Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-21
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Columbia Country Chib, Clrevy Chase

Columbia Country Chib, Chevy Chase,
Nd, July 81.
THE trial heats are over, and the
puckered brow replaces the face
wreathed in smiles, as ,more than four
score fortunate llnksmen, teed off on the
| medal rounds proper for, the omen golf
championship Of the United States on
the verdant links here today
>. Seven golfers from theA Philadelphia
district qualified where bat one sue
ceeded last year. Four out Of eight got
in Tuesday and three out OF ten yester-
| day. They follow: Clarence Hackney,
Atlantic City; William Leach. Mer-
chantville. 76; Toney Natalie, fans
downe. z; John Rowe, stepton. IS !;
George Savers. Merton. III; Robert
Barnett, Tredyffrin, II. and Frank
Coltart. Country Club, rs. .
OF the eighty eight players TO qualify,
eight were amateurs and six ayere for
eigners. 1t is difficult to point to any
great and notable upsets as the result Of
This year S experiment of an eighteen
| hole qualifying round. There we're
several who would doubtless have gotten
in had there been another round, and
some who would have been oustN, 80
that's that. Fine golf was played by
many of those who failed to get in. One
or two holes ruined these But Gass
will tell. and it's n fact that nearly all
Of the tobnotch favorites went out badly
and had TO show real caliber and their
best golf to come home and get In. They
did It so everything worked out pretty
well. There was little complaining .as
those who failed blamed it mostly on
themselves.
Hard Luck
As for the Philadelphians who quail
fed more will be said about then, as the
four rough rounds for the title pro-
greSscs. On behalf OF the visiting links
men from the Quaker City who we're
present but not voting, it can be said
that most of them had more than share
of hard luck.
There was Charlie Hoffner. II ever
any one made a game try il was the
young Philmont pro, who got on the
rocks going out and all but sank his
ship right there with A. Then began
as game a battle against the odds as
slopes to the seventeenth green with
two fours for "a back and rs. But
at this point a kind friend" stepped
into the picture with the information
that a II was needed to qualify. That
was a blow out Of blue sky for
Hoffner, who realized he had to get q
bird right there to get IN. He faced
long putt and stabbed at 1t for the
three he needed. He missed and figured
it was all over. II he'd played safe
he'd have been In, but what was the
use. he thought.
Jack Sawyer's four puts on a short
hole and a six on the eighteenth when,
even then, he had four for T, cost
Him his chance.
Morrie Talmen, iWhitemarsh, had
the worst luck Of all. He started just
In front Of Chick Evans In the after
noon, a match that drew thousands to
IT, wake, and Talman suffered accord
ingly.
On one hole a fair fan suddenly ex-
claimed, "Oh, see the nice, new golf
ball" and packed it up. 1t was Tai
mans drive. When abe found it out
she dropped it carefully in a wagon rut
" here no one else would find 1t or
disturb il. Even Talman couldn't. He
had to play 1t backwards to get it out
finally.
Another time some one stepped on his
ball and almost buried it. To cap the
climax, the Evans match drove right
into Talman and partner and walked
right over them as though they were
not on the course. They just had to
sit there and wait for couple Of thou
sand people, struggling along, to get
out of shot distance and then PLAYED
into them the rest OF the way. Tai
man finished with an so at that, not
good. but not bad.
A. n. Mcfarland, Cricket Club, was
out there making them all whistle at his
terrible wallops from the tee. And after
he took so many puts on the first faw