Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-05
MANY CHANGES IN
LESLEY CUP TEAM
Only Veteran on Pennsylvania
Squad Is Captain W. c.
Fownes, Jr., Of Pittsburgh
BY SANDY McNIBLICK


In few short years the personnel
of the Pennsylvania team in the Lesley
Cup match has completely changed.
The only veteran tcft in the play Sat
urday of the old Keystone Staters was
w. c. Fownes, the captain.
Captain "Bill' has gray hairs, but
he Is liable to hold his place for a good
many seasons. He was semifnalist at
the national last year, put out BOP
Gardner this year and has won the
national title and the medal twice.
He qualified for the open this year
and had round of 20. In a Pitts
burgh tourney this year, he ousted 3.
y. Heron, then national champion.
Fownes lost his match to Jesse
Sweetser, New York, on Saturday at
Merton, but only after extra holes of
beautifully played notch. Sweetser
won the intercollegiate championship
this year, and beat Ned Sawyer, the
metropolitan titleholder, in the ma
tional.
He is only eighteen years old and a
fine type of athlete who is due to hold
: his place for many years, but he SAT-.
afterward at Merton that Fownes was
one Of the hardest players to beat he
had ever met.
Fownes has reduced golf to such q
science that he has constructed various
mechanical devices to test golf balls,
sticks and even strokes in his effort
to apply the proper laws of mechanics
to the game.
Long Road
With few exceptions the teams of
both Boston mad New York are COM
posed of veterans who have probably
gone as far as they ever will at golf.
which Is pretty far up the ladder, of
course. but then IL there's a turn it's
more likely to be down than farther up.
Pennsylvania has the advantage OF
n team of youngsters. for the most part,
capable of making their mark in the
years to come.
Heron 10 not likely to collapse very
soon and has played a champions game
in most of his starts.
Marston has been at the top for many
years, and Francis w. Kemble, though
not entering many tournaments this
year, is always a capable golfer to con
slider.
The rest Of the team was made uu
of young stars always battling in tht
confidence of youth. Platt, Hoffnel
and Jack showed real qualities fol
| Uduy IuluTt ttuHiN. u INV li'y navy
been holding for several seasons.
Reynolds Is veteran who was
though to have a fine chance to wir
hut a thirty foot putt stroke displayed
by Peter Harmon. New York, was toe
| much to overcome in the last few
holes of play.
Harmon, by the way, is one OF thu
promising young additions to the New
| York team, and earned his place.
There were few shots pulled tn,
last day which deserve mention. Afte
Platt ran chip shot up dead to tn,
eighteenth, Gardiner White had
tough one to make under the 'ircum
stances and wavered badly.
But he showed real stuff when h
sank a five foot putt and carried tn
match to the nineteenth.
} Cool It or"
As Platt walked up to his secon,
shot at this hole. George Ormiston
standing there, spoke with wisdom:
clay 1t up there stoney dead, lad
die. and cool off the match"
Which Platt did. 1t was one Of tn
prettiest shots of the tourney, espe
cially at that stage, and gave him
3-bird hole match and Pennsylvani
the title.
Norman Maxwell hit a beauty wit
: straight faced midmashie from ira
at the tenth, where Reynolds, his part
] ner, had driven. From that spot Max
: we'll laid the ball not two feet from tn
pin on the bowl green, where he coul
scarcely see the flag from where b
was. Reynolds sank the putt for
:, bird, which always throws chill owe
the ardor of the opposition.
; A weird shot was that made b
' Johnny Anderson against George Hoff
ner. They we're driving the thirteenth
: : a short hole with water in front of til
= green. Anderson hit n low shot whiC
: looked all wrong.
! 1t hit plumb in the middle of IL
water, but was going like q fat ston
and skidded on the green 10 close
= the pin that he had putt for a
s which he missed.
g Sweetser had a similar shot on ii
3 ninth.