Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-05
ENTRIES SLOW FOR
PATER ET F|L|US
Looks Like Small Field In An
nuaI Family Golf Event.
Marston Dominates Pa. Field
REcKNER IS INEXPERIENCED
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

Entries for the eleventh annual Hater
ct Filius golf tournament are seeping
In sluggishly. 1t looks as though the
field would be very small this year.
to be paired and published.
Perhaps the reason for hesitancy in
entering Is due to the fact that not
everybody can step up to that Pater ct
Filimus and tell off hand what 1t Is all
| about. As Jay House would say, It s
French. Anyhow, 1t means Father
and son."
The tourney is n two-ball affair to
be held Wednesday this week over the
course of the Aronimink Golf Club at
Drexel Hill.
The conditions of the play are as
follows:
Fathers and sons belonging to ely clubs IS, in !,
play together. They may enter ss from
Play s viii fiuS start at 1 p. NJ, and U. 8. O. 4.
rules will govern, save where modified oS
Two.baiI foursomes will be played: eight
Prizes viii be awarded to the winners and ID
Washins,on square, accompanied s BY ,sa sn the em
I ceiVcd Hr't PRIOR 70 il n. September 3. will be
The courtesies Of the course are cordially
extended to all entrants during tne W., mSen
| preceding tho tournament excepting SATURDAY
and Sunday.
Clean Sweep
1t was what you might call clean up
week out at Merton during the play for
the amateur golf championship OF
Pennsylvania. :, n
u.
breast, tguratively speaking, OF Max
Marston, Merton. In one hand was
pressed the gold medal for the best
gross score in the qualifying round,
and in his other hand was placed the
huge silver cigarette humidor.
His triumph was complete this time,
after being beaten in the final round
last year.
And a Merton man not only won the
| beaten eight division, but one triumphed
in the finals of the second, third and
fourth fights. There weren't any
more. Oh, yes, Merton also won the
owner of the gaudy gonfalon offered for
this new side of the event.
After he had completely dazzled the
| field with his pair of TBS In the quail
| flying round for the medal, Marston
fou~l himself by the luck Of the draw
! in TIC "easy" upper bracket. with most
of the other real contenders down below.
Marston had no trouble in coming
through up above. Clayton Ingra
ham, a comparative newcomer to the
game. really gave him the most inter-
esting battle. 1t was in the semi finals,
and things began to happen after
parently lifeless by the time they
reached the twelfth tee. Marston was
G up.
But Ingraham won four Of the next
FIVE holes, the sixteenth with a bird 3
and Marston was only dormie 2. In
graham had about a fourf foot putt to
keep in the running at the seven
teenth, but he missed narrowly and il
was over.
Maxwell Shines
Meantime the fiercest battles were
down below. Norman Maxwell looked
like the class when he ousted both J
Wood Platt and John Beadle the first
day. But the overpowering heat fnall.
proved too much for the frail White
marsh star, and he was trimmed in {
hard battle by Charles Reckner. Reck
ner now plays from Cedarbrook.
Though barely in his twenties, 1t il
said he began to play golf fifteen year
ago. lie used to be the expert cadd,
over at the old Belfield Country Club
and could turn that course right handil!
in so or better in those days.
He first began to be noticed MS
promising golfer when he held fort
at Cobbs Creek, from which he wen
to Stenton and then to Ccdarbrook
was his first finals on Saturday after
noon. though he cut n deep swath IL
the Philadelphia championship.
Against Marston he never got going
He had but single par hole goin
out, the long fifth. He was not ac
ruratc MS to direction, probably due t
playing before the gallery and agains
the stOncwall golf Marston trotted on
for the occasion.
Five down at the turn, Reckne
might have had a chance, after halvin
the tenth. but he was conceding n
puts, and that cost him n chance I
win the eleventh. Marston virtual
) drove the edge of the green, but too
four to get down, Reckncr trying t
putt short one with Marston's ba
, on the edge.
He won the twelfth, but thoug
MarstOn took at the short thir
! tcenth, RcCkner failed to get on tn
green from the bank where 1t locke
/ like n 1 Mt the worst. IL he'd wo
these three holes in row all woul
, have changed. But he didn't.
Marston has proven his class in til
| few starts possible this year, and if h
goes the same way at st. Louis man
| "A good one will have to fall back be
fore his shots in the national cham
piOnship.