life, went around IN a. iiuci'
20 tha delight Of Mr. Grace and the aston
~ .,ant Of the natives, who were prldins
,han,selyes on the supposed fact that tney
had a real course. Chick has been PLAYING
an various western courses tor the pei'eh' VI
the Red Cross and in doing SO ne mas co,
iected an amount of money when is wen
~ evcess of $4,000, but nc could not re-
.Is, ,be lure of a day or two at Shawnee
Sorkran said yesterday that he has not peen
n,oying much golf of late on account OF
~ fact that both he and his brilliant
,,ounp brother, Clarke, are In the BaitiihoIe
Rattery, and on Wednesday OF next week .i,e
battery Is going into the Federai service,
SO that his golf at Shawnee WI, pos'Sd and
he the last for some time. Both ne anu
clarke have a leg on the Buckwood cup
New Surprises in Match Play
There were no great surprises In the mrs.
and second rounds of the tournamehl
matches yesterday, and nothing nher III ','S Ia
,,,a,, of n windup of a big tournament couIu
,aye bappened than to have Reggie Wortn
;naton and Harold Mcfarland fighting II 9u.
ne tn one bracket and Aleck Coles and Eo
Ciarey in the other. on paper ine wsh W. both
omebt TO be Worthington and Coles, as potn
ors nlaying the Shawnee course with great
MARTY and know every blade OF grass
on it, Worthington is the only man wmS nS
% va t,yo legs on the Buckwood trophy anu
na1 s sins the present tournament II VIII
hacoSoe u m his permanent property. McFaI.
land is playing very fine brand and Of IN sGls she
and he is one Of the nSr6ss, a1sx msn far as
coon cvorav is concerned no other golfer In tne
aroament C,ar has such consistently low cards
as he. =. ,.,t all four have been
as 90 with great regularity. and most
prean shan have been lowering around the ~
mark 50 the matches this morning 2 not fSr
.nv 'sry y would unausstionably follow the ma'cn.
M csIIery Necessary Here