Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-31
TRADE BODY FETE
IS GOLF RECRU|TER
Various Association Journeys
Boom Interest in the Game.
Rotary Event Is Example
MAXWELL STAR AT SHORE
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

Trade golf associations, golf Journeys
Of the professions and this, that and
the other events now being held outside
the regular district tournament sched-
ulc are possibly the greatest recruit
bringers the game Of golf has.
The doctors have their tournaments,
the auto folks, the lumber dealers, the
preachers, the real estaters, the Shrin-
crs, the Rotarians, all these branches
of the professions and non country
clubs hold their events.
College classes hold golf tournaments
as feature Of their reunions. Nearly
every gathering you can think of is
swinging into the idea.
You might say it has to be done. For
the modern business man, give him a
day off," Graves so at the links.
Comes an uninitiated to one Of these
gatherings of his business or club asso-
ciates. He stands by prepared to laugh.
His friends, in deadly seriousness, tee
off. To his raspberry they give the
stoney eye. They talk of mashic and
chip shots and puts laid dead.
The nom golfer knows nothing of
these things. lie begins to feel on the
outside. Hes a stranger among friends
at n gathering like this.
The First Shot
Somebody presses club in his hana.
Here's n ball; hit it."
The uninitiated person sheds the
coat and takes a wallop. BE it u pip
pin or n foozle, he becomes the W. k.
golf bug from that mOment-thc mo-
ment he wcakcns ana tries 1t.
Envy, II yearning to enter In the
sport Of his comrades. listening to the
ceaseless chatter of the links in which
he cannot join-well, it's virtually a
Cinch that every man with friends will
take up the game at certain point in
his life, comes the opportunity.
And that opportunity always comes
ut the club outings or trade fetcs. A
score Of recruits at least are added to
the hundreds of thousands Of inveterates
at every occasion Of this sort.
The Rotary Clubs Fifth District
championship last week was fine cX-
ample of the influence a club has in
bringing recruits and Of the cemcnting
Nineteen Of the fifty clubs in the dis
trict sent teams to Aronumink to COM
pete for the team title. The affair was
huge success. Tho thirty-onc clubs
not represented missed something.
It's almost a bet that they'll nearly
all have q team in there next year. The
clubs will cultivate golf in order not to
miss the promised treat on the links
again next year.
It's the same in the carpet trade as
! sociation, the same with the doctors.
and all the rest of them. 4 golfer among
golfers. that seems to be Mister Every
body'S ambition these days.
Maxwell Stars
Norman Maxwcll's win at Atlantic
City was received with satisfaction by
/ his many friends who were delighted
/ that tho slender WhitcmarSh star had
/ busted off his final round before the end
of the season.
! He has shown flashes of coming back
! into the star game he played the year
! he won the North and South but, EXCEPT
at st. Martins, he seemed to be unable
! to follow up match streakS.
/ Maxwell accounted for John !. Bca =
/ die, CedarbrOok, at Atlantic City in
the finals, ! up in 10 holes. 1t was "A
| thrilling match and carried pretty fair
| gallery.
Maxwell has given most Of the stars
hcreaboutS a battle as the tourney reel
rcvOlved this year and his game seems
to be on the real road to revival.