Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-31

THE home-bred golfers demonstrated III
i no uncertain fashion that collectively
they are far ahead of their Scotch ana
English professional rivals. Whiie they
had no trouble in beating the amateurs
II was not a fair test, as such cracks as
Chick Evans, Francis Ouimet, Jesse uuii-
ford and Bill Fownes were not dpie "
play. and it was necessary at the last i'o
ment to substitute lot OF men Who az az
not up to the mark, Whether they "ouiu
be able to beat the foreign'borh pros III
individual matches remains to be seem put
the matches last week showed that sinbly
the home-breds are too much ior eriei
the English or Scotch. ~
One of the pleasant features OF lne toul'
n,n,ont was the work of the Philadelphlahs.
Charley Hoffner, who is the professionals AT
phiImont and whose two brothers, beorbe
and Robert play very fine folf, ied the
entire field of the golfers. lie ulu noI ioae
n single individual match ana III ms pa pa
nership there was the same result iioihIi
is one of the youngest or the pros lh Is,
lust over the twenty.year marx ana ms
iob at Philmont Is the second that ne mas
aver had. He learned the game at Baia
where for many years he was cauule
For one year he was the proleSSiohaa az
the nfne-hole course at NooupurS' W.
wears ago he went to Philmont and there
ba has been ever since. He defeated isaac
MaclIie Herbert Strong and J. S. Worthng'
ton The first two are among the pest
playing pros in the metropolitan sectloh'
while Worthngton Is one OF the loWes'
rated amateurs in Great Britain, ana
last fall he won the tournament at Atlahtlc
CITY. Hoffner was partnered with Jack
bowling and they won from their partners
with the greatest ease. Playing against the
amateurs Hoffner and Loos paired together
and they beat Norman Maxwell and Worth
ington by four holes.
Loos's Showing Most Creditable
Ioos, who succeeded Aleck Duncan as
the professional at the Philadelphia cricket
club. lost but one match out of four Loos
finished second to Jock Hutchison in the
patriotic open championship at the Whlte-
marsh Valley Country Club In ms IN
diyidual matches he defeated A. j. sander
son and Norman Maxwell and was beaten
by Jack Hobens on the last green. PAIRED
with Bowling he gave young Bobby Jones
and Perry Adair an awful trimming
Emmett French formerly locker boy at
| Merton, lost but one match, and that was
| to Bobby Jones. over the difficult Garden
! City course he made q rs, but the youngster
| from Georgia went him one less ana peat
| him on the home green.
| Neither Norman Maxwell the sensational
youngster from Aronimink, nor Jim Barnes,
| the professional champion, did as well.
| Maxwell lost one match on the last green,
halved another and was peaten by three
| holes by French. Paired with Worthington
| he lost to Hoffner and Loos. to Maiden and
rockingham, and with Bobby Jones he won
| from Sargent and Strong. Barnes won from
| Oswald Kirby, lost to Mike Brady and tc
McFarlane. In the foursomes he and West
won from Brady and Burke, from Ander-
| son and Sawyer and tied with Hutchisor
| and Mcleod.
Youngsters in Class by Themselves
But 1t was a great week for the home
| breds and the youngsters, for nearly every
| one of them is not much more than twenty
five and most Of them are under that age
showed great golf. The days have gon'
by when the clubs, large OIL small, car