Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-16
LLANERCH STARTS
CLUB GOLF TODAY
Kickers' Handicap Lures Play
ers to Improved Course-No
Invitation Tourney
AR0NIMINK IN FINE SHAPE
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

with its lo2l golf schedule today in
neat light green pamphlet form, but its
intrinsic beauty will be lost on the eye
Of many local golfers, aside from the
club members, when il is noted that
the dates for the Llanerch invitation
tourney are conspicuous by their alb
sence.
The rumor that there wouldn't be
any invitation tourney this year at the
Llanerch Club is evidently confirmed by
the schedule, which contains no men
ton of this event, one Of the most popr-
lar and best attended in the loca! dis.
trict last season.
The club events start today with
'kickers' handicap" Frank Van
Roden, Jr., is chairman Of the Golf
Committee, with the following assist
ants: w. +. Gochenaur, J. Fred Hill
man, F. r. Lukens and Edward c.
Semple. The committee announces the
following schedule:
some.
mNsS MaY y haTdeaP sSns Sny 2l
days; 80. Memorial special events, P. NJ.
each Sass P Esrf cYR nG 70 to SHas IL
al hansdowne: II. dinner match 49, Presi.
par; 20. second round Presidents Cup. kick
ers' haulicap.
July = 2. semi.Hnals Presidents Cup.
S GG'CN c2es at nns. fOr %"f Pes SsH
dents Cup, mixed class. combined net score
Of foursomei 28. open: 80. medal handicap
for all.
AuEust-l3, mixed class. club foursome,
total net score q partners; Q. match play
vs. par; 20 handicap play. two-ball. mixed
class. club foursomei 81, open.
,, septsmber-s sTb,ro club toggrsome; 8. Labor
club championship, 10 10 qualify; II. frst
round match play "a, secord round. medal
handicap.
match play against par; 4. ANCIENT ana
Honorable tourney OF G. A, OF Phila.; g.
open e. SnnaS dnT mSsS 60 mass
have not won prize during season.
A rinser tourney VIZ se conducted between
The TR w2mSn's 6RSmDIOnsSiD there Will star.
September ls to u.
Several minor changes have been
made at LlauerCh to make the course
moro attractive, politically and scenically
speaking. Umbrage de Lombardy, some
draining, hazard and route changes have
been made.
A bright, new. honest to goodness
doormat, covering half the seventeenth
tee at the ArOnimink Golf Club out at
Drexel Hill is due to absorb a flock of
punishment in the near future.
Owing to the ever present shade at
this point Of the course, Greenkeeper
Young has found it impossible 10 coax
the grass to thrive. Grass Is moro or
less necessary as an iron is the popular
driving weapon for the 170.yard hole
and the divot Of well-trod clay upsets
the game. Hence the welcome. mat.
Borrowing an idea from the indoor
school. the heavily tufted fiber rug was
dragged down 70 the seventeenth to be
left to the tender treatment of the
sclaffed shots.
Great Shape
Aronimink is in splendid shape at pres
ent. The greens. while heavy, have a
foundation that will defy later droughts.
Winter rules are still in vogue and the
course has responded to the treatment
The seventh hole has been heightened by
moving the green toward the gate, thus
better balancing the out and in trips.
Donald Ross, golf architect, tramped
over the improved course yesterday with
George StatZell, chairman of the greens
committee. and voiced his congratula-
| tiOns.
Gil Nichols is off the temperamental
stuff, but he couldn't refrain from rising
up at this one. Ray Mccarthy slipped
| into fast company at st. Augustine
when he paired up with Fred Mcleod
against Nichols and George James.
Mccarthy carried spear in the back
row till the seventeenth, when he was
up for a bird with three perfect shots,
the only hole on which Mcleod slipped
/ Nichols holed bird from twenty feet
and when Mccarthy holed for half
leaving his side 1 up, Nichols chased
Mccarthy to the clubhouse with his
niblic.