Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-23
.YOFFNER-PLAT!
\: BATTLE ON LINKS
s,Ia and Whitemarsh Stars
Mset In Second Round for
City Golf Title
peApLE IS A SURVIVOR
,.. SANDY McNIBLICK

,.uc Hoffner, Of Bala, and j. Wood
u.o' sWbitemarsh, two of our fore
Plau' .o,fers. met this afternoon In the
mos. match In the second round play
ies'uto amateur golf championship Of
ior,..ao,nbia =, over the links of the
ri,n,n.son,arsh rnlsh Valley Country Club.
"msgnsr and Platt were among the
Ii,,nrs IN n select field of thirty-two
.u!, started the first round this morn =.
!na' uoffner defeated J. J. Young. OF
Ra yorL Road, on the eighteenth hole
oa ", and Woodie Platt won from Fred
xsisbt WI also of Whitemarsh. l up at the
eighteenth hole, g .,o od,,
a.. year and in this tourney Platt won
~ qualifying round. When Hoffner
.ad .aS Platt met this afternoon memories
- ~ mo semi final last year ut Hunt
o. iGn,don Valley were recalled as this pair
h"snished one Of the most sensational
.,a,ches ever seen In these parts.
' In turning in card of I3 THIS morn
,.r platt covered the course in one
,ts .tssote under par and all but hye OF the
sn,es were halved. A large and minus
isstic gallery followed the play ihe'r
cards:
s,' q E''". ;": tsss - 5 a--sa-7a
ss' q S"."'i :':i tsast 1 { s--sss-7.
Paul Jennings: Of SsISGtSSSk cslSre5S1s defsI'.t aSG
iy,c,yns,on. Cedarbrook. : and g..
sismGHi Honer S1 ho9'iHsq%M o9 PsImont. '' and
ssd wss ss0e5s one % o. the biz sarprses Of the
Rr apS'nST Ca@sy S"TDr,si Of bsia %%s s'Gs
sone9 "" S"'n n II Atherholt Of ArOnlmink.
nn sa'st al he h twentieth hole. Morris Jones Of
R.nktord survived nNtVSs, oS aSs SstSa''nS H. D.
Pau pnainssrseId nfwssGsHiIdd Of Huntinsdon valley 4
Brilliant Golf
The qualifying round saw some H3n-
s.rfuI Golf. especially Platt's O-I2-
iS2 for the medal and the amateur
record A.. =, - -,
,sonardized In the luck Of the draw.
All the luck was bad, as far as even
distribution was concerned.
But that's the rule, and we can for
,et all about that in the excitement OF
The matches.
The speed of the qualifying round
VAS well demonstrated by the fact that
q Il had been over eighteen holes as
last year they would have played of
A. S2 There were eight under so, four
SOs, an 81 and n flock Of S2s.
All of which speaks for the class OF
rolfers now battling for the honors In
the Philadelphia district.
During the day the course record for
amateurs was bettered by two strokes
and six OF those who finished easily bet =
tered 100, fine golf In any tourney
High Wind
From Platt's 72. skipping 73, every
,core under so was made during the 80
holes Of play.
A high wind threw shots off the line
and the scores in the afternoon. on the
average, were not so good. though II
was In this session that Platt had his
72 Reckner his "A and George HoTne'
bis 78.
The heat was terrible. 1t took 4
strong golfer physically to make th'
grade and the scores themselves reflected
the heat waves.
Norman Maxwell, who qualified but
withdrew. was 3S out in the morning
,tnd 40 back. Leonard Adds had
q in the first round and then took
Fahrenheit flap for "a in the after
noon.
The only explanation of many scores
was the excessive heat. which had Som'
Of the players in 'blind staggers.
There were just enough low scores II
the afternoon to make 1t an open de-
bate.
But one thing is certain and that i
that 1t takes fast golf to win the mali
gcnfalon these days. that the whole fiel!
Is in there battling and that You vii
probably find different winner II
nearly every tournament this year.
The pleasing feature was thc ,tota
turned in by young Charlie Rcckner
Csdarbrook. for the silver cross. Rerk
ner was 100 In the Patterson contes
and 156 ut Whitcmarsh Yesterday. 81
strokes which had this proud troph!
oil sewed up.
By 2 Strokes
George Hoffner. who won 1t in 1910
1920, was 317 and J. j. Bcadlc wa
31S. There are those at Whitemarsl
today who have been following Rcck
per's fortunes since last year. whe
he broke in. that claim this midget eX
pert is going to be the new title holder
hut II will take experience and elias
both to get the championship this year
This Is the reason that ]. W. Platt
Tewksbury, George Hoffner and som
Others are given the edge when favor
ites are picked. Unfortunate, indeed
they have to fight it out so early.
Woody Platt is back In all his glory
lie played two beautiful rounds yester
day. In the morning he had four shot
ont OF bounds because Of winds an
the condition of the course. He als
had five puts that hung on the lip.
With the breaks he'd have had n Il
al the rest of his game was well mig
perfect.