Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-20
new ACREAGEFOR
LLANERCH LINKS
Five-Year Building Program for
Championship course-Five
Holes Open in Spring
JOHN BEADLE ON TEAM
by SANDY McNlBLICK

iHNItE I.lancrch Country Club after, n
L period of comparative inactivity last
year, is getting under way for the new
season with n bang.
The fashion in early clubbing seems
TO lean very strongly th!s month 10
new locker rooms. Nearly every cub
examined seems TO be adding TO its
facilities in this direction. Llancrch.
In particular is building.
a Sl5.OOO addition is being hitched to
the already roomy locker quarters.
There II be additional lockers aud rest
room upstairs which will be furnished
by the members.
Lanerch IS planning championship
course Of some 640O yards. TO be COM
plcted in five years. Five Of the new
eight holes will be opened this spring
IN all probability. These are the second.
third fifteenth. seventeenth and cigh-
teeuth.
In most cases the greens are being
greatly enlarged and shaped up t" catch
the shot. The tees. particularly al IN"
short holes. are being greatly enlarged
The OutHeld
\ field lying back Of the long sixth
hole has been acquired which will give
some forty acres more space. BecalS"
Of the contour it will be possible TO lay
out about nine holes here eventually.
\ real championship and sporty course
Is the ambition of llancrch in time, and
the work will progress gradually to
that end.
At the annual meeting the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
I Thomas M Fitzgerald: vice president.
! \. II. Weber: secretary. Paul Daniels; !;
! treasurer, W. +, Gochcnauer. The
chairman of the Golf Committee is none
other than Ben Carroll. the dimnutivc
| but terrific local golf star.
Ben Carroll never hesitated on any
job. When he found himself In the
finals for the club championship against
bill" Beadle. he cared naught for tho
Others prestige and things like that.
Carroll played wormcasts. humps III
the ground, kiss and bank shots to
such effect that he shattered the data
and won, the title. His last seasons
, which he emerged the victor. though
, on the short end of the betting. Any
how. Carroll being head of the Golf
Committee, has starred things. lie
will line up the teams for the suburban
tussle and has got together real one.
Fast Team
Besides Paul TewkSbury. city hnal-
ist. Llanarch's colors will be sported
again. It's said, by John Bcadlc. Il
former member. BeaIle is high up in
the who's Who" book Of local golf.
Th" team will probably line up with
| Tewksbury. John Beadle. Ben Carroll.
Vic Anderson and Ed Troxell as in
vaders. Those playing on the home
links will probably be bill Bcndle,
the two Guests. Arthur and James !;
Earl Crew and another from the many
! candidates.
This is the way Bob Ransford. n
! former official of the club. sizes up the
situation. He figures this will be one
of the best teams in the city.
As for the ladies' team. the lineup
| will be slightly different this year. it
! j. thought. II is said that Mrs. Wait"
! Rlivcn has Joined the Country club
forces. and that Mrs. ]. T.. Armstrong
will be unahl" 70 play for Ilancrch
/ These players led off last season.
Four players sure TO make the 1922
| teams are Mrs. Paul Rankin. Mrs
! L"uin Grew. Mrs. Herbert Tarr and
Mrs. Albert Moore. There is quite d
iirti" new material at I.lancrch. and
ii" team is ready whenever thc others