Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-27

hest year III hInVV'u 'W'' ""N'
h,o, vcor much like II. for recruits to
tbe game. for money expended in clubs
and courscs. for international compcti-
zion, md for country wide entrance in
tournaments
Philadelphia shared in the general
rrospcrty. Things went a-booming here
In the season now dcfunct and any kind
~ prophecy goes at this time for
next year.
rents hereabouts were the rule. rather
than the exception several courses of
championship calibcr were added or
nromspd for the future players: clubs
fattencd glorously in membership. ap-
plicntion. and local stars did a-plenty
10 put the city on the golf map.
For the purpose of keeping record
NJ the play in Philadelphia a resume
has been made. and is submitted rs II
chapter of golf history.
Suburban Games
The first event was the club event
for the suburban team cup. Nineteen
clubs entered and the affair was played
those division round robins TO enter the
scmfnals were Bala lA), North Hills
(RD. Aronimink (C), Stcnton lD), and
Woodbury. (E).
Aronimnks win over both Stcnton
and the then champion Woodbury.
teams. placed this club in the finals
with North Hills. which defeated Bala.
North Hills won the championship over
Aronimnk by the count of 10 to Va
was particularly strong with j. w;
Platt, w. ]. Platt, Edward Sty les and
others, though Aronimink made it Il
battle with Paul Tcwksbury and Walter
Reynolds leading off.
Meantime the Joseph Henry Patter-
son Memorial Cup contest at the Phil
adclphia Cricket Club was held. This
was one Of the two individual local
Journeys Max MarStOn entered since
this tourney is partly to qualify for the
intcrrub championship later. MarSton
led his teammates and the field at the
end OF the thirty six holes. j. Wood
platt was second.
At Merton. Marston's other local
entry aside from the ntcrclub, Platt
eyonrd the count.
Platt Stands Out
Indeed. in II summary of the local
season. Piatt's name stands out
supreme for the simple reason that he
won eight tournaments, was runner
up in four and won the medal in five
events. two of his winning cards being
course records in competition.
His win of the Philadelphia cham
rionship and his showing ut the nu-
tional this year alone stamp him as one
of the best players the city has ever
produced in the amateur ranks.
His first triumph was in the highly
successful North Hills invitation tourney
which brought out II large and very
classy field platt won the medal and
rode over two star cOntcndcrS, Ed
Clarry and George lIoffnrr, to win the
finals also. Iaatt's margin over lioff :
prr in the downpour of the final round
was to |.
The open championship of the phila-
delrhia district was slightly disap-
pointing in point of attendance, since
thr purses had been increased. but the
play WAS fast. Frank Mcnamara.
Cherry Valley. won the title with Il
card Of 20i for the seventy two holes.
j was the first tournament win for the
brother of the famous Tom Mcnamara.
Others to finish we'll up were George
Frothrringham 209 :, Pat O'llara. 300 ;
Tom Mcnamara. 300 Clarence Hack
ncy. BOB; Fred Mcleod. 3O4 A.; Charles
IIofncr. Bog; Andy Campbell, 3OS ;
Jimmy Thomson. 800, and W. ID. Rob
inSon. @ll.
Maurice lesley started one Oh MS
best SraSonS by cleaning up both the
medal aud the finals of Il very fast
spring tournament at Atlantic City.
Gardner Shines
The most brilliant field in local invi-
tati0n Journeys probably was in the an
nual Lynnrwood Hall tournament at
Huntingdon Valley: 1t drew national
stars of many districts and of these W.
IN Tul
proved the main attraction.
lie not only won III" melal with Il
card Of III. but his final round was Il
81, which brOk" the course record.
\ feature was the fact that Reggie
Lewis. Greenwich. who was later +
carry Chick Evans to the forty first
hole in the national and almost climi'
nate that parsonage, had to play OFF t
get in the Lynncwood first flight. II
was reminiscent of Dave Heron. whc
was beaten in the second flight of thi'
event the year he won the nationa
championship.
Among other Philadrlphians wh'
qualified were Platt, MnrSton. Ccri
Calvert, Clayton Mgraham. II, Is
Swop", Hugh Willoughby, Pat Gran
and Norman Maxwell. Gardner Ilnn,
IN the match play also by brntin@
Marston. up, % holes. and later il
carrying j. s. Dean. Princeton cap,
tain champion. to the twenty first hol,
brfor" losing.
George V. Rotan, cx Texas champion
Won the cup by beating Dean in the
finals, / and 3. Horace Franrinc beat
Alec Coles in the final round Of the
second sixteen.
tn" following day Rotnn won the
Wilmington medal with IG, but los
TO Gardner in the lnttrr'S third extra
hole match of gala week. Gardnc
UuSt"d RUtnn. | up, twenty holes. bu
lost the finals to Sidney Scott, lnl"
= aud |.
Scott beat Eddie Styles that morning
IN the S"miiinals to advance.
Golfers Dine
Ih" dinner tournament was rs CRANE
~ ever 1t was played at Huntington
Valley and phitmonr. Richard Bennett
Aronimink, won the thirty six hole
event of Glass \ with lT3 strokes. I'm,
Fred Knight Shonc ut eighteen wit
an 50.
J. W. Platt won the Fridolym nike,
inNrSomrS event, paired with Mrs. VI
X smith, at Philmont. with 81 IL rs
fhll Carson and Miss katherine Ten
h"y. Merton, finished with T3 net. in a
enormous field. which contained mos
~ the best players of the district.
The play for the Philadelphia anna
,"4r championship had one of the TASTES
fields Of its history. The uunljiyiu
round was changed to eighteen hole
with the first round the sam" artcrnoo
and the finals extended to thirty 81
holes
The arrangement was not satiSfnrtor
10 all tIDSn Wl,n DlnNnl Snmn ~,