Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-22

RED CROSS GOLF
RAISES $4,000
Professional Match at Deal.
N. J. Breaks Record in
the East
SOME NOVEL IDEAS

New York. July 90.
What can be done for the Red Cross
through golf. given four good professional
players, capable auctioneer, a crop OF
original ideas and a gallery Of enthusi-
asts who have taken the paddock off
their pocket books. was demonstrated
Yesterday on the link of the Deal Golf
Club. Of Deal. n. J.. during a match in
which Wilfrid Reid Of Wilmington,
Del. and Gilbert Nichols, of New York.
defeated James Donaldson. of Norwood,
and Patrick Doyle. of Deal. by up
and l to play. when sum of $4,000
| was raised for that worthy cause The
figure is the best that has been collected
at golf match in the metropolitan dis
trict and is not very far behind the
, high record for the country
Novel Auction Plans
Evidently the Deal officials have been
been lying awake o. nights thinking uu
schemes for raising money. They began
py sprinsins an entirely new method of
auctionlng off the cadde privileges, then
they switched to the forcaddie rights
and the privilege Of walking alongside
the players and keeping score, sold a
few sets of golf clubs and when they
| could not think Of anything more in
| the line of golf bushel of potatoes and
| half dozen ''broilers" were produced
and Knocked down at a price that
| would have caused copious tears of
grief and envy to well from the eyes
Of the food profiteers. The price, paid
for the bushel of New Jersey ''murphys
| was $500: the "broilers"' brought $3.50
| So talk not yet of the high cost OF
living until YOU have attended a war
| time golf match.
| AS for the caddie privileges the meth
cd OF procedure was to sell the first
second. third and fourth choices in
their order. leaving the buyer free to
name his player For the first selection
there was paid over $1,000. The buyer
chose Doyle and also received a silk
American flag. A sum of s11OO was
given for the second choice and the
| player selected this time was Nichols
a French nag going with him. Donald
son, in third place, brought $1,000. while
| for Reid, the last man. there was paid
! the high figure of $500. Donaldson's
purchaser received a Union Jack while
| the man who sought Reid got Belgian
| flag.
Crowd Is Generous
After this the forecaddie privileges
were auctioned off and brought $50 eacl
tie last For the privilege of scoring
three enthusiasts paid $500 each anc
the fourth $1,000. Eight sets of goli
| clubs Wrought from 5000 to $500 each
these icing topped off with the potatoe.
ard the broilers. Altogether S14,300 wa.
| raised in this fashion, and the total wa:
brought up to $4,000 through the salt
| OF Red Cross badges and other collec
| tons.
Two weeks previously, on the Norwood
linkse Donaldson and Doyle had suffered
a severe defeat at the hands Of Nichols
and Reid. They made a close game o
1t yesterday and by winning the hom'
h,le finished the round only one down
as they were also one stroke worse thar
their opponents on the best ball Eacl
OF the four was practically at the top o
his game. but with IA Donaldson hat
lightly the edge on the medal play, the
others being around rs and 76.
Some Excellent Golf
II Is seldom that four stars get to
gether and do nothing out of the or
! dinary. There was a feature shot II
this match and it was contributed b,
Doyle. who. on the seventh hole. chippe,
in from off the green. distance o
fifty yards. for 3.
Dnnaldson and Doyle lost the tenth an,
tley were also beaten on the fourteenth
when Reid made a fne A. Getting
halves on the next three. Nichols an,
Peid won ty Q to /.
$4,000 for Red Cross
San Francisco, Cal. July cap
proximately $4,000 was realized for tn
Red Cross in, a golf game here Saturda
between Mrs. w 4. Gavin. metropolitan
Champion, and John Black, against Mis-
Edith Chesebrough, North Carolin
champion. and Mike Brady, Boston pro
fessional Mrs. Gavin and her partne
won by UP.