Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

OVERS OF golf who iourneyed by
- motor or train to Pine Valley yes
terday certainly got their moneys worth.
for Jerome H. Travers. Max Marston,
Oswald Kirkby and John g. Anderson,
four Of the best and most prominent
amateur golfers in tne country. served
up for them the finest sort OF golf It'd
bits. Incidentally Travers and Marston
beat the other pair up and 3 10 play,
and of the bye holes they won the six
teenth Everything went to the Red
Cross. and that worthy organization Is
about $1,000 better off as the result of
the brilliant match over Americas best
course.
There was hardly hole that was not
characterized by something of a sensa-
tional nature. There were brilliant shots
aplenty. long puts were numerous and
birds were plentiful. There We're long,
screaming drives that the gallery time
and time again applauded. There were
iron shots that sailed head-on for the
green and trckled up TO the hole or
. stopped with suddenuess that is only
impaired by a back spin that these eN-
perts know how to employ. There were
puts that crept up and over undula-
tions in the green and dropped into the
hole thirty and forty feet away, and
there were thrills enough for two
matches.
Birds Were Numerous .-'
The fireworks. so far as the birds were
| concerned. began on the fine fourth. one
! of the best dog leg holes in captivity
! and Travers and Marsron were the he
roes On the long seventh Trsvers and
kirkby dropped two more birds. on,
the fourteenth--the eighteenth--rravers
with a finely played iron hit the pin and
dropped dead and then another bird
! was registered in his favor. Then Mr.
. ston. SO as not to make matters too one
| sided, shot another bird on the fifteenth,
which is the first hole. Then Jerry got
busy and holed another bird on the SIX
I teen,h. which. as you win remember, IS
| the difficult second
!. Travers and Marston began business
| by winning the second hole. which An
/ derson says Is the best 2-shot hole in the
! country. by making 1t in par figures.
Kirkby evened up matters with par ,
! on that fine. short third Then on the
fourth came the two birds by Travers
and Marston, and from that time on
, they were never headed The outgoing
journey ended with them l up on kirkby
and Anderson. They had a best ball
, of SO to their opponents 3s. kirkby
, led with a card of 80. Mars:on was
second with a 40. Travers had a Al
| and Anderson A.
Some Super Par Golf
The fireworks started with the last
nine and with best ball of thirty-two
there was nothing for Kirkby and An
derson to do but to applaud the very fine
| golf played By Travers and Marston
The twelfth started it, when both
Travers and Marston had par fours for
! win and they We're up. Travers' s
bird on the fourteenth gave them an
other hole. Marston's bird on the next
hole added another and Travers made
tho victory certain with another bird
on the sixteenth Here We're three birds
in row. Playing the eighteenth they
had a for a 81, but the best they conlt
get was a 3.
on the home journey Travers led with
a 3S.,whiie MarSoh and Anderson wer'
stroke higher and kirkby had Il 45
1t might be said right here that kirkbI
had never seen the course before anc
naturally the distances bothered him
Anderson had played it once before
while Travers and Marston have fire.
ouently golfed there Kirkby liked it sc
we'll that he is goIn gto become a non
resident member. But more of thai
later
W OHltH fiu ieCu N'iors
Thanks to the persistency of Mrs
Hubley Owens Mrs. Mark Stanback and
Mrs. j. II. Bromley. Jr., the sale of tags
yielded a considerable sum. Lieutenant
Sutton. of the British army. acted the
part of auctioneer. The privilege OF
caddyng brought 500, but the money
received from the sale of balls al the
Il ninth and eighteenth holes exceeded all
expectations. The four balls used by
the players on the first nine holes real,
lied sum of $3.50, and after the second
nine had been played The balls were
again auctioned and, curiously, the sum
was duplicated, Those who paid for the
balls were Messrs. w. @. Davidson. War
rem Earnshaw, y Walter Iebley, J. Say
lor. A. ]. Carty and !. Barber. while
the caddying privileges were sold tc
Messrs. Barnes. Rosengarten. Guild and
Earnshaw. A sale of photographs taken
by George Fl. Brooke netted tidy little
! sum.
The late George A, Crump, the mar