Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-18

n THOUSAND enthusiastic golf fans
"A saw four of the best players in the
country play some very fine golf at the
Merton Cricket Club yesterday for the
benefit Of the American Red Crosg.
Chick Evans. the national amateur and
open champion, and Max Marstop. a
former national semifnalist and for
ner New Jersey champion, defeated
James NJ Barnes. the professional,
western and Philadelphia open cham
pion, and Walter C. Hagen, a former
open champion, by 1 up in an eighteen
hole match.
Some expected the four players to play
, super rolf all the time and because
they did not do It they were disap-
pointed. All four have given lot of
| their time to the Red Cross and this Is
particularly true of the two profess
sionals and Chick Evans. Barnes and
Evans, in particular, show the effects
of their hard work. and before the
match started both said they were dead
| tired Barnes showed that he was not
| playing in his oio-time form. He was In
| trouble time and time again on his tee
! shots and was outdriven most of the
| time by the other players. Ordinarily
none of the trio can beat him from the
| tee He was playing a light ball and
! this was indicative Of the strain he has
| been under.
Plenty of Good Golf
Everything considered, 1t was splen-
did exhibition Of golf. There were
lapses There were wild tee shots. there
was poor putting. but It must be remem-
bered that Evans and Barnes nave neen
playing four to five exhibition matches
a week since April and that is no easy
task, especially when the gallery ex-
poets to see par golf most Of the time
Marston is still restricted to eighteen
holes a day as the result OF being IN
valided home from the navy.
But in spite of all this only three
holes were played III which anywhere
from one to four of the players failed to
get par or bird figures. These were the
third, seventh and eighteenth holes
Hagen, who by the way had never seen
the course before had ten holes in par
or better, Marston had ten holes In par
or better, Evans had nine and Barnes
eight.
Gaming home Hagen had six par
holes In a row. Evans had six out of
the first seven coming in. On the second
Marston had bird and the others par.
. ON the tenth. thirteenth and fourteenth
all had par figures.
Marston Stars From Tees
| So far as the tee shots were concerned
| Marston had the advantage on NUMBER
of holes. and it was rare that his tee
shots got him into trouble. hagen was
| n close second. while every now and
| then Evans would have the honor.
, Rarnes was in trouble very often on mis-
! wooden shots. There Is not the slightesf
! doubt, had Marston putted better that
! the amateurs would have beaten the
professionals by a much larger score
! hut on at least six greens Marston took
three puts at a time when 1t meant
half or a win.
or the holes won outright, Marston
| had to his credit the second and seven
I teenth, Evans won the sixth ana SIN ,
teenth, Hagen the fourth and htth ana
| Barnes the ninth. Evans ana Marstoi,
together won the first and Barnes and
Hagen the twelfth. Evans and Marston
| were all square. Evans was up on
Barnes and . down to Hagen Marston
| was I'D on Barnes and ] down TO
Hagen. Hagen was up on Barnes
Kelley Sells the Pools
Rert Kelley, of Mask and Wig fame,
was the auctioneer and he worked nara
and persistently in an effort to ger
| money out Of the crowd for the Rea
cross. He made few pulled shots In
|
| Hagen as the open champions put out
side of that his driving was straight
down the line, and the fact that az
much money was taken in was due to his
many appeals to the gallery. 1t was
hard task, but he was equal to II ana ne
should have had double the money ne
| got for the Dig war charity.
Both Barnes and Hagen drove out OF
| hounds OH the first hole and TINS cost
them the hole, as the amateurs were
home in three shots and single putt
The second hole went 10 the amateurs
when Marston dropped chip shot OF
the green on the long second Tor pird
a from a spot forty feet In front OF the
green The other three players had par
| figures for the hole
E,vans hit a tree on the third. but WIN
tho others he was on in three shots
,.hiIe Barnes's second landed In trap
and It took him two more to reach the
ereen The hole was halved in 5s, one
- the three holes on which none OF the
NJ, vers was able TO get either bird or
par. ..,u e.s. ,o,o
on the fourth. when Hagen holed a
6fteen-foot putt for a bird 3. Marston
VA a hard downhill putt for bird. but
the ball would not drop. The NTH was