Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-20
TEWKESBURY AND
GRANT IN FINAL
Aronimink and Cricket Club
Stars in Deciding Match for
State Golf Title
H0FFNER LOSES, TWO DOWN


Chestnut Hill. Pa. Sept. 2O.-Pat
Grant. Of the Cricket Club. and Paul
Tewkesbury, of the Aronimink Country
Club, arc fighting II out this afternoon
for the state golf championship over
the Whitemarsh Valley Country Club
course. Grant reached the final round
by defeating Phil Corson, Junior cham
pion, by 3 up and . to play. while
Tewkesbury was the victor Of the match
with George W. Hoffncr. of the Bala
Golf Club. on tho last kreen. winning BY
up
The match between Tpwkesbury and
Hoffner excited the greatest interest.
Tewkesbury not only won the gold
medal in the qualifying round Of the
national. but was the medalist in the
state championship. Tcwkeshury was
one of the cracks Of the Boston district
before he came to Philadelphia. Hoff
ner won the local championship as we'll
as the North Hills and the Shawnee
tournaments.
Hoffner Out In 81
The battle between these two was
one of the best played matches seen
here in years. Hoffner was out in 81
and finished the first nine holes . up
on his opponent. Tewkesbury then
played series Of remarkably well
played holes, finishing the incoming nine
with 80, made up mostly of par
and bird holes. lie succeeded in
squaring the match on the fifteenth
after stubborn resistance on tho part of
Hoffner. After halving tho sixteenth
Tewkesbury made it dormie by winning
the seventeenth in bird four and then
settled the battle by capturing the eight
eenth with par.
Tee Shots Win
Grant defeated Corson on his tee
shots. otherwise the two were playing
the other shots equally we'll. The
Cricket Club player was steady as
a rock on his drives and did not miss
single tee shot. while the junior cham
pion was getting into trouble on many
holes. The Junior champion squared
the match twice. but at no time was
he up on his opponent
1t was q see saw match for the first
nine holes, with Grant leading three
times and Corson squaring it the same
number. Corson finally cvened up mat
ters for the third time on the ninth
hole. but it was the last time.
Grant went into the lead again on
the tenth and from that hole until the
match ended it was all Grant. The
Cricket Club player added the twelfth
and thirteenth and led by three up.
Corson cut it to two on the fifteenth
but Grant ended the match by winning
the sixteenth in par figures.
The cards:
Grant
2S' IN .:::..::: HIN: ! : 8 - ="
2p' f% .......:. ....,... : ! ! : ! ! " al
Hoffncr got away to fine start win
ming two of the first three holes
Tewkesbury reduced the lead to one by
playing the fourth in par and succeed
ing in halving the fifth with a magni
tictnt third shot. out of the long grass
near the creek. the ball stopping within
e few inches of the hole. Iioffner was
home in two and the hole was halved
in bird fours. Then followed
three halved holes. IIoffner won the
ninth by laying niblick dead from n
trap while TewkeSbury. who was on the
green in his tee shot. took three puts
and this gave IIoffner lead of two
holes at the turn.
A tee shot out of bounds cost IIoffnpr
the next hole. Then came four halved
holes, all of them well played by both
contestants.
Tewkesbury Squares Match
Tewkesbury squared the match on the
fifteenth by chipping his third shot
stone dead. He got a half on the short
sixteenth by running down fairly long
putt.
On the seventeenth Tcwkesbury drove
into the mounds. but sent fine iron on
to the green. Hoffner's second was back
of mound and the hole went to
Tewkesbury with bird four The end
came on the eighteenth when Tewkes
bury was hole higR on his second and
chipped his third close to the pin. Hoff =
ncr had two shots in the rough and was
on in three but over the pin. He tried
hard FOR a four but missed
The cards:
Tewkesbury--
2s' fS -: =: 60 / Z ! tt-sS-74 t-ss
2s' fH ....: -: ) 5 ! ! ) 80 5--s5-7s