Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-24

PHILADELPHIANS ALL BUT MAKE 4
CLEAN SWEEP WITH INVITATION
TOURNAMENT ON SHAWNEE LINKS
Eleven of the Fifteen Prizes Won by Quaker City
Golfers-Course Shut in by Mountains
Fools Visiting Players

nF THE $500 given by the Shawpee Coun.
" try Club during the golf tournament at
Shawnee last week. nearly s40o Of It came
TO Philadelphia or some of its suburbs. The
winners and runners-up Of tho various
flights. as well as the winners OF the beaten
eights were asked to designate the charity
associated with the Allies to whom they
wanted the money sent. and az nearly every
one Indicated the Red Cross OF his locally
these units will profit.
In all there were fifteen prizes and Of
these the Philadelphians won no less than
eleven. Philadelphia made a clean sweep
in three Of the fvo hights. winning the
winning and the beaten fights and in
addition. the rpnner-up was also Philadel-
phian. In the second flight the victory vent
to the New York golfers. but the beaten
eight was won by n Quaker City player.
Each winner and runner-up Of the winning
sxteens received very attractive silvef
medal. while In the case OF the fifth flight.
which was an added sixteen, the prizes were
clubs
on the face Of things ciarey played the
best golf Of the tournament and deserved to
win. Scoring a 73 on Thursday afternoon,
he followed this with rs and two 75's, and
this is hard golf TO beat. IIe drove con-
sistently well and most OF the time he
scorned TO use brassey, preferring a cleek.
He had the greens we'll gauged and all
through the tournament his golf was Of n
gilt-edged nature.
Buxton Praises Clarey
Cameron b. Buxton qualified with him at
Whitemarsh In the Philadelphia local cham
pionship and later Buxton said that in his
estimation he has more golf In him than any
of tho other youngsters. He is well-built
player and has tremendous wrists and fore
Ia nm oh M 1T
to the green are unbeatable. 1t has been
said Of Clarey that he lacks the punch
but at Shawnee he showed no absence oft
1t was one Of the best tournaments ever
| held at Shawnee. and had It not been for
| the fact that Chick Evans was playing
over the course on Saturday there would
| have been large-sized galleries TO follow the
seminnalists and the fnalists but every
| one wanted to see the double-crowned cham
| pion. and both morning and afternoon ever,
one who was not playing followed In hi.
wake.
1t should be said right here that the fair
| ways at Shawnee cannot be beaten by an,
| other course In the country and these wer,
| so excellent that Evans on numerous occa
| sions referred to them with words OF com
| mendation. At no time was It possible no
| to find a first-class brassey lie and II tn
scoring Of some Of the players was high 1
was not attributable TO the course Tn
greens were In perfect condition and wer
az true as 1t was possible to mako them Il
every way the golflng conditions were ideal
Distances Fool Players
One of the things which puzzles the play
ers who play at Shawnee for the first tim
Is the matter of distance. On all sides ex
cept looking UP the Delaware River IN
tremendously high mountains which shu
in the course foreshorten the shots. par
ticularly the approach shots. The result
that a player uses q mashie where he shou