Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-02
TOURNEY BIG BOOST
TO TRENTON GOLF.
Jersey Links Folks Stirred by
Star Matches and Many En-
bryonio Plans Being Hatohed
TEAM MATCHES THE RAGE
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

lsce and is big incentive for the game
Of goli.
Look what the national open did for
Toledo last year. The Ohio city, more
or less inclined 10 be passive toward
the game before that, became thoroughly
| aroused TO Its virtues and benefits and
! the sport Of it. Now Toledo is fairly
seething in desire to take hand
A golf association has been formed,
public courses are the agitation Of the
season, new recruits are hockinV out
aud it's the thing distinctly at Toledo
these days to admit that one handles
/ . fairly wicked mashie. Nardon and
Ray, the British masters. touched to
life the calm golf pulse wherever they
played all over the country on their
harm storniug tour last year.
Now Trenton, n. j.. has held a golf
! tournament on its home links at the
Country Club. II was an nll-star affair.
! The natives down there In town are
talking golf today. Anything can hap-
| pen.
1929 Tourney
! First the clubmen talk Of bigger and
even better tourney next year. The hoi
/ polloi want to know more about "thie
here golf" There is conversation anent
Il public course. Somebody will take
charge and the first thing you know
everybody will be "doin' it, in Trenton,
! too
Right now the game is confined 10 the
club but It has 800 members and they
are decidedly set for action.
Trenton's specially seems to be team
/ matches and the spirit shown in carry
ing them Is typical OF the club work this
| year.
Everybody wants 70 take a hand.
| The team usually carries forty players.
Matches are arranged or have been in
he past with Spring Lake. st. Davids,
Old York Road. Philadelphia Country
| Club, Princeton, and SO forth.
lhere are many star players at Tren
| ton' and It's no soft assignment to get on
! the Jersey lineup. Any and all comers
will DO taken on, and in most any num-
bers for they say down there it's a
grand scramble TO make the Trenton
| team.
! The spirit at the club Is exceptionally
| democratic and everybody at the tourney
last week 81, bscribed his hand and seal
that the Trenton officials, from II. G..
MaNwelI. president, right on down, are
! splendid hosts and that 'pleasant time
wns had
| As explained at first, Trenton was IN
! against 1t to arrange the event They
! had 70 tako early dates which opened
the northern season, had 10 complete
a locker room and extra lunching quar-
ters in fourteen days, but it was done
because all hands pushed.
The same goes for the entry list
You can generally whip together your
lower siXteens, but It takes hustling to
/ get real first fight buy despite the
short time allowance, Trenton had ns
classy frst sixteen MS there will
probably DC in many similar events
this season.
Styles in Final
This introduces Eddie Styles, whose
hectic career in golf has brought him
considerable attention heretofore, but
his fent in going to the final round
over in Jersey adds even more to
his rep. Jack Hutchinson won
the professional championship last year
when he had not expected TO play in
the event at all and now Eddie Styles,
you might say, is in the same class.
For he only entered by chance; J.
". Platt brought Styles down there,
for the match play as he had a little
date 10 go abroad Saturday but Styles
! decided to stick when they accepted
hts entry. SO they PLAYED u round.
Plat had a rs and Styles qualified
Then look how the latter skidded
| through to the finals on steady, snappy
, golf,
Styles was out In 40 or the last
round, which left him four down at the
turn. Dyer was going in great form
and simply got of to a better start
than Styles The local marksman dc.
serves great credit for his showing ot
Trenton.
The whole tourney was success Ike
a royal straight flush
The only detriment you can dig up
was the weather, which was miserable
the last two days and-maybe the cad
just what 1t was all about, but they did
their best even II It wasn't always so
good.
L. r. Adams. Lu LIp, was having a
nice match with Charlie Williams, a
, follow townsman. But toward the end
his caddy fell all over a putter and
smashed it in half. Adams tried TO
putt with his midiron, then with viii
liams' stick, and finally Adams sent his
caddy In TO buy him new putter.
Wouldn't Work
But the combination wouldn't work
The cnddy Of Frank Dyer in the semi
finals deserved the cream-pie divot,
| however.
Playing Knepper, the met" star
smacked a ball apparently out at the
! fourth, then another in bounds, only
! to find the first was not out. Dyer
walked on m to have a look for his
next shot and his Ethiopian bag
totCr was right on his heels.
"Wait minute, boss" painted the
caddy, "yo' all done forgot 20 ball,
lie then beaned like n regular caddy
as no handed the ball to Dyer. II was
all right, very thoughtful and all that,
only It cost Dyer the hole, Thus they
came all even TO the home hole, where
Knepprr sank his great mid mashie
chip from off the green TO get half after
| Dyer had approached three feet from
the pin. Dyer's putt then might have
! been the best shot Of the two.
II took cool set OF nerves, particu-
Iarly 10 carry on with pretty par A
! a. the nineteenth, 70 win the match
/ Tomorrow is another day at golf.
The third round Of the womcn's team
matches for the local title will be played
and there's also big tourney slated
for Llanerch, when the insurance men
meet in a fete or fte for the title.
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