Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-31
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mink the last day of their visit here.
when they beat Walter Reynolds and
match play of the first sixteen, where
Another Medal
>, PREVIOUS to all this the Shawnee
Buckwood event was held. Platt won
the medal with a fine II. the only one
in fast field to break 30. Plntt
played some of his best golf of a bril-.
liant summer there. averaging close TO
90 per round. only to lose on three
stymies in the finals to Maurice Risley.
The latter demonstrated his class at
shawnee BY triumphs over Frank Dyer
and j. y. Worthington previously. Ris-
ley made n great showing in the tour
nament season and halves third and
fourth places with Hoffner in ranking
for the season.
Cecil Calvert's brilliant day was n
70 to win the medal at the Bala tour
nI,ey. which had one of the biggest entry
the stars Of the district got in the
match play of the first sixten. where
Fred Knight and Walter Reynolds had
some brilliant rounds among others. ,.
But Platt beat them all for the final
trophy. After Knight beat Clarey
Plat nosed out J. J. Beadle on the
eighteenth up Platt trounced Knight
in the semifinals and Reynolds Beat
Hoffner.
Reynolds had always found Platt a
puzzle in the last round. Platt pulled
the impossible" shots with abandon
on that rainy afternoon Of wet tourney
and took the cup over Reynolds slip
ping sticks. @ and 4.
BY Two Strokes
The next tourney not previously men
toned was the invitation seventy two
hole medal event at Merton. preceding
the Lesley Cup matches. Platt beat
the all-star field with total Of 80
between Max Marston and Maurice
Risley. NIarston won this latter play
off eventually.
Several stars of the various state
teams competed for some of the prizes.
The Lesley Cup matches were repletc
with thrills. Pennsylvania, the cham =
MON team, repeated. 1t drew bye the
first day while Massachusetts and New
York battled for the right to play the
keystone team in the finals.
Francis Ouimet. Massachusetts,
played young Peter Harmon, whom the
New Workers. sacrificed in lead OF
position. 1t enabled the New Workers.
TO shove down all along the line and win
out, but Harmon did just as well as
any one else as pace maker for
Ouimet for the Boston star blaze,l
| through n round Of 6S, marvellous per-
formance at Merton.
There were three extra hole matches
both DAYS. New York beat Massa
chusetts when Jess Sweetser took over
Fred Wright on the twentieth hole with
a par 5 after both had muffcd shot
| PENNSYLVANIA beat New York the
same way the next day by the same
count when Platt wound up the third
extra hole match Of the day on the
nineteenth with mashic stone dead
for bird against Gardiner White.
Heron also repeated some OF
Ouimet's brilliance by going ten holes
of his round in thirty three strokes.
Lays 1t Dead
Platt made it unanimous over White
by playing in his first out of-town in
vitation tourney later. He rode over
F.. Mortimer Barnes, j. Simpson Dean,
| Gardiner White and finally Tom
| Armour in the finals at Nassau, win :
ming the tournament and a lot of praise
for his golf this year in the metropolitan
belt.
brilliant bit of work during the fall
tournament at Atlantic City. The locaI
champion won the medal by breaking
the course record with "A. He played
the course as rearranged, went to the
finals. where he got another nick in
Maurice Risley, the unbeatable cham
pion," there, by winning the tinal
trophy. 4 and 3.
platt was beaten in only ten matches
Of fifty three played last season. His
conuuerors were Clarey, Marston, Hoff
ncr, Donohue, Tewksbury. Risley. s.
Jones. Armstrong, Allis and Rotan.
Among the better players he beat were
Borron. Armour, Hoffner (three), Rey
Mods (twice), Grant. Francine, Risley
twice, Knight, White, Barnes ant
Deanc
He scarcely missed local tourna
ment, taking his chance day in and day
out with all the rest. regardless of hi
reputation as city champion. Including
mis- club championship. ne emerged Will
eight tournament wins, finalist in thre'
and runner-up in two medal competi
tons. lie won five qualifying medals
two of which scores were course rec
ords; never failed to qualify in an.
event and went to the third round of tn
national.
IL that wasn't enough glory for on
lone, twenty two year old golfer in
short span Of six months, it ought to be