Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06
MERION TODAY AND PINE
VALLEY TOMORROW SCENE
2 OF.RED CROSS JOURNEYS
Travers, Marston Krkby and Anderson Will Play Best
Ball Matches Over Famous Golf Links
for Sweet Charitys Sake
>By WILLIAM H. EVANS

MOULD you like to see the only !
w golfer in this country who has won
the amateur championship four times
and who in four years won the amateur
championship twice. was runner up once.
and who in the other won the open cham
pionship?
Would it interest you to see playing
another man who twice has been the
national runner up. who has been the
amateur champion Of France, who twice
has been the Massachusetts champion
and once runner up In the Metropolitan
championship?
Would you Ike to follow a third man
who is the present Metropolitan cham-
pions who has won that title once be
fore and who has won the New Jersey
State championship three hines?
Would you like to sec In action a
fourth man who has been national semi.
hnalist and who has been former New
Jersey champion?
Two OF Americas Best Courses
Would you like ,c see the course that
is regarded as the finest over which any
amateur champ onship in this country
was ever decided?
Would you care to stroll over another
which Chick Evans. Jim Barnes and
host of other amateurs and professionals
have said is the finest test OF golf in
America?
Are Nyou interested in the wonderful
work that the Red Cross is doing in
stricken Europe?
II you are a golfer YOU will answer
yes to all of these.
This afternoon at 40 o'clock Jerome
Z. Travers paired with Max Marston
will play against Oswald Kirkby and
John q. Anderson at the Merton Cricket
Club. Taking their Metro: ,litan rat
Ing and they line up this way: Travers
scratch; Kirkhy. Marston, 3 Ander-
son, 3. In other words these four have
the lowest rating in the Metropolitan
Golf Association.
Tomorrow afternoon NE same quar-
tot will play at Pine Valley, the match
beginning at O'Clock. Both matches
will he for the benefit Of the American
Red Cross Society and are under the
auspices OF the Golf Association OF
Philadelphia.
Charming Red Cross Collectors
At Merton among those who in Red
Mrs. Jerome n. Trayers. Mrs. Max
Marston, Mrs. Oswald Iii"kby. Mrs. Rom
aid H. Barlow. Miss Mildred Caverly
Miss Katherine Tenney. Mrs. Beth and
Mrs. r. c. James. The privilege of
caddying for the players will he auc-
toned at the first tee and the golf balls
OF the players will he old at the ninth
and eighteenth greens.
The same procedure will take place
ID NrylA
will be auctioncd by Lieutenant Sutton.
who lost an arm at Gallipoli and who
incidentally is one of the best amateur
golfers of Great Britain and who plays
Pine Valley in low figures Red Cross
women will will 10 X after the gallery
at Pine Valley. too.
Pine Valley Links Beyond Compare
Perhaps the greatest interest will be
in the Sunday match. The best play
ers in the country. anna teur and profess
sional have played there. but never
have four players of the standing of
Travers. Marston, kirkby and Anderson
golfed there on the same day. Here is
what Chick Evans. the double-crowned
champion, says IF it: The Pine VAT
ley course. Of which but fourteen holes
are completed, is the most wonderful
course in the country" OF the same
is the greatest golf course in the coun-
try. and I do not know of any course
abroad that will compare with it,
And what these two have said has
been iterated and reiterated time and
again by amateur and professionals
alike.
1t has many characterist cs. In the
first place, on every two and three shot
ter the tee shot must carry 145 yards to
reach the fairway. You cannot make a
poor shet and make it up without pen
atty. There is none Of the deadly paral,
lelism that you see on most courses. 1t
is physically impossible to drive onto an.
other hole Every hole Is isolated from
it's neighbor. On the approach shct tht
green and the traps are plainly Wis BILE
There are no blind approach shots The
wind blows from every quarter and wind
is hazard on any course
One.Shotters Excellent
George A. Crump discovered Pine Val
ley years ago. and out of n forest Of oal
and pine and underbrush and swamp ne
created this marvellous course where
every shot in the bag is needed. No
finer bunkering can be seen anywhere
and the greens are wonderful. both as 10
contour and turf. No other man would
have tackled the tremendous Job that Mr.
Crump did and up to his untimely death
he had spent out of his own pockets
quarter of a m lion dollars. Only four
teen holes are now in operation and h
playing the eighteen holes tomorrow thu
first four are played over again.
Anderson has said of the second that
It Is the finest type of a two-shot hole II
Red Cross Matches at
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