Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-14

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Another superb day greeted the golf :
ers this morning at the first tee. The
wind was not so bothersome as on the
previous day and this made for closer
matches. The draw was unfortunate
in way as some Of the best players
did not score up to their best In the
qualifying round.
This brought together d. Clarke
Corkran. ex national semi fnalist and
W. IT, Gardner, who broke the course
record to win the medal here lust year.
They we're two of the prime favorites
in this classic and q meeting in the
first round was unfortunatei
The two stars, however, went at 1t
hammer and tongs. Gardner played the
beautiful golf he can and copped the
first four holes in a row.
Corkran stepped In on the next two
and they halved the eighth. which
looked like the turning point for Gard
ner. The young Buffalo star lanueu
the green with his wood and looked a
sure winner with Corkran in the gulley.
The latter was nicely out on the green
in two, but Gardner proceeded to take
three puts and was but two up on
the ninth tee. Down below, Rudy
Knepper, Iowa State champion, was
drawn against another expert in Simp-
son Dean, four times a medallist this
year.
Knepper had a putt for bird on the
first with Dean in trap, and won the
hole playing safe. They halved the
next in As and Dean made bold play
for the long third.
He reached the green with his sec
ond wood, Knepper chipping close In
three. Deans approach putt was bad,
and his next worse when he ran two
feet over the hole from four feet.
Wpepper miss a six -footer for win
and was still one up at the fourth when
they halved in fives.
A great old match for local interest
was that between Norman Maxwell,
Whitemarsh. and Max Marston, Mer-
ion. Maxwell has generally trimmed
Marston in former starts, but neither
is up to the mark in this tourney.
Maxwell appeared for the first time
in glasses this morning as he has suf-
fered with "McDougal eye" for some
weeks. Marston has not recovered from
strained shoulder which kept him
from playing abroad this year and
showed in his qualifying score where
he was not going at his best clip.
DR.. J. w. Robb, Merton. won the
quadruple tie for last place In the first
fight playing off against George Elkins
and Ed Stevens, both Of II. V. G. O.,
and Maurice Risley, Atlantic City. The
latter's failure was blow to his friends,
as they figured him to have a chance to
win the main trophy.
DR.. Robb was paired against Harold
Mcfarland, one of the two golfers ex-
tant who has won the Lynnewood Hall
Cup outright. They put on great
match.
When Corkran began to stage his
comeback the gallery picked up his
match with Gardner Corkran had
picked up another hole. but was still
one down at the punch bowl. Gard
ner spilled his pitch short to the trap
and though he was well on in two,
Corkran on the green sank his three and
squared the match for the first time.
He then proceeded to drive the fif.
was short in the rough. The latter got
his four and Corkran took three puts
after Gardner just missed 3. Still
are square.
Both missed the long sixteenth. Cork
ran drove in the water, lifted. played
q sweet brassic way over the mounds,
but pulled a mashie not on in four.
dug under short drive. played
an iron safe of the mounds, topped a
brassie from the rough to more rough
and was still short of the green In four.
They halved in sterling sevens.
Corkran won the seventeenth and was
up for the first time when he got on
the green with a fine iron from the
rough, while Gardner, by the right hand
route, got over the green under the
trees.
Gurdner's drive was right to the
eighteenth and he was nicely on with
his mashie. Corkran sliced his drive
to the rough and his approach was over
the pin. Gardner drew a burst Of ap-
plause by sinking ten foot putt for
a bird "a and the hole. That squared
1t and they marched to the nineteenth.
In playing the extra hole both drove
good, Corkran was short on his ap-
proach and Gardner was over. The
match went to Gardner when Corkran
missed short putt.
r. 9. Kampmann. San Antonio. was run.
ner-up for the Texas title and is a nne
golfer but he had his troubles In the morn |
Ing AZ Noble. Two shots out OF bounds on !
main, hitch. On the ninth he missed ont a
foot long,
30 did George Rotan. the other Texan
With US and last years winner. Rotan put |
a neat approach right UP TO the cup. but