Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-20
TALKS-NENS AND COMMENT ON TIE EVENT
FOUR YOUTHFUL GOLF
STARS WILL PLAY HERE
4 FOR BIG WAR CHARITY
Bobby Jones, Perry Adar and the Misses Alexa Stirling
and Elaine Rosentha Will Be Featured
i'm Red Cross Match
By WILLIAM II. EVANS

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TOLFtNG admirers of Bobby Jones,
~ the sensational youngster in the last
amateur championship played at Merton
in 1916. will have an opportunity of
named. He and Miss Alexa Stirling, who
beat Miss Mildred Caverly. of the Phila-
delphia Cricket club. in the final of the
last women's national championship in
1916, and Miss Elaine Rosenthal. who
beat Mrs Clarence II. Nanderbeck here
in the final of the Berthlellyn Cup a few
years ago, and Perry Adair, another bril-
liant youngstcr from Atlanta, will play
over some local course to be selected
Another match will probably be ar
ranged with Miss Carerly and Mrs.
Ronald Fl. Barlow and Max Marston and
Norman Fl. Maxwell as the stars on
date yet to be selected. All these matches
will be for the American Red Cross.
Two Other Big Matches
Every golfer should set aside two
dates next month. The first Is Satur-
day. July G. when Jerome d. Travers.
the four times amateur champion and
once the open title holder. paired with
Max Marston. semifinalist in, 1915 in the
national championship at Detroit. will
play against OSWALD kirkby. the Metro
politan and New Jersey champion. and
John q. Anderson, the national runner
up on two occasions. The locale is the
Merton Cricket Club The second is
Sunday, July {, when the same quartet
will play at the Pine Valley Golf club
Both will he eighteen-hoe matches for
the Red Cross.
In spite of the fact that the first Red
Cross match here this year was played
on Monday, the worst day in the week
TO attract crowd, a gallery of a thou
sand fans saw Chick Evans. Max Mars
ton. Jim Barnes and Walter Hagen play
at Merton. AS both July matches will
he played in the afternoon there is no
doubt that tremendous crowds will sec
these four famous amateur players in
action.
Who's Who in Nutshell
Travers is the only amateur in this
country who has won the amateur cham
pionship four times He did it in 1907,
1908, 1912 and 1918. In 1914 he was the
runner-up in the amateur aud in 1915 he
won the open title.
Marston in 1916 won six big invitation
tournaments. lie and EirlSby were the
ship, and it was not until the fortieth
hole that Kirkby won. A missed two
foot putt kept him out of the national
final in 1915.
hlrkbE. won eleven out of twelve
matches in four championship events
. two years ago, and that year he won
both the Metropolitan and New Jersey
titles.
Anderson was runner up in the ma
tional amateur I'm 1913 to- Travers. and
in 1918 to Robert A. Gardner He was
also runner up to Walter J. Travis in
the 1915 Metropolitan championship.
Birds We're Costly
There might have been a lot of more
birds in last Mondays match, but every
time one was made auctioneer Keie,
would take the ball and sell it to the
| highest bidder Marston was the first
to drop a bird on the second and his bal
sold for 81. Then Hagen ran dowr
birds on the fourth and fifth and his
balls went for IS each. WhereupoI
Hagen remarked that If that kept VI
he would not have any more to play
with Whether the disposal of these
golf balls had anything to do with it oil
not there were no more birds during tn,
afternoon.
winthrop Sargent ana ROBERT w
Lesley bought the low medal scores OF
Evans. Barnes and Marston for tota
i.of s225. but DIR. \. J. Wilson, of Tho
Merton Cricket Club. purchased Hagen!
chances for S105 and he collected p
per cent of the pool the rest going t'
the Red Cross. The pool for the las
nine holes sold as follows: Marston
S35: Barnes. S25: Evans. $50, anc
| Haran $50, and. again the honors wen
TO the man who bought Hagen for h
beat Chick Evans by a stroke.
The tournament netted the Red Cross
! sl.o5 and there would have been muci
| more than that but unfortunately th'
man who had charge of the badges lef
most of them under lock and key witt