Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
Annual

tournament this week over the St
DAVIES course and the youngsters say
they will have a larger entry list than
will play the following week in the
amateur championship. Incidentally,
neither of these events is a champion
ship affair, and no titles will be awarded.
One Of the striking features of the junior
tournament is that ,ne great majority
of the entries come from the smaller
clubs. And as We shall have to get our
best players from the Junior players, It
Is fairly certain that all our best play
ers four or five years from now will
not be from Merton. Huntingdon Valley
and the Cricket and Country Clubs as
has been the custom in the past.
Not that 1t means the passing of the
larger clubs in tournament play, but
the smaller clubs will make their pres
ence more felt than has been true in the
past. H.-
Youngsters Coming to Fore
For long time hardly any club out
side Gf these four clubs ever. qualified
for the interclub championship. Several
years ago Bala first broke into the sacred
circle and then Aronimink. Not so
many years ago our champions came
from these four clubs, but / venture the
prediction that the smaller clubs will
from now on. The older players are
gradually passing out of competitive golf
and get most of their pleasure in four
ball matches. Howard w. Perrin, Bill
and Alb Smith and the rest of the old
guard rarely play competitive golf, but
in their place is a host of the younger
players, many of them at this time in
war service Of some sort.
A number cf the juniors are at the
front as we'll but there are plenty of
boys from fifteen years up to twenty
who are still playing golf and these will
be at st. Davids this week North Hills,
Old York Road and the Woodbury. Golf
Club seem to have the most promising
golfers of the newer or smaller clubs and
Of the older or larger clubs practically
the only one that will be represented will
be the Merton Cricket Club, which, Incl
dentally, has furnished the greatest num-
ber of junior champions.
Program Of Tourney
The juniors will open their tourna-
ment on Wednesday with qualifying
round Of eighteen holes and that after
noon the first round of match play Will
be held The second and semifinal
rounds will be played Thursday and on
Friday the final round at thirty-six
holes will be staged The winner OF
the tournament will receive a prize and
the runner-up and the player making
the low score in the qualifying round
will also be rewarded.
The twenty-second annual indi-
vidual competition will be played at the
Philmont Country Club from June 26
to 20 inclusive. 1t will be restricted to
players having an official handicap Of
ten strokes or less. The championship
will not be awarded. but the winner will
receive prize from the Golf Assoca-
ton, as will the runner-up and the
player having the best gross score in the
qualification round. The permanent
trophy will remain in the club repre-
sented by the winner of the contest in
1916. which was Cameron B. Buxton,
of the Huntingdon Valley Country Club.
There will be qualification round Of
thirty-six holes and thirty-two will
qualify. Match play rounds will take up
the next two days and the final round
will be at thirty-six holes.
Pros Win Yesterday
Barnes and Hagen defeated Travers
and Evans after Ave extra holes on the
links of the Siwanoy Country Club,
Mount Vernon, n. ", yesterday. 1t was
due to superb putt by Travers on the
home green that the amateurs were able
to square the match.
From the moment they haived the first
hole in five until the affair ended some
four hours later. on the fifth green, the
twenty-third of the match, the opposing
teams were never more than a hole
apart. Most of the time the profess
sionals were one up. although the match
stood level on a number of occasions.
They reached the turn all square.