Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-26
/. Y. c. c. GOLFERS
!. GET LEAGUE LEAD
Noble Linkswonnen Favored to
Come Through for Team Title.
Close Matches Yesterday
MISS CAvERLY BEATEN
BY SANDY McNIBLICK

HUNTINGTON VALLEY leads thus
IL early in the race for the Philadel.
phia Cup women's club team golf cham.
pionship, and the situation has SO shaped
itself that it looks as though the Noble
team will win the title.
Huntington Valley beat the Cricket
Club first team last week and yester.
day accounted for the fast flying and
youthful Cricket second seven. 1t was
one of the first defeats for the Cricket
second team in many moon. Hunt
ingdon Valley still has n clean slate and
Merton is now its only serious rival
unless the Country Club team pulls
It beat Merton. Yesterday the Cricket
first team beat the Country Club. so
! that all the data favor Huntington
Valley to win the championship.
With Mrs. Vanderbeck out Of the
play the Cricket first is handicapped
and will be more so the rest of the jour-
ney. for Miss Mildred Caverly. its
leader off. announced yesterday that she
would not be able to play in any more
Of the team matches and that her next
start would be in Nthe Philadelphia
championship on May %. .,
An Upset + e..
One Of the big upsets yesterday. was
the defeat of Miss Caverly. one of the
best players In the district. by Mrs.
G. S. Patterson. Country Club. 5 and 3.
The latter was out in 4j and Miss
Caverly was unable to beat that scoring
yesterday. Mrs. Patterson is one of
the steady players hereabouts, but was
not favored to win.
One OF the closest matches in the
Cricket Club first four matches to three
victory over the Country Club was that
between Miss Maria De Kosenko, Coun-
try Club, and Mrs. N. NJ. Hutchinson.
Cricket. Mrs. Hutchinson formerly
Nav Bell. city champion) had to come
back in AZ to drag the match out Of
the fire on the home green. Both had
a 91 medal.
Miss De Kosenko has shown startling
development in short career as a
golfer. and many predict it won be
long before she is contending for cham
pionship honors.
A new face on the Cricket first team
was Mrs. n. NJ. Swartley formerly
Marion Naylor). Mrs. Swartley used
TO be one of the best PLAYERS in town,
at the time when Miss Caverly. Mrs.
Hutchinson and the former Katherine
Davis were making bid for fame. Mrs.
Swartley celebrated her return with q
win over Mrs. ,Akeroyd, 2 and !.
Speaking Of the Davis family. Miss
Margaret Davis is quite the sensation
of the Cricket second team. 1t is said
OF. team competition. Her compact
stroke gets great distance with the woods
and the rest of her game is very steady.
She beat Mrs. +. Harrison, Z and g,
yesterday in her teams. match with
Huntington Valley. Miss Davis was
Z tfp at the end of seven holes. Hunt.
ingdon Valley showed strength all down
the line. winning 8 to .. ~,
The Cricket second had been figured
by some to have chance to win the
title. but yesterdays defeat spoils that.
1t advanced through two leagues in two
years. but the race in the philadelphia
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Golfers hoof,'it all day and mouth II
! all night, but even though not many Df
the scribe linksmen would really quail :.
! fy as golfers. the typewriter tappers
are spreading conversation all over the
place. Nobody can blame them for
chat. There was plenty to talk about
after the very first golf tournament fpf
the Newspaper Golf Association. Of
Philadelphia, at the Lansdowne Coun-
try Club on Monday. In fact. the
tournaments have been set at intervals
Of two weeks because 1t is figured 1t
two weeks to discuss thoroughly their
rounds.
The next tourney will be at North
Hills Nav and then IN Rola Nav