Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
EVANS, OUZzNET, JONES,
IRA VERS TOPLAYHERE
Host of Other Amateur
Stars Will Play in Annual
Tournament by Merton
Cricket Club August rs
PROGRAM is READY
BY SPICK HALL

DHILADELPHIA is soon to see a
l. collection of golf stars of amateur
standing that has never been excelled at
an invitation tournament. The Merton
Crickct's annual meeting this year. be-
ginning August % and lasting for three
days. willAhave on its entry list every
amateur golf player of prominence in
the country.
Besides wonderful array of outside
talent, all the members of the Merton
club can enter, and Max Marston,
chairman of the tournament committee,
has announced that 400 other Phila-
dclphia golfers with handicaps Of ten
or lower have been invited.
With this galaxy of high class per
formers MeriOns tournament will be
the biggest thing of the year with the
execution, of the national amateur,
which is to be played next week at
the Oakmont Club, Pittsburgh.
Merton Prepared
Merton has conducted many big tour
! naments, including the national ANA :
teur. and is prepared this season to
carry the big meeting through better
/ than ever before. With the exception of
| the deceased nineteenth hole. the visitors
will havq everything that could be de-
! sired foT successful tournament.
Among the out of town players who
will be here are Francis Ouimet. OF
| Woodland, conqueror of Ray and Var
don Jerome n. tFravers, Upper Mont
clair, four times winner of the national
amateur title Robert A. Gardner, Chi
cago. twice amateur victor; Chick
Evans, Edgewater, present titleholder
of the amateur; A. l.. Walker, Rich
mond county, intercollegiate champion,
Vermont state champion, runner-up in
the 1919 metropolitan Bobby Jones, the
boy wonder from Atlanta John n.
Stearns, Nassau; II. W. Maxwell. Mas
sau; G. W. White, Nassau; II. X.
Kerr, Greenwich r. NJ. Lewis, Green =
wich Frank Dyer, Montclair; Oswald
Kirby, Englewood; J. c. Anderson. 81
weny; George Carhart, Greenwich,
Samuel Graham, Greenwich II. c.
Berner, Nassau; J. F. Byers, Oakmont
Richard Haight, Princeton; Henry
Tapping, Greenwich A. b. Ashforth
Greenwich G. A. Peacock, Garden
City A. F. Hammer. Baltusrol; II. Y
Barrow, Baltusrol f. NJ. Wild, Bal.
tusrol Richard Woolworth, Princeton
r. II. Gwaltney, Baltusrol; f. NJ
Byers, Oakmont; David Heron, Oak
mont; J. II. Hyde, South Shore; w
G. Fownes, Oakmont; George Omission
Oakmont, and many others prominen
in amateur golfing circles.
Besides the regular tournament ther,
=, will be medal handicap affair Of eight
.. cen holes in which prizes for the bes
gross and net scores will be awarded
although both prizes cannot be VOL
by the player. Finalists are not eligible
for this handicap round. All the prize
will be put on exhibition at an earl,
date.
The Program
Below is the program arranged b.
q tournament committee, which ais
. states that entries will be open unit
August 81:
= MONDAY. AUGUST 25
!. Qualifying. thirty-sx holes
Eighteen holes on west course.
Three sixteens to qualify and continue a
:. match.
= starting time win be posted on buetI
| board Saturday, August %.
. All players will be paired by the com
. mittoe.
~ TUESDAY. AUGUST 20
= 300 a. m.-Second sixteen. FIRST round
O.45 a. m.-Flrst sixteen. hrst round
d 1910 a. m,-Third sixteen. first round
1:30 p, m.-Second sixteen, second round
2lh p. m.-First sixteen. second round
800 p. m.-Third sixteen. second round
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 27
:, 9a30 a. m.-Third sixteen, semihnals
y 9a5 a. m.-Second sixteen, semihnaiA
% 1000 a. m.-First sixteen,N semihnAls
- 1:4h p. m.-fhird sixteen final round
300 p m.-Second sixteen. final rount
T. 2h5 p m.-F1rst sixteen. final round
e Plans Changed
As predicted by some of our well
known sports prophets. this season
ls probably the biggest athletically in Il
to nations history. .the war has given I