Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-06
CLEARY AND HOFFNER MAY
PLAY FOR WOODBURY. IN
THE SEMIFINALS TODAY
New Jersey Teams Are the Favorites in Big Matches
Women Prove They Can Be Good Losers
in City Championship
BY WILLIAM H. EVANS

TNHE semifinal matches for the Sub
L urban Cup will be played today,
Woodbury. meeting North Hills on home
and-home courses and Merchantville
playing Old York Road under similar
conditions. The favorites are the two
New Jersey clubs. Woodbury. has been
the champion for the last two years. and
three years ago the championship was
won by Merchantville, so that the honor
of winning the title has not belonged on
this side of the Delaware River since
Frankford won it in 1914.
Woodbury. will have the services of
either George Hoffner or Ed Clarey or
both in the seMifinal and final matches
1t all depends whether these two can get
away from Camp Meade. 1t will be re-
membered that both Bala and Woodbury.
claimed both players. In a letter | re-
ceiVed few days ago from Clarey he
said that he and Hoffner had decided
that If either Bala or Woodbury. was
in the semifinals they would play for
that team, and as both of them could
not reach the semifnals. as both were
in the same division, the arrangement
has worked out very well, Clarey said
! that neither he nor Hoffner had had
much opportunity for practice as both
| have been kept very busy with camp
| duties.
Clarey Star Bomb Thrower
Clarey is now a top sergeant and has
| become very proficient as bomb
thrower, and he says this is due entirely
to the fact that golf has taught him to
| judge distances. Like every man in the
| service, he is anxious to get to France.
While he and Hoffner may be out of
! practice. the Woodbury. team would be
greatly strengthened by their presence.
for they rank among the ten or twelve
best players in the Philadelphia district
| Clarey made splendid showing in the
spring tournament at Shawnee, which
| he won by defeating some of the best
players in this city and the Metropolitan n
| district.
There is no doubt II Woodbury. and
Merchantville should win today that the
final match next Thursday will be one
of the most hotly contested affairs in
the history of the competition. With
Hoffner and Clarey, Woodbury. has also
Norman Maxwell, Stapp. Hamill. the
Green brothers and Washington. Mer-
chantville has such stars as Maurice
Risley. Fred Knight. Burleigh. Swope
and Challenger, so that the final would
be toss-up,
Old York Road May Srn Tables
But while Woodbury. should not have
such hard time beating North Hills
which is not as strong as 1t was last
year through the loss of Styles Cooper
and Devices. MerchantviIle will have its
hands full with Old York Road tomor-
krow. as its victories in the New Jersey
division have not been as clean-cut as
the work shown by Woodbury. in the
first section. Playing against Rivertor
with Risley and Knight not playing
Merchantville just managed to win by q
single match.
Any one who is laboring under the i'm
preston that women are hard losers
should have talked to the four womer
who were beaten in the city champion
ship yesterday. Some of them had hat
hard luck when it meant disaster OF
that particular hole, but all admitted
'cheerfully and smilingly that they hat
been beaten fairly and>by better players
1t was difficult watching the faces o
, the eight women to know just which o
them had won, for the losers were a
cheerful as the winners.
Women Are Good Losers
Mrs Munson had three stymies Il
contend with in her match with Mrs
Barlow, none of which she was able t
make, and they came at a time when
putt would have made a tremendou
difference in the score. On the fifteentl
| and sixteenth they were particularly ex
asperating, as she had cut Mrs. Barlow
lead to two holes. but she had no com
plant to make.
And SO It was with the rest Of them
They took their beating like the rea
golfers they are, They had no alibis
and IL there is one game in the worl'
that is full OF alibis II Is golf
On the fourth hole Mrs Stetson'
caddie laid her clubs in a bunker. Mrs
Stetson. under the impression that thi
act Of the boy lost her the hole. offere
to give It up but Mrs Herold would no
see II that way, and II ended IN halve
| hole. Mrs. Herold SAID ene would wage
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