Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-03
Golf History Nav Repeat

Con History May Repeat
Tho first sixteen is so fixed a- 10
tho draw that il is q difficult matter
to hazard a guess aa - the ultimate
winner I'm tho upper bracket IL is
mostly Philadelphia proposition as.
with exception of Frank Rartnu. Of the
Marine and Field club. AN the golfers
arc from clubs affiliated with tho Golf
Association Of Philadelphia. Inc the
lower bracket the reverse Of this is
tue as only three are from the rhiIa-
delrhia district
II 10 were not for tho fact that Knight
vas the medal winner hc would he tho
favorit, hut one Of tho curious things
about golf is that the medal winner rare
~ over wins a tournament. Just why
!. is no one knows hat there are those
down here who claim to follow these
golf hunChcs aud these are offering good
money at odds that Knight will not
come through This feeling I~ mot Wor-
Tying tho dnaHst i'm the last amateur
championship Of th" Quaker city. and
taero f. possibility that the old feeling
that the man who wins the gold medal
cannot win the championship win go by
the board.
If The two plaits. Of North liiIs. win
today they will meet this afternoon in
the second round W. j. Plat is I'm the
navy and is stationed at LoWos, Del
He had been saving up his days off to
play in this tournament and he figured
he was entitled to five days Off But
there was shift I'm the commanding Of
fcers there aud the best he could get
will be forty-ciEht hours, and if he should
win both matches today he viii have to
forfeit his third match or 20 to the
guardhouSe for staying overtime
His brother, j. W, viii play his first
round against G NJ. Hicks, of the Phila-
delphia Country club. The last time
these two met was m the final Of the
fall tournament of the la Ia Temple
Country Club, and tho North HIS
younester emerged the winner
Fred Knight and Herb Newton
will meet for the fourth time in tOurua-
ment play. ON two occasions knight
was the winner. The match ought to
be an interesting affair and while
Knight is a slight favOrite Unclc Herb
has the happy faculty of coming across
For instance i'm their last match Newton
shot a - ana this was too much for
the Aruuimnk crack.
\ number Of the players after the
morning round at Atlantic city went up
to the Seaview course in the afternoon
Herb Newton had seven guests and two
Interesting fOur.hall matches were ar
ranged,
Seavicw Course in Pine Shape
The fairways al Seaview are as fine as
any stretch Of grass to be found on the
best of our Philadelphia courses i'm mid
June aud the greens are iu superb c0ndi-
tion. During the hig storm at Atlantic
City last month the water raised havoc
with the greens near the meadows hut
these have responded quickly to treat
ment and save for "A few spots they show
no effects of the storm that washed all
sorts of fotsam and jets all over the
lower holes
On every fairway real hrassey lies
We're obtainabe and the golf balls were
perched up as if some one had gone
ahead and placed them In position. Most
of the players found the scoring easier
than at Northheld, and this may have
been because the lies were better and
the absence of cross bun>ers.
There is no doubt that the half mill
Iion-dollar course built through the gem
erosity of Clarence II. Geist has been
greatly improved since the bunkers,
traps and nits suggested by Donald Ross
have been built. Seaview now has a
succession Of very fine golf holes, aud
while there is no trouble for the man
who plays straight down the course there
is plenty OF bother for the man who
pulls or slices.
|, Difficult to Break 80
But at Atlantic city the man who
breaks eighty Is hitting the ball well on
every hole. For here, 100, the course
is well trapped and pitted and there
are enough water hazards on the
meadow holes TO make the scores mount
for those who play carelessly. Atlantic
city has been greatly improved In the
iast four or fye years and the par on
most II he holeg particularly the two
shooters & hard % SET unless ne player