Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-25
NORTH HILLS HAS THREE GOLFING
STARS IN STYLES, DEVICES, PLATT,
AND TRIO WILL BEAR WATCHING
Not One of Them Has Been Playing More Than
Five Years. Yet They Will Compare Favor
ably With Best Players in the City
By PETER PUTTER

and there is nothing about his conduct that
would lead YOU to believe that he has auy
good golf In him. Instead OF talking abou,
his shots he let's his golf talk for him He
has an ideal temperament for golf and he
never worries II his opponent gets the iltnp
lie has the shots, as any one who has played
against him will admit His form is beauti-
full to watch. and the graceful shots that
he sends from the tee and the fairways are
chock fun OF effectiveness. He is about
the most modest chap you will see at any
golf tournament Formerly he worked for
a corporation which saw nothing I'm golf
so that his golf was confined TO Saturday
and Sunday play. Fortunately now he Is
employed by a golf enthusiast and has
more leisure and he will bear watching.
Miss Doyle a Conner
They have a young girl at North Hills
who Is rapidly coming to the front. She
Is the daughter Of Mrs. :. j. DOYLE Miss
Margaret Doyle, who Is still in her teens
won the tournament at Cape May But her
mother was not 80 fortunate In the final
Tor the North Hills championship she was
beaten by two up, after being six up at
the turn on Miss Gates. And to show that
Devices is not invunerable. he was beaten
FOR the Vice presidents cup by j. w. Cooper
by two uPand one to play. Cooper is one Of
the NerN best players at North Hills and
while he played in the class tournament,
restrcted tq, players with handcaps OF
eleven strokes and more. his golf since then
has improved so much that il is likely next
year he will not be eligible for that tourney
MY hrst recollection of W. J. Platt the
youthful golfer from North Hills who won
the Lu La Temple Country Club tourna-
ment last Saturday, was when I first
played in Shawnee tournament a wear or
so after the course was opened Most OF
the caddies were from Philadelphia and
we're quartered on an island in the Della
nN mi
youngster | got was from the Philadelnbia
country Cluh and, while | got I'm the sec
ond sixteen, the brand of golf ] PLAYED in
the hrst match against Layton NJ Schoch
who later won that flight made very little
impression on the youth for most of the
time he was trying out shots with my clubs
on the other hand, | was so little impressed
with his caddying skill that / told the
Caddie master | wanted a boy who could
find the ban and who was not so Interested
IN being a second Jack McDermott The
youth was Platt
But Plat was not the ordinary caddis
who is out 10 make a little spending money
| His father Is millowner and he was cad
dying more az lark than anything else
but even at that time he could take the
other caddies out and give them a first
class trimming or course, when he reached
the age when caddying is no longer permis-
sible II the boy wants 10 remain an anna
teur, he gave up caddying and Joined the
North Hills Country Club
Platt Has Great Golf Possibilities
He is the second youth from that club
to win an invitation tournament this wear
We all remember when Wilmer Devices
surprised those who thought they knew
something about golf players by winning
the Bala tournament, and. while the Lu IJl
tournament was handicap affair the credit
Of winning should not be taken away from
| the youngster He has plenty Of good
! shots in his bag and perhaps his chief
| fault Is that he will not take the game
| seriously He will play brilliantly for many
| holes, then when he should tighten up he
| gets careless and takes all sorts OF chances
| But he is long from the tee and he plays
! his iron shots with skill and his work on
| the green is usually of high order.
In many ways the best way to learn
| So is to take II up as a caddie Most of
| the boys who are caddying at our Phil
| adelphia courses can take the man for
| whom they are working and give them
| the hardest kind OF a battle Each bov
| initiates the professional of the home club
| aud when he is not caddying he is swing
| ing clubs or playing some of the other
! boys In approaching and putting He has
| nothing on his mind but golf and, as every
| caddie has a great deal of the gambling
! element, the boys in a very short time
! become very expert. Most of the clubs
| give the boys permission to play over the
| course on certain days and nearly every
! caddie has set of clubs and on his way
| home at night get into matches.
| II is this constant association with golf
that made Platt proficient He has great
| possibilities and when he settles down to
real work he promises to rank among the
| best players in this city