Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-19
LYNNEWOOD HALL BOWL ATTRACTS
MORE CRACK GOLFERS HERE THAN
ANY OTHER INVITATION TOURNEY

ENOR many years a big trophy known as
the Iyunewood Hall Challenge Cup has
served as a magnet 10 attract moro crack
golfers from other districts to Philadel-
pha than any other event on the tourna-
ment calendar outside of the big national
Championships
Jerry Travers. Fred Hershoff Walter ].
Travis, Max Marston and host Of other
headliners in the golf world have all made
the trip to Huntingdon Valley to take part
IN the annual meeting for the trophy dur
ing the seventeen years it has been up for
competition, and each crack has at one
time or another rompPG ahead Of the field
The present cup Is the third one pre-
serted by George ID. Widener and, like its
predecessors, 1t carries the name Of the
Wldener estate, LynnewOod Hall. The first
cup was put up for competition In 1901, and
IN 1905 Harold b. Mcfarland won his third
stralght tournament and became absolute
owner Of the mighty trophy. Another cup
was forthcoming in 1906, and it lasted for
zen years before Jerry Travers won the third
leg and the cup. The third and present
trophy was shipped out to the Huntington
valley Country Club last year, and Max
Marston, tall crack from the North Jersey
Grub Of Baltusrol was the first to have a
name engraved upon II.
Like many other classic cups, the bowl
becomes the possession Of the player who
WINS three tournaments, Harold McFar-
land was al the top of his game In the three
years of 1903, 1904 and 1905 and had little
trouble in driving off the invading cracks
Of other districts, Jerry Travers became
owner OF the second edition of the Lynne
wood Hall Challenge Cup through his VIC
"ries In 1895, 1905 and 1915.
Visitors and Locals Share HOnOrs
The shield that hangs in the Noble club
mouse bears the record of the classic, The
history shows that the battles for the three
s bowls have been fifty-fifty proposition
getWeen the invading golfers and the home
s@leht' Eight players registered from other
Slsurlcts, and eight good Philadelphia men
nave had their names inscribed on the cups
uurlng the sixteen years of the tourna-
mehts existence
Clayton c. Dixon, who failed to turn in
nh card for the qualifying round Of the
nsseht tournament yesterday was the first
soner TO win the Lynnewood Hall tourna-
tnent Charles S. Starr followed the Spring
ssaNVeh player by winning it in 1902. Then
iouowed McFarand's trio of successful
years. Jerry Travers tore through the field
-. ~ IsO6 and Fred Hershoff's brilliant
t- .IoI's Kept the cup In the metropolitan dis
W. ~ tor the following year. Then Jerry
II again in 1908. Edwin Satter-
uwalte of Bala, was at the top Of the
zap IN 1903 and the second cup returned
~ he local district for the first time
sce II was presented. Walter J. Travis
,' salle down from Garden City the following
tear, however, and carried the trophy back
10 she New York district again. Then in
aSil writ L, Thompson, Of the Philadel-
~ ue country Club, proved the best man In
~ heid, and in the next tourney Harold
80 arlahd bobbed up after a long absence
-Nu ied the field h. Warren CorlTan
4 ,1-,llea the cup to Baltimore IN 1913, and
ven further south after. the next meet
AZ then George V. Rotan. Of Waco Texas.
tf'ea tho neld and carried the trophy