Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-30
WHEN Teller wins the worlds

w championship of anything all the
other worlds champions rush forward
with challenge. Abraham Armon,
Bank street, Philadelphia, has been the
recipient of more challenges overnight
than he knows how to handle.
If he's not the worlds champion
golfer there never was one.
He played the first two holes of the
Philadelphia Cricket course yesterday in
20 strokes.
He got over the road in 81 strokes
and then nonchalantly holed out from
there in II.
He had handicap of 80 strokes play
ing in the annual tourney of the Carpet
Trade Association and used it all up
going over the road. From there on he
played on his nerve.
Thirty feet past the road he had used
up his handicap and par.
Forty yards more and he was ten
over As.
Then he got long one, and II he had
sunk in a chip shot and putt he would
have been down in a At.
As it was he got 4S.
he WIS only 10 over pdr on Ine ueAt
hole and then he blew up. He was out
in 216.
But did Golfer Armon stay out?
Not he.
After a 81 on the tenth he braced
and only took sixty strokes on the next
three, the devils kitchen holes. Quite
a crowd had gathered at the eighteenth
tee. Armon had a great chance to
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record for carpet Journeys of 29S at the
thirteenth hole.
He was out for real mark.
But his game suddenly collapsed at
the last flag. The iron nerves and the
physical endurance that had pounded
out that great score failed.
Piano
Golfer Armon needed but seven
strokes for the last flag, home in ITO,
for a grand total, after they had added
up all his score cards, Of 1856. Records
may come and records may go, but you ii
have to play this one on the piano. 1t
was so good that if ]. w. Platt had
given Armon 312 strokes, Armon would
have won the low net.
Here" said the first challenger,
''is the man I have been looking for,
man KNOW can beat"
The new championship accepted his
record breaking honors modestly, as he
shook hands all around.
That's nothing, 1885," he said
simply. Next time I will make a real
record"
Anyhow our latest champion will take
lot of beating.
ArInon found the chocolate dror
mounds very deceiving at the Cricket
Club. Often he would play some Of
best shots around one of them, only tc
find himself right back where he started
There was no prize to the only record
breaker of the tourney, strangely
enough. There are sixty prizes for the
eighty entrants.
For winning the low net score there
was silver bath, the very latest, and
the prizes were about as magnificent as
have ever been put on display for tour
neys in this city.
Only Two Per Head
There was dinner last night a
which the prizes already won were pre-
sented. j. w. Plat, Philadelphia anna
teur champion, won the gold medal fol
the low qualifying score, with a 70
He also won the half lf-way trophy, bu
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the rules of the tourney, and Platt still
has chance for the finals. He defeated
II. II. Cook, the crack Trenton player
in the first round during the afternoon
and met F. ]. Bersback, a star Chica
goan, this morning in the semifnals.
His brother, w. j. Platt, met Dwigh
Armstrong, nationally known player
in the other match, down in the lowe
bracket. Platt had II yesterday after
noon to a 70 by Armstrong, but th'
match was expected to be very close.
The Philadelphians all have, a goo
chance in the metropolitan open. Tn
final 80 holes will be played today. jim
Barnes leads the field by stroke
Willie McFarlane, Fort Washington
being second to Barnes's 143, Wit
IA. J. Douglas Edgar, Druid Hill, ha
147; Walter Hagen, 146, and Charli
Hoffner, PhilmOnt, 149. Wilfred Reid
Wilmington, had 147, and Bill Leach
Merchantvillc. 1j4.
They are betting that Barnes vii
break 2SS for first money. He Is play
ing great golf, and it is doubtful If Hoff
ner will be able to make up strokes to
day in two rounds.
The Old York Road women's team
as announced, has "stuck to its guns,
and has now succeeded in having tn
United States Golf Association execu
tive committee reverse its decision ol
the matter of team match in tn
Old York Road played the Cricke
Club, 8 to 3, and the lead of match Il
dispute because of local rule.