Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-28
AUTO MEN GOLF
At NORTH HILLS
Teams From Five Cities Com
pete-BaIdwin Gets Loon"
Realtors in Action
MAKES A D0UBLE-EAGLE
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

North Hills is busy golf course
This week. Today the Automobile
Trade Association will play one OF ITS
intercity contests. Teams from Phila-
delphia. Brooklyn. New York, Newark
and Washington are entered.
Quite a large entry is expected be-
fore the day is done. The travellers
began drifting in early so that the first
pair tecd off at 9 o'clock. There will
be thirty-six holes of play with the
different teams competing for the
honors.
Earlier in the week there was the
Gloon" tournament. Owing to the
cloudburst which broke over the. play
right after launching of the golf ball
skiff the finalists did not play off i'll
that tourney. Instead they decided
the winner in the old-fashioned way
and W. c. Baldwin won a bloodless
victory.
No little sentiment was attached to
the presentation of the first prize,
which was indorsed in a huge card
board box. 1t was loon tourna-
mcnt, so what could have been more
appropriate than a stuffed loon as the
first prize?
1t was the bird known down South
as sea turkey. a bird about eighteen
inches high. that rouses the welkin
with its crazy laugh. It's a feathered
creature quite loco.
This particular one was captured
| after wild battle by Joseph G. Rob-
erts, and he was just waiting for
tournament like this one to give 1t to
| somebody.
Realtors Play
The realtors. which is another way
Of saying real estate men, played their
| first tournament at Torresdale yester-
! day. Francis J. Doyle. chairman, was
cautious about it. He handicapped the
| players after they turned in their cards
instead of before. He knew his entry
rs real estate dealers, but not rs golfers
and he didn't take any chances.
| Carl Helmetag. Germantown. didn't
want any mistake to be made abou,
| what they players" Near the
first tee, in line with the markers
there Is sign containing the WORD
players" and golfer. Helmetag hi
that word with a 90degree angle
1t was an intricate shot. for it caromed
off nicely and bounced gayly down tn,
fairway.
After that the bystanders decided
the safe place to stand was right in
front Of the driver. c. Edwin Hunter
and f. s. Tomlinson, experts in courts
could not be blamed for unfamiliarty
with the links, but they found them
selves mixed up in an inter -sectiona
debate with W. Edwin Blair and J
Rhea Craig, representing West ant
South Philadelphia.
Helmetag went away with Lester
Pfeiffcr. Frank O'Donnell and Charles
Scully in Germantown special
Mutt and JEFF" match was staked be
tween Big Tom" Shallcross and J
Harker Chadwick. They had Edga
Cross and S. NJ. Gayley with them t
keep the peace.
Thomas Outterson is captain of
golf team some where and barred c
Harry johnson from playing on it whel
the latter stuck one IN the trees.
But the team got lot Of challenge
when Outterson himself caromed
couple off the trees and tennis cour
wires before he got properly under way
The many competitors In this grand gol
get together included also: Rober
Dahlgleish, Samuel Hall. Walter V
Ashby, Glyndon Priestman, Robert For
ster, Maurice Watsinger, J. Fred Burk
hart. F. J. Doyle. Theodore z. Nickles
William II. Wilson and Harry Nc
Lean.
Holes Double Eagle
A new one was written the other da
on the west course at Merton when c
n. Woody, Jr.. Yale, playing with a
A. Corey, Jr., holed the sixteenth in
double eagle, drive and a cleek. l
is 445 yards and par 3. He was dow
in .. Usually a player looks every
where, finally looks in the cup, an
there it Is.
But Woody figured his ball lost an
gave up the hole. Corey played it ou
for practice and Woody's ball was nc
discovered till the caddy took the fla
out OF the hole for Corey to putt. Core
probably Cased in about 9.
In which case what would you do
Consent TO lose the hole with u dOubl
eagle 2 or argue q wee bit? It's mic
problem.