Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-14

r,HERE Is only one sport that Is not In
,.-,sred with by the weather. shower
,, Isngth will soon end a baseball game.
!, 1. not possible to play tennis either on
-, - ART courts II It has been raining.
.s .s.nv a track meet has been called of
hAy ~ weather conditions. Possibly
ve.@I - onIv other game that is not affected by
ny ny Svesther Is football, and the only reason
&@ &@ ,hJs is that the season Is very short
~ the mowers that be cannot arord TO
sn.o any postponements through lack Of
ss,ss and the impossbillty Of staging two
ia contests too close together.
p,, with golf II is entirely different. Golf
4. uisved in all sorts Of weather. Those
ps who played In the fall tournament
~ " tbe course of the Philadelphia Cricket
S,,h remember the conditions which main
lived during the semifinals. I happened
so he in the winning end Of the second
.,.tssn. and by the time we had played
~, holes the rain was falling in torrents
pn,tlng on some Of the greens was impos-
,s,s FOR the water was three or four
s.sSss deep Putters were out of the ques-
a. and IL was necessary to use nibicks
va ~ Won have ever tried to hit ball COW
...d with two or three inches of water you
ean realize the situation on the green's
Conditions Poor
In The falrways the conditions we're
.o,,IIv bad A long tee shot would hit a
,ool Of water and stop as II II had struck
stone wall Brasse shots were not TO be
thought Of for II is virtually impossible
n get the bail off the water-covered turf
Il,b wooden club For the first time In
~ history of the St Martins Cup it was
necessary to defer the final matches until
the following week.
Two or three years ago one of the
Suburban matches was started in a down
nour. II was raining so hard at o'clock
that some of the clubs got the officials of
the Golf Association of Philadelphia on
he telephone and asked permission to post
pone the play until the following day. But
there was nothing doing, so the players
set out in another driving storm. There
was an amusing circumstance at ST. Davids
that day One of the visiting players elected
10 play a nonsinkable ball, and II worked
ali right until he sent It on the sixth green
which happens to be right in front Of the
clubhouse
Water Covers Greens
The entire green, including the cup, was
covered with several inches of Water. The
first time he putted the ball ran over the
hole. The second putt was true and the
ball landed right over the hole, but being
too light to sink, It foated away. After
trying two or three times to perform the
impossible he gave up the hole, much to
the amusement of the other man, who had
reached the green in two strokes over him.
One Of the richest golfers in this city,
whose wealth runs up into the millions and
whose age is somewhere beyond the sixty
year mark, carried his opponent sixteen
holes before he was beaten, and as they
started rather early they got the full benefit
Of the shower on every hole. AS one of
the gallery remarked to others who sat In
doors and saw the bedraggled players pass
BY We'll. II I were as rich as he is |
wouldn't play hole II they gave me thou
sand dollars"
Several years before what turned out
TO be the largest field that had up to that
time played in tournament started out to
qualify for the spring championship ~
Pnehurst Before one-tenth of the field
had left the first tee It began to rain very
hard and as the committee realized that
those who had entered were down at Pine