Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-13
COCHRAN LEADING
WITH CARD Of A
Former National Semi-FinaIist
Plays Steady Golf in Tourney
for Lynnewood Hall Cup
WIND AFFECTS PLAYERS

D. Clarke Corkran, former national
semi fnalist, led most Of the morning
field in the first half of the qualifying
round for the Lynnewood Hall Cup at
Huntingdon Valley today with fine
"A, two strokes over par. Hc played
steady golf throughout. Max Marston
and Francis Kemble Merton both had
IS as well as Rudy Knepper. Prince
ton. George Rotan, last years win
ner. was the only other of the early
starteds to break so.
Corkran was hitting n long hall and
sinking his puts, both which were
valuable shots to have this morning..
He got n bird on the long third with
q beautiful pitch. On the ninth he was
short and bis chip rolled far over the
tee in 81. He had A on the tenth
and had beautiful wood to the 2O4-
yard eleventh, just over the hole. but
missed the putt. Two well hit wooden
shots got him we'll on the long twelfth
with mashie and he was down in
two puts. He had par 4 on the
fourteenth, but overpitched to the punch
bowl into the rough. A sweet pitch
left him two-foot putt which he sank
and got bird at the next with a neat
mashie and putt. He was over par on
the next two, but on the home hole
finished him out, two over par. His
card:
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Beautiful weather greeted the field
although a high wind twisted some of
the morning shots sadly off the line.
club, was affected by this to some ex-
onI he hnl htp ,t,nrly off thiG
afternoon after an 50 to qualify.
Harold Mcfarland, Huntingdon Val
ley, led the first score of players with
a neat card of 80. lie was out in 30, a
I on the third contributing and three
skies on the wind holes coming back
kept him out of the seventies.
The heavy rain helped to make the
course a little less baked than it had
been up to Saturday. but it made put
ting precarious. Many long approaches
TO tn" cup were badly judged on this
account. not to mention short ones.
Rotan missed a one foot putt on the
ninth and kampman nhad one of the
same.
tale Of woe was told by Fl. B.
swope. Merchantville expert, who was
out in SO but got in everything except
the cup coming home for a 81 80. A
pair of SIS ruined things in the main.
When j.. Simpson Dean, Princeton,
Was late, Max Marston. Merton, paired
on with George Rotan, the tall Texan.
and both broke so. though puts were
not dropping so well. Thel had a cou-
PIE out and troubles at the end of each
nine: Marston missed short putt
Oh the home hole where Rotan got the
water.
Their cards:
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:, Norman Maxwell Whitemarsb was
low playing even par 36 out. Every
Soanipg happened after that. He took
~ puts coming home. hit a ford on
me road at the home hole. then drove
1851. '""' '''
Other cards:
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