Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
Old Rivals Mingle With
Stars and Veterans
Foozle Filming Foolish
BY SANDY McNIBLICk

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CNTARS may glitter and stars may filter
- but still they keep a.comin' at Atlantic
City. The competition for the Atlantic city
cup, which Is the main trophy for the taker
Of the finals. will be exceptionally keen II
all the harbingers of the same do not turn
over and point the other way,
Each invitation tournament at North
field. spring and fall as the years roll on,
seems to bring new faces among the stars,
and this year Is no exception in the tour
ney. which went to the tees at a. m.
this a. m. The top-heavy faVorites for the
finals where the chairs were coZest to-
day at the seashore course were the Broth
ers Corkran, the Dixie Demon Duo. They
stood out from the field like buttons on
a padded hip. But there is plenty of COM
petition promised for these two marvellous
mashie mechanics in Percy Plat, flushed
from the "raz" he gave the field at Lake
wood when he won the finals there last
week; p s. p. Randolph, Jr., whom he
met for the trophy and three dark horses"
from Canada, whose excellence at the royal
and ancient game is said to be par even
better.
Past Winners Slack
This is this years assortment. None Of
the winners Of tournaments of the last two
or three invitation soirees at Atlantic City
is to be found among those who knocked
out the fungoes today to qualify.
once it was Max Marston. Another time
II was j. S, Worthington, the famous Eng
lishman. Schuyler Van Nechten stood be-
yond the field in the spring tournament last
year and SO it has gone. usually a rank
favorite, with the rest Of the field shaping
itself as best IL might to meet the onslaught
Of the conqueror.
The entry Of the Corkrans insured the
success of the tournament right at the start,
and the sunburned fans gathered around
rubbed their hands with feeling in antci-
patton of some fine finals.
Warren Corkran. the elder, is the ia
vorite. His brother. n. Clarke, says there
are two golfers in this country whom he
never expects to beat. and they are Max
Marston and his brother.
He has never been able to beat either,
though he plays golf just as well as either,
better many times But his brother, it is
said can take Clarke out at Baltimore,
where the two play, and beat him any day
of the week. Sundays and holidays in
cluded,
This is a strange fact. Also pit the tall
Marston against chunky Clarke and 1t is
| Invariably curtains for the latter.
Grudge Match
Clarke went to the semifnals Of the ma
| tional last year at Merton and was the
one to give Chick Evans about the toughest
| match he had In the making of his fame
| at Merton the youthful Corkran not only
| beat Perry Adair, but he also ousted one of
| the local buds Of the last season, George
Hoffner, who went to semifnals Of the local
| championship last year.
Hoffner. We happen to know, was i'll at
| the time Another thing which sounds like
a sorry alibi, but which Is the fact was
| that his midron had been mislaid out Of his
| bag and he tried to use a club of Benny
| Savers instead. II didn't work which
worked against success for the local youth
| Hoffner Is playing a good game nov, and II
he meets Corkran he says he Is going to
| make UP for the loss of that match in the
| national.
| There will be great dongs for both are
| master shotsmen Hoffner, with Ed Clarey
seems to be the leading candidate for
| honors from the Quaker City. 1t was in this