Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-20

the result that two or three hundred
spectators were not tagged at all.
Tom Hston chairman Of the gresn
committee paid $40 for the privilege of
acting as Barnes's cadde and he was
the only one of the four who actually
carried the clubs. 1t was "A warm day
and that bag filled with all sorts OF
heavy hardware and artillery, and II
was hard work as long as Jim was all
over the course c. r. Peck paid s15
for Marston. +. II. Baitz $50 for Hagen,
and w. G. Davidson S55 for Evans, and
Davidson. an enthusiastic adnlirer of
Chick. paid more money during the
afternoon
Merton now has only force of twelve
looking after the two courses and six
of these are women, so that tho east
course is kept in what the members term
war condition. There were good lies
aplenty. but the turf is not kept as
closely cropped as 1t was two years ago
simply because the club cannot get the
workmen And because none of the clubs
Is spending the amount of money on the
upkeep they did two years ago.
Never Gave Ball a Chance
The greens were true but heavy and
II was remarkable how all the players
failed to get up to the hole on their an
proach puts. With their long and varied
experience it was to be expected that
they would rapidly size up the condition
of the greens, but the players rarely ever
gave the ball n chance on the greens.
There is not the slightest doubt that
Marston would have had n score of any,
where from II to as had he been able
to'set his putter working.
But his work from the tees and
10 t1tn
IT was rare that he played first or sec
ond after the drives and frequently he
had longer ball than Hagen. who is
one of the longest of the professional
drivers.
one of the longest iron shots of the
day. was 1fagens second on the long
fifth. Roth Marston and Barnes outdrove
him, although Barnes was in the rough.
And after walking up to the brow of the
hill and asking one of the committee IL
there was. as he put ii. any water in
the stream. he planted an iron shot just
short of the brook. lie followed 1t UP
with a niblick to within ten feet of the
pin and then holed bird.
Chick Is Kind to Boy
on the eighth hole Evans's second was
in the rough short of the green. Chick
noticed n crippled boy who had been
the back went back to his bag and
pulling out two brand new golf balls
gave them to the small youngstcr. whose
face broke forth into a smile of hap
pincS~. Ever after that the urchin was
never more than a few yards away from
the double crowned champion.
Chick is always popular with the
caddes. When he first played at Shaw
nee last summer with Eugene c. Grace.
president of the Bethlehem steel Com
pany, the boys wanted to throw up their
robs of caddying in the tournament then
in progress and follow their hero of the
links. but the caddic master would not
let them leave the first tee, so the boys
waited until Chick drove off and then
they gave him a rousing cheer.
Rather Rough on Marston
When Marston won for the amateurs
on Monday with his wonderful niblick
shot out of the rough of the seventeenth
close to the hole and then followed it up
with the putt for a par a host of small
bows rushed ahead of the players as they
left the eighteenth tee Most of the gal
! lery had waited on the seventeenth tee.
not relishing the walk to the second
of the quarry holes, and these asked the
BOYS who had won and the boys in one
burst of sound yelled: Chick Evans
won the hole" r
Three, of the four players were using
a certain type of ball that is rather
4 popular just now and on the tenth
! Hagen and Chick could not tell which
| was which. although one of the balls
was twenty yards ahead of the other.
| Hagen suggested they toss and Chick
won and took the long ball.
! Every now and then Bert Kelley
would interrupt the play while he sold
| pools or auctioned off balls and every
! time he appealed to the players for .
respite Evans would remark Go ahead,
| get the money first"