Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-15
f BRAND-NEW "CHAMPS"NOW
HOLDING LOCAL GOLF PEAKS
Al Titles Reshu6ed in 1920 Championships Here - Often
True Elseuhere-Got Match for History Played
in Junior Tourney I42.I95
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

WHEN r. Kent Hanson, Cedar
w brook, won the junior golf cham
pionship of Philadelphia yesterday, the
fourth straight individual local title
passed into new hands.
Each championship was won by o
player in his or her twcnties. and there
fore lacking in the real tourney OK
perience that goes with many years at
the game. In two of the match play
finals youth defeated the veteran.
II you scan the records throughout
the country in all its various districts,
indeed throughout the world this season. -.
you will find what is probably an un-
prcccdcntcd number Of brand new title
holders.
A harbingcr Of what was to happen
this season came to pass at Pinehurst
in the three major championships OF
the north and south. The amateur
opcn, and woman champion were all
three dethroncd when Mrs. ]. V. Hurd
won the women's title, Freddy Mcleod
won the open. and Francis Ouimet won
the amateur title. The following month
and thereafter, upscts became common
occurrence in the north.
Local Upsets
Miss May Bell started in Philadcl-
phia by defeating Mrs. Ronald ii. Bar
low, the women's titleholder, and by
winning the title in the finals against
Mrs. Caleb +. Fox.
J. W. Platt deposed George Hoffncr
as local amateur champion, himself as
cending the throne over the sticks of the
veteran Horace III. Francine.
e.
pro-. won his first title when he won
the Philadelphia open at Atlantic City
against fast field.
Finally Hanson made it unanimous
yesterday at Old York Road in the shift
| ing of the titles when he defeated G.
Warren Stevens, Old York Road. 5 and
3, in the finals of the junior. But in
this event a new champion had to be,
for there weren't any old ones in the
play. They were all ineligible. Hanson
himself Is twenty and will therefore not
be eligible next year. He won the medal
and the finals, and easily proved himself
the real class of one of the biggest fields
the tourney has had.
Titles did not shift so generally in
the club play locally. Merton success
fully defended both its women's and
mems club championships. But North
t1lllS WOH tne SUDuTDuu tltle, W OOu
bury being dcposcd.
Two Philadelphians defaulted their
titles when neither Patrick Grant nor
Charlie Hoffner, Pennsylvania amateur
and open champion, respectively, went
to Oakmont to defend SO, in the course
of the play, their titles passed on to
s. ID. Heron and Emil Locfher.
d. +. Sawyer took over the metro
politan amateur from Oswald Kirkby's
keeping.
Miss Wethered Wins
The British ladies championship was
won by the holder, Miss Cecil Leitch.
but her opponent in the final round was
girl playing in her first championship.
viz. Miss Molly Grifiths. Youth and
! inexpcriencc in the womcn's ranks
turned the tables in the English cham
! pionship. in which Miss ]. Wethered, a
sister of the Oxford University golf cap
tain, defeated Miss Lcitch in the thir-
ty-six hole final by and l. Miss
Wethered. though only eighteen years of
age. not only won the English title, but
administered to Miss Leitch the first
defeat she had sustained since 1918.
The British amateur championship