Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-31
|CAMPBELL LEADS
N IN STATE GOLF
n,d York Road Pro Has Card Of
rs for First Round at
Merton c. c.
.loEFFLER RETURNS A IT
nv SANDY McNIBLICK

Ry SANDY MCNhbLlSh
yoot t,ampbell, the Old York Road
otoas;onsI. was leading the field in
IT, c,Shtb annual open golf champion
w ls,n of Pennsylvania over the east
Hnp rso of the Merton Cricket Club. with
. .bout ono. third of the contestants in,
rompbell finished the first eighteen
,,,es in &c, 30--75. His card follows ::
INT 454 45 434 3-S3 -
Ta' u... G5 AZ A 8 5 4-30-75
Emil Loefflcr. the efficient green's
banner at the Oakmont Country Club,
Pittsburgh. and incidentally present
STATE omen champion, was In second
e,ace Mace with r. He was out in Al and
Ssck in SO. William Leach, the Mer-
shsntville golfer, was two strokes worse
,hsn Locfflcr with 80, 40-T0, while
panl % Jennings turned In ~, 30-S1.
The local stars didn't fare SO well. In
,,ct the scores were unusually high.
ane principally to the high wind. Also
,ha iccs Ind been moved bnck and the
asss were placed in difficult positions.
I Wood Platt, Whitemarsh, got II
had start and required Al. 40-S7 for
,be first round. Frank Coltart, of the
Country Club. did better, with an So.
/ ], Bcadlc, Cedarbrook. had to be
satisfied with an So. while Matt Duffy.
iianerch. had an 80, and Jim Thomp.
Mn, Overlook. returned card Of IS.
Charlie Hoffner, who won the title in
1919, was out in 40; not 10 good.
The championship goes to the player
turning in the best card for thirty six
holes, the title and purse OF 5000,
which is not bad Mt all for one days
competition on golf course.
The field today contained lot Of
talent. 1t is the home course of Max
Marston. nationally famed amateur, and
his 20 there quite recently, made him
one of the higher ups when the favor
ties were being picked this morning:
Marston Is on the top Of his game and
no one would be surprised II he'd win
out, even in front of the pros.
]. Wood Platt, the other stellar
amateur in this town, was also picked
by many. Platt won 7o-holc medal
affair at Merton last year. prior to the
Lesley Cup matches with Marston. Jesse
Guilford and others in the running. He
finished second in the Philadelphia open
this year. Medal play Is what he likes
as Is best shown by the fact that he won
half dozen medals last year. bowling
over couple of course records round
about on the way.
The other leading amateur in todny's
play is W. G. Fowncs. Oakmcnt.
Fowncs captained the American ann
teurs abroad and ousted Chick Evans
there. lie has twice won the national
medal and is expected to be hard man
to head off in today's play, If Cap'n
Bill once gets going strongly. Norman
Maxwell, Sam Newton Nirginia), and
q couple Of others were given an out
side chance among the simon pures.
But when all is said and done. 1t
looked much as If Champion Loeflcr
ought to repeat. He is the sensational
yOungster who holds down the green's
keeper job at Oakmont, and last year
was his first title-win. Since then,
however, he has twice engaged in the
national open and laid down some par
tcularly sterling shots in the stern
going at Columbia where he finished in
the money. Loefller is ono Of the many
young American pros whose work is
being watched with interest.
Bobby Cruickshank, pro at Essex
County, is another youngstcr like Loef-
her who plays in expert form and Is
liable to get the jump. lie played cx-
ccellently in the Shawnee open and Is
here for the purpose Of lifting a ne
gotiabe title.