Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-22
HUNTER COLTS
At PINE VALLEY
British Champion to Take WhirI
at Classic Jersey Links.
Breaks PottstoWn Record
LOWERS MARK WITH n
Rr SANDY McNIRLICK

/ iUNN say tu'S' NUN - At INV hAh'''''''"
hole. Willie Hunter. amateur cham
pion Of Great Britain. will play the
| Pine Valley golf links This afternoon
II is the first time an honest to-
goodness champion of Great Britain has
r,oycd this classic golf test lately and
| here should be n shot entertainment that
locals will really want to sec.
Tomorrow Hunter vii play Mt I'uIri!
Mills. another of our best local golt
tests. A.,
The now famous Briton made his iirHt
local appearance at TrCdyttrin tins wrGh
and the fans there were startled M III"
/ accuracy of hia irons and his putting,but
! annarcntly they got false IMPRESSION
| Of his wooden shots which Jagged rather
badly there some, me, before the l'tr'n'
! hitting Of Jesse GuiIord, Francis 'dI'
| met and Max Marston.
! But It was different story somewhat
M Pottstown yesterday where liuh''r
| played in an exhibition toursome LOT 'nr
| cd,ication of the Hill School boys VINO
bayn had more than a couple of fingers
IN tho honors Of the intcrsChOiastlc PIE
lately. A terrific gale swept the course,
elevated high over the surroundlng
| COUNTRYSIDE. and into its teeth Hunter
nokcd them out many times the best
! of the lot, If he was not past them ne
yros sofn in the center and right up
there. a tough feat in those winds
Has the Shots
11o nroved all the way he had the
shots for ali conditions and particularly
in tbn hazards of the air, proved It
unanimously. too. for in that tempest
tho doughty Briton knocked three cI"nh
I .trnlcs out from under the best anna
tonr mark ever made on the lltIl Srhooi
course .,.I
Also his II cQunled the professional
mark set up by Walter Hagen in the
foursome last year when the latter
nIaycd Vardon and Ray with jim Fraser
rs Lis mariner. The Il is a stroke under
rar for the 23O-yard course and II
contained five brides.
There was a prize offered for better
ing the amateur mark Of a set by
Dwight Il. MrigS. hcadmaStcr, OF inc
school. and Hunter more than deserve"
tbc trophy. He holed them all. ne
Triton also deserved even more credit
than went to Walter Hagen Tor ms ;o 'I'
because they played under very dliter-
cnt conditions. In fact. most of those
nroseut felt that Hagen would hav"
been at 4 decided disadvantag" had n"
nIayod the course yesterday. what with
his high pitches. loftcd tee shots ana
Nnyhow. Hunter got Il, and 1t will
no n brown October or two before theE
beat that scoring up there. g.,
Hunter played in n f"ursome Wlth
,Lrno members of the Pennsylvania les
low Cwp team. He was paired with
Dwight Armstrong, Lancaster, against
Max Marston. Pennsylvania. amateur
champion. and Fitz Sargant' Merloh'
4 combined game Of the four wound
! have been superb. Hunter ana Arm
strong won by the comtortab," count
of : and /. Armstrong helping the BRIT.
;.b cbamnion on three holes, two Of
which he won.
Sargent Puts
Norston was considerably of the
great game he played at Trcrdyhrin'
many deciding that tn" winds were
tossing his Ioftcd game hith'r ana E"n.
! lie didn't win any holes, but Sarg%nt
was probably N" rcadh"St ni tIe '"'
on thc green's and helped considerably l."
make an interesting match OF It.
DWIGHT Armstrong was in bHautlluI
! form Particularly from the tees. lie
Ind everything on them and sometimes
| wns far in the lead with his drive. li'
! Is only the second person who has
/ eyer driven in III" bunker. more thah
! 200 wards ont. at the seventh. but on
| this hole Marston had an even longer
! hail than Armstrong; and better, for
the simple reason that his was In tn"
middle of the course.
The wind was back of them and many
figured Marston had driven about 80
wards. QuelQu" whallop. incidentally
the play Of all four vas magnlhrent I"
| his hole. for. after all had reached the
/ = ,In rr,rD ~ Won rOIllN nave
covered the four balls and the hol" with
Panama hat So close were they all for
eagle IS. All got their brides, Of
| course.
Sargent scored first blood in pc-
ruliar way at the second. Il" almost
had 10 lean against a tree in playing
. his third and caught III" green cdg"
from which he holcd n forty footcr for
n win.
Hunter played one Of his r"splondont
.haby grand" chips at the third from
n mound At tn" side Of III" green which
utmost hocd. That squared and ho
Gropprd in one putt at thc fifth to be
one rlp. Sargent kicked in with another
great putt at the sixth after Marston
/ .ad rickrd m when he dropped from
/ twenty fcot for a bird. Armstrong
/ then lad harder putt, though closer,
and dropped. All present ytpp"d ac'
| cordingly.
Two Fine Woods
Armstrong had two Of hiS prctti"St
/ long ones 10 tho t"rtUous eighth, which
j. 30 yards through woods and things.
! He trimmed the cup for bird 1 lie
also won the eleventh, and Hunter took
the short twelfth with Il thirty foot
putt up a terrace, a ..
Hunters on the fourteenth was
much discussed later. There j. fancy
~unkcn garden effect in the green like
, tiny pond bottom. The cup was placed
in !tg center. Hunter was outside il in
. still on the big green, and instead
. 0f running down in with n puttcr he
laid hi, niblic back and popped down,
almost rolling in the cup. Those slang
lily inclined called it a pippin.
Hunter then continued on his merry
way to the a. incidentally, his on
IN" seventeenth was finely executed
There isn't any room at all through
that grove for bunglrd shots
4 player with Armstrong; long gam,
yesterday, hunters approaching nnc
Sargout's putting would have turncc
the course in about nothing fiat.
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Charles p. Linewcavor, vice prcsi
dent Of the Commercial Trust Company
Of Philadelphia, was the winner Of til,