Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-08

| vr,t,E, nIot In the play for the womens
L team golf championship Of Philadeipn'a
| thickens apace.
The done at dusk today may hasten the
large climax or it may not lift the tenseness
4, Of the situation one whit The two great
| matches on the cards for today are those
| of the conflict between the champion Merioh
team and Huntington valley over tle
| revised Noble course and the other betwiNt
| the Philadelphia Cricket Club ana fh"-
mont at Philmont
Merton, one might say, Is going along
| most placidly on its sunny way. The reason
| for this broad statement is that so Tar the
| good women of Haverford have suffered no
defeats in fourteen straight matches. 1heir
percentage compilations show determined
slate of I 900. both as to team and lndlNiu-
ual matches For the first time in the sea-
son Merton wanders afield today and does
not play on its home course.
Playing at home may or may not have
| lot to do with Merion's previous easy VIC
| tories II probably had not little, for
| the Merton courses are an enigma to many
masculine player not to mention women
| players. 1t follows that the Merton women
| have an unusual advantage in playing on
the home course, Every team has that ad-
| vantage.
Others Too
Even Old York Road. the new member
of the Big League, which was cleaned up as
to every position by Merton at Haverford,
gave the Philadelphia Cricket Club. runners
up for the championship last year. the scare
| of its successful career when the baby
team almost won at Jenkntown. to g.
Philmont took over Huntingdon Valley,
n first-dvison favorite, on the Phmont
course, when only the three Huntingdon
| Valley leaders were able to win their
| matches.
The Cricket Club and II. v c. c. were
| heavy favorites in both encounters at the
| first tee.
Huntingdon Valley easily won its only
| match this season on its own course and
| its work today may put a severe crimp in
the hopes of the league leaders,
Mrs Ronald H. Barlow and Mrs caleb
f. Fox, captains Of the two teams. meet
| in great match The records of both
| players run along about the same, with
Mrs. Barlow having the edge. Both have
won the local championship and both have
| been fnalists in the national champion
| ships.
Mrs. Fox, of late, has not been getting
| down to her real game till the fall but to-
| days match is a good line on what may be
expected of Mrs. Barlow. who is a candi-
| date for both the Philadelphia and the ma
| ttonal championship.
The closest rivals of the Merton team is
| the Cricket Club which came so near dis
aster In its one match of the present sea-
| son away from home and which hasn't as
| strong a lineup as last year, when it fin
| ished second. dropping its only defeat to
| Merton. If the st. Martins team can re-
cover a fine victory from Philmont on the
| latter's course today. the dope has It that
all the fighting for the championship this
| year will be between Merton and the Cricket
| Club. which won the flag in 1915. But Phil
| mont is in n fine frame of mind as the result
| Of its triumph over Huntingdon Valley
| last week and is set to give the enemy an
| enthusiastic and finished lacing.
| Also All of
| Under the head Of another tournament
| off, It will be news to most fair golfers
| that the play for the intercity Griscom
| Cup is off for the year 1917.
| This has been unofficially announced
| The play was to have been at New York
| this year but the ups and downs of the
| various schedules has been the means of
| making it seem best to cross off the inter-
| section team championship. This makes
| null and void all the argument about four
| somes. TO be or not to be, and by the time
| 1t is in season to hold the events again
| let's hope the antquated form of play will
| have been forgotten.
The cancelng of the Griscom Cup play
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